Spelling Bee

Congrats to all of our Spelling Bee participants!

January 5th & 6th

Just a reminder that we will return to school on Thursday, January 5th.  January 5th & 6th will be two of our weather make-up days from Hurricane Matthew & Tropical Storm Hermine.

Additional Weather Make up Days:

Friday, January 13th

Thursday, April 13th

Week of December 19th-23rd

Our last week of school for 2016!  We have finished up all district testing and will discuss the data with the students this week.

If your child agreed to participate in Secret Santa be sure to send in a gift on Thursday, December 22nd.

Our Spelling Bee will take place on Thursday, December 22nd at 9AM.  We will also have our class holiday party on this day!  Thank you to our Room Mom: Tracy Williams for organizing all of this for us!  We will enjoy a movie and some pizza! :)

There is no school on Friday, December 23rd

Over winter break, students can still access Achieve, i-Ready, and PENDA!  
Be sure to record your Achieve Lessons and scores!

Congratulations to our first Top Quality Luncheon Earners! Students had some delicious snacks, watched a movie and earned a Top Quality Pencil!
Emily, Diya, Isabella, Bella, Ai, Christian, Camryn, Aaron, Jackson, Kaitlyn, Kaley, Peyton G., Peyton R., Brooke L., Brooke R.,Raina, Alexandra...WAY TO GO!!!

Academics:

ELA:
Monday we will have a district Writing Scrimmage.
We do not have social studies this week or vocabulary! YAY!
RRJs with chats are due on Wednesday,  All work is due to me by Wednesday of this week!
Sorry, no exceptions! :)

Same secret phrase for this week!


Math:  Students will continue to multiply fractions this week!  They will continue to have nightly homework this week.

Science: We will finish up our unit on Earth and Space Science, students will take a short test on Wednesday.

Resources:
Monday- Art
Wednesday-Music
Thursday- Holiday Party & Spelling Bee
Friday- No School

Tissues Please!

We are in need of tissues!  This time of year brings out all the sicknesses and we are already down to our last couple of boxes.  Please consider donating a box! 

Week of December 12th-16th

Holiday Party-  We will have our class party on Thursday, December 22nd.  Please be sure to turn in the $5 for pizza, snacks, and drinks to Tracy Williams.  Send it in with your child and we will make sure it gets to her.  Thank you!  

We will finish up our last week of mid-year testing!  The students have been doing a great job of showing us what they have learned so far.

Students will complete the Math session 2 test on Monday and will take Science session 1 & 2 on Tuesday and Thursday.

Early Release on Wednesday!  Also, on Wednesday we will have an in-school field trip.  Tree Hill is coming to complete a couple demonstrations (Energy & Water).  Pictures to follow!

We look forward to our first Top Quality luncheon on Wednesday!  Thank you to all of our luncheon participants for all of their hard work!

Vision screening will take place this week.

Academics:
ELA:
No vocabulary this week!
RRJ due 12/21 with CHAT!
Social Studies ticket due Friday.
We will also continue to work on our writing prompt from last week as well as our Jackie Robinson study!

Bin of Happiness winner for this week is Kaleigh L.! Congratulations!
New phrase for this week is:


Math: 
Monday-  Session 2 of Mid-year scrimmage
Tuesday- Lesson 10-- we will compare and solve expressions involving the order of operations.  These problems will involve fractions.
Wednesday- Review/Tree Hill Presentations most of day!
Thursday-Lesson 11 & 12- We will focus on word problems involving fractions.
Friday- Students will complete the mid-module assessment after lesson 12. Daily Math Quiz

Science- We will discuss the phases of the moon this week.  We will complete an investigation involving Oreos! :)
Students will also complete the mid-year scrimmage on Tuesday and Thursday.


Resources:
Tuesday- Music
Wednesday- Early Release (Music)
Friday- P.E.

Hour of Code

Our students were able to take a little break from all the testing and work on completing an Hour of Code, during the nation wide, Hour of Code Week!  Students can get on this at home as well.

https://code.org/

Enjoy!  I see some coders in our future! :)

Week of December 5th-9th

Both homerooms will have Media this week, please be sure to bring in all library books!

Students will continue to take their mid-year assessments in all subject areas.  We look forward to seeing all the growth they have made so far.

Remaining Testing Schedule:

Friday, December 9th: Math Mid Year Scrimmage Session 1

Monday, December 10th: Math Mid Year Scrimmage Session 2

Thursday, December 15th: Science Mid-year Scrimmage Session 1

Friday, December 16th: Science Mid-year Scrimmage Session 2

** The science test is paper-pencil, the Math is on the computer**

Students will be completing i-Ready Math & Reading on the computer as well over the next two weeks.

Academics:

ELA: We will have new affixes to study this week and have our test on Friday.  Sorry it's sideways!  I will fix it this week!  My home computer is not cooperating!

Work jobs are carried over from last week with the RRJ due on Friday with chats and the social studies ticket due as well. 
Wednesday we will have class Spelling  Bees to determine who will represent each homeroom in school bee on December 22. We will have 4 representatives. 

We will begin our new Module 3A Sports in America.  Opinion writing has been introduced and we will complete a prompt this week. 

Bin of Happiness winners to be announced....

New phrase is: 
                                

Math: Students will complete the diagnostic on i-Ready this week.  Ms. Tiberio's homeroom will complete this on Monday, Mrs. Ray's homeroom will complete on Tuesday.  We will work to complete lessons 7, 8, & 9 this week.
Lesson 7: Multiplying fractions
Lesson 8: Relate a fraction of a set to repeated addition
Lesson 9: Solving word problems involing faction multiplication

Students will complete session 1 of the Mid-year scrimmage on Friday.

Science:  We are still on our unit on planets and outer space.  We will discuss revoling and rotating this week and the difference between the two.  We will also begin discussing the phases of the moon.  Students will also complete an assignment on a planet.

Resources:

Wednesday- Music & Tiberio Homeroom Media

Thursday- P.E. & Ray Homeroom Media

Friday- Art

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, December 22nd: Spelling Bee & Our classroom Holiday Party!

Friday, December 23rd: No School