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Welcome to 5th grade at Mother Seton School. We have a fun and fufilling year ahead of us. We are looking forward to working with all of you!
This site is updated almost daily with homework, project due dates, and other important information that you need to know. From this site you can also access study guides and e-mail me with your questions. If you sign up for each class you will automatically recieve e-mails each time that we update the website.
God Bless
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We have so much to explore in Language Arts this year.
Reading
We just finished our first unit and are starting our first novel. We will be reading Sign of the Beaver. This novel explorers the ups and downs of a friendship between a settler boy and a Native American. We watch as the boys change and grow throughout the book.
English-
I want to congratulate the students are giving it their all in the first unit of English. I know that some of the concepts can be tricky, but none of you let it get you down. We are going to continue on our way.
The next unit that we are going to be studying is Nouns. In this unit we will look at:
What is a noun?
Singular and Plural Nouns
Common and Proper Nouns
More capitialization rules
Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns
Combining sentences using nouns
Letter Punctuation
Choosing resources
Compound words
Leads and endings
Writing: We are doing many fun and exciting writing activities with this unit. We will be writing personal narratives and learning all about Persuasive writing. Let's see who can be the most persuasive.
****Check out the Language Arts link for some fun new books to read in your spare time.
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Things are going well for us in Fifth Grade Math!
Tests will be scheduled every FIVE lessons; at this point, we are looking at WEDNESDAYS for most tests.
Students who miss 5 or more problems on any given homework assignment will take home a 'ponder' asking them to take a fresh look at any problems missed. This allows students to get a better understanding of the math as well as allowing us to properly assess the students' ability to solve the problems.
Keep up the good work!
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10/2/08- Blessing of the Animals 1:15 p.m.
10/3/08- Angels Above Us Gold Tournament 11:30 a.m.
10/4/08- Feast of St. Francis
10/5/08- Respect Life Sunday Youth Mass 11:00 a.m.
10/6-7- No School- Teacher Conference
10/8/08- Delone Shadow Day
Class of 57' Reunion- 11 a.m.
Finance Meeting 6:00 p.m.
10/9/08- Student Council Meeting
10/11/08- 2008 Catechetical Institute Catechist/Youth Ministry/Tech, etc.
10/13/08- H.S.A.Officers Meeting 1 p.m.
10/15/08- Reconciliation
MSS Board Meeting 5:00 p.m.
10/19/08- St. Katherine Drexel Hospitality Sunday
10/20/08- Uniform Fall Sale in the Gym- Dennis Uniform 11:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.
10/22/08- Snow Sport Intro. Meeting. Equipment Exchange 3:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
10/24/08- H.S.A. Fall Festival 7-9 p.m.
10/26/08- St. Joseph's Hospitality Sunday
10/28/08- H.S.A Uncle Ralph Cookie & Catoctin Popcorn Sale Begins
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This year in Religion we will be learning a lot. We will be working with the them of FROGs
Fully
Rely
On
God
Each month we will study and memorize a new prayer (such as Hail Holy Queen, The Angelus, The Memorare, etc.) You can make learning these prayers a fun family activity to do during dinner, while washing dishes, or almost anywhere.
For the month of
Do you know why November 1st is important? The Fifth grade does! We are completing Saint Projects for class. We are writing reports, making shields, and even dressing up or making a doll to look like our saints! In class we are concentrating on our patron saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton. We have watched "A Time for Miracles" and will be creating poems all about our foundress. Come and see them having in the Fifth Grade hallway.
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We have learned so much about Rocks and Minerals already that there isn't much left to cover! Our next test will be the last in Unit E and will focus on the information contained in Chapter 3. It will probably be sometime in early December.
After that, we will move on to study our solar system and some of what lies beyond it. Contained in this unit will be one of our largest science projects for the year - so get ready!
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We are quickly approaching our test on Native Americans - which will be Friday! The information can be found in chapter 2 of students' textbooks (pp. 56-85).
After Thanksgiving, we will be continuing our study of American History with Chapter 3 - European Exploration of the New World.
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Mother Seton School
Becca Martin
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