Week of January 28th, 2013

Hello students and families,

Welcome to Catholic Schools Week! This is an exciting time where we celebrate the privilege of attending a Catholic School!

Some exciting activities for the week are:
+ Wednesday: Pajama Day (No Slippers)
+ Thursday: Class Colors (Don't forget to wear jeans and bring your $10)
+ Thursday: Pep Rally at 1:00PM in the gym
+ Friday: Whole School Mass (Wear your uniform!)
+ Remember to turn in your essay for the essay contest by Wednesday afternoon to have a chance at winning $50 to Target!


 + Also remember to bring in your field trip slip for the field trip to the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Tuesday, February 5th. Thank you to all of the parents who volunteered to join us.

+ A special congratulations to all of fifth graders for competing in the school wide Spelling Bee! A special congratulations to our 1st place winner Maria Herrera, our 2nd place winner Kamyron Westby, and our 3rd place winner Leslie Lovos!

+ Remember to continue researching your planets for the in class planet research project we'll be doing. Here are some useful websites:
http://www.planetsforkids.org/
http://www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_system.htm
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/planets.html

Have a great week!

-Ms. J

Week of January 7th, 2013

Welcome back to school, students!

Welcome to 2013! This will be a year full of learning, adventures, and growth!

+Remember that this Friday is noon dismissal, so please have your parents pick you up on time.

Our school Spelling Bee on on Thursday, January 24th. Please practice spelling both the fifth and sixth grade words which are posted below.

Happy New Year! :-)

Fifth Grade Spelling Bee Words

St. Raphael School

1.    liberty 2.    inquiry 3.    architecture 4.    revolution 5.    protagonist 6.    colonies 7.    villain 8.    amateur 9.    abstain 10.                  discourage 11.                  intolerable 12.                  peristalsis 13.                  conscience 14.                  influential 15.                  dreary 16.                  loiter 17.                  amateur 18.                  massacre 19.                  trachea 20.                  consecutively 21.                  precipitation 22.                  parliament 23.                  aqueduct 24.                  circulatory 25.                  approximate

26.                  apprentice 27.                  address 28.                  sensitive 29.                  dolphin 30.                  district 31.                  mischief 32.                  awkward 33.                  scholar 34.                  conquer 35.                  dreadful 36.                  settlement 37.                  retrieve 38.                  obeying 39.                  advertisement 40.                  rehearsing 41.                  marvelous 42.                  photosynthesis 43.                  propaganda 44.                  atmosphere 45.                  molecule 46.                  senseless 47.                  loveliest 48.                  suspiciously 49.                  separatist 50.                  proprietor

Sixth Grade Spelling Bee Words

1.  horizon 2.  captivated 3.  isolation 4.  prosperous 5.  complexity 6.  assumption 7.  corridor 8.  particular 9.  purification 10.                satire 11.                disposition 12.                proposition 13.                intimidated 14.                receptacle 15.                utterable 16.                reign 17.                experiment 18.                recipient 19.                compress 20.                diverge 21.                virtually 22.                entangled 23.                cultivation 24.                intrinsic 25.                covetous

26.                discrepancy 27.                subsistence 28.                satisfactory 29.                obliterate 30.                transcription 31.                convention 32.                ambitious 33.                magnificent 34.                transatlantic 35.                vaporize 36.                chastise 37.                reactionary 38.                monumental 39.                authoritative 40.                provincial 41.                incoherently 42.                planetarium 43.                innovator 44.                arbitrary 45.                flirtatious 46.                commodity 47.                societal 48.                intuitive 49.                relentlessly 50.                implicit