Weekly Update 2/11 – 2/15

by | Feb 11, 2019 | Weekly Update |

A FEW NOTES FROM ME

No School
No school this Friday 2/15 or next Monday 2/18. Please plan accordingly!

Valentine’s Day
If your child is planning on distributing goodies or cards for Valentine’s Day, please note that there should be enough for the entire class. We have 26 kids total in 6th grade.

Candy Grams
Student Council is hosting a candy gram sale. LAST DAY TO BUY CANDY GRAMS IS THIS WEDNESDAY. Candy grams are $1 each or 3 for $1/50. Orders from parents or family members welcome!

Don’t forget – your child can play Prodigy at home to practice math skills! It’s a fun, interactive game that helps build math skills and is geared to your child’s individual level and needs!

Need Tuition Assistance for 2019-2020? You may apply now. 
Timeline:
January 2, 2019 – Student Application forms available – www.tads.com/request
February 28, 2019 – Deadline for student applications
March 25, 2019 – Tuition Assistance Awards finalized. Schools and families will be notified via email late March – early April.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Father Daughter Ball
The 7th Annual Father Daughter Ball is coming up on Saturday, February 9. More tickets and information here.
BIG BASH – Versailles
The Big Bash fundraiser to benefit St. Vincent School will be held at the Bahia Resort on Mission Bay. Our theme this year is “Versailles”.
Tickets are on sale now through the school website at www.svscatholic.org or click here.
There will be a Donation Party on Saturday, January 26th and our Student Art Projects will be on sale at the February 13th PTG Meeting.
Merci Beaucoup
Mother Daughter Tea
Join us “Under the Sea” for the 3rd Annual Mother Daughter Tea Party! Saturday April 13, 2019 at 10 am. All women and girls welcome. Click here to view our Save the Date Evite for more information -including an exciting new venue!

THIS WEEK….

Reading/Language Arts:

Vocab – Vocab 14A this week – we will have a test NEXT Friday (no school this Friday or next Monday).

Writing: We will be starting some persuasive essays this week, in which we will be finding a topic, establishing a claim, finding research to support a claim, and offering counter-arguments.

Reading: We are moving away from shorts stories for the time being and starting our novel study, Tuck Everlasting. Towards the end of last week, we set up our logs and conducted a brief author study. This week, we’ll be diving into the story and exploring the characterization presented by Natalie Babbit.

For Grammar this week, we are continuing to work with adjectives (focus on proper vs. common) and capitalization rules (when not to capitalize).

Math: Continuing our unit on equations and expressions… adding fractions into the mix!

Religion: This week, we are jumping into an exploration of the Israelites as a royal people – specifically the appointment of Saul and David by the prophet Samuel, as well as the appointment of Solomon. Please note, we are combining Chapters 11 and 12. We will be beginning a project next week.

Social Studies: We are further exploring the development of Hinduism and Buddhism by comparing and contrasting the two major world religions, as well as reflecting on their impact on the Southeast Asian culture and global culture. Students are working on a project (they have the details) which is due on Thursday, 2/14.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Feb. 12: 6th Grade Hot Lunch

Feb. 13: Mass (formal uniform); Quarter awards (2nd Quarter), 10:30a; Last day to buy candy grams

Feb. 14: Valentine’s Day; Party @ 12:20 – 2:30

Feb. 15: No School

Feb. 18: No School

Feb. 20: Progress Reports go home