1.18 Newsletter

Important Event this Week

We are having Mastery Connect Benchmark testing this week.  It is important that students take these assessments seriously as it helps to gather data concerning instruction that is taken place in the classroom.  It is important that your child gets a good night's sleep as well as a healthy breakfast.  Testing on each day will occur right after activity (which ends 9:10 am).  Testing will take place in your child's homeroom teacher's classroom.  

Tuesday: Reading

Wednesday: Math

Thursday: Social Studies

Friday/Monday: Make-Up Day

What's Happening in Science?
This week we completed a Mystery Science activity called "Will A Mountain Last Forever?"  This activity helped us understand the definition of the terms "weathering" and "erosion".  Ask your child what happened in their experiment (Sugar Shake Lab). See pictures from Block 1 on the Pictures Tab.  This week we will work on saving a town from a hurricane.  Stay tuned for an update on our science activity for the week.



What's Happening in Math? 

We finished with Module 3.  We are now into our next module (Module 4: Multiplication and Division of Fractions and Decimal Fractions).  The first topic we covered (Topic A) was only one lesson.  Students will be given opportunities to interpret and analyze fractions on line plots.  This week's topic involves students interpreting fractions as division.  Students still need to understand how to turn an improper fraction to a mixed number as well as simplifying fractions.  The anchor chart used in class for simplifying fractions is below.  Continue with multiplication fluency as we will have our 5's and 10's multiplication quiz soon.

What are Sprints?

We use Sprints in certain lessons.  They are a part of our fluency practice which is like a math warm up.  Students are given 1 minute to answer as many problems on Side A as they can.  Afterwards, they check their work and identify the number they got correct.  This is their goal to reach or beat for Side B. These are all located in their math workbooks.  Review your child's sprints with them.  You may even have them complete Side B with you at home. 

Sprint Champions for the Week

Lesson 12: Subtract Fractions with Unlike Units (Side B)
Block 1: Harshdeep Wadhwa (master), Arpith Gopu, Micah Lovett, Steven White
Block 2: Joshua Flores (master), A'Niya Adams, Lily Griswold, Jaylen Sullivan

**Grades will be finalized Tuesday, January 22 by 3:30 pm**

Upcoming Field Trips
Information for these field trips has been sent home in Family Folders.  You may pay for these online or send in money to your child's homeroom.

Starbase: April 8-12 (Permission and Money due March 29th)
Cost: $25

Carowinds: May 31 (Permission and Money due April 12th)
Cost: $50

December Birthdays 
9- Madison Derrick
10- Omni Jones
22- Baye & Tinnin Lewis
31- Gabi Ressler

NASA Question of the Week

Click this link to work on and complete the question of the week.  Answers need to be submitted to your child's homeroom teacher before Friday.




Magnet Information
Please view this link that was presented to students this week by our Guidance Counselor Mrs. DuBose!