Jackson’s Jewels News
Week of
Mar 28th – Apr 1st, 2016
Dear Jewels & Gems,
Weekly Content/Objectives /Ways to Help At Home
I hope everyone enjoyed their
springbreak. I had a chance to visit
Reading
Miramar Beach, FL for the week. We had Genre: Informational Texts
pretty nice weather until the last 2 days. Essential Question: How do plants grow and change?
I can’t wait to hear from all my Jewels
Text: From Seed to Plant and Super Soil
about their break during sharing this
Skills- Text and Graphic Features & Cause and Effect
week.
Strategy- Monitor/Clarify
I am sending home notices about our
upcoming field trip to The Redbirds
Game. So sorry for the short notice.
Money is due this coming Friday, April
1st. An order envelope for our class tshirt for field day went home some time
ago. I am sending reminder envelopes for
Jewels who have not returned them. The
due date to order is next Friday, April
8th. Please send fieldtrip notice and Field
Day T-shirt envelopes with money by
deadlines noted on sheet/envelope.
We began practicing for SAT10,
our annual Standardized Test, today.
The test is scheduled for Tuesday, April
26th- 29th. We will be doing more in class
practice, and at some point, I will be
sending SAT10 homework packets.
This is the last 9 weeks of the
school year, so please stress the
importance of completing all assignments
in timely manner. In preparation for our
annual assessment in April, it is
imperative that your Jewel is listening
and following directions, focused, and
on task at all times.
Please ask your Jewels daily
about their work. The agenda book has
the assigned homework, however, if they
do not complete classwork, they are
expected to take home as homework and
return the next day.
Special Note: When students are not
turning in work, their grades are affected. In
some cases, they are given opportunities to
rework for a better grade. I will have students
complete work during recess or send to office
Spelling- Words with au, aw,
to complete work so that they do not receive
o,reflecting
a
aal,
zero,
a much lower grade.
tall saw dog draw call fall soft
paw ball yawn log small all walk
awful wallpaper
Target Vocabulary: grain pod soak
soften root shoot nutrition tasty
Vocabulary Strategies: Using Context
✓
✓
Read aloud fluently with accuracy and appropriate pace/rate
Reading Non-fiction and Fiction AR Books
Writing- Informative Writing
✓ Research Report
Language/Grammar
✓ Identify More Irregular Action Verbs in a Sentence
Spelling
Words with au, aw, al, o, a
✓ Read grade level text with accuracy, expression, and at an
appropriate pace
✓ Recognize and spell high frequency/vocabulary words
Mathematics- Topic 11 Geometry
✓ 11-1: Flat Surfaces, Vertices, and Edges
✓ 11-2: Relating Plane Shapes to Solid Figures
✓ 11-3 Making New Shapes
✓ 11-4 Cutting Shapes Apart
✓ 11-5: Congruence
Science for the 1st 4 1/2 weeks of this final 9 weeks- “Soil”
-Identify three kinds of soil
-Compare and
Contrast
data about how
much water
soil(continued)
can hold
Important
Notes
Important
Notes
-Form
a hypothesis
about which
soil will be best to grow a plant
Sparkling
Jewel-Aston
Williams
Thanks to all Gems who sent in
wishlist items.
Please send fieldtrip notice and Field
Day T-shirt envelopes with money by
deadlines noted on sheet/envelope.
SAVE THE DATES
Report Cards Issued- March 30th
April 4th- 8th
March 31 – Book Fair Preview
March 31 – Terrific Kid Program 2:30
March 31 - Family Night at Fino’s 5-7pm
April 4th- 8th- Book Fair
April 11th -Boosterthon Kick-off
(1:30-2:10- KK-2nd grades & 2:15-3:00- 3rd5th grades)
April
18th - Boosterthon Fun run (times to be
determined)
Wishlist- Kleenex, Pencils, and Erasers
-Please sign agenda page/book located in
binder daily
-Check their homework and have them
place it into their homework folder daily
- Remove papers from binder pocket and
school/PTO paperwork (daily).
-Please initial their daily conduct/work
habit chart in the small boxes next to
the word-date.
Thanks for all you do!!!