March 7

Our spring book fair is this week! Our classes will be going on Tuesday. Family night is Thursday from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. 

Monday evening at 6:00 pm, our DCPS school board representative, Jason Fischer, will hold a Town Hall Meeting on the subject of school curriculum. 

Wednesday is Early Release at 1:40 pm.

Class picture day is Tuesday! Individual pictures will be taken also, but only if prepaid.

Resources this week:

Cox: 

Monday: art

Tuesday: media... Please return all library books! computer lab in ELA

Wednesday: computer lab

Thursday: music

Friday: pe

Kluge:

Monday: computer lab and media... Please return all library books!

Tuesday: art

Wednesday: pe

Friday: music

ELA: This week, we will compare and contrast two excerpts of our novel, Peter Pan with readers theater. Both the excerpt and the readers theater will tell the same part of Peter Pan. Students will learn how drama is organized and how to read this unique genre. They will discover how readers theater tells a story purely through dialogue. This is a great way to work on our fluency, too! 

We will also be reading two texts on the same topic and comparing the themes, plots, characters, and settings. 

Please continue to work on Achieve3000 articles at home. We had 15 students raise their Lexile levels in February!!!

MATH: The students are continuing collecting, categorizing, and analyzing data.  They are analyzing graphs to solve one-and two step problems, including comparison problems.  The students will learn that intervals do not have to be whole numbers, but can also have fractional values to help in recording measurement data.  They will review line plots as tools for displaying measurement data which will include fractions on number lines and create their own line plots to display data.

Homework:                                                                                        

Module 6 Lesson 4

Module 6 Lesson 5

Module 6 Lesson 6

Module 6 Lesson 7

Module 6 Lesson 8

Things to practice and review at home:

Help your child develop an understanding of fractions as numbers by providing opportunities to discuss parts of whole at home.

Practice identifying number patterns using multiplication, addition or subtraction strategies.

Continue to review  multiplication and division facts 2 to 10  (We will be testing our facts weekly.)

Practice solving two step word problems involving all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).

Please check out our DCPS site http://www.duvalschools.org/Page/17284

for homework help and strategies to help with solving homework problems.  You may also find the homework videos helpful.

SCIENCE: The students will continue learning about energy and discuss how light and matter interact.  They will explore what happens when light is reflected in many directions.  The students will begin to understand how objects reflect, refract and absorb light.