Snapshot 4-2-18

Here is this week's snapshot if  you are unable to get the e-mails. You can download the *.pdf file by clicking beneath the snapshot picture the below. All snapshots will be available in *.pdf form on the "Weekly Snapshots" page {here} once they are sent out and posted! Click {here} to download this week's snapshot! Week of: April 2, 2018

Dear Parents,

Please see the list of dates below for what we have going on at school over the next few weeks.

Although Explorer classes have ended, tutorials are continuing and pick up is at 4pm.

Upcoming Dates
Thursday, April 5	Social Studies Unit 9 & 10 Curriculum Assessment
Friday, April 6	Science Unit 6 Curriculum Assessment
Friday, April 6	Limo Lunch For Fundraiser
Monday, April 9	Recycled Art Competition Forms Due *for those that would like to enter the contest
Monday, April 9	5th Grade STAAR testing *due to STAAR testing, we will not be having lunch visitors these 3 days
Tuesday, April 10
Wednesday, April 11
Monday, April 16	Book Fair Opens
Tuesday, April 17	College Shirt Day
	LAST DAY FOR CORRECTIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS TO BE TURNED IN
Thursday, April 19	Open House
Friday, April 20	End of 5th Cycle *all corrections and assignments need to be turned in by TUESDAY, APRIL 17 to allow for grading time

Upcoming Assignment due dates
Tuesday, April 3 extra day given for Easter	Math Homework: Countdown to the Math STAAR Series 3 P4 {front} Mixed Math: C9 {back}
Friday, April 6	Math Classwork: Motivation Math pages 241 - 242
	Math Classwork: Motivation Math pages 233 - 234
	Social Studies Classwork: Inventor Poster
	Social Studies Classwork: Inventor Scavenger Hunt
Tuesday, April 9	Math Homework: Countdown to the Math STAAR Series 3 P4 {front} Mixed Math: C9 {back}
	Science Homework: Recycled Art Project
Friday, April 13	Math Classwork: Motivation Math page 264

*number of classwork assignments may change throughout the week based on classroom needs

THIS WEEK IN MATH:

Geometry & Measurement continues this week with a focus on elapsed time:  Your child will be learning how to:

●       add and subtract intervals of time in minutes in order to solve real world problems

Please see the new resources listed below to support your child’s mastery of these skills.

Math Resources to Help at Home

GEOMETRY PRACTICE- (THIS WEEK’S SKILLS IN GREEN)

Math Man– Calculate Elapsed Time using Sheppard Software Game

Adding & Subtracting Time - Math Is Fun

Time Intervals Word Problems - HelpingWithMath.com

IXL Elapsed Time Practice and Elapsed Time Word Problems

Dunk Tank– Interactive Game from PBS Kids over Area of Squares and Rectangles

Area & Perimeter Games– A variety of games for practice with area and perimeter from Splashmath

IXL Perimeter of Rectangles– Practice determining the perimeter of different rectangles

Perimeter Shape Game– Shoot the shapes with a specified perimeter

Area Shape Game– Shoot the shapes with a specified area

Area and Perimeter– An interactive math lesson from MathPlayground

Geoboard– Explore Area & Perimeter with an interactive Geoboard from MathPlayground

Area Blocks– Cover your grid with shapes with the correct area and perimeter & race your opponent

Classifying 2-Dimensional Shapes– Interactive video classifies quadrilaterals by attributes

I Know It: Quadrilaterals - Identify the quadrilateral based on it’s attributes - Interactive Quiz

Quadrilateral Shape Game - In this Sheppard Software game, students shoot different types of quadrilaterals as they are told to reinforce vocabulary

3-Dimensional Figures - Slideshow that gives real world examples of 3-dimensional figures         Faces, Edges, & Vertices - Interactive website explores attributes of 3-dimensional figures and includes practice problems for your child and grades them on their responses.                                        Telling Time to the Nearest Minute - Demonstrates how to tell time on an analog clock.

THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE:

In science this week, we will continue our Unit on Earth and its Resources. We will be moving on from looking at looking at rapid changes in Earth’s surface and the effect that Earth’s rapid changed have to conserving our resources. We will be looking at

●       how natural resources are useful at home, school and in the community

●       ways that we can save natural resources at home, school and in the community

●       the 7 different types of natural resources and how they are used by humans

●       the characteristics of natural resources and ways we can conserve them

RESOURCES FOR PRACTICE

NASA's Climate Kids – Navigate through the different activities on the energy page to learn about fossil fuels, what materials are helpful or harmful to our environment, what we can do to help the Earth, about renewable energy, going green, and recycling!

PBS Kids Science Games – Navigate through the different activities on the PBS Kids Science page to play games about the environment! The kids have been shown where to find this link to PBS Kids on our class blog page and how to find our embedded Symbaloo.

BrainPOP Natural Resources – Place this sorting game on BrainPOP (big BrainPOP, not BrainPOP, Jr) and match resources into categories. This goes right along with what we will be doing on Monday.

More websites and links can be found on our class blog page on our Symbaloo. This is embedded on the Technology Station page.

Thank you so much for your dedication to helping your child learn.

Recycled Art Project

We have started our Natural Resources Unit in Science! For science homework over the next 2 weeks, we will be making some trash art at home! I've had some really neat projects come in from pre-k, kinder, 1st and 2nd graders and can't wait to see what you make!

All you have to do is gather some items that you would normally throw away and create something with them. It could be an animal, a tool, a storage container of some kind, whatever you want!

You can even go above and beyond and write a little explanation about what you made, the materials you used, and how those materials started out before being process (like a cardboard box that started as a tree!).

Here are some examples from previous years of what you could do!

Snapshot 3-26-18

Here is this week's snapshot if  you are unable to get the e-mails. You can download the *.pdf file by clicking beneath the snapshot picture the below. All snapshots will be available in *.pdf form on the "Weekly Snapshots" page {here} once they are sent out and posted! Click {here} to download this week's snapshot! Week of: March 26, 2018

Dear Parents,

Please see the list of dates below for what we have going on at school over the next few weeks.

Although Explorer classes have ended, tutorials are continuing and pick up is at 4pm.

Upcoming Dates
Monday, March 26	After School Tutoring
Tuesday, March 27	After School Tutoring
Friday, March 30	NO SCHOOL

Upcoming Assignment due dates
Monday, March 26	Math Homework: Countdown to the Math STAAR Series 3 P3 {front}; Mixed Math: C8 {back}
Wednesday, March 28	Math Classwork: Motivation Math pp. 257-258
Monday, April 2	Recycling Projects Due A note will be sent home Monday about our recycling projects.

*number of classwork assignments may change throughout the week based on classroom needs. Any assignments that are added throughout the week will be listed on students’ Kiddom page that they are able to access at school and home. They have been doing such a great job with this in class! A direct link to Kiddom is on our class blog page. Students have been using this in class.

THIS WEEK IN MATH:

Geometry & Measurement continues this week with a focus on area of rectangles:  Your child will be learning how to:

• determine the area of a rectangle using multiplication
• decompose figures formed by rectangles into non-overlapping rectangles to determine the area of the original figure using the additive property of area

Please see the new resources listed below to support your child’s mastery of these skills.

Math Resources to Help at Home

GEOMETRY PRACTICE- (THIS WEEK’S SKILLS IN GREEN)

Dunk Tank– Interactive Game from PBS Kids over Area of Squares and Rectangles

Area & Perimeter Games– A variety of games for practice with area and perimeter from Splashmath

IXL Perimeter of Rectangles– Practice determining the perimeter of different rectangles

Perimeter Shape Game– Shoot the shapes with a specified perimeter

Area Shape Game– Shoot the shapes with a specified area

Area and Perimeter– An interactive math lesson from MathPlayground

Geoboard– Explore Area & Perimeter with an interactive Geoboard from MathPlayground

Area Blocks– Cover your grid with shapes with the correct area and perimeter & race your opponent

Classifying 2-Dimensional Shapes– Interactive video classifies quadrilaterals by attributes

I Know It: Quadrilaterals - Identify the quadrilateral based on it’s attributes - Interactive Quiz

Quadrilateral Shape Game - In this Sheppard Software game, students shoot different types of quadrilaterals as they are told to reinforce vocabulary

3-Dimensional Figures - Slideshow that gives real world examples of 3-dimensional figures

Faces, Edges, & Vertices - Interactive website explores attributes of 3-dimensional figures and includes practice problems for your child and grades them on their responses.

Telling Time to the Nearest Minute - Demonstrates how to tell time on an analog clock.

 

THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE:

In science this week, we will continue our Unit on Earth and its Resources. We will be moving on from looking at looking at rapid changes in Earth’s surface and the effect that Earth’s rapid changed have to conserving our resources. We will be looking at

●       how natural resources are useful at home, school and in the community

●       ways that we can save natural resources at home, school and in the community

●       the 7 different types of natural resources and how they are used by humans

●       the characteristics of natural resources and ways we can conserve them

RESOURCES FOR PRACTICE

NASA's Climate Kids – Navigate through the different activities on the energy page to learn about fossil fuels, what materials are helpful or harmful to our environment, what we can do to help the Earth, about renewable energy, going green, and recycling!

PBS Kids Science Games – Navigate through the different activities on the PBS Kids Science page to play games about the environment! The kids have been shown where to find this link to PBS Kids on our class blog page and how to find our embedded Symbaloo.

BrainPOP Natural Resources – Place this sorting game on BrainPOP (big BrainPOP, not BrainPOP, Jr) and match resources into categories. This goes right along with what we will be doing on Monday.

More websites and links can be found on our class blog page on our Symbaloo. This is embedded on the Technology Station page.

Thank you so much for your dedication to helping your child learn.