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Class picture day is Friday, March 10th!
An envelope came home last week for those who would like to prepay for a class picture OR who would like an individual picture taken. |
Wednesday, March 7 is Early Release.
Friday, March 17 is a teacher planning day. There will be no school that day or the following week of March 20 - 24 which is Spring Break.
Our Reading FSA will be Tuesday, March 28 and Wednesday, March 29. Students need to be at school on time so they can take the test will the class. More information will be coming home soon. We are currently reviewing the five types of reading FSA questions and taking a practice FSA provided by the Florida Department of Education.
Resources this week:
Cox:
Tuesday: music
Wednesday: pe
Friday: pe
Kluge:
Monday: Jump Rope for Heart
Tuesday: pe
Thursday: music
Our spring book fair is the week of March 13-16th.
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.
On Wednesday, everyone took a spring reading Lexile levelset. I am so proud of the growth every single student has made since our first levelset in August. Students took it very seriously and we celebrated as we filled in our progress graphs.
MATH:
The students
will compare fractions with the same numerator using fraction strips, number
lines, and symbols ( >, <, =).
They will continue developing an understanding that the numerator in a
fraction does not necessarily determine the size of the fraction. The students will explore methods for
partitioning wholes into fractional units using number lines as a measurement
tool.
We will begin to
discuss how data is collected, categorized and analyzed. The students will show data in tape diagrams where units are
equal groups with a value greater than 1.
They will explore picture and bar graphs as vertical representations of
tape diagrams and apply skip-counting and multiplication strategies to analyze
data.
Homework:
Module 5 28
& 29
Module 5 Lesson 30
Module 5 Review End
of Module Study Guide (End of Module 5 Assessment Friday)
Module 6 Lesson 1
& 2
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
Practice solving
two step word problems involving all four operations (addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division).
Please review
our “Duval Math Parent Tips newsletter sent home at the beginning of each
module for strategies and examples to
help with solving homework problems.
SCIENCE: This week in Science the students will begin to identify and
describe the parts of plants and their roles.
They will learn how plant structures affect food production, support,
water and nutrient transport and reproduction.
