#7
October 15, 2015
Homecoming Schedule:
Monday—PJ Day
Tuesday—Sports Day
Wednesday—America Day
Thursday—Super Hero Day
Friday—Blue/White Day
Math: Students completed their Unit 2 final assessment.
Monday we will move into Unit 3: Fraction, Concepts, Addition,
and Subtraction. The first lessons are Connecting Fractions and
Division; Interpreting Remainders, and Fraction on a Number Line.
We will continue out timed Multiplication Fact Assessments each
week and our mental math practice .
Reading: This week students completed a Web Quest to learn
more about burrowing owls and their habitats. Students also
created and painted Paper Mache owls. Please check out my
October 16th End of 1st 9 Weeks
website to see some images of these “toy sized” creations—they
October 16th No School- Teacher
are quite remarkable. Next week we will continue reading
Planning Day
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October 19-23
Homecoming Week Hoot. Our reading comprehension skill will be
(More info. to come)
CHARACTERIZATION. Students will use the app Popplet to
October 23rd Fall Pep Rally
explore the character traits of several of the main characters in the
October 30th 5th Grade Halloween Party book. As a reminder, Vocabulary Hat Parade Planning slips are
October 30th 7th Grade Carnival @ 3-6 due Monday, October 19th. Finished projects are due Tuesday,
November 4th 2 pm Dismissal
October 27th.
November 6th Grandparents Day
Dates to Remember
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 November 11 Veterans Day –No school
School News
Language Arts: In Grammar workshop lessons 10 & 11,
students are working with common & proper nouns;
ERB Meeting for parents grades 2-9: On October 27,
and singular and plural nouns.
Maclay will be making the ERB test scores available and
Writing: Students worked with analogies and editing sentences for correct
holding a parent meeting that evening at 6pm and again
verb usage, punctuation, and recognizing run-on sentences/sentence
at 7pm in the Lower School Commons. Jason Lasnetski,
Regional Director of the Education Records Bureau (ERB) fragments. . We will continue reinforcing these skills and do some creative
will be explaining how to read and interpret the student
writing for Halloween.
reports, the grading norms and terms, as well as answer
general questions. Parents will pick up their child's scores
at the meeting. Unfortunately, Mr. Lasnetski will not be
able to answer questions specific to individual reports but
will give an overview to assist parents in the
interpretation. Score packets not picked up that evening
will be mailed the next day.
SCIENCE: We completed our discussion of the Global Water
Crisis. Students prepared for and completed a Water “Quest”
(assessment) to demonstrate knowledge of all things water.
Students submitted their Q1 Journals that they made in Book
Creator. Next week, we’ll have a special guest on Monday and
will begin our unit on Geoscience (Earth Science).
Report Cards: The end of the first 9 week grading period is
Social Studies: Students created totem poles with Cathy
Thursday. Report cards and final grades will be available
Hicks during their art class this week. Once their pieces dry, are
through the parent grade portal by 10/26. Special requests
fired and painted, they will be displayed for all to see. Students
for a print out can be made at the division office.
learned about the Southwest Native Americans and how the
Navajo Code Talkers helped in World War II. We will start our
unit on the European Explorers by learning about the Viking
explorers such as Eric the Red and Leif Ericsson. Next week,
students will use the app European Explorers as we talk more
about explorers that impacted North America