Friday, April 12, 2024 Homework
Field Trip forms for Kenosha Public Museum on May 2nd went home with your child today. Please have the signed form and payment back by April 19th. Thank you so much! Checks can be made out to St. Joseph Catholic School.
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Math - None (Since we worked on two lessons yesterday, I allowed them to play math games today as a treat for doing well on the past Math test. We will continue with measurement unit on Monday.)
Science - None (Today we did our lesson 3 weekly quiz and used our textbooks as guide to find the answers. I provided the pages to look through. Then we continued reading Chapters 8 & 9 in our Climate Change books. We also worked on the coordinating questions in our packets. The students are learning a lot and I am so proud of them.)
Social Studies - None (Today we switched things up a bit and worked on a Seven Wonders of the Ancient World webquest. They looked up the website provided and answered the questions asked for each of the ancient wonders. The students learned so much ahead of actually reading about them all in our books. They knew about the Pyramids of Giza and The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. All the other Wonders were so interesting to them. )
Reminders:
- I offer office hours Monday - Thursday if your child needs me to reteach something in Math, Science or Social Studies. Please email me for assistance and we will meet via google meet link.
- I offer afterschool Math group ENRICHMENT on Thursday's of every week until 3:15pm. Some weeks we review and some weeks we go ahead and learn the next lessons. We will also work on strengthening our math facts in multiplication. It is $30 per week if you'd like to join. You can come and go from week to week, but it is very beneficial. Contact me with any questions.
- Amazon wish list, if you can donate to our classroom... https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3RS691H76HBK0?ref_=wl_share
Upcoming events:
~ Field Trip on May 2nd to Kenosha Public Museum to learn about Native American tribes that lived in Wisconsin and also dissecting Owl Pellets. It's mixture of Science and Social Studies. We also have another Field Trip on May 22nd to the Civil War Museum in Kenosha. This will be a great experience for the students to see artifacts and listen to real life soldier stories as we finish the unit on the Civil War at that time. More info to come for chaperoning by our Room Parent's. Field Trip forms to come home in April. So excited for these opportunities of enrichment.
~ After much research on my end, I have decided to end this year in Science with a bit of Biology. I surprised the students and told them that we will be dissecting a crayfish on May 24th and an earthworm on May 15th. I would say 99% of them were so excited about this. A couple were not thrilled with the idea. Please know that this will not be graded, nor would I make any student do something they do not want to do or feel comfortable doing. This is strictly for fun and is totally optional. If they choose to not participate, they can come to the Science lab with us and read a book in the hallway. I'm very excited about this opportunity for the students.
