Website Updated Monday, August 12th

Please remember to keep in mind our peanut allergy when sending your kiddos to school with a snack.   

This is what the handbook says about sweatshirts. "Sweatshirts with or without hoods: Solid black, red, navy blue, gray, or white Trojan sweatshirts are permitted. Screen printed logo or embroidery from Around The House Fundraising Apparel is permitted. May contain students’ first and/or last name. May have “St. Michael”, “St. Michael School”, “St. Michael Catholic School”, or “St. Michael Trojans”. NOT acceptable- sports teams logos NOT acceptable- student nicknames on front or back Students wearing any other sweatshirt to school will have to remove it." 

Here is our weekly language arts schedule.  It does differ if we are reading a chapter book or have a short week, etc.  

• Monday:
  • Introduce spelling words-Each week the words focus on a specific word strategy/concept.  We learn this on Mondays.  
  • Introduce vocabulary words-We go over what the words are and start learning them with a game and start to use them in sentences 
  • Introduce English concept for the week
• Tuesday: 
  • We learn our comprehension strategy and the genre we are focusing on for the week.  We talk about this and practice both.  Students always have a workbook assignment on Tuesdays to practice the conepts we are learning about.  
  • Practice English concept
• Wednesday: 
  • We read our weekly story together and revist the week's genre and comrephension strategy
  • Students have questions to answer after reading the story 
  • Practice English concept
• Thursday: 
  • Review spelling and vocab words
  • Students read this week story alone or in a pair
  • Practice English concept
• Friday: 
  • Students are quizzed on spelling, reading comprehension/vocabulary, and English concept

Here is what a typical math day will look like: 

• 5 minutes of Minute Math/multiplication facts practice to constantly review what we are learning. 
• 10-20 minutes of teaching time/notes
• 10-20 minutes of practice time alone, in small groups, or together as a whole class
• Around 15 minutes of independent work time on daily assessment

This week we will continue in our first unit which will focus on Geography.  Students will be choosing a region of the USA to use in a project. 

Fifth grade relgion focuses on the Seven Sacraments.  We review God and his life and followers before diving into the Sacraments in a few weeks. 

We will begin our unit on Life Science this week.