January 13th - 17th

Upcoming Events

Monday, January 20th ~ No School, MLK day

Wednesday, January 22nd ~ Alvin Ailey Assembly at 2:30

Friday, January 31st ~ Spirit Day

Monday, February 10th ~ Mid-Quarter

Wednesday, February 12th ~ Presidents Celebration at 2:00*

Friday, February 14th ~ Valentine's Day Party 2:30

Monday, February 17th ~ No School, President's Day

Tuesday, February 18th ~ Cultural Arts Presentation from 1:30-2:15

Friday, February 21st ~ Spirit Day 

Thursday, February 27 ~ No School, Parent Teacher Conferences from 12:00-8:00**

Friday, February 28th ~ No School, Parent Teacher Conferences from 7:30-12:00**
 

*Presidents Unit- Students have been hard at work learning about their Presidents! We will end this unit with a culminating event on February 12th from 2:00-3:15. We invite all parents to come celebrate their hard work and enjoy some refreshments. 

**Spring Parent Teacher Conferences will be held February 27th and February 28th. Please make sure you have signed up for a time with your child's homeroom teacher.  

To reserve a time slot with Mrs. Nash please visit her sign-up link, 
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0E4BAFAE28A46-parentteacher1

To reserve a time slot with Miss Laird please visit her sign-up link,
http://www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0C4FADAB2BA6F94-parent 

Academics

In language arts, we have continued to work on gathering information for our presidents research project. Students worked on creating note cards that they will use to write their paper. On Thursday, we began the process of developing an outline of our papers. Outlines are due Wednesday, January 22nd. Next week, students will compose thesis statements and begin writing the rough draft of their papers.

In reading, Miss Laird's class is finished their literature circles unit.
All groups finished their books and everyone is working on preparing a book review which will incorporate the work they produced throughout the novel. Next week, we will begin reading Small Steps: The Year I got Polio by Peg Kehret. Mrs. Nash's class has read through Chapter 6 of Jayhawker by Patricia Beatty.  Throughout this novel, we will analyze how setting and point of view impact the story. We will also continue to practice reading comprehension strategies.

This week in social studies,  we continued our unit over the American Revolution. This week each student assumed the role of a person who lived during this time period. We examined the different views people had about whether or not the colonies should seek independence from England. We will use these view points as we examine the events that led up to the start of the war.

In science, we continued to look at the classification system for living organisms. This week we took a closer look at the species classified in the animal kingdom. Within the animal kingdom we looked at classifying vertebrates and invertebrates.  We also brought back current events for the third quarter and we did our first one together as a class on Friday. Next week, we will move into classifying organisms in the plant kingdom.