We Are One: Growing in Christ

FCS Academic

READING:

The required reading for the month of March is autobiography or biography. Students will give an oral report about their person on Monday, March 31. Instructions for the oral report and a grading rubric will be sent home on Monday. Class time will be given every day for silent reading and students are expected to read a minimum  of 10 pages a day. If they are unable to complete this in class, then reading becomes homework.

MATH:

The 5th grade will continue Chapter 7: Number Theory and Addition and Subtraction of Fractions, and the 6th grade will continue Chapter 6: Expressions and Equations.

SOCIAL STUDIES:

This week we will learn the Greek alphabet and spend time with the Greek philosophers.

BIBLE: We begin Unit 6 which focuses on Gospel Writings: Jesus’ Death, Resurrection and Ascension.

BIBLE MEMORY VERSE:

The memory verse for this week is  Proverbs 3:5-6 and the test will be Friday, March 21. Students will be graded on writing the verse accurately, including correct wording, spelling, grammar, punctuation and the scripture reference.

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Ephesians 2:10

SPELLING: Lesson 26 test will be on Friday, March 21.

Lesson 26

All Students

  1. column
  2. whether
  3. banquet
  4. scissors
  5. debt
  6. echo
  7. phrase
  8. pneumonia
  9. castle
  10. equipment
  11. wholesale
  12. knives
  13. straighten
  14. receipt
  15. liquid

 6th Grade Only

  1. sponge
  2. backache
  3. balm
  4. preferred
  5. nonsensical

Challenge Words for All

  1. Doric
  2. Ionic
  3. Corinthian
  4. entablature
  5. pediment

DATES TO REMEMBER:

  • Half Day: Wednesday, March 19 – Dismissal at 12:00 noon
  • Chapel: Tuesday, March 25, 8-8:45 A.M.
  • SAT 10 Testing: Monday, March 31 through Friday, April 4
  • Cal Poly Choir Trip: Friday, April 4
  • Chapel: Tuesday, April 8, 8-8:45 A.M.
  • Easter Vacation – No School: Monday, April 14 through Monday, April 21
  • Happy Birthday Anjeli Macaranas: Monday, May 1
  • End of Year Convocation: Monday, May 1 at 8:00 A.M.
  • Half Day: Wednesday, May 7 – Dismissal at 12:00 noon
  • Chapel: Tuesday, May 13, 8-8:45 A.M.
  • Grades 1-4 Awards Assembly: Wednesday, May 21 at 12:30 P.M.
  • Grades 5-6 Awards Assembly: Thursday, May 22, 10:30 A.M. – Dismissal at 12:00 noon
  • High School Graduation: Thursday, May 22, 7:00 P.M.
  • Last Day of School: Friday, May 23 – Dismissal at 12:00 noon