Mrs. PHillips' ClassRoom
oUR SPECIALS SCHEDULE:
Monday
Library 10:20 - 11:00 a.m.
Spanish 12:40 - 1:20 p.m.
Art 1:25 - 2:05
Tuesday
Music 9:35 - 10:15 a.m.
Gym 10:20 - 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday
Technology 1:25 - 2:05 p.m.
Thursday
All-school mass 8:05 - 9:30 a.m.
Gym 10:20 - 11:00 a.m.
Friday
Technology 8:05 - 8:45 a.m.
Music 9:35 - 10:15 a.m.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday, December 10, 2024, Advent program (7 p.m.) performance by students at the East China Performing Arts Center.
Some Things We Are Learning This Year...
Math
Solving word math problems
Fractions
Measuring in standard units
Place value and rounding
Skip counting by 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 100
Addition and subtraction within 1,000
Geometric shape recognition, including polygons, and their attributes
Concepts of perimeter and area
Telling time to nearest five minutes with analog and digital clocks
Identifying money, appropriate symbols, and solving word problems
Identifying degrees Fahrenheit on a thermometer
Seasons, days of the week, months of the year
Representing and interpreting dats with graphs, Venn diagrams, tally marks
Using coordinate grids
Language Arts
Vocabulary expansion
Identifying genres, opinion and fact, and key details in text
Strengthening phonemic awareness in encoding/decoding
Using context to improve comprehension
How word choice matters
How to use proper grammar and punctuation and identify parts of speech
How to develop a story and recognize the parts of it
Strengthen presentation skills and reading fluency
Learn to read and write cursive writing
Social Studies
Early American history, different cultures, and how communities can change over time
Geographic representations to acquire, process, and report
The effects of human-environmental interactions
Purpose and functions of government, rules, and how citizens can responsibly participate
How economic activity and resources affects our economy
Science
Observations of materials, structure, function, and engineering practices
Biodiversity and classification of plants and animals
Plant life and water cycles
Interdependence of relationships in ecosystems
How to use observations to construct evidence-based statements
Cause and effect, observable patterns
How to create models
Religion
Developing knowledge of the Catholic Church history, scripture, doctrine, liturgy, sacraments, prayer, opportunities for service, discipleship, and how to actively participate in mass and the community.