Mr. Bonilla's Blog

  WEEKLY REMINDERS Friday February 3rd school mass will be held. Blessing of the Throats, mass begins at 10 am. Parents are welcomed. Friday February 3rd is an EARLY DISMISSAL DAY. Students will be dismissed at 12 NOON. AFTER SCHOOL IS OPEN on FRIDAY. Parent/Teacher conferences will be held next week February 10th. Please make sure to sign up with teachers if you wish to speak to them. 5TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES Students have been learning about the Age of Exploration in class, which focuses on the explorations of European explorers into the New World. Students will continue to work on Chapter 3 and finish lessons 3-4 this week. Students have been given a Map outline of the world similar to the one above. Students will be working on these maps for the next two weeks in order to outline the different routes taken by European explorers who discovered new lands. Homework assignments will be given through google classroom. Please make sure to look towards google classroom for more inform...

  WEEKLY REMINDERS NWEA MAP Testing will continue this week on Tuesday and Thursday. Quarter 2 ends this Friday! Please make sure you are up to date with any missing work and speak to your teachers about improving your grades. 5TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES Students will be working on lessons 2-3 this week in class form chapter 3. Students should be finishing their timeline projects, which they have been working on with Mrs Gonzalez. Students will be receiving two homework assignments this week. Please look towards google classroom for more information. COMPUTER SCIENCE (CODING) Mr. T will be here this week to continue working with students on Code Speak. Students will be starting new projects this week to improve their coding skills. Students will also continue to work on Code.org and continue to work through lessons on Unit 3. Students will continue working with Sphero robots this week and applying what they have learned in order to play coding map games. Games which include Soccer wit...

  WEEKLY REMINDERS SCHOOL CLOSED MONDAY JANUARY 16 - Martin Luther King Jr Day NWEA MAP TESTING GRADES 3-8 on WEDNESDAY JANUARY 18 5TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES Students will continue to work on Unit 2 from our textbooks. Students will continue to build on their knowledge of the first European explorers of North America. Students will continue to work on their timeline projects from the chapter on Tuesday and Wednesday. COMPUTER SCIENCE (CODING) Students will continue to work on Unit 3 on our coding program. Students will continue to build algorithms using loops, nested loops, and conditionals in their programs. Their will be no CodeSpeak classes this week due to NWEA Map Testing. Code Speak classes will resume next week. PHYSICAL EDUCATION (GYM) Gym classes are on schedule this week. Please remember to wear full gym attire on Friday! As a reminder, please remember you are being graded on your behavior and participation, please make sure you are doing your best when in class. As al...

  WEEKLY REMINDERS School resumes Tuesday January 3rd 2023. All students are to return to school in full uniform. Mid-term exams begin next week. Students are to make sure to ask teachers for extra help if needed before they take the exam. Friday January 6 the school will have Mass at 10 am for the Feast of the Epiphany. Parents are welcomed. 5TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES Students will continue to review Unit 1 from our textbooks. Students will prepare to wrap up Unit 1 and take the Unit exam on Wednesday. Students will also begin to be introduced to Unit 2. Unit 2 consists of when Europeans began to explore the North American continent. No homework will be given this week. Please use the time to study for the Unit exam. COMPUTER SCIENCE (CODING) Students will move on to Unit 3 on our coding curriculum. Students will learn how to use nested loops and how to read conditionals. Students will also continue to work with Mr. T on CodeSpeak. Students will begin new projects using basic code l...

WEEKLY REMINDERS This is the last week of school before Christmas break! Students are reminded to bring in bags to empty out their desks to prepare for the break. Christmas break begins Wednesday December 21 at 3 pm. Students are to return to school January 3, 2 023. Tuesday December 20 is Ugly Christmas Sweater day. Students may dress up with their ugliest Christmas sweaters. We will be having an in-class contest to see who has the ugliest sweater. Wednesday December 21 is our Lessons & Carols mass at 10 AM. Parents are welcomed to join us in church. Students should  be dressed up in Christmas themed clothing for that day. We will be having a class party on Wednesday. I will be collecting $5 dollars from students to buy pizza. Everything else will be provided. There is NO AFTER SCHOOL AND TITLE 1 PROGRAMS ON WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 21. DISMISSAL FOR ALL STUDENTS IS AT 3 PM. 5TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES Students will use the last two days of classes to work on their Native Ame...

  WEEKLY REMINDERS Holiday Celebrations begin this week with the Pre K class on Tuesday. Students in Grade 3 will be presenting during Lessons & Carols next week, Dec 21. We will be having a classroom party next Wednesday, Dec 21 after Lessons & Carols. 5TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES Students will begin to wrap up Chapter 2 this week. Students will be given a number of assignments this week in order to prepare for the Chapter Exam. All material will be posted on Google Classroom. Chapter Exam will be given on Wednesday, Dec 14. COMPUTER SCIENCE (CODING) Students will continue wrapping up Unit 2 on Code.org, which has students learning about sprites, events, and loops. Students will continue to apply these methods of code by using Sphero the robot in class. Students will also continue working on their last projects for the year with Mr. T on Code Speak. PHYSICAL EDUCATION (GYM) Gym classes are on schedule this week. Please make sure to wear proper gym uniform and be ready to sweat...

  WEEKLY REMINDERS EARLY DISMISSAL on FRIDAY DECEMBER 2nd. School children will dismiss at 12 NOON 5TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES Students will continue working on Chapter 2 from our textbooks. This week in class we will review Lessons 2-4. Students will be working on various skills in class this week which include vocabulary comprehension and critical thinking skills. Two homework assignments will be given on Tuesday. Please look towards google classroom for more information. Computer Science (Coding & Robotics) Students will be wrapping up Unit 2 this week on Code.org Students will begin applying what they have learned from Unit 2 to create events and loops for the Sphero robots. Students will be learning how adding an event to a program can affect the code on a robot. Loops will help students code faster and optimize their code within Sphero robots. Students will also be starting new projects this month with Code Speak. 3rd grade will M ake Music:  Students programm...