February 1-5

Reading: Guided Reading Groups and Stations, Thundercake Writing

Spelling: song, being, leave, family, it’s, flower, flour, our, hour, hair, hare, moon, orbit, position, sphere, cube Pretest on Wednesday, Test on Thursday

Science: Continue Heat and Matter: Dry Ice Lab, Sources of Heat, How Heat is Transferred

Social Studies:  Causes of the American Revolution; The Stamp Act, The Tea Act, The Intolerable Acts

Math: Begin Topic 9: Fractions; 9-1 (What is a fraction?), 9-2 (representing part of a whole), 9-3 (fractional part of a set), 9-4 (fractional part of set part 2), 9-5 (identify fraction on a number line)

Important Dates and Info for This Week:

Monday (art) - graded papers go home (I forgot to send home Friday)

Tuesday (music)- 

Wednesday (PE)- 

Thursday (computer lab)- 

Friday (computer lab)- Spirit Day

**Students should be working on science fair projects. The science fair is Monday, February 8th.  Each week until the science fair, students will be asked to submit information to make sure they are working on their project. 

Most students have submitted their testable questions and hypotheses. This week, we will be going over procedures, data results, and conclusion to make sure their projects are ready to turn in next Monday, February 8th. 

* (DATE CHANGE) We will take up money for the Columbia field trip from Wednesday, February 24th to Wednesday, March 2nd and the cost is $25 plus an additional $5 for chaperones. The field trip is on Thursday, March 10th. 

Awards Day Photos

 

Hey Mom and Dad!

PAWS award winners

Writing Award

 Character Award winners 

Music, art and PE award winners.

Perfect Attendance

Honor Roll

Principal's Honor Roll

Terrific Kids for 2nd 9 weeks

January 25-29

Reading: Book Clubs; Guided Reading Stations; Reading Response, continue Patricia Polacco author study

Spelling: TBA Pretest on Thursday, Test on Friday

Science: Continue Heat and Matter: (review matter and mass), volume, states of matter; Matter test on Friday

Social Studies:  Continue Slavery (beginning, life of a slave, Gullah)

Math: Topic 8: Lessons 8-4 (8 and 9 as a divisor), 8-5 (Problem Solving), 8-6 (Making Sense of Multiplication and Division Equations), review on Thursday, Topic 8 test on Friday 


Important Dates and Info for This Week:

Monday (art) - Snow Day #2; No School

Tuesday (music)- 

Wednesday (PE)- 

Thursday (computer lab)- 

Friday (library)- Spirit Day, graded papers go home (1st grades for 3rd 9 weeks)

**Students should be working on science fair projects. The science fair is Monday, February 8th.  Each week until the science fair, students will be asked to submit information to make sure they are working on their project. By Wednesday, January 27th,  students will be turning in their testable question and hypothesis. Materials list and procedures is due Friday, January 29th. Data results and conclusion will be turned in with your project boards on Feb. 8th.

*We will take up money for the Columbia field trip from Wednesday, February 3 to Wednesday, February 10 and the cost is $25 plus an additional $5 for chaperones. 

January 19-22 (Happy MLK Jr. Week)

Here's what we are learning this week:

Reading: Book Clubs; Guided Reading Stations; continue Patricia Polacco author study

Spelling: let, above, girl, sometimes, mountains, worn, fourth, war, horse, morning, poured, geometric, angles, acute, obtuse, right Pretest on Wednesday, Test on Friday

Science: Begin Heat and Matter unit

Social Studies:  Begin Slavery unit

Math: Begin Topic 8: Relating Multiplication and Division


Important Dates and Info for This Week:

Monday (art) - NO SCHOOL (MLK Holiday)

Tuesday (music)- Report Cards and graded papers go home

Wednesday (PE)-

Thursday (computer lab)- 

Friday (computer lab)- Spirit Day, Awards Day (3rd grade- 1:30pm)

**Students should be working on science fair projects. The science fair is Monday, February 8th.  Each week until the science fair, students will be asked to submit information to make sure they are working on their project. By Friday, January 22nd, students will be turning in their testable question and hypothesis. Materials list and procedures is due Friday, January 29th. Data results and conclusion will be turned in with your project boards on Feb. 8th. Students will be turning in information via Google Forms in class. 

January 11-15

Here's what we are learning this week:

Reading: Students are finishing publishing their Animal Research Projects in stations; Book Clubs; Guided Reading Stations; begin author study

Spelling: test on Friday watch, far, Indian, real, almost, stairs, glare, airplane, compare, repair, prepare, attributes, quadrilateral, equilateral, isosceles, scalene

Science: Continue Class Science Fair Project. Here's a video I created for the school for you to view regarding this year's science fair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhSxvnc35Kc&feature=youtu.be; Diamond Del on Wednesday

Social Studies:  Exploration of People Groups: English, Huguenots, European Jews, German Scotch-Irish (Study guides coming home) Test on Thursday

Math: Division (review Topic 7), Test on Wednesday


Important Dates and Info for This Week:

Monday (art) - 

Tuesday (music)- Diamond Del money due

Wednesday (PE)-

Thursday (computer lab)- 

Friday (computer lab)- Spirit Day

January 5-8

Happy New Year!

Here's what we are learning this week:

Reading: Publishing Animal Research Projects; Book Clubs; Guided Reading Stations

Spelling: TBA, test on Thursday.

Science: Begin Class Science Fair Project. Here's a video I created several years ago that we will be using (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60__fHx9NFU)

Social Studies:  Exploration of People Groups: English, Huguenots, European Jews, German Scotch-Irish (Study guides coming home)

Math: Division (review lessons 7-2:Division as Repeated Subtraction, 7-3:Finding Missing Numbers in Multiplication Table, 7-4: Problem Solving: Choose an Appropriate Equation, 7-5: Writing Division Stories). 


Important Dates and Info for This Week:

Monday - No School for Students

Tuesday (music)-

Wednesday (PE)-

Thursday (computer lab)- Winter Reading Logs due

Friday (computer lab)- Spirit Day

Mr. Johnson will not be at school on Friday, January 8th and Monday, January 11th. He will be running in the Disney Marathon race, the Goofy Challenge, that he's been training for since July 1st. This race includes a half marathon on Saturday (13.1 miles) and a full marathon on Sunday (26.2 miles). 

Please send any important notes with your child to give to the teacher.