MRS. KING'S SCHOLARS

Thank you so much for the gifts you all gave me before win­ter break. I was sur­prised, a bit over-​​whelmed and def­i­nitely taken back by your gen­eros­ity. I can’t wait to go shop­ping with my gift cards. AND then there was the food…the candles…candy.…WOW! Thank you– thank you –thank you!

The char­ac­ter trait being fea­tured in Jan­u­ary cit­i­zen­ship. Wear pur­ple on Wednesdays.

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS IS THIS FRIDAY
On Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 6 we will be hon­or­ing our Char­ac­ter Counts Stu­dents of the Month at our Stu­dent Coun­cil led Break­fast of Cham­pi­ons before Fri­day Flag. I am proud to announce that Tianna Voll­rath will rep­re­sent our class for the pil­lar of trustworthiness.

Par­ents, please help your chil­dren to remem­ber to bring their parent-​​initialed Clean Slate Chart to class I check it first thing every Monday(Tuesday) morning.

MATH: We take Light­ning Rods tests on Tues­days and Thurs­days. Progress reports are sent home on those days for par­ent ini­tials. Forms need to be returned the next day in order to be updated with the cur­rent test results.  Third grade stu­dents can pre­pare for these tests by down­load­ing the drill their are cur­rently work­ing on from the Math Fact Prac­tice Pages link. Fourth grade stu­dents’ test are 80 – 100 basic fact prob­lems in addi­tion, sub­trac­tion, mul­ti­pli­ca­tion, and division.

Typ­i­cally, math home­work is assigned Tues­day –Thurs­day nights. Check your child’s plan­ner for spe­cific assignments.

Grade 3:

From Mr. Romanowski: Begin­ning mini unit C, Pat­terns. Test on Friday.

From Ms. Einspar: We are work­ing in two units this week.  Mini unit C — Motion geom­e­try pat­terns ( rec­og­niz­ing and describ­ing slides, flips, and turns), Repeat­ing pat­terns and growing/​shrinking pat­terns (num­ber and geo­met­ric pat­terns).  Test on Friday.

We are also con­tin­u­ing with Unit 3 — Com­plet­ing tables (rows, columns, and cells), work­ing on word prob­lems with extra infor­ma­tion, not enough infor­ma­tion to solve, or solv­ing two-​​step word problems.

From Mrs. Pen­ner: Please con­tact Mrs. Pen­ner if you have a spe­cific ques­tion con­cern­ing your child math studies.

Grade 4:

Mrs. King’s math stu­dents: We will com­plete Mini Unit B: Lines, Angles, and Tri­an­gles. Unit B reviews lines, seg­ments, rays, and angles. Stu­dents use these con­cepts to explore dif­fer­ent kinds of tri­an­gles. For exam­ple, per­pen­dic­u­lar lines make right angles, and a roght tri­an­gle has one right angle.

This unit also builds on the explo­ration of quadri­lat­er­als from Unit A and the con­cepts of perime­ter and area as the stu­dents dis­cover the stan­dard method for find­ing the perime­ter of a tri­an­gle (side + side + side) and the area of a tri­an­gle (1÷2 base x height). I antic­i­pate that the Mini Unit B test will be given on Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 6.

From Mrs. Har­vey: We are start­ing work­ing with func­tion tables, gen­er­at­ing the “rule” for the func­tion table, and mul­ti­ple vari­ables this week.

From Ms. Medved: We are work­ing on order of oper­a­tion and expres­sions (Chap­ter 7 in the CA math books)

For spelling/​word study, our class will be work­ing on the web­site:  SpellingC​ity​.com. I have pur­chased the pre­mium account for this site. I have given all stu­dents their user and and pass­word so they can log onto our class’ site. As of right now, I am con­tin­u­ing to ask­ing stu­dents to work way through the 1000 most often used words in the Eng­lish lan­guage. All lists have been added to the queue.

Grade 3 -In Social Stud­ies We are con­tin­u­ing with our book study of Indi­ans of the Oaks. This week we are watch­ing an infor­ma­tive movie made by the Kumeyaay that demon­strates their pro­duc­tion of pot­tery, bas­ketry, and other var­i­ous aspects of Kumeyaay cul­ture. Later in the week, we’ll read about how the main char­ac­ters in our story, Pion, Kwee-​​tahk, and Op-​​a-​​chuck, weave bas­kets and build their Kumeyaay huts.

 Grade 4 -In Social Studies/​Science: Mrs. Calder’s and our 4^th graders are going to Ms. Medved for their sci­ence instruc­tion. I will be tak­ing her class for their Social Stud­ies instruction.

In Sci­ence our class will be pre­sent­ing their projects this week and cel­e­brat­ing the com­ple­tion  of the Elec­tric­ity Unit.

As always, there’s so much to cover and so lit­tle time! Make it a great week. AND: WHBK (work hard; be kind)

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