- March 10: Family Reading Night Event (6:30 - 8)
- March 11 - 14: No School
- March 11 - 14: No School
- March 16: Favorite Character Day
- March 25: PTO Family Fun Night
March 30: Hawaiian/Beach Day
Please remember! Turn in your $7 for your Track and Field Day shirt!
I know there are many trips, etc. this year to pay for. If this is an issue for you, please contact me by phone, note, or email!
Please remember! Turn in your $7 for your Track and Field Day shirt!
I know there are many trips, etc. this year to pay for. If this is an issue for you, please contact me by phone, note, or email!
FYI: Charleton Park is our next field trip. Mrs. Maxson's and Chateau's classes will be going on March 31st while our class will be going with the Sandyview 5th grade on April 20th. They can only accommodate 2 classes at a time.
Middle School Principal, Mr. Smith, came in to visit on Friday. He showed us a video of a day in the life of a 6th grader that was very informative. Students who have returned their yellow slip will also be going to visit the middle school on March 17th! This will be fun and informative and certainly relieves some of the anxiety students tend to have. They will receive a snack, a tour and information, and there will be some fun activities such as inflatables!
READING:
We continue reading and discussing the novel, The Fighting Ground. Students are enjoying this historical fiction piece set during the Revolutionary War, a topic they are also learning about in social studies. We work on reading and comprehension strategies and skills, vocabulary, grammar, and dictionary skills.
MATH:
We have begun our next unit covering fractions - Chapter 8. We will take the Chapter 7 test over fractions on March 18th. Chapter 7 concepts such as simplifying fractions, changing improper fractions to mixed numbers, equivalent fractions, and finding a common factors are required in Chapter 8 giving students more opportunity to practice for the Chapter 7 test.
In Chapter 8 so far, we have learned to add/subtract fractions with like and unlike denominators as well as practice finding the LCM, or least common denominator.
MATH RTI- Each student is working on specific skills in fractions they continue to need to practice. Students that already are confident in these skills are working in other areas.
SCIENCE:
This week we discussed magnetism and contact and non-contact forces. Most movement/work requires some kind of contact force. But there are also non-contact forces such as gravity and magnetism. Students performed an experiment that showed a non-contact magnetic force- they were able to "float" a paper clip in air using a bar magnet. Then I was very impressed to watch as students were able to come up with other ideas to show this force. We also played a game I have called "Jishaku" (sounds like "just shock you").
This game uses magnetic "rocks". If you're looking for a new game at home- they love this one!
WRITING:
We have worked on brochures this week that either persuade others to join the patriots or persuade others to move to the colonies. Students were to use some historically accurate information for these. Students know brochures are due on Monday.
SPELLING:
The spelling test will be Monday. We have reviewed adding suffixes to base words, in particular
-s and -es.
Middle School Principal, Mr. Smith, came in to visit on Friday. He showed us a video of a day in the life of a 6th grader that was very informative. Students who have returned their yellow slip will also be going to visit the middle school on March 17th! This will be fun and informative and certainly relieves some of the anxiety students tend to have. They will receive a snack, a tour and information, and there will be some fun activities such as inflatables!
READING:
We continue reading and discussing the novel, The Fighting Ground. Students are enjoying this historical fiction piece set during the Revolutionary War, a topic they are also learning about in social studies. We work on reading and comprehension strategies and skills, vocabulary, grammar, and dictionary skills.
MATH:
We have begun our next unit covering fractions - Chapter 8. We will take the Chapter 7 test over fractions on March 18th. Chapter 7 concepts such as simplifying fractions, changing improper fractions to mixed numbers, equivalent fractions, and finding a common factors are required in Chapter 8 giving students more opportunity to practice for the Chapter 7 test.
In Chapter 8 so far, we have learned to add/subtract fractions with like and unlike denominators as well as practice finding the LCM, or least common denominator.
MATH RTI- Each student is working on specific skills in fractions they continue to need to practice. Students that already are confident in these skills are working in other areas.
SCIENCE:
This week we discussed magnetism and contact and non-contact forces. Most movement/work requires some kind of contact force. But there are also non-contact forces such as gravity and magnetism. Students performed an experiment that showed a non-contact magnetic force- they were able to "float" a paper clip in air using a bar magnet. Then I was very impressed to watch as students were able to come up with other ideas to show this force. We also played a game I have called "Jishaku" (sounds like "just shock you").
This game uses magnetic "rocks". If you're looking for a new game at home- they love this one!
WRITING:
We have worked on brochures this week that either persuade others to join the patriots or persuade others to move to the colonies. Students were to use some historically accurate information for these. Students know brochures are due on Monday.
SPELLING:
The spelling test will be Monday. We have reviewed adding suffixes to base words, in particular
-s and -es.
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