Week of February 1st-5th

Report cards & a current data sheet reflecting Achieve 3000 & i-Ready data will be sent home on Monday, be sure to sign and return both of these sheets. Also, the total number of books read will be listed on this sheet.  All totals are based on RAH logs turned in at the time we calculated them.  Any late RAHs will count toward the third quarter. There will be an ice cream celebration for all students who have read 12 or more books to date! :)

Bartram Springs National Elementary Honor Society is collecting items to make activity bags for Wolfson Children's Hospital.  Please consider sending in any of the following items to assist in this service project.  Crayons, coloring books, puzzle books, Sudoku, crafts, water color paints and paper, colored pencils, etc.  Let's help to make the day brighter for a child in the hospital!  


The BSE School Advisory Committee will meet Tuesday, February 2 at 6:00 pm for  the annual Mid-Year Stakeholder Meeting. It will be held in the Media Center. Everyone is welcome!


Congratulations to Mackenzie for going to the district science fair last week!  She was selected as a finalist and was interviewed about her project.  She did a fantastic job!  We are so proud of her.

New Expectations for the second half of the year!
In order to prepare our students for the rigorous requirements of middle school, we will be instituting some new requirements for the second semester of the year. 
While late work will still be accepted there will be a penalty of 10 pts. for any assignment turned in past the due date. (Exception made if student is absent. Work must then be turned in promptly upon arrival back to school.)
All students must have their independent reading book every day without exception or it will result in an  unearned conduct for materials. 


Academics:

ELA: We will not have a vocabulary test this week.  Instead we will be working with leveled vocabulary readers and students will complete an assignment due on Friday. 
With the FSA approaching we will begin to practice test type questions to prepare for the test!
We will have an end of the unit assessment on Friday based on our current topic of Natural Disasters.
We will also take a mini-assessment on the various standards we are working on in class.  These are based on articles.   There will be no RRJ this week.  We WILL have another writing prompt due on Friday.  We will practice a timed writing with this prompt as well. 
Bin of Happiness winners this week are Peyton S. and Sophie.  The secret phrase this week is
"We have the WRITE stuff to succeed!" 

Our writing is really coming along and I am confident our students will be prepared for the District FSA Writing Exam the week of Feb. 29th!


Math: I feel that the students have a pretty good understanding of multiplying fractions at this point so we will be moving on to division of fractions.  We will begin by comparing fractional pieces and then start dividing fractions by a whole number. We will spend several days working on this concept.
 We will do a couple lessons from our math textbooks this week, so homework may look a little different.
Homework:
Monday: Topic 11-7
Tuesday: Module 4 Lesson 23
Wednesday: Module 4 Lesson 25
Thursday: Module 4 Lesson 26

We are also going to spend some time going through the FSA software, to become familiar with tools and resources on the website.  This website can also be accessed at home.  I recommend working on this website with your student.  There is also a practice test available.

http://www.fsassessments.org/students-and-families/practice-tests/

Science: We will continue our study of plants and animals this week.  We will work through a Gizmo.  We will test on plants and animals on Friday, February 12th.

Resources:
Tuesday- Music
Thursday- P.E.
Friday- Art

Monday: Module 4 Lesson 22:

Tuesday: Module 4 Lesson 23:

Wednesday: Module 4 Lesson 25:

Thursday: Module 4 Lesson 26:

Friday: Module 4 Lesson 27: