Mrs Riddick's Rock Stars!

As you may have noticed I did not update the calendar the week of 2/18-2/22 due to the holiday and snow days, it just was not worth putting in week plans when I knew they would go out the window!  This is also why the snow day homework came home, I knew we would not get much accomplished in class.  In light of the missed class time I have moved the Quick Check for Comparing Fractions to Monday 2/25

With the short week, we will spend Friday 2/21 catching up on past week's assignments On Monday 2/25 we hit the ground running with our first full week ( let's hope) in a month! 

Please ensure kids come to school, when we are in session, ready to focus and learn.

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I have posted IXL logs for Math and Language Arts-for this week under the Files and Documents Tab in Math and Literacy under IXL assignments they are marked as: 

IXL MATH-COMPARE FRACTIONS and ADD/SUBTRACT FRACTIONS (UNDER MATH in unit 6)  and

IXL Language Arts TEXT FEATURES AND SHADES OF MEANING WORDS.

Students need to be sure they are working in the right subject and module.  Be sure to check the tab at the top of the IXL page to choose your subject. 

If students work at home please print out a log and initial their progress. Students do not have to finish a whole log before turning in.  I will initial and return log and  issue a SOAR ticket for each module completed not one per page.  (most pages have 2-4 modules each) These are great ways to practice the concepts we are learning in class and I strongly encourage kids to find some time to sign in. 

< I WILL NO LONGER BE SENDING HOME IXL LOGS FOR MATH OR LANGUAGE ARTS> In an effort to save trees and the school's money ALL IXL logs can be accessed from this web page.  Just click files and documents to the left click on content area and several resources will be posted that can be utilized at home. 
                                   

WEEK OF 2/25 AT A GLANCE: 

Science-     Under construction
                                                                 
                            
Social Studies        

We will continue with our unit on Ancient Egypt and we will try our hand at making Papyrus Paper just like the Egyptians.

A HUGE THANK YOU to Andy's parents Mr. Wu and Ms. and his brother and sister for coming in to share their family's customs, music and New Year's Celebration traditons.  They bestowed the students with a New Year envelope and dollar coin as well as traditional Chinese food, dumplings, chips, cookies and candies.  Mr. Wu also wrote each child's name in Chinese characters. It was a very enriching afternoon.

We have students with a variety of cultural backgrounds.  I invite any families that would like to share some of the customs of their culture with the class to please e mail me so we can make arrangements.  The students love to share their cultures and traditions and we welcome the chance to learn a little more about each other's backgrounds.


Language Arts-

 

This week we will focus on TEXT FEATURES.  This is spiral review as we have learned all reading skills and strategies.  Each week we will revisit topics previously taught in the year.

In grammar we will focus on SHADES OF MEANING WORDS AND FINISH SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT AS THIS WAS CUT SHORT LAST WEEK DUE TO WEATHER  

BOOK REPORTS WILL BEGIN THIS QUARTER, INFORMATION TO FOLLOW.  INTRODUCTION TO STUDENTS WILL BE FRIDAY 3/1.  INFORMATION TO FOLLOW


Math                       

Last week students worked on Mixed Numbers, Improper Fractions and we began Comparing Fractions.  We will continue to Compare fractions Friday 2/21 and take our quick check Monday 2/25.  We will then begin adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators


Citizen of the Week: 

We did not get to our drawing last week- TBD


Our CITIZEN OF THE WEEK is chosen by the students.  These classmate set a great example and serve as role models of SOAR behaviors in our classroom and around the school all week long.  We will have a vote each week for students to recognize the classmate that has demonstrated good citizenship all week.