Fifth Grade at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary School Has Been Busy

The fifth graders at Pasadena’s Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary School have been learning lots of new things this year.

Recently in Religion, we took a deep dive into the Sacrament of the Eucharist and learned about its many different names; Blessed Sacrament, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Holy and Divine Liturgy, and breaking of the bread.

In Reading, we started a new unit, Finding Courage, and are reading The Road to Freedom by Lesa Cline-Ransome, about an enslaved girl and her mother escaping to freedom. After each chapter, we discuss plot, theme, point of view and the main idea.

The students just finished a writing project where they had to write an informative narrative about the environment that they had learned about in the unit before. In Social Studies we are studying the New England Colonies.

We just completed a fun activity where the students read two biographies one about Anne Hutchinson and the other about Roger Williams, two Puritan leaders that were banished from Massachusetts. The children got together in groups and wrote a summary. They then had to narrow the summary down to 50 words, and then down to 30 words. It was a lot more difficult than it sounded. But they enjoyed it.

In 7th grade reading, the unit theme is “turning points”, and our essential question for the unit is, what can cause a sudden change in someone’s life? Last month as we read A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley Acts 1 and 2, we focused on Scrooge’s turning point in his life, being visited by the Ghosts. Now, we are reading The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, one of my favorite stories and will focus on Ponyboy Curtis’s turning point.

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary School is located at 2660 E. Orange Grove Blvd. in Pasadena. For further information please call (626) 793-2089 or visit https://school.abvmpasadena.org/. A virtual tour may be taken here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QGxUY9qxS0&feature=emb_logo