What a chilly start to 2014! I am happy to be back at school now that the winter holidays are behind us. However, it was nice to have a two hour delay to help ease us all back into the transition after two weeks of sleeping in!
We have two field trips coming up this month. Our first is scheduled this Friday to the Math and Science Innovation Center for a lesson on fractals. As this will tie in with math, I am very excited to see what the lesson is all about! The second trip is to the YMCA on Friday, 1/24. I am in need of a male parent volunteer to go with us and chaperone in the boys' dressing room. If you have a volunteer form on file are able to help us out, please let me know and I will get more details to you. This week in math, we reviewed what makes a number even or odd. I ask you to challenge your child to draw a picture to illustrate the difference between the two concepts. We also learned about Prime and Composite numbers and some divisibility rules to help quickly discern whether a number is prime or composite. We will be having our test on Friday. Next week, we will begin working with variables. In science we began our unit on Living Systems. This week, the students are focusing on creating a dichotomous key to sort out organisms that they colored and named. In writing, we are focusing on comma usage this week. Because of the shortened schedules, we have not had much time to work on a prompt. I am going to make a copy of the prompts that your child may see on the SOL test in March. I ask that you take the time to look at each of these with your child and talk about how they could write something for them. It's especially beneficial to look at the ones that your child doesn't "like". These are often the ones that they feel they might have the most trouble writing to. If they have a plan of attack, and that is the prompt that they are randomly assigned that morning, it should make for a much more pleasant writing experience for them. We will be using some of the prompts as we gear up for the test during class time, but I wanted you to be able to see exactly what the prompts will be. And finally, our PTA meeting with the fifth grade chorus performance is next week. Mrs. Garcia will be sending home more information as the date approaches. I can't wait to s
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