Weekly Update 3.10.20
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On March 10, 2020
Be on the Lookout for…
- Mrs. Vaughan had an awesome time at last week’s NCTIES conference. I brought back a slew of amazing tech (and non tech) tools and strategies. We got to enjoy some of them today! Ask your child about traveling the world with Nearpod, sharp shooting in a vocabulary showdown, flexing their math and gaming muscles through Quizizz!
- We have a Camp Flintlock field trip THIS Friday, March 13. This is an ON CAMPUS field trip. If you would like to volunteer to chaperone and help with a station that day, please message me. You would be needed from 9:00-1:30 that day.
- 5th grade is collecting donations for a student project to benefit homeless in our area. Visit this link to get more information on what is needed to help this cause.
- The following is a note from Ms. Holland on behalf of WCPSS Single Subject Acceleration. Please note, this is DIFFERENT than the process to identify potential AIG students for 4th/5th grade. Most children are not good candidates for this avenue.
The district has released this year’s Single Subject Acceleration information. There is a link to the WCPSS SSA site on our school website under Wake County News. It can also be found here. The window for accepting traditional calendar test requests is March 23-27. Late requests can not be honored per district policy. The testing window for traditional schools is April 20-30.
The following resources may help you to determine whether SSA is an appropriate option for your student:
Parent PowerPoint with Voice Over – File must be downloaded and then “presented” in PowerPoint to enable sound. This is narrated by the district and has lots of good information.
The SSA Test Request Form can be found at http://bit.ly/2020SSATestRequest. Please do not submit these requests to Oakview Elementary until March 23-27.
This week in Literacy:
Students are starting a nonfiction unit with the fascinating and exciting text, Living Through a Natural Disaster. It features true stories of Cyclone Tracy, Huang He River flooding, and El Nino. Personal accounts, amazing photos, diagrams, and complex text make this been really “eye” opening 🙂
They are also turning their new knowledge of these news events into a mock-news report using a Green Screen. More details on that to come. You are going to be amazed what your child can do!
Our class will also be participating in a book March Madness contest in school. We have matched up 16 books we will read this month and will vote almost daily on Google Forms for which books we like best. It will come down to the Elite 8, then Final 4, then final 2 and eventually we will have a book champ! word- march madness
This month there are 2 reading incentives located in your child’s agenda.
1) Reading passport- Students have until April 3rd to “Read Across America”. Each 20 minutes of reading equals a new state stamped by me in class on their passport. If they reach the goal of 1000 minutes by the deadline, they will be invited to an afterschool Luau to celebrate their reading stamina! All YOU have to do parents is acknowledge the reading titles and minutes each night at the bottom of agendas. Students are of course encouraged to read over weekends too:)
2) Dr Seuss Reading Bingo- students can earn a prize sheet as a reward for completing 15 of these activities over the course of the month. These can be used simultaneously as they earn reading minutes!
Thank you for supporting your child as we push them to be voracious readers with improved reading stamina!
This week in Math:
Students are continuing a lengthy, but exciting Fractions unit. Lots of vocab is important in understanding this concept. Here is a parent guide for helping you and your student understand our main learning outcomes
Current vocab: numerator, denominator, unit fraction, partition, number line, visual model
Concepts to review: place value, addition with regrouping, subtraction with borrowing, rounding to the nearest 10 and 100, quadrilateral, parallelogram, trapezoid, rectangle, square, rhombus, arrays, repeated addition, area, perimeter, rectilinear area, commutative property (flip flop rule), number line, product, distributive (break apart method), associative property, graphs, pictographs, bar graphs
Timed multiplication quizzes continue week!! We will take 10’s on Tuesday and makeups Wednesday the 4th. There will be no quizzes Thurs and Fri this week to Mrs. V being out.
Our celebratory Multiplication Master ice cream sundae party will be Thursday, April 2nd at 2:30. Your child’s goal is to have ALL facts mastered on or before this date. We are in need of 2 icecream scoopers and supplies. Students will submit their “ticket” to see how many scoops and toppings they have earned over the past few months. Stay tuned for a signup next week!
Your child should have an icecream sundae sheet in their agenda to keep track of their successes with these 1 minute timed quizzes. There are 16 questions on each quiz and students pass with a 15/16 or better. If they do NOT pass, there will be a makeup opportunity each Friday during arrival. All quizzes will come home the day they are taken and will be located inside the plastic X sundae page. Please do what you can to help prepare your child for these fun and important assessments!
