Dear Room 19
Families,
To echo Mrs. Parquet
Dismissal changes: Please make sure you send a note with your child if there will
be a dismissal change. We will not accept ANY dismissal changes
after 2. Getting calls after this time causes too much confusion and
makes for a messy situation. Please plan ahead and send in notes and if
you forget, please call before 2. I appreciate you working with us on
this situation.
Pickup-We require that all car riders to be picked up by 3:40.
Please use our carpool line. We cannot watch children after that
time as we do not have available personnel to monitor children. Office
personnel have responsibilities away from their desks and cannot be expected to
babysit. Please sign your children up for AYS if you are not always able
to be here before 3:40. I appreciate you working with us on these situations.
We’ve
had a great two weeks back from break! There is a lot of testing the next four
weeks, please read to the end.
For
many students, this is a critical time to show if they are ready for middle
school both academically and socially. Last year 100% of my class passed
Mathematics and only one student did not pass ELA. Your student has all the
tools they need to be successful and every Math and ELA standard has been
taught. I would strongly suggest getting a sixth grade workbook, or if your
student is struggling a 5th grade workbook to help them prepare. They can be found at just about any
bookstore, Lakeshore Learning in Nora Plaza, United Arts and Education in Casleton,
and I’m sure many other places. (United Arts and Education has heaps of
them!!!) If you aren’t sure about the workbook, save the receipt and have your
learner check with me before starting.
This time of year is busy with review, but there is also a lot of fun, too!
Students will be working on their Novel Games, will start creating Math Arcade
games in May, celebrate 5th Grade Experience at Eagle Creek, will be visiting Butler University, and
today we had our Exhibition Kick-Off! More information will come home about all
of these. With that being said, let’s look at what we are up to this
week!
Happenings this
week:
• Friday: Freaky
Friday-Twin Day $1
· Midterms go home!!!
Our learning this
week continues with:
Reading-Unit 6 Lesson 28
· Skills: Fact and Opinion
·
Acuity Standards Review: THEME, POV, Inferencing
· Fluency skill: Accuracy and Speed
· New Novel Project Due Dates:
o Game Directions Draft April 24th
o Final Product May 8th
§ Game Box
§ Game Board
§ Pieces
§ Game Directions
Social Science- Exhibtion is going great! As your
IB student what action they want to take to make a difference. During our
Social Science time Mondays-Wednesdays and Fridays we will be doing exhibition
work in our homeroom, meaning Room 19 students will stay with me. On Thursday
we will divide up into our Exhibition Topic Groups to work.
· Mrs. Nibrager-Children
· Ms. Feezle-Education
· Ms. Combs-Poverty
· Mrs. Ouattara-Health
· Miss Rahrig-Earth
We are also looking
forward to doing more Science. Including the body system-which hopefully Dr.
Brian Watters will be coming into share about, ecosystems with our trip to
Butler, and a workshop on energy from IPL. This is really exciting because my
fiancé will be helping teach this because he is studying electrical engineering
and worked with IPL.
• Writing-Persuasive writings are complete and scores will be
reflected in midterms. The next few weeks we will be doing a unit on Poetry,
which promises to be a lot of fun! Students wrote their first poem about poems
today!
• Math- Review of order of operations, writing expressions,
and unit conversions. Again, I strongly encourage a workbook and ixl.
Assessments this
Friday consist of:
• DMR/Skills Review Quiz
• DLR Quiz**New
· Acuity Quiz
· ISTEP a next wee through May 5th!!!
· May 11th AIMS and STAR end of
year benchmarks
· Week of May 11th Math Facts
end of year benchmarks
Online Resources for
Students:
Username: Student ID
#
Password: Last name
More students are passing out of Lexia! Congratulations
to Silvio who competed level 18 over the weekend!
Please do not
hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns. Have a wonderful week!
srahrig@msdwt.k12.in.us
