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L. Watkis (Assistant Principal)

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L. Watkis (Assistant Principal)

In RELA... Students will use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events. Students will write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure. High Frequency Words: be, come, good, pull Spelling/Phonics: L-blends Comprehension Strategy: visualize Comprehension Skill: key details Oral Vocabulary: care, train, companion, groom, popular In Math... Students will identify attributes of shapes. Students will differentiate between defining and non-defining attributes of shapes. In Social Studies... Students will explain why leaders are important. Students will identify and give examples of leaders in their families, school, and community. In Science... Students will Identify and describe patterns that can be found in the daytime sky and use that data to interpret the Earth’s position in the universe. In Health... Students will role-play age-appropriate ways to take good care of one’s body.

First Grade Team

Be sure to send students to school with a fully charged device daily. Reading homework calendar for the month of October is available on Google Classroom. Reading: This week we read a biography about Mary Anning called “Rare Treasure” by Don Brown. Students practice the skill of referring to the text for details and monitoring their inner conversations. Next week we will begin to read a new story “Twins in Space.” We will be working on the skills of main idea, text structure, and context clues. Math: Students have been working diligently to comprehend the structure of whole numbers. Our unit will be coming to a close soon, which means our unit test will be happening soon. Students should continue to practice their skills using IXL. Science- This week students conducted an erosion and weathering investigation where students use rocks and water to show how Earth's surface is changed over time. Social Studies- This week students continued to learn about the parts of the government, its functions and duties.

Best, Fourth Grade Team

Happy Friday Tigers & Parents! We have successfully made it through another beautiful week. Though it was a short one, students were still able to accomplish a lot. We have closed out Unit 1 where we focused on the structure of whole numbers. We examine place values, various representations of numbers, and multiple ways to solve properties of operations. The standards we've mastered during this unit include: 4.NBT.1, 4.NBT.2, 4.NBT.3, 4.NBT.4, and 4.MD.2 On Tuesday, we will begin Unit 2 where we will focus on whole number multiplication and our standards are: 4.OA.1, 4.OA.2 , 4.OA.3, 4.NBT.5, 4.MD.2, and 4.MD.3 Thank you to all who were able to schedule and attend our Parent-Teacher Conferences. If you missed the opportunity, no worries. I will be opening up time twice a week during my planning to speak with parents. That information will be shared in the week to come. Progress Report Grades have been posted. Please check SchoolMax for updated grades. Have a prosperous weekend! Rest & Recharge!

Mrs. Jones 4th Grade Math Math Department Chair

Happy Long Weekend Second Grade Families! It’s that time of year again! Progress reports are finalized and will be available in SchoolMAX soon. If you haven’t scheduled a conference with the 2nd grade team and still need one, please reach out to teachers individually to review the data and talk about what’s going on in the classroom in regards to your student. Fitting 77 conferences into our schedule has been a challenge, but we are up to the task and we appreciate your patience! Graded work should be coming home fairly regularly, so please check your student’s backpack for their purple take-home folder. Book fair flyers have been sent home. Please review them carefully, as the book fair is cashless this year and the students will use their e-wallet to purchase from the fair. As always, thank you for your partnership and keep up the great work! Reading: This week in reading, our essential question is, “How do we care for animals?” Our phonics focus is the “long a” and the “silent e” sounds. Our listening comprehension story is a nonfiction story about people who work with animals for their job called, “All Kinds of Vets” which will give us a great opportunity to talk about the difference between fiction and nonfiction. Our close reading story is another nonfiction text called, “Lola and Tiva: An Unlikely Friendship” about a girl who cares for her pet rhino! This story will give us a great chance to compare and contrast taking care of a rhino and taking care of more common pets (like dogs and cats). Our grammar focus this week builds off of last week’s focus of sentence subjects (or the who) to cover the predicate (or the action/what) of a sentence. This week’s standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.2 Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies. Spelling words: another done water your into show now too move year Vocabulary Words: roams- moving around freely allowed- having permission to do something care- attention to keeping someone or something safe or healthy excited- having lots of energy or emotion needs- something that you must have safe- being free from harm or danger wandered- to walk around slowly and randomly wild- a place in nature where animals live Math: This week in Math we continued skip-counting dimes and pennies on a hundreds chart and on a number line to find out how many cents in all. We also began exploring arrays during Math Talk and discussed rows and columns. We had fun identifying arrays in our classroom and students have been encouraged to look for them in real life! Next week we will work with nickels and pennies to determine how we can use skip-counting by five to find how many in all. We will also learn about coin equivalencies- example: 5 pennies equals 1 dime. **Standards we are working on: 2.NBT.2Count within 1000; skip-count by 2s, 5s, 10s, and 100s. 2.MD.8 Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies using the dollar and cent symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have? 2.OA.2 Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By the end of Grade 2 know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers. ***Math Homework: Students should be working on math recommended skills for 15 minutes nightly. Science: This week in Science we learned about bodies of water and liquid vs solid. Our objective was: Students will recognize that there are patterns to where and what type of water is found on the Earth’s surface. We worked in the textbooks on pages 190 to 193. The assigned homework was IXL Science skills C1.Change-of-state diagrams:solid and liquid O.1 Water on Earth. Next week the objective will be: Students will obtain information to identify patterns about where water is found on Earth’s surface. We will create a project to display the various bodies of water that we live near. Students will need crayon, markers, or colored pencils, scissors, and a pencil. Standard: ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’sSurface Processes. Water is found in the ocean, rivers, lakes, and ponds. Water exists as solid ice and in liquid form. Social Studies: This week in Social Studies we learned about the Government. Our objective was: Students will define government and describe its purpose, explain the function of government and why it is formed. We worked in the textbook on pages 30 to 33. The assigned homework was IXL C1. Purpose or government, C2. Local Government, C3. State Government, and C4. Federal Government. We will review with an exit ticket on the Three Branches of Government. Next week our focus will be: Students will identify government leaders and their roles in a community, state, and nation. The closing activity for this lesson will be a narrative entitled “If I were President.” This activity will analyze the knowledge that students have about the Executive Office of the President and to see if they understand checks and balances. Standards: D2.Civ.5.K-2. explain what governments are and some of their functions. Health: This week in Health we learned about the functions of the human brain. Our objective was: Students will explore the major parts of the brain, how senses help the brain learn, and respect for different perspectives and patterns of thinking. We discovered how the senses help your brain learn. We practiced learning in different ways. Next week our objective will be: Students will use decision making steps to avoid unhealthy influences. Standard: State:1(a) - Mental & Emotional Health 7.0 - Self - Management

2nd Grade Team Ms. Phillips Mrs. Boggess Mrs. Valera Mr. Rowland

Hello everyone! We are ready to move right along in our second month here in third grade! Thank you to everyone who met with us for parent - teacher conferences this past week! We still have parents scheduled all week next week for conferences, and if you didn't get a meeting yet, please reach out to your teachers and we will be happy to schedule one! The window for progress reports closed this week, so please make sure students are keeping up with their assignments on Canvas as we move into the second half of the quarter! Please use our Google Site as it has many helpful resources for you all! Here's the link to our google site: https://sites.google.com/pgcps.org/3rdgradeclasssite Also, anti bullying spirit week is next week! Please look on Class Dojo for the themes for each day! Monday is "Put a Cap on Bullying" day, so everyone should wear a hat to school! We look forward to spirit week and spreading kindness each and everyday. The book fair is also next week! Each class has a scheduled day to go view the book fair during the day, and the book fair will be open all week! Finally, picture day will be coming up soon! It is scheduled for November 8, so we will give more information on that once it gets closer. Have a great weekend and we are looking forward to another great week next week! From your 3rd Grade Team! :)

Leah McDonagh Kylie Fleet Tamara Mathews Rashidah Balogun

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L. Watkis (Assistant Principal)