High Five Highlights

February 17 28, 2014 Happy Birthday!

Soham Jan. 30 Taylor Feb. 2 Amisha Feb. 12 Ryan Mar. 1

Important Dates:
Mar. 4 CASE 21 Reading Test Mar. 5 CASE 21 Math Test Mar. 6 CASE 21 Science Test (Ecosystems) Mar. 7 Quarter 3 Report Cards sent home, Track-Out Day Mar. 31 Track-In Day

Notes from Ms. Allen:

We have just completed our unit on Human Growth & Development, and I have been very impressed by the maturity and respect that all students displayed during our daily lessons and our field trip to the Poe Health Center. My hope is that these lessons have opened up the door to have valuable conversations between students and parents, so be sure to ask your child about what they learned in the Human Growth & Development unit! Coach Brady will be walking with our students to the M.A.F.C. to play tennis during P.E. on April 7
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& 8 . Your child brought home a permission form for this activity on Friday.

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Please fill this permission form out and return it to school as soon as possible. There is no cost for students to walk to the M.A.F.C. Coach Brady also needs parent volunteers to help him and the teachers walk with students. If you can help, please click on the link below to sign up. Thanks! http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094DAAAB23AB9-tennis1 Thank you very much for encouraging your child to begin completing Study Island review activities. We will have our first Progress Update, where I will record on your childs data wall the number of Blue Ribbons they have received so far in ELA, Math, and Science. Remember, students can also work on Study Island over Track-Out!

What Were Working On:

Reading: In reading, we finished up the 3rd quarter by exploring how the speakers point of view in a fiction text affects the way a story is told. Students practiced identifying the point of view in a story or poem and analyzing how the events would be described if they were told from a different point of view. We will be taking our CASE 21 Reading benchmark assessment on Tuesday, March 4th. Writing: In writing, students finished their interpretive essays in which they made a claim about a personality trait displayed by a character in a novel they have read and supported their claim with evidence from the text in a 5-paragraph essay. Our main conventional focus this quarter has been to make sure we have no inappropriate shifts in verb tense throughout our entire writing piece. Im very proud of the progress all students have made in their writing this quarter! Social Studies: In social studies, we have been studying the causes and effects of Westward Expansion in the United States. This week, we will wrap up our unit by studying the causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution, which will lead us into our study on the Civil War in the 4th Quarter. Science: In science, we have wrapped up our unit on Ecosystems. Students have worked very hard this quarter to understand the complex relationships between organisms in various ecosystems around the world. We will be taking our CASE 21 Science benchmark assessment on Ecosystems on Thursday, March 6th. Math: In math, we have now learned how to add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions and mixed numbers. This week, we will have a comprehensive review to practice all of these operations with fractions in preparation for our CASE 21 Math benchmark assessment, which we will take on Wednesday, March 5th.