Week of January 4th-8th

Welcome back!  We hope everyone had an enjoyable winter break!

Early Release on Wednesday!

We will visit Twin Lakes Middle School on Thursday!  Please make sure all permission slips have been returned, this is a free field trip, but students are unable to attend if we did not receive a permission slip.  We will be eating at Twin Lakes so students will need to bring a bagged lunch.

Following our field trip to Twin Lakes that evening Bartram Springs will host a Middle School Information Night.  This is a very informative night about the many options for middle school.  This event will start at 6:30PM in the cafeteria.  You will have an opportunity to speak one on one with school representatives, parents, and/or former BSE students who now attend various middle schools.
Schools that will be represented include: Twin Lakes Middle School, LaVilla School of the Arts, Julia Landon, Kirby-Smith, Darnell-Cookman, and James W. Johnson.

The following week we will attend the Marine Science Center on Monday, January 11th.  This is another free field trip, but will require students to bring a bagged lunch (everything must be able to be thrown out!!  Students will also need to decorate their water jug, for collecting shells on the beach!

Academics:

ELA:

This is the vocabulary for our test on Friday. :)
We also have an RRJ due on Friday.  I will give another writing prompt to continue our practice to get ready for our February FSA assessment. This will be due on Friday as well.
Our secret words this week are: Happy New Year!   Write this on a sticky with your name and turn in to Mrs. Ray.  I will announce December's winner in class for our bin of happiness drawing!

Math:  We will come back and review dividing fractions, before moving on to multiplying fractions.

Homework:
Monday: Lesson 6
Tuesday: Lesson 7
Wednesday: Lesson 8
Thursday: Attend Middle School Information Night 6:30pm

Science:  We will begin discussing Force & Motion, this will be covered in Chapter 7 of our science textbooks!

Resources:
Monday- Art
Wednesday- Music
Thursday- Music
Friday- Media (Ray only)

Monday Night Video:

Tuesday Night Video:

Wednesday Night Video:

Thursday/Friday Video:

Spirit Night at Moe's on Thursday 12/17

Welcome to Moe's...

Help support Bartram Springs by dining at Moe's on Thursday, December 17th from 5-8pm!  

Spelling Bee

Our Spelling Bee Champion: Sophie

Congratulations Sophie, you spelled each word with such confidence and ease!  We are so proud of you!

Our Spelling Bee Participants:

Minus Connor B

All the participants:

Week of December 14th-18th

Our last week of school before Winter Break!  We have plenty to keep us busy!

There is no early release this week!

The PTA Store will be open all week for students to purchase small items for siblings & parents.  If students bring in money, they may attend the store.

Monday- Spelling Bee in the Cafeteria at 9:00!  Good luck to all our students participating!  Parents are welcome to attend.
Tuesday- Last session of the Science practice test
and ELA Practice District Writing Test
Wednesday- Field Trip to the IMAX (Students may bring money to purchase popcorn and snacks at the IMAX)
Thursday- Chorus performance
Friday- Our class party--11:45(Thank you to Ms. Williams for planning and organizing)

Winter Break Homework:
Students will have 16 days off for winter break, I am requesting that students complete 6 i-Ready lessons.  These lessons can be completed all in one day or spread out over the course of their time off.  Of course completing more than 6 lessons is definitely OK! :)  Please let us know ahead of time if your child will not have access to the internet over break.
For ELA:
Students should also complete 4 Achieve 3000 lessons.  Those students on I-ready Reading should complete 4 of those as well

Academics:

ELA:  We will not have vocabulary this week due to our field trip, testing and our party.
No RRJ or Social Studies.  We will focus on our reading and writing in our whole group.  Students will still have to complete Achieve lessons and their RAH.
The District Practice Writing Prompt will take place on Tuesday and will be our first opportunity to write a complete paper in one sitting of 120 minutes from plan to final product! :) The writing has been amazing and I am excited to see how it goes!

This week's secret word winners were: Rhea and Cydney!  Keep reading the blog and write down the secret word with your name on a sticky and turn in to Mrs. Ray. 
This week's secret word is "holiday"! 

Math:
We will cover 3 lessons this week in Module 4, these lessons continue to cover how fractions are related to division.  We will model using tape diagrams.  Be sure to watch the videos for further explanation.

Math Homework:
Monday- Module 4 Lesson 3
Tuesday- Module 4 Lesson 4 (due Thursday due to field trip)
Thursday- Module 4 Lesson 5

Science:
We will wrap up Chapter 6 on Energy this week and test on Friday.  This is an open book test.  Science books will come home on Thursday night for students to study.  

Resources:
Monday- Art
Wednesday- Music
Friday- P.E.

We enjoyed attending Suessical the Musical last week.  Three of our talented students were in the production: Cydney, Mackenzie, & Maya.  They did a fantastic job! :)

Monday's Math Video: Module 4 Lesson 3

Tuesday's Math Video: Module 4 Lesson 4

Thursday's Math Video: Module 4 Lesson 5

See you in 2016! 

Week of December 7th-11th

We will continue taking our mid-year assessments this week.  Students will take Math Session 1 & 2 on Wednesday & Thursday.  They will then begin the paper/pencil Science assessment on Friday.

Progress reports will be sent home on Wednesday!

Just a reminder, all field trip money is due by Thursday, December 10th!  You can pay online! :)

Come check out Suessical the Musical on either Thursday or Friday night at 6:00 PM in the cafeteria!  Several of our students are performing!

Congratulations to Peyton & Alba for being named our Eagle of the Month for December, the character trait was Kindness.

Congrats to Maya, Dana, Mariana, Taylor and Gabby on finishing the Girls on the Run 5K this weekend at the University of North Florida!  It was cold and windy but that didn't stop these 5 from finishing.  Great job, girls!

Academics:

ELA: For vocabulary this week we will be studying commonly misused homonyms.  We will have a test on Friday.

The RRJ that was assigned last week will be due on Friday as will our social studies ticket! Remember this becomes homework if you do not have time to finish in class. 

We will also be starting an FSA practice prompt today to hopefully be completed by Friday!

We completed our ELA district testing but a practice writing test will be coming up next week! Keep up the great effort! :)

This week the secret word is "Writing".  If you are reading the blog write the word on a sticky with your name and give it to Mrs. Ray.  Last week's blog reading winners were Anyssa and Mariana. They got to visit the Bin of Happiness!

Math: Due to district testing this week, we will only complete lesson 2 and 3 from Module 4.  These lessons cover how to interpret a fraction as division.  Videos added below! :)

This week our classes had an opportunity to participate in an Hour of Code!  It was a huge hit and definitely something you can access and work on at home as a family! www.hourofcode.com


Science: We will work through Chapter 6 in our science workbooks.  This will continue our discussion on forms of energy.  We hope to test on forms of energy before winter break!



Resources:
Monday- Media (Tiberio homeroom-only)/ Art
Wednesday- Music
Friday- P.E.

Module 4 Lesson 2:

Module 4 Lesson 3:

Thank you to all the families who came out to Math & Science night we had a great turnout!  Here are a few pictures from the event!  A big congratulations is in order for Mackenzie who won 1st place for the 5th grade science projects!!  Way to go, Mackenzie!