Welcome back and Happy New Year!

This week we will celebrate Little Christmas, also known as Three Kings Day. Friday, January
9th, is a half day with 12:15 dismissal. The children are in charge of the school liturgy at 8:40
in partnership with the third grade. Parents are welcome to attend the mass.
We will have our usual ELA and Spelling assessments on Friday, January 9th. We will also
have a quiz on the Liturgical Calendar.
Below is a summary of content explored per subject this week:
Religion We will review the Liturgical Calendar and celebrate Little Christmas. A review
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvVnqDsv07c. Below is a catchy song to help
memorize important details about each season:
Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter
Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter
Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter
Green for Ordinary Time.
First theres Advent
Advents purple
We wait and prepare for Jesus
Jesus who was born on Christmas
Christmas time is white.
Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter
Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter
Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter
Green for Ordinary Time.
Third theres Lent.
We fast and pray
That Jesus will light our way
Lent is purple, Jesus dies
To give us eternal life
White is Easter, we remember
How Jesus did rise
Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter
Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter
Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter
Green for Ordinary Time.
Science We will continue to study matter and begin to explore how matter is classified
using the Periodic Table. Students will also explore mixtures and how to separate them.
Matter song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfP4lwdehuA.

Social Studies We will study how the English came to control New Netherlands. There
will be a Social Studies assessment on Tuesday, January 13th. Below is our review song sung to
the tune of One Directions Live While were Young.

New Netherlands was a colony

A trading colony
Run by Dutch West India
Thanks to Henry Hudson
Explorer Henry Hudson
They claimed the land we live on now
Yeah and they traded lots of fur
With the Native Indians
At Fort Orange too
Yeah they settled New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island
Even though
The Lenni Lenape lived on that land
Peter Minuit bought it from them
Even though the Natives didnt understand
For twenty-four dollars
The land was Dutch.
The Dutch had four decades
A diverse for decades
Until the British took control
King Charles wanted the land
Gave Duke of York the land
Due to John Cabots role.
Stuyvesant was outnumbered
Just 150 men
By his side
So he
Surrendered the land that once was Dutch
The British split New Jersey and New York
With Governor Nicholls all could coexist.
And thats why today
We are New Yorkers.

ELA
Grammar We will explore verbs and study subject/verb agreement.
Reading/Spelling - We will work with /ur/ words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1bpT3YNN50. We will also review the use of a
thesaurus and synonyms and antonyms, and explore the folk tale genre. Students will also
work on understanding the authors purpose when writing a nonfiction text.