Weekly Update 3.6.18

By carrievaughan In News & Updates On March 6, 2018

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Be on the Lookout for…

• Tuesday Folders will come home today. Please check your child’s agenda for homework.
• This week our school will be celebrating Read Across America week including several opportunities to dress up and show school spirit. These are not mandatory, but students will earn a dojo if they choose to participate. Please see the attachment on Dojo in the Class Story for a schedule of these events.
• 3rd quarter interim reports came home last week. Please sign and return ASAP!
• Students received a Scholastic Book order today in Tuesday folders. Please take advantage of this great way to hook your kids on reading! We will place the order on Wed, March 14th so we can get books back in time for Spring Break! Please visit the site here and enter our class code GPPF6 when you are ready to order!
• We have a Camp Flintlock field trip THIS Friday, March 9. Thank you to Ms. Fox, Ms. Steele, Ms. Barsley, Mr. Burney, Mr. Stafford, and Ms. Bell for volunteering. If I missed your name or you can no longer help us, please notify me!
• Here is a checklist to help your child have a great experience:
• • Check the weather; wear appropriate clothing.
  • If the day is expected to be hot then pack a water bottle.
  • Have them bring a small bag or backpack to carry items they expect to make and/or purchase
  • Watch the 5 minute field trip video at http://www.campflintlock.com/pages/fieldtrips/fieldtrips.html
  • Discuss what is appropriate for your child to spend at the Camp Store. We have over 100 items (no candy or food). Dollar Items (Arrowheads, Writing Quills, Buffalo Teeth, Lucky Rabbit Feet), Writing Supplies (Ink $3, $5 and $8 per bottle), Silk Fans and Sandalwood Fans ($3), Silk Parasols ($8 each), Musical Instruments (Flutes $3, Tin Whistles $10, Fifes $12 and $19, Drumsticks $5 a pair), Furs (Daniel Boone Coon Hats $10, Fox Tails $6 & $12, Rabbit Furs $10), Games (Cup and Ball $5, Graces $23), Flint and Steel Kits ($16) For a more complete listing of our merchandise and pictures use this link http://www.campflintlock.com/pages/store/store.html. word- Flintlock

This week in Literacy:

Students are finishing nonfiction 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 Immigration country research into travel brochure and Google Slide with organized and detailed facts. You are going to be amazed what your child can do!

This week in Math:

Multiplication quizzes will continue this week. Students have the 12’s test Wednesday March 7th. Makeups for any missed facts will take place THIS Friday. PLEASE do what you can to help students learn these facts quickly. They are expected to answer 16 in a minute. Fluency is key!

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

A year long “Scope and Sequence” which lays out our math curriculum pacing for the year can be found here

This quarter in Social Studies: We begin an Immigration Unit to reach SS objectives in the following areas.

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