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February 25,2011
The St. Pius School Community strives to follow Jesus

, as we Study, Pray, and Serve.

Week in Review … Next week in Math…

We enjoyed the short week! I pray everyone is We will continue in Chapter 6, “Time.” We will be
getting healthy! Today we had library due to the ordering events, estimating how long it takes to do
winter break. It was a nice treat added to our different tasks, and reviewing the days of the week and
already busy day. months of the year. The test for Chapter 6 will be Friday,
March 4th.

Next week in Religion … Next week in Social Studies/Science…

We will spend the week preparing for the mass on The children will be building models of different landforms.
Thursday, March 3. We will also begin discussing They will work with partners to create a mountain, a plain,
Lent which begins on Wednesday, March 9th. There a lake and a river. It should be fun! In Science, the
will be no Religion test the week of February 27th. children will continue learning the characteristics of the
different animal groups. Our Chapter 3-A test will be on
Thursday, March 3rd.

Next week in Reading/Phonics … Next week in English/Handwriting …

The children will practice spelling syllables that The week will be spent reviewing sentence writing skills
move from open to closed to silent e. For example: and using correct spelling in our writing. The children will
ho-hop-hope. They will also continue learning the also work on their letter formation and neatness on daily
different long vowel spellings for a, i, o, and u. The work. The mid-winter sloppiness is taking over!
story for the week will be A Bad Day. The children
will be bringing home word study sheets for this
story. Please practice reading the words and
phrases each night. I will also be sending home the
next Dolch word list. Please practice these at home.
Thank you.

Next week in Spelling … Important dates/reminders:

The spelling words use the magnetic e spelling. • Library books due Tuesday, March 8th
When a silent e is added at the end of a word, it
uses its magnetic power to pull away the consonant
and let the vowel in front of it make the long vowel
sound.
The words for Friday ,March 4th are: home, inside,
note, gave, five, made, white, same, take,
state, *been, *you

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