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The letter of the week is letter Zz. We will be making a zoo craft and reading a zoo book.   Please continue to review all the letters and letter sounds that we have learned so far this year.  Daily review makes a big difference.  We are also practicing sorting objects.  We sort shapes by size, color, and shape.  Have your child practice sorting things at home and tell how he/she sorted the objects. 

            Suffolk Reader Program – We hope that you are enjoying the books that are sent home each Wednesday.  Please return the books each Tuesday.  We will give you new books each Wednesday.  You can have your child picture read the books, find letters, or tell you what is happening in the story. 

Home Activities:

*Zz Collage – write Zz at the top of a large piece of paper.  Help your child find Zz and pictures of objects whose names begin with Zz in magazines or catalogs.  Glue them onto the paper.  You can also draw your own pictures of Zz objects.  If you do a collage, please send it in to share with the class.

*Play letter and letter sound games to review letters.

We are reviewing for the Science Benchmark on Thursday. Please have your child review the 2NW Packet tonight and tomorrow night. They may choose to cover 5th grade tonight and 4th grade tomorrow night. Please add your signature to the back of the packet to indicate they have studied. You may also date to indicate which date they did this as some students started last week when it was mentioned.

Math HW –

Tuesday – None – Review Science Benchmark

Wednesday – VA p.65

Thursday – Text p.451 (23 – 25)

Thanks for all you do at home to help your child at school.

Sign up for Remind. Check it out on remind.com. Use this phone number: (757) 809-2118, and use the code for your class (see below).

1st block – Remind code: @stoneblk1   Mid-Term Exam on Mon 1/27.

3rd block – Remind code: @stoneblk3   If needed, finish the Comparing Cells ws and the Looking Inside Cells ws. Mid-Term Exam on Thurs 1/23.

7th block – Remind code: @stoneblk7  If needed, finish the Comparing Cells ws and the Looking Inside Cells ws. Mid-Term Exam on Thurs 1/23.

This is Week 15 of our Streamin3 curriculum, using the theme “How Things Work” we will focus on inquiry skills and using our imaginations and making observations. We will sort objects using tools, make hot chocolate and count marshmallows, and read the story Goodnight Gorilla and discuss the word “zoo” and zoo animals. This week we will focus on letter Zz and meet our friend Zelda Zebra.  Please work on writing letter Zz and identifying it on books, packages, signs, etc.   

Suffolk Reader Program

Blue book bags will come home every Thursday.  They should be returned the following Tuesday so that the bags can be rotated to another student.  If not, you will see a reminder in your child’s binder and please send it back the next day. Please enjoy reading these books with your family, or just have your student look at the pictures, identify letters, and picture-read to you.  You could keep the bag in the car for your child to read while riding, or even by their bed so they can read them at night.  I hope this is exciting for them!

• EARLY DISMISSALS on Jan. 24 (THIS FRI), 27, 28, 29
• Return Suffolk Reader bags with books each Tuesday.
• Wear BLUE on Wednesdays!
• Show and Tell on Fridays!
• Send grocery receipts in to be scanned for Box Tops for Education!
• Download the Remind App and join our class! Text @mrsmspaul to 81010. I will send reminders and pictures via Remind.
• Please label jackets with your child’s name inside.
• Please wash blankets every weekend.

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Complete the problems on IN p. 64.

NO HW Exam week
Exam schedule is the following:
Thursday Jan 23 Blocks 3 & 7 Full day
Friday Jan 24 Blocks 4 & 6 Half day
Monday Jan 27 Blocks 1 & 5 Half day
Tuesday Jan 28 Block 2 Block 4 will be a regular block Half Day
Wed Jan 29 we will have a half day NO EXAMS ARE SCHEDULED

Block 1 – Notebook Check tomorrow – Complete Worksheet

Block 2 – Assessment Thurs: 3-D figures and Surface Area and Volume

Block 3 – Review Equations – Complete Worksheet

• Reading / Writing: The student will read each night for twenty minutes.

Write a half-page summary in your AR Booklet each night. Every Friday, you will turn in your AR booklet with a parent signature and summaries dated each night as you read. You should have three written summaries.

Additional Information:

Science Benchmark-Thursday

Chapter 12 QUIZ is rescheduled for Thursday, January 23rd along with a matching TEST on the Important People in the SOL – Part 2

none

Test (3-D figures and surface area & volume) 1/23

Assessment (graphing points on a coordinate plane) 1/24

(INp.82) Complete the attached sheet #9-16

Complete the 5 problems given. Balance.

Bring new 1-subject spiral interactive notebook for the third 9 weeks.

Dear Parents and Guardians,

I will have a substitute on Fri., Jan. 24 and Mon. Jan. 27 in order to attend the Memorial Service in Portland, Oregon for my younger sister who passed away unexpectedly over the Winter Break.

At the end of this week and next week, your child will be making a model of a habitat of their choice in class.  I am asking that you send in a shoebox with a lid for this project.  If you do not have one, I do have a few extra of my own.  Please let me know if you will need one.  The student must provide their own models of animals and plants that live in their chosen habitat.  These can be created out of paper or purchased.  You can find model animals at the $ Store, Michaels, and sometimes Walmart.

We will work on the following skills in Reading this week:

• Character, setting, plot
• compound words/syllabication

In Science this week, we will continue learning about Habitats in chapter 5 of the online Science book.

This week in Math the students will begin working with money and in social studies we will be reviewing for the benchmark test on Friday.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Cindy Martie

Cynthiamartie@spsk12.net

Hello,

The color for the month of January is blue. Students are asked to wear blue each Wednesday.

School will be dismissed at 1:20 January 24th, 27th, 28 &29.

This week students will recognize high frequency words, identify all letters and sounds, track and read level readers, recognize fiction and nonfiction books, count forward, backwards from 10, recognize numbers before and after a given number as well as identify the location of objects.

Please continue to complete activities on Reading Eggs and the homework menu.

Thank you,

C. Boone