Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King Jr.

Yes, it is his birthday and in honor of him there will be No School for students on Monday, January 20th. Enjoy your day off-do something fun!! As you can see by our snowman creations, we had a good time with buddies today. They had done a writing piece about "how to make a snowman" so we helped them make their snowmen with ______ & ______. Ask your child what we used and write them in the planner if they can tell you. They enjoyed working together and did a great job. Lead 21 kids took their assessment for Unit 3 so now we are moving to Unit 4 which is on Space. Recorder/Stomp performance: The 4th graders played recorders for the 5-6th grades and the 5-6th grades played a variety of garbage can items to create rhythm/music-just like they do in the Broadway performance of Stomp! Both groups did a great job. Happenings this coming week: Report Cards go home on Thursday, January 23rd Venture Theater Performance is on Friday, January 24th Pizza Lunch for lunchroom helpers is on Thursday, January 23rd. Lead 21 will be starting Unit 4 on Space & Biographies-skills will be fact/opinion-prefixes, suffixes and strategies will be making connections. In Math we will be continuing with fractions-finding equivalent fractions and ordering & comparing. We will be having our division/multiplication assessment on Friday, January 24th. We didn't have it today due to not having a lot of time and I didn't want them to rush. Language will be continuing with adjectives. In Social Studies, we will spend the week learning about Martin Luther King Jr. A celebration is in order since we earned our 25 celebration points. Not sure which day yet and what we are going to do. Also, we will have our auction on Wednesday to spend their money and then we will start over with new money. MAP scores went home on colored cards Friday. As you can see, the students did great for the most part and I am so proud of them. If you don't see the progress you would have liked, don't worry-we will test again in the spring and those scores are the ones that we use in their records/promotion cards, etc. If any scores went down or didn't make a lot of growth, that is a good discussion point for working harder and trying their best. It also gives me the information I need to adjust/drive my instruction for those individuals. Jacoby was our student of the week and we sure enjoyed everything he brought. The big hit was the fox fur. We found out he likes football and hopes to play in the NFL someday, he likes blue, fish, math, and I bet you didn't know he likes to eat snakes. He said, "It tastes like chicken." Don't think I will ever try it. Have a great weekend.