Thank You to Our Room Parent Reps!
Jill Ferrante and Aimee Elam have graciously stepped up to be our room parents rep. Thank you so much! We look forward to working with you and creating a wonderful year for our students.
Dress Code
Please help! We do not like sending students to the office to get big shirts! Please make sure shorts, skirts, and rompers are finger tip length on the thigh, and if your child is wearing any kind of leggings that their bottom is covered by a shirt. Pulling shirts down when we talk to them or telling us they have other clothes in their backpack, does not work! Thank you for your support!
PLEASE CHECK YOUR CHILD'S JUPITER GRADES ON A WEEKLY BASIS. WE ARE SEEING STUDENTS MISSING HOMEWORK.
Classroom Updates
Language Arts
In language arts are really enjoying our class novel, Boy of the Painted Cave. As we read each chapter we practice different reading strategies. This week we have designed a book cover, completed a comic strip to help us with visualization, wrote a chapter summary to help with literal comprehension, and drew a story pyramid to help us understand text structure. All of this classwork is stored in your child's Reading Log in the classroom. Feel free to stop by before or after school if you want to take a peek.
Social Studies
This week we finished chapter one, Investigating the Past. When students arrived to class on Monday, they took on the role of a social scientist and went spelunking. The students crawled through the cave in search of artifacts. After retrieving an artifact from the cave, they worked at their research station looking at details that might help them determine why these artifacts were created in the first place. This was a great hands on experience.
In language arts are really enjoying our class novel, Boy of the Painted Cave. As we read each chapter we practice different reading strategies. This week we have designed a book cover, completed a comic strip to help us with visualization, wrote a chapter summary to help with literal comprehension, and drew a story pyramid to help us understand text structure. All of this classwork is stored in your child's Reading Log in the classroom. Feel free to stop by before or after school if you want to take a peek.
Social Studies
This week we finished chapter one, Investigating the Past. When students arrived to class on Monday, they took on the role of a social scientist and went spelunking. The students crawled through the cave in search of artifacts. After retrieving an artifact from the cave, they worked at their research station looking at details that might help them determine why these artifacts were created in the first place. This was a great hands on experience.
They furthered their understanding of the role of social scientist when they took part in a trash investigation. Working in groups, the students were given a list of garbage found in a trash can at a campsite. Using the layered contents as evidence they were able to come up with many hypothesizes about who was camping, what they ate, and what activities they participated in.
The students completed their first chapter test on Friday, and they are anxiously awaiting their scores. This first test is always challenging. As the students learn more about reading information and studying for tests, they will naturally improve their scores. With all social studies test, students that earn C+ or lower are able to complete test corrections. Test corrections consist of writing out the question and the correct answer. Correct test corrections earn 1/2 the point back on the test score. Test corrections are due three days after I return the tests. The original test must be returned along with the test corrections.
I highly encourage test corrections for all students that qualify. One, it helps with their grade, but more importantly it helps them develop and practice their reading for information skills.
All students were registered for their online subscription for our social studies program. We explored the site in class. The students can visit this site at anytime to review and read more information. The online site offers additional social studies articles related to our classroom learning. The students also had a chance to play, Crack the Code. This is a challenge game to test their knowledge.
Visit: http://www.learntci.com/student/sign_in
Click: Student Sign-in (Top right corner)
Enter my email: [email protected]
Username is: firstnamelastinitial19 (all lower case) Example: Lucy Russell is lucyr19
Password is: TC1ss16
Students are welcome to change their password, but please know that I do not have access to any passwords.
I highly encourage test corrections for all students that qualify. One, it helps with their grade, but more importantly it helps them develop and practice their reading for information skills.
All students were registered for their online subscription for our social studies program. We explored the site in class. The students can visit this site at anytime to review and read more information. The online site offers additional social studies articles related to our classroom learning. The students also had a chance to play, Crack the Code. This is a challenge game to test their knowledge.
Visit: http://www.learntci.com/student/sign_in
Click: Student Sign-in (Top right corner)
Enter my email: [email protected]
Username is: firstnamelastinitial19 (all lower case) Example: Lucy Russell is lucyr19
Password is: TC1ss16
Students are welcome to change their password, but please know that I do not have access to any passwords.
Math
This week we completed our TenMarks assessments and will start working with individually leveled work next week. We also had a number talk to help us determine different patterns between numbers. We constructed a histogram (a type of bar graph) concerning the birthdays in our class and looked closely at the data. Lastly, we talked about math in the real world and completed a homework assignment that gave us many opportunities to see math in our daily lives.
Remember- MATH IS POWER!
Science
This week we started to develop our understanding of how scientists observe the world around them. We conducted and observational experiment and began to question and wonder the same way a scientist would. We also worked on an engineering challenge in teams to help us learn how to work on difficult and complex challenges as a group.
This week we started to develop our understanding of how scientists observe the world around them. We conducted and observational experiment and began to question and wonder the same way a scientist would. We also worked on an engineering challenge in teams to help us learn how to work on difficult and complex challenges as a group.
Spanish
In Spanish class we are continuing to learn about Hispanic Heritage Month. The students are going to finish a small poster about an assigned country in Central America next week and then going to start a project on 16 de septiembre (Mexico's Independence Day). There will be lots of fun activities planned for 16 de septiembre which will include looking at the Mexican flag, learning about grito de independencia, the "cry of independence." that is done at the national palace in Mexico City, and of course food. We will also be eating beans and rice on the 15 of September. We will soon be starting to conjugate more verbs and getting a refresher course to continue where we left off last year.
In Spanish class we are continuing to learn about Hispanic Heritage Month. The students are going to finish a small poster about an assigned country in Central America next week and then going to start a project on 16 de septiembre (Mexico's Independence Day). There will be lots of fun activities planned for 16 de septiembre which will include looking at the Mexican flag, learning about grito de independencia, the "cry of independence." that is done at the national palace in Mexico City, and of course food. We will also be eating beans and rice on the 15 of September. We will soon be starting to conjugate more verbs and getting a refresher course to continue where we left off last year.