Week of September 23rd-27th

Early Release on Wednesday! Dismissal begins at 1:15.

Our field trip to the Marine Science Center will take place on Thursday!  Students need to remember to bring a bagged lunch. They can also bring their decorated jugs to collect shells on the beach.  Students should wear tennis shoes.

Mrs. Puckett will be out on Thursday, Friday, and Monday 9/30.  If you have a transportation change or need to notify us about your child being absent.  Please send to Mrs. Ray.  She will be taking attendance and addressing any transportation changes.

Don't forget about the science fair!  The Jacksonville Public Library is offering a help series. Check out the flyer.













Academics:

ELA: We will not have new Morphs this week due to Early Release and our Field Trip on Thursday.
You can always get a head start on list 4 for the next week.
We will have a new Social Studies assignment this week in the form of 2 worksheets.  They will be due on 10/4.  Our RRJ is due this Friday 9/28.  You need to complete a chat with classmates in order to get all possible points. We will be working on our Pirate Writing this week.  Attacking the Prompt and Learning the plan format.  Our Ready Reading lesson will focus on Historical Texts and Cause and Effect.  Test on Friday.

This week's Winner of the Bin of Happiness is Caleb!  Good job and be sure to get your happiness!
This week's secret phrase is:

Write it on a sticky note and give it to Mrs. Ray of 🌞!

Math:  We will review the Module 1 assessment on Monday.  Then we will move into Module 2.  Module 2 will cover multi-digit multiplication and division.  See below for helpful videos.  Daily Math Quiz on Friday!

Science:  We will complete a couple labs this week, about how temperature and stirring can affect the dissolving rate of salt or sugar in water.  We will also discuss how surface area can affect the dissolving rate.  No vocabulary test this week or next.  Science Quiz on Friday covering mixtures and solutions.

Resources:
Puckett:
Tuesday- Art
Wednesday- Music/Media

Ray:
Monday- P.E.
Tuesday- Media
Friday- Art

Module 2 Lesson 3

Module 2 Lesson 4

Module 2 Lesson 5:

Week of Sept. 16th-20th

Progress reports will be sent home on Monday!  Please sign and return.

School Advisory Council meeting Tuesday evening at 6PM in the Media Center.  Come learn about what is going on around BSE!  All are welcome to attend.

Fall pictures will take place on Thursday. This will be the photo used for the yearbook.

No weekly workouts this week!

Academics:

ELA:
New Morph list #3 with a test on Friday, 9/20.  Remember these tests are cumulative so study lists 1,2 and 3. Keep up with your flashcards and use this tool to study for the test!

We will continue our social studies this week and turn it in on Friday.  Time for our second RRJ to be due on 9/27. No creative arts options yet!  Our Ready lesson this week will focus on finding relationships between, events, topics, and concepts in scientific and technical texts in order to understand them. We will have a test on this on Friday.  We will continue to work on summarizing.

This week begins our Pirate Writing!  

We will kick it off with a poem to help us remember all the pieces to include in our essays!  Students who memorize this poem will be rewarded in Pirate's Gold!

Our Bin of Happiness winner this week is Brianne!  Happiness is coming your way!

Our new secret phrase is:

Math:  We will finish up module 1 on Wednesday by discussing multiplying and dividing with decimals.  We will also look at some word problems.  Students will bring a review sheet home on Thursday to study.  Test is on Friday!!!!  Daily Math Quiz will be on Thursday so students don't have a quiz and test on the same day.  Great videos below to review lesson concepts.

Science:  Science Vocabulary Quiz on Friday!!  The words are still available on the blog but under last weeks posting.  We will discuss the differences between mixtures and solutions.




Resources:
Puckett:
Monday- Art
Tuesday- Music
Wednesday- PE

Ray:
Wednesday- Music
Thursday- Art

Module 1 Lesson 14:

Module 1 Lesson 15:

Module 1 Lesson 16:

Sept. 6th & Sept. 9th-13th

We hope everyone made out okay after the hurricane.  We look forward to seeing everyone back on Friday.

We hope to see everyone at Open House at 6PM on Thursday, Sept. 12th at 6PM!  We will share a lot of good information.

Students will complete baseline testing this week for all of their resource classes: Art, Music, & PE

Academics:

ELA:
Another productive week in ELA. We had our first Morph's test and will have a test on list #2 on 9/20.  We will work on getting all flashcards updated because the tests are cumulative.

We finished up summarizing last week with our 10 Buck Summaries and will move onto Inference this week in our I-Ready reading book.  I am still finishing up RRJ chats so we will not have a new RRJ this week.  We will have a SS ticket on the peoples of the Northwest.  This will be due on 9/20.
We will continue our study of grammar in our "There is no Glamour in Incorrect Glamour" lessons!
Remember RAH logs are due every Thursday!  This is a homework grade and will impact your average if you do not turn them in every week. 📕📑

Our Classroom-Book-A-Day is going well and we have read 17 picture books so far! yahoo!
I will be adding an extra credit option this week.  On your own time, you may write a "5 sentence 5 star review".  Tell about the book and what you liked or did not like about it.  Follow Mrs.Ray's Writing Rules for Life and make it Top Quality to earn up to 5 points toward a low grade. (Maximum of 20 extra credit points per 9 weeks.)
Our Bin of Happiness winner this week is Andre F.  Collect your Happiness on Monday!
💓💓💓💓💓

Finally, we learned about Frida Kahlo this week and read a Classroom-Book-A-Day called Frida,

Our new secret phrase is a quote by this wonderful artist!




Math: Check out the videos below to help with homework or to review material covered in class!  We will continue to work on subtracting decimals, multiplying decimals, dividing decimals.

Science:  We will be working on Properties of Matter this week, we will complete a lab this week that deals with separating mixtures.  Students will separate mixtures based on their properties.  Students will have another vocabulary quiz for science.  Students will have access to the words on the blog, and it is also stapled in their planners.  The quiz will be on Sept. 20th.

Vocabulary Words:

characteristic- A feature, quality, property, or trait of an object or organism

properties of matter- used to describe matter (e.g. mass, volume, color, texture, size, and temperature)

state of matter-  The form matter can take (e.g. solid, liquid, gas)

solution-  a mixture that has the same composition throughout because all are the parts are mixed evenly (example:  lemonade)

liquid-  the state of matter in which a substance has a definite volume but no definite shape

gas-  the state of matter in which a substance does not have a definite shape or volume

classify-  to arrange in a specific order or group by categories based on similarities

matter-  anything that takes up space and has mass

mixture-  a combination of two or more different substances in which the substances keep their identities (example:  trail mix)

dissolve-  to form a solution with another substance.  The substances are spread out evenly and you cannot see the separate substances in the mixture.

solid-  the state of matter in which a substance has a definite shape and a definite volume

Weekly Workouts:
Students will get their first set of workouts the week of Sept. 9th!  I ask that parents initial each day that they complete the workouts.  I give 3 workouts for the week, students can choose to complete them whenever they would like throughout the 4 days.  I will check signatures on Friday.

Resources:
Puckett:
Friday, Sept. 6th- Art/P.E.
Monday, Sept. 9th- Music

Ray:
Friday, Sept. 6th- Music
Wednesday, Sept. 11th- Art
Friday, Sept. 13th- P.E.

Helpful Math Videos:

Lesson 10

Lesson 11:

Lesson 13:

Week of August 26th-30th

Our first early release will take place this week.  Dismissal will begin at 1:15.

Academics:

ELA: We completed another week of new routines and establishing work habits!  This week we will continue with our focus on finding Main Idea and add to it the skill of Summarizing informational text. This will be helpful when we begin working on our text based writing next week!  Be prepared to dive into some "Pirate Writing"!  You will have to wait to see what I mean by that! 😉 Our Social Studies and RRJs will be due this Friday and I will begin modeling RRJ Chat Groups with all students.  We finished our I-Ready and Achieve testing and students have had DATA CHATS.  They will be bringing home their work jobs journal to share their data with families very soon! 🎉🎉🎉
We will begin some "There's no Glamour in Incorrect Grammar" language lessons this week. ✎

We will also have our first vocabulary test on Friday.  We will begin a study of Morphs-word parts such as prefixes and suffixes.  Our test will be on list #1 only!

Finally, we have our first winner for the Bin of Happiness and it is Makayla! Congratulations! See Mrs. Ray for some Happiness!!!
This week's secret phrase is:

Write it down on a sticky note and give it to Mrs. Ray for your chance at "Happiness"!


Math:  We will work on comparing, rounding, adding & subtracting decimals this week.  See the videos below to help review these concepts.  Students will receive homework a couple nights this week.  The videos can help assist with homework.  Students will have a math quiz every Friday.  It covers many different standards that are a review, students can bring their daily math packets home to study each week--in fact it is encouraged! :)

Science:
We will discuss the roles of scientists and different scientist tools that are used.  We will complete a lab detailing the scientific method. Students will have a science quiz on Friday that covers the scientific method.  We will also have a science vocabulary quiz on Friday 8/30.  See vocabulary words to study below. Next week we will begin properties of matter.
Vocabulary words:
Observation- Information about the natural world gathered through the senses and/or scientific instruments.
Conclusion- A statement that tells what an investigation showed, based on observations and data.
Analyze- to examine methodically be separating into parts and studying their inter relatedness.
Data- Measurements or observations collected and recorded in an experiment or investigation.
Investigation- An organized scientific study of the natural world that may include making systematic observations, asking questions, gathering information, analyzing data, summarizing results, drawing conclusions, and/or communicating results.
Predict- To state what one thinks will happen under certain conditions based on data or observation.
Variable- An event, condition, or factor that can be changed or controlled in order to study or test an hypothesis in a scientific experiment.
Valid- A term used to describe the certainty of data or results of an investigation or experiment.
Experiment- A scientific test or procedure that is carried out under controlled conditions to answer a specific question.

Resources:
Puckett:
Wednesday- Art/Early Release
Thursday- Music/Media

Ray:
Tuesday- P.E.
Wednesday- Media/Early Release

Math Videos:

Module 1 Lesson 6:

Module 1 Lesson 9:

Module 1 Lesson 10:

Week of August 19th-23rd

Woo!!  We have survived the first week of school!  We are off and running...

There will be a SAC meeting this Tuesday night, August 20th, at 6PM in the Media Center.  All are welcome to attend to hear about things going on at our school.

Academics:

ELA:  Hooray for the wonderful first week we had!  😊We put many routines into place last week and we will continue to do so this week.  On Monday and Tuesday we will have  I-ready Testing.  Please bring your headphones/earbuds for the test.🎧
Our first RAH will be due on Thursday so make sure you are reading and recording your pages nightly.
This week we will continue working on Main Idea and finding Key Details.

We will begin working on our first Reader's Response Journal entry (RRJ) with an RRJ Chat.  Make sure you have a chapter book with you at all times! 💓 This will be due on 8/30/19.

We will get our first TASK Sheet this week to introduce our Work Jobs. Book Jackets will be due by 8/23/19.  We will also have our first Social Studies Ticket to be due on 8/30/19.

The Secret Phrase for the this week is:

Write this phrase on a sticky note and give it to Mrs. Ray with your name on it for a chance to win a trip to the Bin of Happiness!!!!!!
🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

Math:  We are working on place value.  Students need to know how to multiply and divide numbers by powers of 10 as it relates to decimals.  Students will also take the i-Ready computer baseline on Thursday & Friday.  See videos below that discuss the lessons we have covered this week.  Students will take a daily math quiz every Friday.

Science:  We are continuing to learn about scientific investigations.  Students should begin brainstorming for their science fair projects.  More information will come home at the beginning of September.

Resources: 
Puckett:
Tuesday- Art
Wednesday- Music/P.E.

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

Math Videos:

Module 1 Lesson 2

Module 1 Lesson 3:

Module 1 Lesson 4:

Module 1 Lesson 5:

Week of August 12th-16th

  Happy first week of school!  We are looking forward to a great 2019-2020 school year!  This week will be all about rituals and routines.  We plan to start the week with a team meeting with both homerooms together.  We are big on creating a culture of students who love to learn and work together.

Students will also begin baseline testing for science, Achieve and i-Ready.  We will also begin setting up notebooks, and binders and begin introductory lessons in all our core subjects.  Be sure to check the blog each week for lesson specifics and upcoming events.

Resources:
Puckett:
Tuesday- Art with Mrs. Parrish

Ray:
Thursday- Art with Mrs. Parrish

First Week of School

We look forward to meeting everyone at orientation on Thursday, August 8th.  We are looking forward to a great 2019-2020 school year!!

Love, 

Mrs. Puckett & Mrs. Ray