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 St. Ursula School - 5th Grade
 Mrs. Duffy

 

 Welcome to Fifth Grade!

  Last updated 01/17/12

 

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             Website for Spelling City Weekly Practice 

               
Spelling City

             
http://www.spellingcity.com/duffycathy/

 
 


 

Christmas Service Project

The 5th grade chose to decorate a tissue box cover and present it with a box of tissues because it

was a practical gift. This project allowed the students to design a cover given many choices including

snowflakes, paper crafts or coloring. The students took pride in their designs and created some

beautiful masterpieces for their friends at the nursing home.




 

Frosty the Snowman & Friends

The student council held a door decorating contest the week before Christmas break.

The fifth grade theme was Frosty the Snowman. Although we did not win the contest,

we had a great time making the snowman! We enjoyed it so much the girls created and

dressed their own snowman and the boys did the same. Our theme quickly became Frosty

the Snowman and Friends!

 

St. Ursula School Spirit

A pep rally has held for the start of the basketball season.  Go Vikings!

5th Grade Service Project


Students in fifth grade created festive pins and attached them to personalized cards
as gifts

for patients in a local nursing home. Even the students who claimed that they were not good

at crafts did a great job, as they thought about the smiles on the faces of the patients who

would receive them.

 

 

Annie & her medals - Congratulations Annie on a successful Cross Country season!

 

  Congratulations to  Annie who placed 4th out of 233 junior varsity girls and received a

  medal on the podium at the Diocesan Championships. Annie also finished in  1st place

  at the Slippery Rock Invitational and 5th at the Dorseyville Invitational.

 

5th Grade Mass

 

  Fifth grade students served at the student mass by leading the singing, serving as lectors,

 altar servers, offertory procession, and reading petitions. The joyful message of Father Ernie

 that God is for us throughout our lives --touching our lives and others through service at

 St. Ursula School and appreciation of the love of our families.

 

Pinwheels for Peace

 

  The fifth grade participated in the International World Peace Day by creating colorful

pinwheels decorated with messages of peace.

 

Halloween & the Monster Ball

 

  The fifth grade having fun at the Monsters Ball! 

 

Halloween Service Project

 

  The fifth grade made a Halloween craft as a service project for local nursing home residents.

 

5th Grade Halloween Fun

 

The 5th grade led the Halloween parade and performed a delicate brain operation 
(Thanks Jen W. for preparing the specimen) before heading down to the Monsters Ball.

English Festival Competition

Friday, May 18, 2012
Seton-La Salle High School
This competition requires that the students read all four books from the reading list. They will compete with teams of students from other schools in three group activities. The activities are Insights, Trivia, and Card Match. The teams will receive points for completeness and correctness of each response given.
The students will also have the exciting experience of meeting one of the authors of the books they read.
 Susan Fischer Staples, author of The Green Dog will be available for a book signing.
 Please visit the website www.wpcte.org for a detailed description of the events and schedule for the day.

The listing of the books are:
The Green Dog - Featured Author: Susan Fischer Staples
Walls Within Walls – Maureen Sherry
Benjamin Dove – Fridrik Erlings
Surviving the Applewhites –Stephanie Tolan (will read in class)
 

Description: The Green Dog


To learn more about our featured
author, Susan Fischer Staples,
visit her website!


http://suzannefisherstaples.com/

 


WELCOME TO FIFTH GRADE!

Dear Fifth Grade Students,

I hope you enjoyed your summer. I am excited about getting to know you and being your teacher this school year.

 

All students in grades 4 - 8 will need to have a flash drive


The following items will be needed for Religion, English, Spelling, Social Studies and Reading class.
      • #2 pencils
      • erasers
      • blue or black pens
      • red pens
      • markers

      • glue sticks

      • colored pencils

      • crayons
      • scissors
      • three hole white notebook filler paper
      • 4 single subject notebooks
      • 5 folders with bottom pockets
      • 1 composition notebook
      • 1 box of tissues for homeroom

 

Please visit Mrs. Heyl's webpage for more supplies for the 5th grade Math & Science classes.


I am looking forward to a very enjoyable school year!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Duffy

 


Highlights from years past....

 

 

 

    The 5th grade

    door for the

    Christmas Door

    Decorating Contest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Catholic Schools Week Activities

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During Catholic Schools Week the students dressed as a person they admired.  They also shared a short biography about this person and stated why they admired them. 
 
They dressed as sports figures, relatives, and even a country music star!

A Fifth Grade Caring & Sharing

 

  The Fifth Grade students made

  Christmas cards and wreaths for

  a local nursing home.

 


 

 


 

A Fifth Grade Tradition

   The fifth grade students

 carried on the tradition of

 acting out the gospel of the

 ten lepers be healed!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   2010 Fifth Grade


  

    The 5th grade celebrates Mass





















 

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   Great American Mail Race!

    

     The Fifth Grade Students

 have joined the Great

 American Mail Race! This is

 a fun, hands-on activity to

 learn about letter writing and

 the different regions of the

 United States. Each student

 selected three states,

 completed a questionnaire

 about our school, and sent the

 completed questionnaire to a

 school of their choice within

 each state. We then wait to

 receive a completed

 questionnaire from the

 other schools to learn about

 their region, town, and school.


 

   We have received several

 responses back from schools

 throughout the United States!

 We have placed them on our

 map in our classroom. We

 hope to meet our goal and

 receive responses from all

 fifty states!


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A 5th Grade Tradition

    
    
On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving

  the fifth grade students carried out the

  Thanksgiving tradition of acting out the

   gospel during the all-school mass.

   Pictures at left are the 5th grade acting

   out the 10 lepers being healed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 


Halloween   

   

      As always, Halloween is a fun time for

  the 5th grade. The students enjoyed the
  parade. After the parade, the middle

  school students played some really fun

  games such as trying to eat a donut that

  was swinging from a string while their

  hands were behind their backs, a relay

  race with straws and candy corn, burst

  the balloon and more. After that, there

  were good treats to eat.

     Thank you to all who helped to organize

   the day for the students.

 

 

 


Middle School Project

Middle School Project continues as students research and design projects to coincide with Pittsburgh’s 250th birthday. Did you know Pittsburgh was the birthplace of Silly Putty, Zippo Lighters and the Ferris Wheel? Look for these and many more exciting stories coming to life in the halls of our middle school!

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Heinz History Center Field Trip
The 5th grade, along with the middle school grades, traveled to the Heinz History Center as part of their Middle School Project. This year's middle school project is Pittsburgh 250, which celebrates the city of Pittsburgh's 250th birthday.

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           The fifth graders are showing off their murals they created for the Middle School Project, Pittsburgh 250.  

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It's A Pittsburgh Original!
The theme for our Middle School Project is Pittsburgh 250.
The Middle School students are currently researching the many Pittsburgh originals. As part of our Middle School experience we will visit the Heinz History Center’s newest exhibition, Pittsburgh: A Tradition of Innovation.

Visit the following websites for more information on It's A Pittsburgh Original!
http://www.WPXI.com
http://heinzhistorycenter.org/

 

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