Week of January 3rd-7th

 

Welcome back and Happy New Year!!  We hope everyone had a great break.  Just a reminder, there is no school on Monday, January 3rd for a teacher planning day.

Upcoming days off for January:

Monday, January 3rd- Planning day

Friday, January 14th- Weather day

Monday, January 17th- No School

Academics:

ELA: We will be working on a new opinion prompt this week! We will be starting to time our prompts to prepare for the two hour time frame that is allowed on the FSA writing test. New morphs list will be given this week with a test on 1/13 of next week. List # 8. We will be celebrating new Lexile levels in Achieve this week! New SS ticket: Native American Task Cards- due on 1/13. New RRJ will be due on 1/21.

Math:  We will continue in module 4 by working on multiplication of fractions.  Students have been introduced to this concept during daily math work.

Science: We will begin the new year discussing the water cycle!  Students need to know the following vocabulary words: Precipitation, Evaporation, Condensation.  Please review these words with your child.

Resources:

Puckett-

Tuesday- Art

Thursday- P.E.

Ray:

Tuesday- Art

Thursday-P.E.

Friday- Music

Week of Dec. 13th-17th

 We will have our final day of PMA testing on Monday--finishing up the Science test!

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

Thank you to all the families who signed up to bring in items for our holiday snack party!  Please send all items in by Thursday so we know if we need any additional items.

School resumes on Tuesday, January 4th.  We hope everyone has a great holiday break!  We will see you back in 2022!!

Academics:

ELA: No new morphs!  New standard is text structure. Lesson check 11 will be on 12/15. The quarter ends on 12/17. All work will need to be in by 12/17/21 in order to be counted for the 2nd quarter. SS ticket is due 12/15-Ancient Civilizations in the yellow SS book.

Math:  We will continuing working through Module 4, working on multiplying fractions.

Science:  After the PMA on Monday, we will wrap up our units on weathering, erosion, rocks, minerals, and resources!  We have a couple labs and activities planned to help review these concepts.  

Resources:

Puckett:

Monday- Art

Wednesday- P.E.

Friday-Media and Music

Ray:

Monday- Art

Wednesday- P.E.

Friday- Music

Week of December 6th-10th

 We will continue with PMA 2 testing this week.  

ELA on Wednesday and Thursday

Science on Friday--we will finish the following Monday.

Field Trip News:

Mrs. Ray's class will attend on Monday!  Students MUST bring a lunch!!

Mrs. Puckett's class will attend on Tuesday!  Students MUST bring a lunch!!

Check the weather and please dress accordingly, we will travel to the beach at the end of the field trip!  It can be very windy at the beach.

Academics:

ELA: We will take our ELA PMA this week! For this reason, we will continue our study of unfamiliar words with our lesson check on Friday. Morph #7 this week. postponed from last week.

We will continue working on our Opinion Writing Prompt- whether or not zoos should be closed.

Writing is going really well and I am super impressed!

New SS ticket is due on 12/15. Ancient civilizations part 2.

Math:  We will be looking at division of fractions.  Students will understand how to interpret fractions as division.

Science: We will have our field trip this week.  We will finish up our discussion weathering and erosion.  We will also discuss some of Florida's resources: Renewable and Non Renewable.  Students will begin the PMA session 1 on Friday, a review sheet will go home.

Resources:

Puckett:

Monday- Art

Wednesday- P.E.

Friday- Music

Ray:

Monday- Art

Wednesday- P.E.

Thursday- Music

Week of Nov. 29th-Dec.3rd

We hope everything had a great Thanksgiving.  🦃

Our Progress Monitoring assessments will begin this week and finish before winter break.   The assessments will cover quarter 1 and 2 material.

The schedule is as follows:

November 30th & Dec. 1st- Math session 1 & 2

December 8th & 9th- ELA Session 1 & 2

December 10th & 13th- Science Session 1 & 2

Our field trip to the Marine Science Center will take place on Monday, Dec. 6th for Mrs. Ray's class and Tuesday, Dec. 7th for Mrs. Puckett's class.  Students must bring a bagged lunch.

Academics:

ELA: New morph list #7 with a test on next Friday. Updated-we have not had enough time to create our morph cards this week!

New skill: identifying unknown words. Students will complete Ready pages 188-194 and lesson checks 9-10. Lesson check 11 on next Friday.

"Inside-Outside-Upside-Down...Look for meaning all around!"

Complete healthy eating prompt and begin Opinion Prompt: Zoos.

SS ticket is due Friday-flow maps with important events.

Math: We will review for PMA 2 and complete the assessment this week.  We will then begin module 4 which will cover the topic of multiplying and dividing fractions.

Science:  We will start a new unit on Rocks and Minerals this week.  We will also discuss weathering and erosion.  Students need to understand that weathering is the breaking of the rock or mineral and that erosion is the movement of the material to a new location. 

Resources:

Puckett-

Monday- Art

Wednesday- P.E.

Friday- Music

Ray-

Monday- Art

Wednesday- P.E.

Thursday- Music

Friday- Media

Week of November 15th-19th & Nov. 22nd & 23rd

 Progress Reports will be sent home on Tuesday.  Please be sure to sign and return.

Academics:

ELA: New Morphs this week! List #6-test on Friday

This week's standard focuses on Inferences in literary texts. We have worked with inferences before and will have the lesson check on Friday.  New Social Studies Ticket will be a flow map of events due on 11/23. New informative writing prompt about healthy eating. These prompts are due 11/23 and will be for a grade. We will complete the Interim test Monday, 11/22.

Math: We will finish Module 3 before Thanksgiving break.  Students will take the test on Tuesday, Nov. 23rd.  If your child plans to be absent, please let me know so we can make different arrangements.  I would like to have all module 3 tests completed prior to the holiday.  Module 3 covers adding and subtracting fractions only!

Science:  We will finish up out unit on the solar system and outer space before Thanksgiving as well.  This week we will discuss the Sun, Earth, and Moons movement.  Students need to understand the difference between revolution and rotation.

Resources:

Puckett-

Tuesday- Music

Wednesday- Art

Friday- P.E./Media

Tuesday 11/23- Music

Ray:

Monday- Music

Wednesday- Art

Friday- P.E.

Monday 11/22- Music

Week of November 8th-12th

This week is a short week.  Students will be off on Thursday and Friday.  We hope everyone enjoys the long weekend.

All Science Fair projects are due on Monday!  Judging will take place this week and winners will be announced on ENN after the long weekend.

Academics:

ELA: Since this is a short week we will finish up all tasks from last week. These include: SS tickets, RRJs, Summarizing Flow Maps and Ready pages. We will take our Lesson check for summarizing this week as well. :)

We have started a new writing prompt that we will be working on as well. It is informational writing about Tigers! The writing is looking really good so far!

Math: Module 3 Math Test will be Tuesday, November 23rd if your child plans to be absent due to travel.  Please make arrangements with me to take the test prior to Thanksgiving break.  The module 3 test covers adding and subtracting fractions.  We will continue to work on this skill this week.

Science:  We will continue with our discussion on the Solar System.  This week we will focus on the inner and outer planets.  Have your child explain the different characteristics between inner and outer planets.

Resources:

Puckett & Ray:

Monday- Art

Wednesday- P.E.

Week of November 1st-5th

Important Dates for November:

November 8th- Science Fair projects due for those who participated

November 11th & 12th- No School (Veteran's Day)

November 16th- Science Fair winners announced on ENN

November 17th- Early Release

November 24th-26th- No School- Thanksgiving Break

November 30th & Dec. 1st- Progress Monitoring Assessment for Math (Quarter 2)

Academics:

ELA: We are taking a break from Morphs to finish our writing prompt this week. We will be finishing up theme in poetry this week with the independent practice due Friday.

New Social Studies will be due on 11/10. RRJ is due on 11/5 with a chat! New standard is Summarizing Literary Texts. We will have a lesson check on Friday. Flow map project with one of our books of the day.

For Writing we will continue working on our Brazil Essay/Informative writing.

Math:  We will be working in Module 3 which is the adding and subtraction of fractions.

Science:  We will begin our unit on the galaxy and solar system.  We will be charting the phases of the moon during this unit.

Resources:

Puckett-

Monday- Art

Wednesday- P.E.

Friday- Music

Ray:

Monday- Art

Wednesday- P.E.

Thursday- Music