Reading - The reading story for this week is “Donavan's Word Jar.” The vocabulary words for this week's story are leisure, disappointment, perseverance, uneasy, compromise, and chortle. The test will be on Friday.

English - This week we are discussing complete subjects and predicate, simple subjects, simple predicates, compound subjects, and compound predicates.

Math - We will be working on problem solving by using logical thinking; place values through hundred millions, and reviewing Chapter 1. The Chapter 1 test will be on Friday, September 3.

Religion - After the Chapter 1 test today we will begin Chapter 2 “God's Word to Us.” We will be discussing Sacred Scripture, Yahweh, scribes, Old Testament, Israelites, covenant, and Gospels. Chapter 2 test will be on Thursday, September 9 th . We will also be discussing the Nicene Creed. They will need to be able to verbally tell me the Nicene Creed. This test will take place on September 17 th .

Science - We will begin Chapter 2 “Animal Structure and Function.” We will be discussing what a bar graph is and begin Lesson 1 “How are Animals Alike and Different.” Then we will begin Lesson 2 “How Do Animals with Backbones Vary?”

Social Studies - We will be going over a cross section diagram, Lesson 2 “Resources of the Northeast,” and begin discussing Lesson 3 “The Plentiful Sea.”

Spelling - The spelling words for this week and next is located on the following page. Spelling test will be on Friday.

Website: www.spellingcity.com
User name: mrsramsey
Password: stmary

 

 

Helpful Links & Study Tips

For Spelling…
Go to www.spellingcity.com
At this website, you can play fun interactive games, take practice tests, print off worksheets to do, and so much more! All you need to do is go to the website above and type the following information.

username: mrsramsey
password: stmary

The spelling words will be listed by the week, so you can practice for future tests as well.

For Religion…
Go to www.faithfirst.com
Here you can take practice tests for each chapter. Take them as many times as you like. You can even email me your results so I can see how you did. I love to get them. When it asks for your teacher’s email type in bramsey@stmarysderby.com.

For Science tests…
Study the notes given in class. The kids will have a designated Science notebook. My suggestion is to study this notebook a couple of times a week. That way when test time comes around for the chapter, you aren't waiting to study until the night before. The more often you can go over the information, the easier it will be to learn and retain the information.

For Social Studies tests…
Study the notes given in class. The kids also have a Social Studies notebook. My suggestion is the same for Social Studies tests as well, don't wait until the night before to study.

Also, there will be Power Point Presentations on the St. Mary's Website, under my website, just click on my picture. This is the same place that you can find the newsletters which was described in the syllabus. The Power Points are the notes which the students have already taken in class. This way the students and parents can get on anytime and study or look at what we are studying in Social Studies!