Parents,

I want to make a correction to last week’s blog. On Monday, 2/18/19 (President’s Day), there IS school, but it is a half day. Unfortunately, I was looking at an old calendar. My apologies for the confusions. Students will have an early release that day.

Just a reminder that on Thursday, 2/14/18, we will have a Valentine’s Exchange Party. Students are encouraged to bring Valentine’s Cards for the class if they choose. We will make Valentine’s Bags this week for them for their Valentines. In addition, if you would like to bring a sweet treat of some sort to the party, let me know. We have enough chips and juice.We will probably celebrate after lunch (but before remediation, so as not to take away from that important time).

Here’s what we’re doing this week:

ELA – We finished our poetry unit this past week.  Most students were assessed on Friday for poetry, but we will spend Monday finishing those assessments. Our next unit is an informational text unit on Geology, which we will begin this week. Students will have a vocabulary test on Friday. The words provided are EOG review words related to English Language Arts – just some key terms we want to brush up on when thinking about different texts. You can find the quizlet here for students to practice words: Vocabulary Words Quizlet 2/15/19

In addition, I will be testing all students this week using a corrective reading assessment. This will help give us more data about students that need daily corrective reading.

Math – We began equivalent fractions last week. We looked at different ways to think about fractions (using pie charts, number lines, etc.,). On Friday, we “made pizza.” Each student was given a pizza cut into either halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, or sixths, and had to create a pizza with different toppings. Then they had to label their pizza by fractions (1/4 pepperoni, 1/4 sausage, 1/2 cheese, etc.). Students really enjoyed this activity. We continue equivalent fractions this week.

Science – we’ll be focusing on different geological concepts this week to help support the informational texts we’ll be reading in Geology.

Social Studies – Students are working on their Black History month projects.

In remediation, we’ll be doing ELA EOG review. We’ll be reading different types of passages and answering questions in preparation for the EOG.