Keith, McCoy, & McGriff
Weekly Newsletter
October 19-23, 2015
Math
remainders with up to four-digit dividends and
one-digit divisors, using strategies based on
place value, the properties of operations, and/or
the relationship between multiplication and
division.
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Science
Language Arts
We will cover the following standards this week:
4. NBT.6: Find whole-number quotients and
HOMEWORK:
Monday-Workbook p.82
Tuesday-Workbook p.88
Wednesday- Study multiplication
facts
Thursday- Workbook p.90
*Division minor grades on Monday &
Wednesday of this week!
**A Factors & Multiples major test
will be given on Wednesday,
October 28th!
Focus: main idea, text structure
Graded assignments: Thursday- main
idea, Friday- vocabulary and
comprehension
Chapter 2: Plants
Vocabulary words: stoma, food chain,
photosynthesis, epidermis, stomata,
respiration, veins, transpiration, producers,
and consumers
Grades (in class)
Monday: Photosynthesis WS
Tues: Food Chain
Homework:
Mon.- worksheet, reading log
Tues. – reading log
Wed. –Reading log
Thurs. – worksheet, reading log
Social Studies:
Mississippi History
Word AnalysisGreek and Latin Roots- carn, omni
News to Know…
October 13-21st – Book Fair in the Upper Library
October 26-30th – Red Ribbon Week—see back of newsletter for details
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Please join the PTSO for $5 and purchase a Pirate Pride T-shirt for $10.
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Students may wear this shirt every Friday with uniform pants!
Signed papers come home every Monday. Please look over, discuss with your child,
and sign to return on Tuesdays. Don’t forget to remove all notes and our
newsletter!
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Please save the following and send to school: Box Tops, and empty printer ink cartridges
Websites are updated every Friday, and Active Parent is updated once a week.
Have your child try this website out to help with multiplication facts
******http://www.abcya.com/clear_it_multiplication.htm*****
Language Arts Vocabulary:
1. Docks are platforms built on the shore or out from the shore. 2. A scent is a smell, often a pleasant one. 3.Yearned is the past
tense for yearn. Yearned means felt a longing or desire. 4. A wharf is a platform built on the shore or out from the shore beside
which ships can load and unload. 5. To scan is to glance at or look over hastily. 6. Migrating means going from one region to
another with the change in the seasons.
ANCHORED IN EXCELLENCE!
*Prepared*Respectful*Involved*Dependable*Excellent*
Red Ribbon Week will be
NEXT week, October 26 - 30.
Below is the schedule for the
week.
Monday (October 26th)
Wear RED day (red shirt and uniform
pants).
Tuesday (October 27th)
Silly Sock Day (silly socks with uniform).
Wednesday (October 28th)
Team Up Against Drugs (wear team
shirts/jerseys and uniform pants).
Thursday (October 29th)
Hat Day (wear hats with uniform).
Friday (October 30th)
Too Cool For Drugs… Fun Run Day!
Students that have paid at least $5 will
be able to participate in the Fun Run.
Students participating in the run may
wear appropriate length athletic shorts
or pants. Students may also wear a
Halloween themed (appropriate) shirt or
any Pearl shirt with uniform pants.
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Mrs. McGriff: [email protected]
Science vocabulary –CH 2
Stoma-a single pore on the outside of
leaves
Stomata-pores in leaves that open and
close, letting in air and giving off water
vapor
Food chain-the path that energy takes
from one organism to another in the
form of food.
Photosynthesis-the process in green
plants and certain other organism use
sunlight to make food from water and
carbon dioxide
Epidermis-the thin covering of leaves
Respiration-the release of energy
from food
Veins-small tubes that carry water to
and from the root to stems of plants
Transpiration- the release of water
vapor through the stomata of a plant
Producers –plants are called this
because they produce food
Consumers-organisms that eat other
organisms