Tuesday, January 29, 2013

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




Tuesday, January 8, 2013

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