SJA-EClass-G5

Eiteljorg Visit

2009-11-03T19:30:00.000-08:00

We have been studying the Native American tribes in the United States.
The 5th graders worked in partners to create a specific house made by certain Native American tribes.
We then took a trip to the Eiteljorg Museum to learn even more about the culture, resources, and attire of Native Americans living in each region.

Thank you to Mrs. Johnson for helping us with our project in the classroom and to Mrs. Keenan for going to the Eiteljorg with us!

Family Math Night at SJA

2009-11-02T18:30:00.000-08:00

MaTh Is FuN!
Please join us on Wednesday, November 11th for Family Math Night.
This event is put on by Marian College and FSF.
Dinner is at 5:30, followed by Math activities from 6:30-7:30.

This is a great opportunity to be involved in Math with your child (outside of homework).
Additionally, any students from the 5th grade that attend will receive 3 extra credit points in Math.
RSVP forms will be sent home this week... please return them by November 6th!
Thank you!

2009-10-26T10:46:00.000-07:00

**STUDENT CONFERENCES**
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Students are to be present as well!
1:00 dismissal Tuesday and Wednesday

Math:
●• Ch. 3 Test scheduled for Wednesday, 28th. Study guide was distributed today!
●• We began Math Pentathlon today. We will play these games every Friday. Contig 60 is our focus for 4 weeks now.

Reading:
●• We finished Bud, Not Buddy today!
A culminating project will be assigned Monday, and we will test over the novel when we return from fall break.

Religion:
●• Remember to be practicing the Hail Mary. This week we prayed the rosary as a school and took a short quiz over the rosary.

Vocab/Spelling:
●• None next week due to short week.

English:
●• Writing- We will begin our expository pieces on Monday. Students will write an informational piece and then present/demonstrate the “how to” guide to the class.
●• Grammar- Identifying direct and indirect objects

Social Studies:
●• We are learning about the Native Americans in all areas of the United States.
We began building our Native American shelter models. We will finish on Monday!

Science:
●• Moving on to Ch. 5: Interactions of Living Things

Miscellaneous…
●• Day of the Dead activities at Indiana State Museum Friday Oct. 30th – if you are interested please call or email Janet Panoch (Leo’s mom)
Only $1 for children and $5 for adult if you sign up with her group!

SCRABBLE CLUB! If your child is interested, please contact Janet Panoch (Leo’s mom) at panoch@msn.com or 748-8462
-Practices will be once a week and students will take part in a competition in the Spring!

●• $ 1 HAT DAY Wednesday Oct. 28th
Money donated to Humane Society

Day of the Dead at the Indiana State Museum

2009-10-22T15:36:00.000-07:00

Cost is $1/child and $5/adults, and they'll get to do all the Day of the Dead activities (tin art, tissue paper flowers, sugar skull decoration, tie dye flags, altars, etc) plus get admission to the museum for free.

Parents need to call or email Janet Panoch (Leo's mother) 748.8462 or panoch@msn.com to get added to the group list.
Our group is scheduled for noon but she reserved the lunch room for 11:30 if anyone wants to eat first.

Día de los Muertos / Day of the Dead Celebration
Friday, Oct. 30; 9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis
The Days of the Dead (Oct. 31 and Nov. 1) are a traditional Mexican holiday with ancient ties to the Aztecs. Students will learn about this colorful celebration of the roll of death in life though demonstrations and hands-on activities.
Meets select Indiana Academic Standards in Social Studies and Visual Arts

Money Bus Photos

2009-10-22T15:33:00.000-07:00

Weekly Newsletter

2009-10-16T11:12:00.000-07:00

Money Bus pictures will be added this weekend!

5th Grade Times
October 16, 2009

THANK YOU MONEY BUS VOLUNTEERS!
Be sure to ask your child about their Money Bus experience. They received booklets with activities to work on at home.
Great life skills for financial literacy!

Math:
●• More work with long division, factors and divisibility rules, prime and composite numbers, and interpreting remainders
●• Ch. 3 Test scheduled for Wednesday, 28th. Study guide will be distributed next Friday.

Reading:
●• We will finish the novel next week! Then we will have a test over the novel and a culminating project.

ONLY 7 MORE DAYS TO REACH YOUR AR GOAL!

Religion:
●• Remember to be practicing the Hail Mary. This week we learned about the Rosary.
Next week we will discuss the scripture story- Calming of the Sea.

Vocab/Spelling:
●• Unit 7

English:
●• Writing- We will begin our expository pieces on Monday. Students will write an informational piece and then present/demonstrate the “how to” guide to the class.
●• Grammar- Next week we will move on to identifying subjects and direct objects

Social Studies:
●• We are learning about the Native Americans in all areas of the United States.
Next week, students will work in partners and be assigned an Indian tribe. They will build a model of the shelter the people lived in and type up a description about the people’s way of life.
●• States and Capitals Quiz next Thursday!

Science:
●• Interactions of Living Things

Miscellaneous…
●• SCRABBLE CLUB! If your child is interested, please contact Ms. Panoch at panoch@msn.com or 748-8462
- Practices will be once a week and students will take part in a competition in the Spring!

Mrs. Yohe
I can be reached at: kyohe@sjoa.org

56 Football

2009-10-12T08:50:00.000-07:00

The SJA 5th and 6th grade boys play on the St. Thomas football team.

I enjoyed watching their victory over St. Susanna on October 4th!
They had an exciting win this week against Holy Spirit in overtime! Way to go boys!

2009-10-12T08:37:00.000-07:00

Math:
●• Students were successful on their Chapter 2 Math Test Part II
●• We are moving on to understanding division, division patterns, and estimating quotients.

Reading:
●• We are on Chapter 15 in Bud, Not Buddy. Only 4 more chapters to go. Then we will have a test over the novel and a culminating project.

ONLY 2 MORE WEEKS TO REACH YOUR AR GOAL!

Religion:
●• The month of October is devoted to Mary. Students must memorize Hail Mary by end of the month. May either write it or say it aloud to me. They have a copy to study from.

Vocab/Spelling:
●• Unit 6

English:
●• Writing- We are finishing our short scary story for Halloween. Then we will move on to writing expository (informational) pieces. We also wrote letters to our pen pals in Kenya (as a part of the UMOJA project).
●• Grammar- Quiz on singular/plural and singular/plural possessive nouns next Thursday.

Social Studies:
●• We are learning about the Native Americans in all areas of the United States.

Science:
●• Animal environments test on Thursday, October 15th due to Money Bus on Friday!

Miscellaneous…
●• SCRABBLE CLUB! If your child is interested, please contact Ms. Panoch at panoch@msn.com or 748-8462
- Practices will be once a week and students will take part in a competition in the Spring!

●• MONEY BUS is coming next Friday. Thank you to Mrs. Conley, Ms. Panoch, and Ms. Campbell for volunteering to help!
You are wonderful.

●• Volunteer needed!
Where: Eitelijorg Museum
When: Monday, November 2nd
What: Native American Presentation The presentation is from 10:00-11:00 so we will be gone from 9:15-11:30ish.

●• PICTURE RETAKES are Monday, October 26. Please have your student pick up the form from the office if they need it.

Mrs. Yohe

Heartland Film Festival Ticket Raffle

2009-10-07T10:22:00.000-07:00

Dear Parents,

We wanted to inform you about a wonderful opportunity for 25 lucky 4th through 8th grade students. Heartland Truly Moving Pictures, Duke Energy, and B-Side Entertainment have donated tickets for our students and their parents to attend movies showcased at the Heartland Film Festival.

Fourteen students will be awarded vouchers that may be redeemed for general film screenings during the Festival at AMC Greenwood and AMC Castleton.

October 16th -- AMC Castleton ONLY
October 17th - 24th -- AMC Castleton and AMC Greenwood Park Mall.

Eight students will be awarded Opening Night Event Screening Tickets for Thursday, October 15th at the Murat Center. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The screening is at 7:30 p.m. and they film showing is Hachi, A Dog's Tale.

Finally, three students will be awarded tickets to the Family Movie Event on Sunday, October 18th at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center. The doors open at 1:00 p.m. and the screening begins at 2:00 p.m. The film is The Perfect Game.

This Friday, October 9th, during morning prayer, we will draw names of students in grades 4 through 8 who have met their quarter AR goal or who are within 5 points of reaching their AR goal AND have a 90% or above average on AR tests. This is a wonderful opportunity presented to us by Michael O'Brien and Grace Crowell to reward our good readers here at St. Joan of Arc. We thank them, as well as the ticket sponsors, for their generosity.

Thank you!

Mrs. Jeatran and Mrs. Funk, Middle School Language Arts Teachers

Pictures from P.E. class

2009-10-04T12:01:00.000-07:00

News

2009-10-02T13:36:00.000-07:00

5th Grade Times
October 2, 2009

Check back next week to see pictures from Golf in P.E. class!

Math:
●• We continue with multiplication… moving on to multiplying by powers of 10, multiplying decimals, variable and expressions, and solving equations
●• We will have Ch. 2 Part 2 test next Thursday. Study guides will go home on Monday!

Reading:
●• We are on Chapter 12 in Bud, Not Buddy.
Quiz over Chapters 8-13 next week.
BE READING YOUR AR BOOK AT HOME!
(every night)

Religion:
●• Continuing with the Word of God… learning about the Old and the New Testament

Vocab/Spelling:
●• Unit 5

English:
●• Writing- We are finishing our final drafts! We are also do a short scary story for Halloween.
●• Grammar- we continue with traits of nouns – forming plurals and possessives

Social Studies:
●• States and Capitals Quiz next Thursday! (either Mountain States or Southwest Region)
●• We are moving on to learning about the Native Americans!

Science:
●• Animal environments

Miscellaneous:
●• I am still looking for 2 volunteers for help with Money Bus on October 16th from 8:20 -2:30. Please email me if you can help!
Thank you!

Have a great weekend!!
Mrs. Yohe

Questions?? Concerns??
Email me! kyohe@sjoa.org

LETS GO FEVER!

2009-09-24T11:58:00.001-07:00

Good Luck to the Indiana Fever in their playoff games!!

Yesterday we had a pep-rally to support the Fever in their quest to win the Eastern Conference Finals against the Shock.

Look on the main page of the Fever website to see the whole school picture with Freddy Fever- run mouse over the pictures to see the one of SJA
http://www.wnba.com/fever/news/playoffs_09_landing.html
More photos at the following link...
http://www.wnba.com//fever/photos_090924.html

5th Grade Times

2009-09-18T11:53:00.000-07:00

Progress Reports will come home next Wednesday, Sept. 23rd.

Money Bus: We discussed needs and wants, short term and long term goals, and savings accounts vs. checkings accounts.

Days until Money Bus visits SJA: 28
Math:
●• We continue with multiplication patterns, estimating to find the product, distributive property and multiplication of 3-4 digit numbers.
TEST over 1st half of Ch. 2 on the 23rd!
**Note: Chapter 2 is long – so I am dividing it into two short tests (rather than one long one with too many concepts).
Students were given their study guides today but they won’t be assigned until Monday.
●• We will continually take short
(5 question) “Past concept” quizzes to make sure we are retaining what we learn in previous chapters!!

Reading:
●• We are on Chapter 9 in Bud, Not Buddy. We
BE READING YOUR AR BOOK AT HOME!
(every night)
You should be halfway to your goal next week (because we will be halfway through the quarter!)

Religion:
●• We wrote Cinquain poems about Jesus Christ – they are hanging in the hallway but will come home in Thursday folders next week.
●• We are now learning about The Word of God in Chapter 2.

Vocab/Spelling:
●• We completed Unit 3 this week.

English:
●• Writing- Some of us are finishing our rough drafts, others are editing, and still others have begun typing the final draft. Looking forward to the final pieces!
●• Grammar- we continue with traits of nouns – proper, common, abstract, concrete, plural, singular, possessive, etc
We will continue to identify prepositional phrases as well.

Social Studies:
●• Be STUDYING for the 2nd states and capitals test over the Mountain States region- Thursday 24th!
●• We are learning about the first civilizations in the Americas. We will test over this chapter on Sept. 29th!

Science:
●• Test over Cells on the 22nd!

Miscellaneous:
●• Last opportunity to audition for the school musical (Oz) is Thursday Sept. 24th
●• Please turn in your Activity Fee Money ($50)

Have a great weekend!!
Mrs. Yohe

Questions?? Concerns??
Email me! kyohe@sjoa.org

2009-09-09T10:08:00.000-07:00

REMEMBER: No School...
Monday, Sept. 7th (Labor Day) or
Friday, Sept. 11th (French Market Set-up)

Math:
●• Great job on Ch. 1 test – tests will come home in next week’s Thursday Folder
●• We are moving on to multiplication patterns, estimating products, and multiplying whole numbers and decimals

Reading:
●• We continue to read Bud, Not Buddy. We continue to discuss the novel as we read and complete our comprehension questions in our Reading Journal. We also took a quiz over chapters 1-5 this week.
BE READING YOUR AR BOOK AT HOME!
(every night)

Religion:
We are discussing how God reveals himself to us.

Vocab/Spelling:
●• We completed Unit 2 this week. No vocab next week (Sept 8-10) due to the short week.

English:
●• Writing- We have begun planning our narrative and will begin our rough draft next week! We have some very creative writers!!
●• Grammar- we are moving on traits of nouns – proper, common, abstract, concrete, plural, singular, possessive, etc
We will continue to identify prepositional phrases as well.

Social Studies:
●• Be STUDYING for the first states and capitals test is over the West Region on Thursday, September 10th!
●• We took an open-note Test over landforms, natural resources, regions, and longitude and latitude. Look for it in next week’s Thursday Folder.

Miscellaneous:
●•Picture Day! Thursday, Sept. 10th

●• Keep selling those raffle tickets for the French Market! Money and tickets are due Thursday!

●• $$ Money Bus $$
Today we started our Money Bus lessons. Money Bus will be at SJA on Oct. 16th. I will be asking for a couple parent volunteers to help us that day.

First Full Week

2009-08-28T12:18:00.000-07:00

GREAT START TO THE NEW YEAR!
Last week each student took a pre-test in Math and in English. They also completed the STAR Reading and Math assessments on the computer this week. This will give me a good idea of each student’s starting ability level, and we will see how much he/she grows!!

Math:
●• This week and last we have reviewed writing numbers in standard form, expanded form, and word form, place value, understanding & comparing whole numbers and decimals, and rounding.
●• There will be a test next week (shooting for Thursday)– look for a review sheet on Monday!

Reading:
●• We have begun reading the novel Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. Each student has a reading journal with questions for each chapter.
Be sure to ask your student what he/she thinks about the novel so far!
●• Students are given a total of 20-30 minutes to read their Accelerated Reading (AR) book during each day. Several students have already taken AR and vocab tests.
BE READING AT HOME, TOO!

Religion:
●• We are discussing how God reveals himself to us.

Vocab/Spelling:
●• We will have tests (over the spelling, definition, and part of speech) every full week of school – Flashcards will always be assigned every Monday night.

English:
●• Writing- We are focusing on the contents of a quality paragraph and writing our own topic sentences. A narrative will be our first large writing piece.
●• Grammar- Identifying prepositions and prepositional phrases and then we will move on to nouns.

Social Studies:
●• First states and capitals test is over the West Region on September 10th!
●• There will be an open-note quiz over the two pages of notes we took this week (landforms, natural resources, and regions) on Tuesday.

●• Keep selling those raffle tickets for the French Market!

Mrs. Yohe

Questions?? Concerns??
Email me! kyohe@sjoa.org

New School Year!

2009-08-14T20:30:00.001-07:00

I'm looking forward to the start of a new school year!
This will be my second year teaching at St. Joan or Arc. It is truly a special place blessed with a diverse student body and an energetic and hard working staff! There are many new, exciting changes and additions this year... Spanish class, 5 new teachers (Pre-K, 1st grade, Technology, Science, and Art), and a new lunch program- just to name a few.
We have 16 students in our class this year, and 3 new students we are so happy have! I am looking forward to seeing you at the ICE CREAM SOCIAL on Sunday, August 16th from 11:30-1:00.
School starts at 8:00 on Tuesday, August 18th - 1:00 Dismissal

Math Fair 2009 & Problem Solving in the Classroom

2009-05-27T19:22:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-05-27T18:43:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-18T14:50:00.001-07:00

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!

2009-04-17T12:24:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-04-13T07:21:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-12T17:00:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-04T19:51:00.000-07:00

2009-03-23T04:52:00.000-07:00

Today was the end of the 3rd quarter.
Report cards will go home next Wednesday.

Math: Our test over computation of fractions is on Monday. We took an extra day to review, and that is why it has been pushed back two days. We continue to have fun with Math Pentathlon on Fridays. We’ve played Stars and Bars the last 3 weeks, and this week the students had a choice of the game they wished to play. It’s fun to watch their problem solving skills in action!

Religion: This week we listened to Mrs. Burnside’s sister, Gail Henderson, speak to us about her life changing experience in being diagnosed with MS. She told the children how she thanks God for this disease because it makes her appreciate so much in life that before she took for granted.

Reading: We are now on Chapter 7 of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

English: We continue to have DOL each morning and are learning how to tell the difference between adverbs and adjectives.

Vocab: Next week is Unit 15.

Social Studies: We have begun our quest to learn about the Revolutionary War. We began Chapter 10 and will continue it next week. Encourage your child to talk to you about what they are learning because it helps them to remember when they have conversations about it!
States and capitals – If you haven’t passed yet, please keep working at it each night.
YOU CAN DO IT!!

Science: Students are learning about bacteria – what it can be used for and what it can do (good or bad).

Other Info:

*Students were well-behaved and we had a good time at the St. Patrick’s Day parade on Tuesday. What beautiful weather!!

*Our lunch at Benihana is on Wednesday.
I am still waiting on a few permission slips.

*Mrs. Walton, Atlas’s mother, works at WRTV 6, and she has generously offered for our class to come have a behind-the-scenes tour and which a live newscast. We plan to take this field trip on Wednesday April 8th.

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

Pictures!

2009-03-03T11:35:00.000-08:00

AR (Accelerated Reading) time

Math Pentathlon Game - Queens and Guards

Mix and Match Day during Catholic Schools Week