January 5th - January 13th

Welcome back to school! We hope everyone enjoyed their winter break!  We are very excited to start 2017!

Our first early release of the new year will take place on Wednesday, January 11th.

On Thursday, January 12th we will go to Twin Lakes to tour the school and hear about all the events and activities the kids can look forward to next year!

Also on Thursday at Bartram Springs, we will host a Middle School Information Night from 6-7:30.  There will be several magnet schools represented as well as a presentation from the principal of Twin Lakes!  We hope to see you there!

On Friday, January 13th we will make up our field trip to the Marine Science Center.

BOTH FIELD TRIPS REQUIRE A BAGGED LUNCH!!!

Academics:
ELA:
We will be taking a break from weekly vocabulary due to the short week this week and the field trips next week.  We will have a social studies ticket due on January 19th as well as weekly Achieve 3000.  
We will also have an RRJ due January 19th. 
Our study of Jackie Robinson and Sports in America will continue!


Math:
Thursday: Lesson 16: Solving word problems involving fraction by fraction multiplication
Friday: Lesson 19: Covert units of measurement in multi-step word problems
Monday: Lesson 20: Convert mixed unit measurements in multi-step word problems
Tuesday: Lesson 21: Relate fractions to decimals
Wednesday: Lesson 22: Comparing fractions to units of measurement
Thursday & Friday: Field Trips  

You will find YouTube videos that may assist with the homework at the bottom of this post.

Science:  We will continue our discussions on rock sand minerals.  The students will complete a couple different labs this week.  One focusing on becoming a mineral detective and the other discussing renewable and nonrenewable resources.



Resources:
Thursday, January 5th: P.E.
Friday, January 6th: Art
Monday, January 9th: P.E.
Tuesday, January 10th: Music

Lesson 20

Lesson 21:

Lesson 22: