OUR WORK
1st & 2nd Grades
I can’t believe it is already mid-November. The saying is definitely true, “time flies when you’re having fun.” On Monday, we took a trip to St. Paul’s School in Bloomer to join them for a Veterans Day celebration. It was a lot of fun singing for the Veterans and listening to their stories. The children really enjoyed the Veterans Day song they learned this year. You can watch their performance of the song on our school Facebook page.
The first and second graders just finished their second book report of the year! They read a Thanksgiving day story and retold it in a “foul” way–Turkey reports. In math they made scarecrows while solving math story problems. Each problem they solved won them a part for their scarecrow. Learning has been a lot of fun! In Social Studies, they are learning about elections and held an all-school election. They prepared for the election, collected ballots, made candidate posters, and tallied the results to see what the favorite animal, school subject and food are. In Science we are learning about temperate and rainforest habitats. They are learning what an animal needs to survive in each habitat, what kind of weather each has, and the types of animals and trees that live in each. In math, first graders are learning how to measure with nonstandard objects. Second graders are learning how to add and subtract 2-digit numbers with regrouping. In Religion, first graders are learning how Mary was chosen to be the mother of our Savior. We are also practicing for the Christmas program next month–Sunday, December 8, at 1 pm in the church basement. We hope to see you there!
Have a blessed month.
3rd Grade
In October, the third grade classroom got a little more exciting as we welcomed fifth and sixth graders to join us while Ms. Naser-Stellar is recovering from her ankle injury. It makes for interesting days as we juggle classes and combine topics. We’re digging into Ancient Israel together, studying natural disasters and wrapping up standardized testing. Third graders are beginning multiplication while fifth graders are working on long division. Sixth graders are learning about repeated multiplication and exponents.
The third graders went on a field trip to Beaver Creek Reserve. They had a great time exploring in the woods and learning about animals. Thank you to Home and School for paying for our portion of the bus we shared with St. Paul’s second and third graders. It was a beautiful, fun day!
Our Kwik Trip and Baier’s Pizza fundraisers are underway. Contact a school family or the office to order. These will make great Christmas gifts!
5th & 6th Grades
The students have made it through their first full month back to school and they sure seem to be loving the new and interactive ways that they are approaching learning in the fifth- and sixth-grade classroom!
We have just wrapped up our first unit in Religion learning all about the Ten Commandments and the different ways that they can be honored. In Math, the fifth-graders have been learning all about division (dividing by whole numbers and decimals, writing division expressions), while the sixth-grade math class has been learning about everything multiplication (multiplication properties and patterns, estimating with multiplication, and problem solving with multiplication).
In Reading, the fifth-graders learned about inventors at work, focusing on a mix of fictional and nonfictional stories. They will next begin learning about genre affects the writing style of a story. The sixth-graders began reading about keeping their eye on the prize and always reaching for the goals that they have. Their next unit focuses on what makes a story worth reading.
In Social Studies, the students have already learned about the Stone Age and Ancient Mesopotamia, and have begun learning about Ancient Egypt this past week. Science has been focused on the physical sciences this first month. Students have learned about the different physical and chemical properties, and will begin learning about more abstract concepts such as light and sound this coming month before finally wrapping up their unit on the physical sciences.
At the end of last school year, the current fifth-graders drew potential Marian Shrine drawings complete with dimensions and design ideas. To start this school year, students have built these Shrines, but have had to reduce their dimensions. Keep an eye out for these interesting different Shrines placed around the school!
7th & 8th Grades
Happy Autumn! It’s hard to believe we’re already at the end of September! The first month of school has flown by.
Seventh and eighth-grade students have been very busy during September. They quickly settled into the new school year. In Religion, they are learning how God’s word comes to us through Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition. Prealgebra students wrapped up their first unit. This unit covered order of operations, operations with integers and fractions, and properties of numbers-next up: writing and solving algebraic expressions. The topic of study in Algebra is rational numbers and probability. The students are enjoying the novel The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind a true story about a 13-year-old William from Malawi who, inspired by a science book, builds a wind turbine to save his village from famine. Science time finds the student learning about cells and the many parts of cells of a cell that work together to help it do its job. In History students have begun to study the roles that Spain and France played in the shaping of American history.
Thank you to the Jim Falls Lion Club for coming to the school to test the students’ eyes. We appreciate the time they spent with us.
