Hello! And Welcome to the 2020 - 2021 school year. My name is Miss Kowalski and I am overjoyed to be starting my first year teaching here at TCA. It means so much to be back at the school I attended when I was in elementary school/middle school. I cannot wait to start the year off!
Me and everyone at TCA is excited to learn and grow with the students. I will provide a safe and open environment working hard to fulfill all students' needs. My goal is to have a fun and SAFE year. I look forward to working with you all :)
A little about me
I graduated from TCA in 2010 and then attended La Salle Peru Township High School graduating in 2014. After that, I attended Illinois State University to get my Bachelors in Elementary Education. After graduating ISU in the fall of 2019, I substitute taught for Ottawa, Oglesby, Mendota, and La Salle school districts. I am extremely happy to now have a class of my own and start my career that I have been passionate about for a long time.
Notes
I am signing ALL students planners at the end of the day to check homework
There will be Church every Wednesday at 9:15.
Please note that there may be revisions to the schedule due to how far
we may get in class and changes during the week.
Test/Quiz Schedule
Every test (besides spelling and reading) will vary depending on how far we get in class.
Spelling and reading will be the only set test date and it will be every Friday
Dates to Remember
Return to in-class instruction January 11
No school January 18 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 31 - February 6 Catholic Schools Week
This Weeks Schedule
Math
Monday: Lesson 69 Millimeters
Homework: Written Practice #1-30
Tuesday: Lesson 70 word Problems about a fraction of a group
Homework: Written practice #1-30
Wednesday: Test and investigation 7
Homework: IXL
Thursday: Lesson 71 Division answers ending with zero
Homework: Written practice #1-30
Friday: Lesson 72 Finding Information to solve problems
Homework: Written Practice #1-30
Religion
Session 14 Serving God and Others
Will talking about the annunciation and Mary being the first diciple
(Test Wednesday)
Reading
Story: "Hercules Quest"
Essential Question: What makes a character memorable?
Genre: Myths
Topic: Traditional Tales
Vocabulary: acquire, unfortunate, coerce, boasted, beamed,
glared, ceased, declared, devised, resourceful
(Test Friday)
Social Studies
Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Trade and Markets
(Quiz on Thursday)
Science
Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Earth's Features
(Quiz Friday)
Grammar
Prepositional phrases, adjective and adverbs, run on sentences
and fragments
Spelling words
This week we will be working with words with prefixes re-, un-, and dis-
Homework pages 220 - 222 Journeys Reader Notebook
(Test will be Friday)
Word List
Unused
Refresh
Dislike
Replace
Unpaid
Redo
Disorder
Unplanned
Distrust
Rewind
Untrue
Unload
Recall
Displace
Uneven
Rebuild
Restart
Uncover
Unity
Discolor
Challenge words
Disband
Rearrange
Discontinue
Refund
Unusal
Specials:
Music: Monday 9:05 - 9:35
P.E. Tue/Thu 9:15 - 9:45
Mass: Wednesday 9:15
Library: Thursday 10:20 - 10:50
Art: Friday 9:05 - 9:45
Thank you,
Ms. Kowalski
ckowalski@lasallecatholic.org