Happy New Year! I hope you all had a relaxing and fun winter break. I am excited to welcome everyone back to school tomorrow and look forward to hearing about all the fun adventures they had over the break!
Winter Party Fun!
Students had a blast at our Winter Party on the Friday before break with some fun math review games, playing bingo, creating a design brief and building a gingerbread house (this was quite a challenge!), as well as enjoying popcorn, candy canes and a video to get us in the mood for winter! Maybe this played a part in the snow forecasted for Monday! 😊
We are loving awarding daily points to students following the Glen Allen 3 of Respect, Responsibility and Safety. It’s great to see what house is in the lead each day! Don’t forget that EVERY Wednesday is House spirit day. Show your house colors and connect with other house members throughout the school!
1/3 Welcome back & Happy New Year!
1/3 – 1/14 Gifted referral window (all referrals DUE by 4:00 on 1/14)
1/6 Math Probability Unit Test
1/7 Science Light Unit Test
1/7 Vocabulary & Spelling Quizzes
1/10 PTA General Meeting at 7:00
1/11 PTA Spirit Night at Blaze Pizza
1/17 Student/Staff Holiday: Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
1/26 Student Half day/Dismissal begins at 11:00
Math: This week we will wrap up our review of probability. We will review key terms, tree diagrams, and probability as it relates to factions before testing Thursday, 1/6. We will then turn our attention to fractions once again. In the upcoming weeks we will be focusing on computation. Please be sure that your child continues to work on mastery of their multiplication and division skills.
Reading: We will continue with our unit on text structures that are used in nonfiction text (description, cause and effect, compare and contrast, chronological order and problem and solution). This week we will work on recognizing all 5 text structures in various texts. Understanding the author’s use of text structure helps readers develop strong comprehension skills.
Our vocabulary this week will be all about High Energy Hiking terms Vocab. List #12. Be sure that your child is completing the daily practice to prepare for the quizzes each Friday.
Science: We will wrap up our unit on light energy with a test on Friday. The students have enjoyed all of the hands-on learning we have had with these units on energy!
Social Studies: The students are loving our geography unit on the Southeast Region. This week we will learn about some significant features of the region and then start on a fun in class project researching and sharing what we learn about a specific Southeast state.