Dear 5A Parents,
I look forward to meeting with you all during conferences! I also want to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving. I am very grateful for you all, and your children! I hope you all have an amazing time with family and friends during Thanksgiving. Ms. Semandiris
Reminders:
- Nov 23rd – Advent Celebration (9:30a-1p)
- Nov 24th-26th – Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences
- Nov 27th-28th – No School, Thanksgiving Break
- Nov 28th – Tree Lot Opens
- Dec 5th – 5A Prayer Service School Hall 8:40am
- Dec 12th – 1st Trimester Report Cards
- Dec 16th – Preschool Christmas Program (6:30pm)
- Dec 18th – K-8 Christmas Program (6pm)
- Dec 19th – Noon Dismissal
2025/26 School Calendars
The following is a curriculum update for the week of December 1 – 5, 2025:
Religion
After Thanksgiving break we will be mainly preparing for our 5A prayer service. I have handed out a hard copy to each student of their reading part. They can practice reading it aloud over the Thanksgiving break if they wish. The prayer service is on Friday December 5th at 8:40am. I recommend getting to the school hall by 8:30am to get a seat! We hope you can all be there. On Tuesday, (12/2) our class will go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. I will be preparing students by explaining and taking them through the “Examination of Conscience” on Monday (12/1). If your child is not Catholic, they will not be receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation but they are welcome to receive a blessing. We all go to this Sacrament as a class during our Religion class period.
Math – Ms. Semandiris
Chapter 4 Divide by a Two-Digit Divisor
Monday (12/1) – Ch. 4 L. 1 Estimate Quotients
Tuesday (12/2) – Ch. 4 L. 3 Divide by a Two-Digit Divisor
Wednesday (12/3) – Check my Progress p. 29
Thursday (12/4) – Quiz on Lessons 1 – 4
Friday (12/5) – Aleks Practice and Review!
Math- Ms. McGuigan
Monday (12/1) 5.1 Rounding Decimals
Tuesday (12/2) 5.2Estimate sums and differences
Wednesday (12/3) 5.3Problem solving investigations
Thursday (12/4) 5.6 Add decimals
Friday (12/5) Money decimals
Math – Mrs. Heuer
We have begun our final 5th grade unit where we are working on conversions in both the U.S. Customary and metric systems of measurement.
Monday (12/1) – 5.2 Customary Length
Tuesday (12/2) – 5.3 Customary Weight
Wednesday (12/3) – 5.4 Customary Capacity
Thursday (12/4) – 5.5 Metric Ruler
Friday (12/5) – TBD
Social Studies
After Thanksgiving we will be continuing our study of Lesson 6 Three English Settlements. Students will be Learning about the Settlements of Roanoke, Jamestown and Plymouth. We will learn about the Settlements of Roanoke and Jamestown.
Science
Students will have their first day with Microscopes last after break. We will be continuing to look at different objects under the microscope and discussing the field of view of a microscope, continuing discussions about how lenses help to magnify objects and how to measure objects under microscopes.
ELA
Hello HRS families! Seeing all of your children’s final projects for Number the Stars has been a blast, and I’m very much proud of their hard work. After break, we will have a bit of extra time to look at and even play some of the board games students made. Students will also begin organizing and drafting a piece of short fiction using the problem-solution formula. I will review simple sentences, as well as using conjunctions to make compound and complex sentences with commas. Writing effective descriptions with imagery, sensory details, and figurative language will become even more relevant in the first couple weeks of December. Trimester Two will mark the beginning of our second novel, Wonder. We have so much fun learning to look forward to. Have an excellent Thanksgiving Break.