Math Fair 2009 & Problem Solving in the Classroom

Thanks to students from BCHS, our students experienced several stations that connected Math concepts and Nutrition information. Students also participated in 10 different estimation questions.
Other pictures shown are from our problem solving day in the classroom! Ask your child about the "square" brain twister- it's a toughy!

Pictures!

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Grant
Thanks to volunteers from Eli Lilly, parent volunteers, and students and staff our school campus is looking absolutely beautiful!
We planted trees, flowers, and bushes, landscaped, pulled weeds, planted a garden, layed brick, and more!
Thanks for everyone's hard work!

Math Pentathlon at Ben Davis

Congratulations to our 2009 Math Pentathlon Participants!
On Saturday, 4 fifth graders

(Jalil Burrell-Fields, Rosemary Bickel, Sydney Graves and Jarrod Hutchings)

and 5 fourth graders participated in a math tournament at Ben Davis High

School. There were 453 fourth and fifth grade participants!

Our students represented SJA well and should be proud of their accomplishments this weekend.

Next year, we hope even more of our 4th and 5th graders will choose to compete!

ISTEP Part II (multiple choice) begins a week from Monday!
We will be reviewing all week in all subjects.

Students will have homework this weekend and next to keep concepts fresh!

Math: We’ll be reviewing: place value, computation with whole numbers, decimals, and fractions, diameter, radius, lines & angles, classifying shapes, perimeter & area, decimals & percents, coordinates on a plane, simple algebra AND story problems of all kinds.


Religion: We continue to celebrate Christ’s rising from the dead! Congratulations to Jarrod Hutchings (and his brother Clark) who officially became members of the Catholic Church on Saturday evening celebrating their Baptism and First Communion.


Reading: We have finished Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. We will have a test over the novel next week. Students will also be given their choice of projects to complete next week. We’ll get to watch the movie during the week of ISTEP.


English: We continue to have DOL each morning, write in our journals a couple times each week, and use grammar (identifying parts of speech, subject verb agreement, etc.) to improve our writing. Our final writing piece will be a small research paper on a famous figure from the Revolutionary War.


Vocab: Students will be assigned a writing assignment in which they will write a story correctly using 10 of the vocab words from Units 1-5.


Social Studies: Review of longitude and latitude, supply and demand, interpreting timelines, early cultures & settlements in North America, 13 Colonies and founding of the United States, and the structures of government and how it functions.
Test over Ch. 10: The Road to Independence will be during the latter part of next week.


Science: Students have been learning about the measurement- volume, length, temperature, time.


Other Info:

WALK-A-THON FUNDRAISER
** Students are bringing home their Walk-a-thon containers to collect money in. This collection is going on until May 7th. There are prizes for the top 3 fundraisers – including a new bike for winner. **
Money raised goes toward the athletic program at SJA.

Rosemary Bickel, Jalil Burrell-Fields, Sydney Graves & Jarrod Hutchings will participate in the Math Pentathalon Tournament at Ben Davis this Saturday. Good luck and have fun!!!

As always, please email me with any questions or concerns!

Newsletter

HAVE A BLESSED EASTER WEEKEND!
See you on Monday!

Math: The re-test over Fraction Computation was a success. We continue to work on changing fractions into decimals and percents. Students put together small surveys and calculated their results as decimals and percents. Ratios and proportions are next.

Religion: This week we finished our Stations of the Cross booklets, discussed Holy Thursday, and Good Friday. They watched a movie about the Passion and the whole school watched a reenactment of the Last Supper. Each class had their hands washed as a symbol of Jesus washing the disciples’ feet and each were given bread and grape juice (instead of wine).

Reading: We are now on Chapter 10 of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
At the close of the novel, students will have their choice of projects to complete.

English: We continue to have DOL each morning, write in our journals a couple times each week, and use grammar (identifying parts of speech, subject verb agreement, etc.) to improve our writing. We will finish the year with one more writing piece which we’ll probably wait until after ISTEP to begin.


Vocab: Our vocab book is complete. We will continue to have some review assignments each week just to practice finding and using more interesting word choices in our writing.

Social Studies: Continuing with the Revolution (Ch. 10).

Science: Experiment on durability of different brands of paper towel.

Other Info:

* We were honored as the best marching school in the St. Patrick’s Day parade! The kids were rewarded with an ice cream snack and our
school was presented a plaque!

* A BIG thank you to Mrs. Walton and WRTV 6 for having our class to their station for a behind the scenes tour and to view a live broadcast. What a neat experience!!

* ISTEP Part II (multiple choice) begins the week of April 27th – we will be reviewing and preparing during the next two weeks.


As always, please email me with any questions or concerns! kroesinger@sjoa.org

~Mrs. Yohe

Last Supper

On Thursday, the 6th grade put on a reinactment of the Last Supper. The whole school was served bread and grape juice (as a substitute for wine) to participate in remembering Jesus' last meal with his disciples before being crucified for us.

St. Patrick's Day Fun