Lent a time of Joy

At Ash Wednesday Mass, Fr. Crispin told us to look at Lent as a time of joy.  We are renewing and regrowing our relationship with God and God is love.  God is goodness.  

Reading RL.4.9 Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures   CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.3
Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text 

Writing  Women’s History project: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.7
Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.9
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis and reflection.

Math:CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.4
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction by a whole number.

Science: 4-LS1-2. Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.

Religion: Reflections and instruction on Lent based on prayer, almsgiving and fasting.