Fifth Grade Classroom News St Croix Catholic School Unites with Families to Form Confident and Virtuous Leaders April 20th, 2017 Please contact us with any questions or concerns! srmagdalena@stccs.com or amccarty@stccs.com Upcoming Events Wax Museum April 20 - MN Tornado Awareness Drill 1:45 April 26 - 5th Grade Wax Museum Social Hall 2:00 - 3:00 April 28 - Grandparents Day! Mass at 9:15 Arbor Day May 8-11 - Performance Series Testing May 10 - Eucharistic Procession May 14 - Mother’s Day May 18 - Talent Show May 20 - SCCS Rocks May 21 - St. Michael Fun Fest May 30 - Field Day Our Wax Museum is Wednesday, April 26th from 2:00-3:00 in the social hall. Please join us to learn about inventors and innovators! Transitions With the end of the year approaching, we are preparing now, more than ever, to get ready for middle school. In your child’s Thursday folder, you will find a letter of how we are getting ready for middle school including expectations and standards geared to their sixth grade year. If you have any questions, please let us know. We Are Learning... Religion - About Sacraments of Vocation Language Arts - About sentence mechanics Reading -The characteristics of a book’s hero enVision - About statistical questions and how to graph them in line plots, bar graphs and circle graphs. Course 2 - About Probability and Graphs Science - About the engineer design process and starting Mousetrap Cars Social Studies - About early immigrants in Minnesota and how they become citizens (Chapter 12)