Mrs. Bzura’s News . .
4/4/11
The St. Pius School Community, strives to follow Jesus as we Study, Pray, and Serve.
**Come join us in the social hall for a Lenten Fish Fry each Friday.
March was Reading Month! The children read and read and read in the month of March. Their flowers are covered with petals which represent the books read. We ended the month with a wonderful performance by Carrie the Clown and Mr. Rowe and by having an all school read-in on Wednesday.
Reading: We’ll begin reading another novel, Frindle this week. The children will be reading and discussing questions in literature groups before answering the questions themselves on paper.
For the month of April, the children are required to read an AR book and take a test on it.
Writing/English: This week in Writing, we’ll be writing creative Easter stories. The children will choose an egg from my Easter basket, open it, and begin a story about the picture they find inside. When finished, they’ll start another. They’ll eventually choose their favorite story, conference with a partner, revise it, and publish it.
The grammar focus will be on proofreading marks.
Science: OK, so we have animals living in our room. They are welcome to stay through the 8th of April if you wish. The children have loved watching the animals in their temporary homes. This week we begin our research on animals. Each child has a self-chosen animal about which he or she will be taking notes. All note-taking will take place in class. The children will then be putting their information into sentences/paragraphs in their own words so as not to plagiarize. The final product will be an illustrated flip book about their animal.
Religion: We’ll finish Chapter 11 this week and take a test on Wednesday, April 6th. We continue copying and singing our song/poems about the Easter season. This is for both Religion and Handwriting this month. The children have really enjoyed singing in class! We will begin Chapter 12 on Monday, April 11th.
We go to the church each Friday at 2:15 for Stations of the Cross. Please join us if you are able.
Spelling: The spelling words this week are a little difficult. It may be necessary for your child to practice a bit more at home in order to do well on their test. This week’s words are: actual, division, equation, especially, factual, famous, feature, location, pressure, nature, picture, pressure, provision, special and temperature.
Social Studies: We’ll be making flags to represent the countries from which people have migrated to Michigan. We are also learning about our economy in MI and about products that are made here. The children may bring in a MI made product or a picture of one to add to our display.
*In March, many families earned casual days related to donations given for our school auction. If your family earned 5 casual days, and only took 4 due to required uniforms on our field trip day, the extra casual day may be taken on Tuesday, April 12th.
Upcoming Dates:
4/5&6 – Accreditation team @ St. Pius
4/15 – Last day of school – Easter Break!
