A Peek at the Week: 4 days until Spring Break!!!!

Dates To Note:

Monday: TFK Passage

Tuesday: Visit from Shenandoah Rangers

Thursday: TFK & GLOW Quizzes

Friday: No School; Green Work Day for Teachers

Tuesday and Thursday this week, I will be taking a small group to WAHS for Minecraft.edu mentoring. 4 of our students will being teaching the high schoolers the best tips and tricks for using Minecraft in the classroom. WOW!!!

Math News

     Each class will be taking the 3rd quarter cumulative test this week. It will be given in two parts; a calculator and non-calculator portion. This is to simulate SOL testing. Please make sure your child has a good breakfast and gets a good night sleep each evening. 

**PVCC is offering a few math event on April 22nd from 1-3:30 pm. It is titled Astronomath, and will include various activities that help build critical thinking and developmental math skills. If you are interested, please register at ASTRONOMATH REGISTRATION

Reading

     Lemon Cake is the new curiosity! One of the main characters really enjoys lemon cake. I am going to try and bring some in for the class to sample. 

Writing News

     We are working on our presentations of our animals. The papers are complete, and boy are they amazing! 

Science

     Presentations will be this Wednesday. If their papers are any indication of what is to come, it's going to knock my socks off. I am so impressed by their posters and papers!!!  

Peek at the Week: March 20-March 24

Dates To Note:

Monday: Fiction Passage Week & New GLOW List

Tuesday: Tornado Drill

Thursday: Fiction Passage Quiz

Friday: Word Study Tests

Math News

     Graphing is our focus this week. We will be looking at several types of graphs, including bar graphs and line plots. Any graph you see at home, talk over with your child. Ask them a new title, or what is on the X axis and Y axis. Your support is so important!

**PVCC is offering a few math event on April 22nd from 1-3:30 pm. It is titled Astronomath, and will include various activities that help build critical thinking and developmental math skills. If you are interested, please register at ASTRONOMATH REGISTRATION

Reading

     Al Capone is moving along nicely. The class is really enjoying the characters and learning about life during the depression through a child's eyes. 

Writing News

     We finished typing our rough drafts last week and we are focused on the editing part of writing. Ask your child what is one structural and one behavioral adaptation of their animal. 

Science

     How is the Animal Project coming along? It is due next Monday so hopefully everyone is working hard on their animal. Please remember, this is your child's project. Support is great, but let them do it!

March 13 - March 17th Peek at the Week

Dates To Note:

Monday: TFK Magazine & New Word Study Lists

Thursday: TFK Quiz

Thursday Night: #BeeHIve Night: Classroom open house from 5:30-6:30. 

Friday: GLOW Tests

WEATHER UPDATE!!

     It is hard to believe, but a possible storm could potentially modify our school attendance this week. I will be posting the Reading and Writing assignments in Google Classroom. For those students that typically ask for paper copies, I will provide those tomorrow. I ask that students work each day that we are out on their assignments. Due dates will remain. 

Math News

     As the quarter begins to wind down, it's important to revisit the skills that have been taught this year. Students will be taking a cumulative assessment the last week of the quarter. We will be working on graphing skills and review up until that day. 

**PVCC is offering a few math event on April 22nd from 1-3:30 pm. It is titled Astronomath, and will include various activities that help build critical thinking and developmental math skills. If you are interested, please register at ASTRONOMATH REGISTRATION

Reading

     We have started Al Capone. The students are doing a fantastic job discussing character traits and point of view. 

Writing News

     We wrapped up our research last week and will begin writing our first drafts of our paper this week.  

Science

     Did you see the at home project for our ecosystems unit? If not, please let me know. I can't wait to see the amazing structures the students bring in to share. 

A Peek at the Week March 6th-March 10th

Dates To Note:

Monday: Fiction Passage Week & New GLOW List

Thursday: Fiction Passage Quiz

Friday: Word Study Tests

Math News

     Continue work on Fraction Computation. Students are slowly beginning to grasp skill, but it is a rough road. Any practice you can do at home would be appreciated!
**PVCC is offering a few math event on April 22nd from 1-3:30 pm. It is titled Astronomath, and will include various activities that help build critical thinking and developmental math skills. If you are interested, please register at ASTRONOMATH REGISTRATION

Reading

     So last week, we got very wrapped up in our Jamestown projects, so I postponed beginning our novel. We will begin this week, I promise. Mrs. Herring's group will also resume. 

Writing News

     We are beginning a HUGE Project on a Virginia animal. Your child will choose and animal to research and then dig into learning about it. This is an "at school" project, and shouldn't need to be done at home. 

Science

     We are beginning our Ecosystem Unit this Monday. This unit will encompass our content time during the month of March. There is a note in the Monday folder that explains the at home project that all students will be expected to do. Let me know if you have any questions.