Thank you for joining us for Parent Teacher Conferences!
We enjoyed having the opportunity to sit down and visit with you about your child's progress in fifth grade, and we appreciate you taking time to come in and meet with us.
Academics
In language arts, we continued our grammar unit on nouns. We will wrap up this unit next week and students will take a test over nouns on Friday, November 9th. We are currently taking a break from Wordly Wise and will begin our first WordMasters Challenge on Monday, November 5.
Both reading classes are wrapping up their class novels. Mrs. Jones's class will finish Small Steps and take a test over the book this week. Mrs. Nash's class will read the final three chapters of Shiloh and will take a test over the novel on Monday, November 12.
In social studies, we explored how Spain expanded their empire into parts of North and South America in the 1500s. Next week will will focus on early French and English settlements. Our next unit test will be Monday, November 19. This test will be over Exploration and Colonization in North and South America.
In science, students reviewed the classification system, five classes of vertebrates, three phyla of invertebrates, and four phyla of plants for the upcoming test on Tuesday, November 13.
All School Pencil Collection Project
We enjoyed having the opportunity to sit down and visit with you about your child's progress in fifth grade, and we appreciate you taking time to come in and meet with us.
Academics
In language arts, we continued our grammar unit on nouns. We will wrap up this unit next week and students will take a test over nouns on Friday, November 9th. We are currently taking a break from Wordly Wise and will begin our first WordMasters Challenge on Monday, November 5.
Both reading classes are wrapping up their class novels. Mrs. Jones's class will finish Small Steps and take a test over the book this week. Mrs. Nash's class will read the final three chapters of Shiloh and will take a test over the novel on Monday, November 12.
In social studies, we explored how Spain expanded their empire into parts of North and South America in the 1500s. Next week will will focus on early French and English settlements. Our next unit test will be Monday, November 19. This test will be over Exploration and Colonization in North and South America.
In science, students reviewed the classification system, five classes of vertebrates, three phyla of invertebrates, and four phyla of plants for the upcoming test on Tuesday, November 13.
All School Pencil Collection Project
October 25 – November 7, 2012
Atem Akui is a current second grade student at St. Paul’s whose father is originally from Sudan, Africa. Since Atem was six years old, he has been collecting pencils and school supplies for the children of South Sudan when he learned that children there do not have any support for their education. In fact, they sit under any big tree and write in the dirt with their fingers. Atem has voluntarily given up a lot of things to make sure he can make a difference in the lives of the Sudanese children.
Just last year, Atem refused to have a birthday party in order to meet his goal of 10,000 pencils. Atem’s previous school and channel 41 honored him last school year for collecting 12,334 pencils! This year his goal is 20,000 pencils!
Students in St. Paul’s School and St. Paul’s Church members are invited to donate to this worthy project in the next two weeks.
We invite each St. Paul’s student and the family to help Atem reach his goal by bringing in new, unopened boxes or bags of pencils anytime between
Wednesday, October 25 and Wednesday, November 7 . Pencils can be placed in the large boxes found on each floor of the Lower School, in the blue tub at the greeting spot in ECC, and in the receptacle organized by MS on the third floor. We thank you for supporting the children of South Sudan and Atem Akui’s honorable mission!
Atem and his mother will be delivering the pencils to the children of South Sudan in December of this year.
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