With May finally here, our religion lessons have been focusing on our Blessed Mother. We are reading about Mary in our religion books and have prayed the Rosary together. We are looking forward to the May Crowning, where many of us will have parts in the Mass.

In Social Studies, it feels good to be learning about our own region, the Midwest. We have been reading about what kinds of crops the land is good for and how the people live, work, and depend on each other throughout the region. The information makes sense to us because we can reference our own experiences.

In Language Arts we finished our unit on “That’s Amazing,” and are starting our unit “Problem Solvers.” As can be seen by the title, we will be reading stories about characters who are faced with a variety of challenges and must work to find solutions.

We will also be having another literature circle session soon. This seems to be a favorite of ours. For the writing aspect of our language lessons, we are working on how to write clear directions, or “how to” paragraphs.

In math, we are working on long division. It didn’t take long for us to realize that we need multiplication, subtraction, and addition skills, as well as division, to do one long division problem and check it. What a process!

We are enjoying the increasingly beautiful weather and hope you are also.