Week of December 16-20

 

           

Upcoming Test!

There will be a test and an extended response question over Colonial Williamsburg this Monday. Please encourage your child to take the chapter 9 tutorial at www.tutorial.historyalive.com. Due to the snow days, our teaching of this unit has been a little condensed, so I will allow the kids to use their books and their notes. This will also help them with the important skill of locating information in a text.

Donuts with Santa

I hope to see many of you at our Donuts with Santa event tomorrow! I know my own children are so excited and it is fun to see the students outside of class!

Calling all catalogs!

If you have any catalogs at home that you don't need, please send them to school by Tuesday. We are still collecting catalogs to use for our holiday shopping spree project this coming week!

Movie Time!

Both boys and girls are invited to bring a special snack on Tuesday. The girls will be watching a movie with Mrs. Hammons related to what they've learned during Lunch Bunch and the girls will be watching "Sign of the Beaver" related to our recent study of Native Americans with the 5th grade teachers.

 

 

Holiday Activities

• WOW! Thank you, thank you, thank you!! We have such supportive and caring families! Our child will receive everything on his wish list and it is all because of you! The kids are excited and we will be wrapping the gifts this coming Wednesday!
• On Thursday, we will have our school-wide Sing-a-Long and the kids are invited to wear their pajamas!
• Our Winter Party is this Friday at 1:00pm. If you are a certified volunteer, you are welcome to attend!

Building Visitors

I want to make you all aware that any and all visitors to our building must provide ID upon entering. If you or another family will be visiting the school for lunch, volunteering, or any other circumstance during the school day, please be sure to have a photo ID ready when you enter the office.

Book Fair

I want to thank all of you for your support of our Book Fair this week. An extra thank you to those who purchased books for our classroom! I try to be selective and choose books that will support the kids' learning. :o)

BOB

Most of the kids are very excited about the BOB books this year! Please encourage your child to read his/her BOB book at home each night. This is such a postiive and educational competition. I have set the students up on a website called Book Adventure in order to take quizzes on BOB books and any other chapter books they finish, but for some reason their logins are not working. I will do my best to get to the bottom of this ASAP, so the kids can assess their own comprehension of the books.

Our Learning Plan for the Week!

Math: The kids will do a few more fraction lessons and then we will dive into our Christmas shopping spree project!

Social Studies: I will assess their understanding of colonial Williamsburg Monday and then we will begin a new unit on tensions leading up to the Revolutionary War.

Writing: The kids will finalize, publish, and celebrate their feature articles on creative thinkers!

Reading: We will continue learning how to compare and contrast story topics and themes in two literary passages as well as begin exploring how to effectively answer reading open response questions by lifting lines from the passage.
 

Happy Holidays!!!

Week of December 2-6

    Happy Holidays!!! 

I hope you all enjoyed the break and had a lovely Thanksgiving!  

Husky Helping House

If you were able to shop for our Husky Helping House kiddo, please feel free to go ahead and send in his gifts.  We will also be in need of wrapping paper, tissue paper, and boxes if you have any you can spare in the coming weeks.  Please be sure to send in all gifts no later than December 10th.  If you signed up to donate money, please send that in by December 2nd, so I will be able to go shopping for the remaining items for our kiddo.  Thanks so much for your support!  This is one of the kids' favorite Harmony traditions!

Lunch Bunch

Starting this week Mrs. Hammons will begin hosting Lunch Bunch with all the girls in our class.  This means that for the next few weeks, Mrs. Hammons will bring the girls up to eat lunch in her office and learn about life in the girl world and how to handle girl bullying.  Please chat with your daughter about what she is learning at Lunch Bunch because these lessons can be very helpful especially with the coming transition to middle school.

Upcoming Tests

Thursday~Test over colonial regions (chapter 7 of History Alive)

Friday~Test over division

*Please help your child to prepare for these tests.  Study materials will come home for math and the tutorial will be available for social studies at www.tutorial.historyalive.com.

Here's what we'll be learning this week!

Math:  We will learn the different ways to represent remainders in division and how remainders are used or ignored in the real world.

Social Studies:  We will review what we've learned about colonial regions and the kids will make a billboard advertising their assigned colonial region to demonstrate their understanding.

Word Study:  As we wrap up division, we will segue into measurement, so this week our focus will be learning the meaning of measurement terms.  I found a great website with flash cards and review games to help the kids with the metric system.  Please check it out.  http://quizlet.com/6006969/metric-system-prefixes-and-root-words-flash-cards/

Writing:  The kids have been researching for a feature article about a famous creative/inventive thinker and this week we will begin drafting those articles.

Reading:  This week, we will continue learning about Renaissance thinkers through reading as we compare and contrast depictions and story elements in two different texts about da Vinci and Galileo.

Have a great week, and if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me!  :o)