Week of August 31-September 4

                                           

Hooray! We have completed our first full week of school and everyone is adjusting beautifully! Our team was even chosen to be the first model for our fire drill last Thursday! We have been working on baseline testing and will continue this week with makeups and the science baseline.

We have had parents asking about sending in treats for birthdays and have gotten word from our administration that treats are not allowed at this time. Hopefully, we will resume with being able to share goodies very soon! Thank you for your understanding and support in this matter.

Academics: 

ELA:

Read At Home Logs are due Thursday!!! 

This week we will have our first vocabulary list.  We will be studying Morphs which consists of prefixes and affixes.  Our first test will be on Friday, 9/4/20 and students will be making flashcards this week to study the words. The test will consist of morphs from LIST 1 only but will be cumulative going forward.

We have a social studies ticket due on Friday, 9/4/20.  Our first RAH is due this Thursday and every Thursday following. The Reader's Response Journal was introduced last Friday and will be due in  2 weeks on 9/11/20.  This is a work job and class time will be devoted to completing these. I will be having RRJ chats with students this week to ensure understanding of the expectation! We began our study of Main Idea and will continue this all week with a quiz on Friday 9/4/20

                                           

Math:  We will be working with decimals this week.  We will work with decimals in standard form, expanded form, and word form.  We will also compare decimals using our prior knowledge of place value.  We will finish the week by rounding decimals.

Science:  We will complete the science baseline on Monday and Tuesday of this week.  This test is to see how much science knowledge your child already has, we will then use this data to prepare and instruct any deficits.  Then we will continue our studies of the scientific method.  Students can expect to have a science quiz on this topic on Friday. 

Week of August 24th-28th

 We had a great and busy first two days of school discussing rituals and routines and getting used to wearing face masks!

This week we will begin baseline testing for Reading, Math and Science.  The majority of this testing will take place on the computer except for Science testing.

Academics:

ELA: This week in ELA will consist of rituals and routines, setting up journals and completing Achieve 3000 and I-ready baseline testing.  We will begin our first reading lesson and the focus is Main Idea. We have begun our Classroom-Book-A-Day program and will read one picture book daily for the entire year! I will also introduce a social studies task to be completed in a two week framework.  Read At Home logs will go home on Thursday and will be the required homework for ELA.  I will collect them each Thursday and a new one will go home.  More to come as we get this year under way! 

Math:  We have started full steam ahead into our math curriculum.  We are working on powers of ten, exponents, and how multiplying or dividing by 10, 100, and 1,000 changes the value of a number.  Students have begun completing daily math each morning.  This is a great way for us to review key topics all year.  Students will take a weekly quiz on Friday.  The first two we will complete together.

Science: We have begun discussing the Scientific Method and how students can write a testable question.  We hope to be able to get into some labs soon.

Resources:

Resources have not started at this time.  Stay tuned.

Thursday & Friday, August 20th & 21st

 

Welcome back to school!  We are so excited to have you with us this year!  We will primarily focus on rituals and routines these first two days.  We will discuss important safety measures that we will take to make sure we all stay healthy.  We will also begin to set up our materials and supplies so we can start fresh on Monday!  

We will update this blog weekly with important information.  Be sure to bookmark this page to refer back to weekly.

Be sure to join Class Dojo: Follow the link:

https://www.classdojo.com/invite/?c=CJC2M8T

Let's have a great year!

💓 Mrs. Puckett & Mrs. Ray

Virtual School

Be sure to check in on our TEAMS pages.  We also e-mail out the next weeks plans every Sunday afternoon.

Be sure to reach out if you need us!

Week 2 of Virtual School

On Sunday, March 29th-- Mrs. Ray and I emailed out this weeks activities.  We also posted the template on Teams.

Passwords for various accounts:

PENDA:
Center ID: 32258BSES
Username: S number
Password: S number again

i-Ready & Achieve 3000:
Normal DCPS log in

Reflex Math: www.Reflexmath.com
Username: S Number
Password: Found on Teams or e-mail Mrs. Puckett for password (tiberiom@duvalschools.org)
Puckett Homeroom: TiberioM is the teacher username
Ray Homeroom: PuckettM is the teacher username

Science Textbook:
Normal DCPS Log in

Science textbook, i-Ready, Achieve, and PENDA all need to be accessed through Blended Learning on the DCPS, or follow the link on the blog.


Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

Duval Homeroom

Parents & Students--

  We are eager to get back to work on Monday, March 23rd.  Students will be logging in to view work through Microsoft Teams.  Mrs. Ray and I will have office hours daily to assist with work.  We will be monitoring work daily, and checking e-mails regularly.  Please communicate at any time if you have questions or concerns.  We know this is not the most ideal situation and we appreciate your flexibility during this time. 

We will take attendance daily, and we will be grading work in order to ensure your child has 4th quarter grades.

Students will need to have "recess" daily and should be sure to visit their Music, Art, and PE Teams to see what they can be doing for their resources.

Office Hours for chatting on Teams:

Monday- Friday: 9:30-11:00 & 1:00-2:00

Don't forget the school is offering free lunch and snack daily from 11:00-1:00 PM.  Buses will also be delivering lunches.

If you do not have internet access or a device for your child to use be sure to reach out to the school in order to request a learning packet.  Packets are only for students who DO NOT have a computer.  We will work to get every student a device by the end of this week to ensure all students can stay on track.

This first week of Duval Homeroom will be a lot of i-Ready and Achieve 3000, while Mrs. Ray and I as well as your child get more familiar with the Teams software.  We hope to be able to create some fun activities going forward.

E-mail addresses:
Mrs. Puckett: tiberiom@duvalschools.org
Mrs. Ray: rayc@duvalschools.org

Week of March 2nd-6th

One more week until Spring Break!!

Academics:

ELA:  Work Job for the week will be: RRJ with chat due Friday.  New Writing Prompt will begin on Tuesday with a timed 60 minute block to be completed Wednesday with a 60 minute block. This is an Opinion Prompt.
We will continue our study of Figurative Language in poetry as well as short stories.
All work should be completed before Friday 3/6.

Math: We will test on Module 4 on Friday.  Students will come home with a review on Thursday.  We will begin Module 5 when we return from spring break.

Science:  We will continue with our discussion on the human body and then we will be able to compare plants and animals.

Resources:
Puckett
Monday- P.E
Tuesday- Art
Wednesday- Music
Thursday- P.E.

Ray:
Monday- Music
Thursday- Music
Friday- Art