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Coming SOON: There will be an opportunity to purchase a Math or Language Arts Summer Skills workbook.

Mr. Bradford

Reading  
We will finish The Family Under the Bridge this week and work on reading skills, figurative language and author's purpose before beginning our next novel.  

Spelling lesson 23-vowel patterns

Science  
Rocks are interesting pieces of matter that we use in our daily lives.  Just as we learned with matter and Gatorade, "It Is In You,"  minerals that is.

Rock Cycle -  where do all these rocks come from?

Social Studies

Next week we will be continuing our study of Wisconsin's role in the Civil War (ch. 7) during the first part of the week. Later on in the week the students will have some class time to work on their ABC state book. It is important that the children keep up with the state ABC book. At the end of business on Friday, April 20, they should have 12 letters done. Most have achieved that goal, but some are seriously behind. So far they have had 11 class periods to work on their letters. I had already explained that they will need to do some work at school and some at home (letter of February 13). As always, thank you for your continued support.


Math

This week we will continue with Geometry by first exploring 2 Dimensional Figures. In addition, we will evaluate lines and rays, classify angles, and learn how to use a protractor.

Language Arts/Writing

This is the time of the year when a number of former St. Monica graduates are looking at make the "big" college decision.  Thus to help you out a bit, we have started thinking about the fall of 2026.  Where and why would you like to go to college?  No student will be choosing a school because of sports. They will conduct lots of research about a school, and their academic programs.  

Religion
Joan's Rome - We are looking at what a Catholic journalist covers in her beat in Rome.  Some of that is what the Pope is doing too.

I still watch random acts of kindness happen in our class every day.  Thank you for

Finally, we are also trying to finish the series of books called "Island."  A group of boys and girls stranded on an island trying to work together to get off in the face of multiple adversities.

Watching the 8th grade boys vs. faculty basketball game.  Go Boys!!!

4B Mrs. Kuhnmuench

Reading
This week we read the nonfiction text, The Titanic...Lost and Found.  This will follow with the historical fiction novel I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic. This will take us a couple weeks as we do a little research together on the Titanic simultaneously with the novel. We will watch some short 1-2 minute scenes from the Titanic movie to get a better understanding of this historical time; what people wore, how the maiden voyage began and the excitement surrounding it all.  We will also watch clips of Robert Ballard, the scientist who discovered the Titanic on the ocean floor.
Throughout the novel, students will identify with a passenger on the Titanic's journey.  Students will receive a "ticket" on the White Star Line with their name, age, which class they traveled and where they are from.  We will use this information to accumulate information for a narrative biography they will write about that person.

Spelling lesson 23-vowel patterns

Science  

Rocks are interesting pieces of matter that we use in our daily lives.  Just as we learned with matter and Gatorade, "It Is In You,"  minerals that is.

Rock Cycle -  where do all these rocks come from?

Social Studies

Next week we will be continuing our study of Wisconsin's role in he Civil War (ch. 7) during the first part of the week. Later on in the week the students will have some class time to work on their ABC State Book. It is important that the children keep up with the state ABC book. At the close of business on Friday, April 20, they should have 12 letters completed. Most have achieved that goal, but some are seriously behind. So far they have had 11 class periods to work on their letters. I had already explained that they will need to do some work at school and some at home (letter of February 13). As always, thank you for your continued support.


Mathematics

This week we will continue with Geometry by first exploring 2 Dimensional Figures. In addition, we will evaluate lines and rays, classify angles, and learn how to use a protractor.

Language Arts

Grammar:  Unit 4: Adjectives used for comparing, adverbs

Vocabulary:  Unit 14 begins this week, test next week.
Writing:  More Narrative Writing:  Students will begin a 5 paragraph story about themselves.  They will use a web pre-write and work on their rough drafts and editing of their own work.  This will lead to peer editing and a final draft.

Religion
Session 16:  Celebrating Reconciliation 
More Bible read aloud 

The Iditarod has started.   The students each received a couple of mushers that they have looked up and know a little about.  

Each student can go on and track their musher, on Iditarod.com.  username Lastrace  password:  MrBdogs

Students can track mushers on the GPS tracking.