1. Mrs. Fogle’s News Friday, May 21 Math: Fogles and Galganos will have a math test on Tuesday and McElroys will have a math test on Wednesday. Religion: We will work our way through the rest of the Religion book over the next few weeks. Language Arts: Rough draft of our fables is due on Tuesday. Vocabulary unit 14 is due on Thursday. History: We continue our journey through the Renaissance. Literature: The students are part way through their last novel of the year – The Secret Garden. This has always been a fun way to end the school year. Ask your student why they think Mary is so contrary. Virtue of the Month: Temperance: the cardinal virtue that keeps our desires within the limits of what is honorable. Monday, May 24 Specialists: Art Retreat, wear comfortable, appropriate clothing! Tuesday, May 25 Specialists: Phy. Ed. and French Fogle and Galgano Math test Fable rough draft is due today! Thursday, May 27 Specialists: Music and Mass Final Room Book Friday, May 28 Phy. Ed., French, and Band Vocabulary Test Fable Due! Wednesday, May 26 Specialists: Music McElroy math test Science: This week concludes our “All in God’s Plan” unit. Please be open to discussing with your child what was talked about in school that day. We continue to talk about invertebrates and vertebrates and their characteristics.

2. Things to be Working On! Reading Goal Room Book is due May 27th Fable Edited Rough Draft due Tuesday, final copy due Friday Each student in 5th grade will be evaluated on the instrument of their choice the last two weeks of school during their general music class. The students have been preparing to perform Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant us Peace) for their classmates. Mrs. Wilson The 5th graders will have their Transition Retreat on Monday, May 24. Permission slips have been given to your son or daughter. Both the Providence Academy consent form and the Vertical Endeavors liability waiver must be signed and returned in order for you child to participate. Please return both forms on or before Thursday, May 20. Because we will be indoor rock-climbing for part of the day, students should wear jeans or athletic pants, athletic shoes, and Providence spirit- wear (all in good condition of course). Students will also need to bring a lunch and beverage - in disposable containers please. Thank you!

3. PictureTime!! The kids will be having an "In School" celebration on Tuesday, June 8th from 1:00 to 3:00 which consists of a Kickball game, treats and a slide show of pictures throughout their years in Lower School. Trudi Detert has volunteered to coordinate the collection and arrangement of the pictures into a slide show but we need all of you to look through your old pictures and submit them to Trudi for inclusion. Ideally, we would like several group photos at school functions through the years in Lower School. Many of you were photographers at parties and field trips and we'd love to get as many of those pictures as we can. We need to be sure all of the kids are represented so we really need your help in submitting those photographs. In addition, if your child has only attended Providence recently, it would be great to get a few photos of your child in the 4-5 year old range so that we can include them in some of those younger photos. Options for submitting your photos: 1. You can e-mail the digital image to Trudi at tjdetert@charter.net tjdetert@charter.net 2. Scan or copy the photos onto a CD and give it to Trudi (or to me) 3. You can give a hard copy of the photo to Trudi (or to me) and we'll get them scanned and returned to you We need these photos by next Friday May 28th in order to allow enough time to pull together the slide show so please take a little time to dig through your old pictures and pull out some great ones!!