February 10th - 14th

Thank you for coming to celebrate an exciting week in fifth grade! We are so proud of the students' hard work with the Presidents Celebration and are grateful you were able to join us as they put their work on display! We also want to thank you for fantastic Valentine's Day parties! 

We enjoyed a wonderful service project for the pantry!

Students helped fill bags of produce for pantry patrons.

Upcoming Events

Monday, February 17th ~ No School, President's Day

Tuesday, February 18th ~ Spirit Spree Begins (info at the end of this post), Cultural Arts Presentation from 1:30-2:15 (tentative)

Thursday, February 20th ~ Trish Madsen Bullying Presentation for fifth grade at 9:30-11:15*, The Curriculum Design 4:30 (in the ECC Commons)

Friday, February 21st ~ Spirit Day 

Tuesday, February 25th ~ WordMasters Challenge Round 2

Thursday, February 27 ~ No School, Parent Teacher Conferences from 12:00-8:00

Friday, February 28th ~ No School, Parent Teacher Conferences from 7:30-12:00

Tuesday, March 4th ~ Shrove Pancake Breakfast at 7:00 a.m., Social Studies Unit 4 Test

Friday, March 14th ~ End of Third Quarter

Monday, March 17th-21st ~ Spring Break

*Trish Madsen will be visiting with our fifth graders on Thursday, February 20^th.  Mrs. Madsen is a bully prevention specialist who has worked with St. Paul’s students for many years.  We like to have her visit with our students as they’re entering adolescence and find that the students really enjoy her presentation style.  She also shares wonderful information and strategies with the students.  Trish will review what bullying is and help the students learn ways to handle bullying and/or negative social interactions.

Academics

In language arts, we finished our preparations for the Presidents Celebration. We also continued our work with WordMasters. We will have our WordMasters Round 2 challenge on Tuesday, February 25th, and we will spend time learning the words and preparing for the challenge over the next few weeks. Next week, we will also begin our grammar unit over Verbs. As always, students can use the LiveBinder for grammar link to the right of this page for extra support during this unit.

In reading, Mrs. Nash's class finished Jayhawker by Patricia Beatty. Students will take a test over the book on Wednesday, February 19th. We will do a short in-class project after finishing the test. Our next novel unit will be a literature circles unit. Miss Laird's class is on chapter 10 of Small Steps. We have continued to look at Peg’s character traits and how events have changed Peg’s perspective throughout the book.

This week in social studies, we focused on the first conflicts in the Revolutionary War. Students practiced taking notes independently when they read about Lexington and Concord. Then, we learned about how the colonists took over Fort Ticonderoga.  Next week we will focus on other major battles of the war and will also look at the differences between the Continental and British armies. Students will take a test over this unit on Tuesday, March 4th. They may use their Revolutionary Timeline foldable as well as their Unit 4 Terms to Know to begin preparing for the test. 

In science, we mixed things up a bit to learn about the science of the Olympics. We looked at the basic physics of figure skating, snowboarding and snow skiing. Next week we will dive in the parts of an animal and plant cell.

FEBRUARY 2014 SPIRIT SPREE

Lower School/ECC DIVISIONS

During the last two weeks of February, St. Paul’s Student Council is sponsoring a school wide Spirit Spree (also called the Extreme Spirit Challenge in the Middle School).  This is a time when we celebrate our spirit of sportsmanship as we support St. Paul’s athletes in basketball tournaments.  We also recall our commitment to service in the community as we collect items for the St. Paul’s food pantry.  Please join us for the fun and be a helping hand to people in need.

Feb. 18 –Feb.26                Food Drive

Thurs., Feb 20                  Preppy Day (Bring an item for the food pantry and dress “Preppy”)

Fri., Feb 21                       The “Official” St. Paul’s Spirit Day (Show your St. Paul’s spirit by bringing in an item for the food pantry and, of course, dressing in St. Paul’s attire.)

       

Mon., Feb. 24                    USA DAY (Bring an item for the food pantry and wear your favorite patriotic attire.)      

                                       

Tues., Feb. 25                   80’s Workout Day (Bring an item for the food pantry and dress in 80s workout clothes.) 

                                               

Don’t forget to bring in your Box Tops and to support St. Paul’s 5^th-8^th graders in their league basketball tournaments.