Week of May 14th
*Please return Spring picture packages-you are receiving a notice this week if you have not!
*All work due by Friday for report cards!
*All library materials and fines must be due Wednesday, May 16th.
*Students are working on reading projects for each of their books that will be due the last week of school. They have time in class to work on these, but may need to bring in items from home. Ask your child what they are doing and see if they need items!
**If you could please donate some magazines, newspapers, etc. that are school appropriate for them to cut out of that would be great!
Journey to Nowhere (Kristin, Emily, Victoria, Drew, Madi Shinault, Sammie) -Make a diarama of four scenes from the book.
Holes - (Cole, Jake, Ky, Kellie, Ben, Maddi Sparks) Making a collage based on ideas from the book. Also each making a "Wanted Poster" of one of the characters from the book.
Watson's Go to Birmingham (Lily, Dillon, Michael, Gabby) - Creating a movie trailer and a movie poster for the book.
Twister/Trouble River (Stephen, Marcus, Ryan, Jacob, Jenna, Eve)- creating a news cast interviewing characters about the events in the book
*Last day of school is now Thursday, May 24th-it will be half day and Wednesday, May 23rd will be a full day!
*This week is Special's "Special Day. They are doing special activities in each of the special area classes, so we want to make sure we are appropriately dressed.
Monday - Art - Playing in the grass
Tuesday - Music - Bring a towel and an extra dry shirt
Wednesday - PE - Normal PE clothes
*DARE Graduation will be Wednesday, May 16th from 2-3pm in the old gym. Students are expected to wear their DARE t-shirts. They can wear a colored tank top underneath. They are to wear nice blue jeans and wear shoes that cover their feet (no open toed shoes).
*Variety show is from 9:30-10:30 on Friday, May 18th. Congratulations to Eve Abuazza and Ky Horton-Wilbor who will be performing in the show!
Grades: (Updated 5/14/12)
Go to website and click on the grades tab. Once you click on the tab, you will need to decide which grades you would like to view. I have several categories. Math Numbers, Reading Numbers, and Writing is how your child is doing on a 4, 3, 2, 1 scale in different math, writing, and reading areas. Math Percents is their overall percentage score in areas in Math. Spelling, Health, and Science are their overall percentage scores in each of those areas.
Once you have chosen the grades you would like to view you need to enter your child’s student id and pin. Their student id is their class number (1-23). Their pin is their lunch number. Once you have those you may view grades. Keep in mind that sometimes I update grades even when students who have been absent or needed extra time on an assignment have not turned that assignment in, so there may be some missing grades for your child.Do not worry about this. If there is a missing assignment and it is still there two weeks later, that means your child has a late assignment they need to turn in or that they were absent and failed to turn in their work they missed.
Also realize that reading numbers, writing numbers, and math numbers are assessed on a 4, 3, 2, 1 scale and NOT as a percentage. If you want to assess how your child is doing please look at the individual assignments to see how many 4s, 3s, 2s, or 1s your child has received. Do not look at the percentage.
We're hard at work on:
Math– Topic 24 - applying the math we know in real-life problems, taking the district math assessment
Writing – writing papers based on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Grammar – Review of skills
Reading– Drawing conclusions
Fiction Chapter Books - Questions and Reading done by the meeting date. Students are given 50 min. everyday to read their assigned pages and answer their questions. They even had an option of creating a reading plan with me. The meeting dates are as follows: Tues - Journey to Nowhere, Wed. - Trouble River, Thurs. - Watson's Go to Birmingham, Fri. - Holes
Spelling - Spelling is list including words that have vert in them. Students also have two personal words that they choose to learn how to spell, and on the last test I will give two application words that follow the skill, but have not been reviewed by students.
Science/Health – forces of motion, consumer health