Please play Jeopardy! tonight to review! Thanks Miss LaPerre for your awesome review games!!!

1st Half Year Review Jeopardy

2nd Half Year Review Jeopardy

We’ve been tracking a nest of eagles over the past week…the eggs are starting to hatch. Some of the boys have asked for the link, so here it is…

http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles

Enjoy!

Hello everyone!

Just a reminder – ALL Boosterthon money is due WEDNESDAY!

NO SCHOOL FRIDAY!

Here’s what we’ll be up to this week -

Reading – All groups will begin CRCT review.

Writing – Free Write – Students will be allowed to choose a genre of their choice and write to a prompt.

Math- 3rd Grade – fractions and decimals again, 5th grade – data analysis and graphing

Have a great week, and a safe and happy Spring Break!

-Miss W.

Hello everyone!

Here’s what we are up to this week!

Reading: 5th graders are learning about the Cold War and the Great Space Race. We plan to land on the moon sometime next week . 3rd graders are studying Cesar Chavez and practicing their summarizing skills. 4th graders will be reading a comic about Lewis and Clark’s expedition.

Writing: Poetry and figurative language

Math: 3rd grade – Time and Elapsed Time, then back to fractions and decimals. 5th grade – Geometry (translation, reflection, rotation, congruency, symmetry, etc.)

The Boosterthon Fun Run is Thursday. Please get pledges in to funrun.com if you have not already done so. Also, if your child can NOT participate due to pollen, allergies, asthma, etc. PLEASE let me know ASAP.

Thanks!

Miss W.

Hello everyone!

I hope you enjoy your long weekend. We had a wonderful, restful day of reading and social skills. It was so fun to celebrate our hard work together!

Here’s a picture of some of the “Wild Things” with their crazy teacher, “Max”:

Here’s what we’ll be up to next week:

-The Boosterthon fundraising team will be at our school for a pep rally on Tuesday afternoon. More details about this year’s Fun Run will come home Tuesday PM.

-Report cards will come home Friday 3/16. IEP progress notes will come home either Friday or on Monday 3/19…depending on how cooperative the software is this weekend.

Reading: 5th graders will jump back into Number the Stars. 3rd graders will be studying Lyndon B. Johnson and Civil Rights heroes. 4th graders will be reading about Lewis and Clark.

Writing: We’re going to take a break from the narrative or essay structure and have some fun with poetry!

Math: 3rd grade – fractions and decimals, 5th grade – area of circles and geometry

Have a great weekend!

Here’s what we’ll be up to this week:

Interim testing M-F. I am trying to do only one test per day, so we aren’t totally overwhelmed. There will NOT be interim testing for 5th graders on Wed. due to 5th Grade Writing.

Parents of 5th graders, PLEASE make sure your student is well rested and eats a good breakfast on Wednesday morning. We will start the 5th Grade Writing Test at 9:00, have a break for Specials and lunch at 11:00, then resume testing at 1:00.

Outside of testing, we will continue to work on the following:

Writing – figurative language

Reading – CRCT prep and interims

Math – 3rd – fraction operations, 5th – area of a circle

Have a great week!

-Miss W.

Hello everyone!

Happy early release! I’m excited about getting to meet with you to discuss the wonderful things I’m seeing from your children here at school!

Here’s what we’ll be up to this week in classes:

Math – In 3rd grade, we will be modeling addition and subtraction of fractions with like denominators. In 5th grade, we’ll be working on calculations for area and circumference of circles. We will also discuss radius, diameter, and pi.

Reading – 5th graders will continue reading Number the Stars.  3rd graders will  be learning about Thurgood Marshall, and 4th grade will finish George Washington’s Socks.

Writing – We will be revisiting idioms, similes, and metaphors. We will also try our hand at some poetry. 5th graders will practice some cold prompt writing to prepare for the Writing test.

Have a great week!

-Miss W.

Happy 4-day weekend everyone!

I hope you all have a safe and wonderful holiday weekend! Thank you for all of the delicious sweets and treats you gave to us this week for Valentine’s Day. Your children are truly the best gifts we could have. I hope you enjoyed the “Important Book” your child brought home.

Parents, I need your help. We’ve reached the time of year where students are starting to fade and effort is decreasing in certain areas. Please help your child by getting him to bed early each evening, and reminding students of our high expectations for behavior.

As for homework, please remember that mainstreaming HW comes first. Just write a note on any homework from me if it’s just too overwhelming …I understand how that evening time can go sometimes.

Here’s what we’ll be up to this week:

Reading – 5th Grade & 3rd Grade will finish the FDR biography and project (completed at school). 4th will continue in GW Socks and will work on responding to literature. 3rd and 5th graders will focus on summarizing.

Writing – We are temporarily revisiting the narrative this week since it’s a short week. Students started a narrative about being the Principal for the Day today, and we’ll be taking that through the writing process all next week.

Math – 3rd graders are working on fractions. We modeled and worked with visual representations this week. Next week, we’ll start breaking down the vocabulary and applying basic operations. 5th graders are finishing up metric and customary systems. Next we will work on area, perimeter, and geometry of circles.

Have a wonderful weekend! Thank you for all you do!

-Miss W.

Happy Friday!

There are some important things coming home in the Friday folder – please take note!

- We are going to the Book Fair to preview at 2:15 today. Your child will have a flyer with his “wish list” in the Friday folder. Please remember that we have a 6% sales tax on all purchases if you choose to order something. We will shop on Wednesday the 15th.

-We are going to have a Valentine’s celebration on Tuesday afternoon, but we are still holding firm to the “no candy” policy. Students will be exchanging trinkets instead. I’m sending a hard copy of the letter I e-mailed out home in the Friday folder. Thanks for keeping us healthy and happy!

- FRIDAY the 17th and MONDAY the 20th are HOLIDAYS. Enjoy the 4-day weekend!

-Conference confirmations for those of you who signed up online will come home today. If you had an IEP this month, you do not need a conference. However, if you still wish to meet, let me know!

Here’s what we’ll be up to next week:

Reading -3rd Grade & 5th Grade – Franklin Delano Roosevelt biography (5th grade’s lessons will emphasize the New Deal and Great Depression), 4th Grade – George Washington’s Socks. Our target skills will focus on vocabulary building and main idea.

Writing – Monday we will finish our “important books” for Valentine’s Day. Thank you to Bonnie for coming in to help us bind them! Tuesday, we will share our books with each other. Wednesday-Friday we will resume our biography writing.

Math – 3rd Grade – Fractions!, 5th Grade – Measurement

Have a great weekend!

-Miss W.

Please use the link below to sign up for the February conference. Remember, if you have an IEP in February, you may choose to use the IEP as your conference. You may also choose to have both meetings.

http://www.ptcfast.com/schools/Brookwood_Elementary_School

If you have trouble accessing the website, please let me know. Paper reminders will come home Monday!

Thanks for all you do!

-Miss W.