March 2, 2018

Hi All,

Today was such a fun day! Thank you to those of you who came into read with your child. I know they enjoyed that. I have posted pictures of all the fun things we did today! Please check them out on Live From the Red Carpet. 🙂

Quarter 3 is coming to a close. Hard to believe! Please continue to reinforce skills at home using resources on the blog, IXL, and correcting Tuesday folder graded papers.

Just a reminder, an email came home regarding Georgia Milestones prep with resources. You may also access the materials on the link below. Each link has multiple online practice tests, and there is one PDF if you prefer paper/pencil to online.  If you do not have a printer and would like the PDF printed, let me know.

https://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/english/

https://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/math/

Attached is a great visual from Cobb County regarding illnesses going around. Please take a look to see when to keep students home: I NEED TO STAY HOME IF (002)-23vhaxr

SAVE THE DATE!

From the Counseling Department and PTA:

In your Tuesday folder you will find a flyer for Youth Culture 101 on Thursday, March 8 at 6:30. Jeff Dess will be covering many of the topics cropping up with our students re social media, as well as other topics. Please RSVP to have an engaging and informative evening.

 

Upcoming Dates:

 

 

March 5  – Talent Development

March 6  – STEM Lab

March 6 – Run Girls Run

March 7  – Walk to School Day

March 7  – RI

March 7  – Learning Commons

March 8  – Spring Picture Day

March 9  – PE Movie Night

March 9  – Run Girls Run

March 9  – Computer Lab for the MI

What We Are Learning This Week:

**Please be aware that students will be checked on their progress daily, but plan on any summative assessment for reading and/or math on Fridays. I will continue to announce any content area tests.

Reading/ELA: How do we describe the relationships between a series of historical events, scientific ideas, or steps in technical procedures in texts, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause and effect?

How do we form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs?

Writing: How do we write opinion pieces on topics or texts using clear organizational structure with 2-3 reasons to support the opinion and a variety of linking words to connect the reasons and opinion?

How do we write routinely over extended and shorter time frames?

Math: How do we explain the equivalence of fractions through reasoning with visual models?

How do we solve two-step word problems using the four operations and write the equation with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem?

How do we determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication and division equation relating three whole numbers using the inverse relationship of multiplication and division?

Social Studies (Integrated in Reading and Writing): How do we explain how the physical geography of New England, Mid Atlantic, and Southern colonies helped determine economic activities? How to we explain the factors that shaped British Colonial America?

Vocabulary Words: 

Red: average / chill / delicate / limit /privilege / process / sensitive / signal / spoil / value

Orange: alert / ancestor / arrest / ascend / descend / destructive / frontier / proceed / surface / tradition

Have a great weekend,

Miss Griscti