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We have had a great week!  Please be sure you are studying for the Thirteen Colonies Map test on Thursday!  I have added two links under Social Studies that you can use to practice.

Important Dates:

*3rd General PTSA Meeting & Honor Chorus Performance
Thu, Feb 2   6:00pm

*Social Studies Test Feb 6th

*Spelling Test Feb 10th

*Frey's Science Fair is March 13-14.
Registration is required by Feb. 24
in order to participate.
Download Registration/info on PTSA website

*80's Dance - Friday, Feb. 24 from 6-8pm

 

 

 

 

Homework:

Tues 1/17  Adjective workbook p.65-66 and Math 10-10 # 1-16

What We are Learning:

Math -  We will  review the concept that when decimal fractions are added or subtracted the same rules of computation apply as for whole numbers.  We will begin exploring fractions, reading/writing/equivalent.

English - We will review adjectives and add to student's knowledge by introducing comparative and superlative forms.

Spelling - We will be covering Sort 25 on words spelled with silent t, g, w, k, h and gh.  Test on Friday.

Download Sort 25

Reading -  We are reading informational texts on the Colonial Period.  We will read and comprehend in order to develop understanding and expertise and produces evidence of reading that:

Locates facts to answer their questions

Identifies and uses knowledge of common textual (e.g., paragraphs, topic sentences, concluding sentences, glossary) and graphic (e.g., charts, maps, diagrams, illustrations) features and common organizational structures (e.g., chronological order, cause and effect)

Distinguishes cause from effect and fact from opinion (or fiction) while reading.

Summarizes main ideas and supporting details.

Acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing

Social Studies - We begin a unit on the Colonial Period.  During this unit we will concentrate on map skills such as how to locate the thirteen colonies on a map, along with major man made features such as New York City, Boston, Philadelphia and the Erie Canal.  The students will receive a map review sheet on Weds. 1/11 for a test on Thurs. 1/19.  We will also develop an understanding of how physical characteristics of an area can help to determine its economic activities

We have had a great week!  Please be sure you are studying for the Thirteen Colonies Map test on Thursday!  I have added two links under Social Studies that you can use to practice.

Important Dates:

Friday 1/13  Report Cards

Monday 1/16  MLK Day Holiday

Thursday 1/19  Map test on the Thirteen Colonies

Friday 1/20  Spelling Test

Homework:

Tues 1/17  Adjective workbook p.65-66 and Math 10-10 # 1-16

Weds 1/18  Article workbook p.67-68 and Math 10-10 # 17-27

Thurs 1/19  Farmer's Market worksheet and take a practice spelling test, turn in test with parent signature

What We are Learning:

Math -  We will  review the concept that when decimal fractions are added or subtracted the same rules of computation apply as for whole numbers.  We will begin exploring fractions, reading/writing/equivalent.

English - We will review adjectives and add to student's knowledge by introducing comparative and superlative forms.

Spelling - We will be covering Sort 25 on words spelled with silent t, g, w, k, h and gh.  Test on Friday.

Download Sort 25

Reading -  We are reading informational texts on the Colonial Period.  We will read and comprehend in order to develop understanding and expertise and produces evidence of reading that:

Locates facts to answer their questions

Identifies and uses knowledge of common textual (e.g., paragraphs, topic sentences, concluding sentences, glossary) and graphic (e.g., charts, maps, diagrams, illustrations) features and common organizational structures (e.g., chronological order, cause and effect)

Distinguishes cause from effect and fact from opinion (or fiction) while reading.

Summarizes main ideas and supporting details.

Acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing

Social Studies - We begin a unit on the Colonial Period.  During this unit we will concentrate on map skills such as how to locate the thirteen colonies on a map, along with major man made features such as New York City, Boston, Philadelphia and the Erie Canal.  The students will receive a map review sheet on Weds. 1/11 for a test on Thurs. 1/19.  We will also develop an understanding of how physical characteristics of an area can help to determine its economic activities

Download Label 13 Colonies Printout - EnchantedLearning_com

Download The 13 Colonies of America Clickable Map

Welcome Back!

Welcome Back!  I hope everyone had a relaxing break.  We will have homework this week (see below) but I will not be sending home Monday Papers until next week on Tuesday (we are out Monday for MLK Day).

Important Dates:

Friday 1/13  Report Cards

Monday 1/16  MLK Day Holiday

Thursday 1/19  Map test on the Thirteen Colonies

Friday 1/20  Spelling Test

Homework:

Tues 1/10  Spelling Choice and Dino Demo Sheet

Weds 1/11  Map Review Sheet signed and What is the Decimal Number?

Thurs 1/12  Spelling Choice and Lantern Glow Sheet

What We are Learning:

Math - We are reviewing how decimals are another way of writing fractions and how the decimal point separates the whole from the fractional part.  So, we will understand that parts of a whole or set may be represented in a variety of ways - fractions, decimal fractions, improper fractions, and mixed numbers. We will also review the concept that when decimal fractions are added or subtracted the same rules of computation apply as for whole numbers.

English - We will review adjectives and add to student's knowledge by introducing comparative and superlative forms.

Spelling - We will be covering Sort 25 on words spelled with silent t, g, w, k, h and gh.

Download Sort 25

Reading -  We are reading informational texts on the Colonial Period.  We will read and comprehend in order to develop understanding and expertise and produces evidence of reading that:

Locates facts to answer their questions

Identifies and uses knowledge of common textual (e.g., paragraphs, topic sentences, concluding sentences, glossary) and graphic (e.g., charts, maps, diagrams, illustrations) features and common organizational structures (e.g., chronological order, cause and effect)

Distinguishes cause from effect and fact from opinion (or fiction) while reading.

Summarizes main ideas and supporting details.

Acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing

Social Studies - We begin a unit on the Colonial Period.  During this unit we will concentrate on map skills such as how to locate the thirteen colonies on a map, along with major man made features such as New York City, Boston, Philadelphia and the Erie Canal.  The students will receive a map review sheet on Weds. 1/11 for a test on Thurs. 1/19.  We will also develop an understanding of how physical characteristics of an area can help to determine its economic activities.

 

 

I was very impressed with all of the hard work that went into the student's explorer reports!!  Their grade sheet will come home with Monday papers but I am keeping the reports to display when we return from the break.

Reminders for next week:

Monday - Pajama Day reward for Accelerated Reader

Tuesday - Game/Electronics Day reward for Catching Compliments

Wednesday - Holiday Party 12 - 1

Thursday - Last Day

We will be finishing our geometry unit by practicing using protractors to measure angles.  We will finish our unit on Sound and Light with a smartboard review and quiz.  Students will also turn in their science workbooks for grading.  There will be no spelling unit.

Homework will be any classwork that is incomplete.

Our homework for the next two weeks is the Explorer Research Project.  Please be sure to use the grading rubric to guide your work.  Below is a link with some research sites I have found or have been recommended to me.  If you find any others, please email me and I will add them to the list.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/

http://allaboutexplorers.com/  - when you use this site, the first link takes you to a “fictitious and funny” article about the explorer, click on the link at the bottom of the page and it will guide you to a site with trustworthy information

http://www.kidinfo.com/american_history/explorers.html

http://www.kidskonnect.com/subject-index/16-history/265-explorers.html

http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/History/Explorers/

Our holiday party will be on Weds. 12/21 from 12 - 1ish.  I will be sending home letters at the end of this week asking for donations of items for snacks and games.  We are also going to do a goody bag for each child.  Please be on the lookout for a small item to put in each bag (we have 26 students).  You may send those in as soon as you get them and we will start the bags.

We are also in need of candy for rewards if anyone can send some in.

What Are We Learning:

Math -   We are working on Geometry and Plane Figures.  We will examine and compare angles in order to classify and identify triangles by their angles.  Also, we'll describe parallel and perpendicular lines in plane geometric figures as well as examine and classify quadrilaterals (including parallelograms, squares, rectangles, trapezoids, and rhombi)by their properties.

Spelling - We are studying words with qu in them.  These are difficult words, so STUDY< STUDY< STUDY!!!

Download Sort 24 agenda

Reading/Science - We are combining reading and science for our Sound and Light unit.  A review sheet for the test on Sound came home on Thursday.  The test will be on Friday, 12/9.  This week we are covering Light.  We will test it as well.  Our goal for light is to understand that:

materials are either transparent, translucent, or opaque

reflection - bounces light & refraction - bends light

light travels in straight lines

a prism bends/refracts light

convex - magnifies & concave - makes smaller

Social Studies - We are learning about Columbus, Cabot, Hudson, Cartier, Balboa and Ponce de Leon.  Our goal is to develop an understanding of how:

Exploration by Europeans led to permanent contact betwenn the Eastern and Western hemispheres.

European explorers had different motives for their explorations.

Native American culture was permanently changed by European settlement.

European explorers benefited from Native American cooperation.

Decisions to send expeditions to the New World incurred opportunity costs.

Our homework for the next two weeks is the Explorer Research Porject.  Please be sure to use the grading rubric to guide your work.  Below is a link with some research sites I have found or have been recommended to me.  If you find any others, please email me and I will add them to the list.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/

http://allaboutexplorers.com/  - when you use this site, the first link takes you to a “fictitious and funny” article about the explorer, click on the link at the bottom of the page and it will guide you to a site with trustworthy information

http://www.kidinfo.com/american_history/explorers.html

http://www.kidskonnect.com/subject-index/16-history/265-explorers.html

http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/History/Explorers/

Our holiday party will be on Weds. 12/21 from 12 - 1ish.  I will be sending home letters at the end of this week asking for donations of items for snacks and games.  We are also going to do a goody bag for each child.  Please be on the lookout for a small item to put in each bag (we have 26 students).  You may send those in as soon as you get them and we will start the bags.

We are also in need of candy for rewards if anyone can send some in.

Below are links to a couple of things we have used this week:

Download Engineering Interact - Interactive science & engineering for 9-11 year olds  Science Game on Sound

Download Classifying Quadrilaterals

Frey's Thanksgiving Feast

Tuesday, Nov. 15th ...K-2nd grades

Wednesday, Nov. 16th...3rd-5th grades

Our time is Wednesday 11:50 - 12:20!!!!!!

Thanksgiving Break 11/21 - 11/25

Homework this week is all math!!!  It is in the student's binders.

 

What We Are Learning:

Math - We are continuing work on Long Division.  We learned how to do short division last week and began long division.  Any time you can reinforce the steps of long division at home would be great!!!!

Download Does McDonald

Download Long_division_tutorial

Download Snork's Long Division Game - KidsNumbers_com

Language Arts - We will have no spelling list for this week!  In english, we are working on types of sentences.

Download Four Types Of Sentences

Reading - We are putting the finishing touches on the two novels we have been reading in class.  We will be working on some summarizing, creating awards for characters in the book and comprehension testing over the book's content.

Social Studies - We are finishing our Native American Unit.  This week we will complete the books we are making, finish taking notes and take an open note quiz on the tribes.

Some Important Dates and Info

 

 

ASP

The Frey After School Program (ASP) now has an Online Payment Availability.Online prepayment is now available for parents to pay their student's daily fees and registration fee!  The parents may access this availability and/or register at www.mealpayplus.com. Please contact Frey's After School Program if you have any questions.

 Rachel's Challenge:

 Help start a Chain Reaction:
 
Rachel's Challenge has kicked off to a great start!  Frey is now starting our "Chain of Kindness".  We are asking students, teachers/staff, parents, and visitors to participate by writing on a strip of paper an act of kindness you personally experience while on campus. We will add this link to our "Chain of Kindness".  Please just ask the front office or your teacher for a strip of paper anytime.  
 
"You may just start a chain reaction!"  --Rachel Scott

 

Save It Forward:

 This year in conjunction with Rachel's Challenge, Frey Elementary will be partnering with Alive Ministries, Inc. to help meet the needs of students & their families right here in Cobb County.

Please check out the following letter from Mrs. Piket:

 Download Save it Forward letter

 Teacher Workday/Student Holiday: Please remember that there will be no school for students on Tuesday, November 8th for Teacher Inservices and Election Day.

 Thanksgiving Feasts: Our annual Frey Thanksgiving Feast is just around the corner. Parents are encouraged to prepay for themselves and any guests that will be attending the feast. Please click the links below for a reservation/prepayment form and the schedules for the two feast days. Our feast will be on Wednesday, November 16th. Please note that students will be receiving sack lunches on Tuesday, November 15th due to the feast for K-2nd grades. If your child does not want a sack lunch from school, he or she will need to bring a lunch from home that day. Download Thanksgiving Feast invite 2011-2012

 Thanksgiving Holidays: School will be out the week of November 21-25 for our Thanksgiving Break

It has been a pleasure getting to sit and speak with each of you this week about your children.  I have learned so much and have greatly appreciated all of your positive comments and feedback.

FYI: Our school is being patrolled by police to look for people parking in the fire lane.  We've had a few parents receive tickets this week. Make sure you do not park in the fire lane or you will most likely receive a hefty ticket

 

 

 

Important Dates:

Mon, Oct 31-            *Silly Slippers Day! Donate $1 for United
                               Way and wear your favorite slippers
                                to school.  Thanks for helping support our
                                community!

Thu, Nov 3                *Science Night* with Museum of Aviation!
                                 Door Prizes!   6:00pm in the Cafeteria for
                                 brief 2nd Gen. PTSA mtg.    Door Prizes!
                                 *15 tables of awesome science experiments

Tue, Nov. 8              Student Holiday - No school

Tue, Nov 15             Thanksgiving Feast   K - 2nd grades
Wed,  Nov 16           Thanksgiving Feast   3rd - 5th grades

Download Family-thanksgiving-invite-2011

Nov 21 - 25              Thanksgiving Holiday - No school

 

 

What We are Learning:

Math - We are beginning this nine weeks with division.  This week we will focus on knowing the division facts with understanding and fluency,  understanding the relationship between dividend, divisor, quotient, and remainder so that we can solve problems involving division by 1- or 2-digit numbers (including those that generate a remainder).

Download Multiplication and Division Vocabulary

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm (games to practice facts)

http://www.dositey.com/2008/index-page-free_activities-sub-34-subsub-m-sub_3-div.php (more games and tutorials)

 

Spell/Eng. - We will begin Sort 23 and continue working with verbs.

Download Sort 23 agenda

READING - We continue our adventures with Matt in the Maine wilderness in  Sign of the Beaver.  We will examine

• the elements of literary text
• make judgments and inferences about the story
• identify and make connections to themes in the storiy 
•   We are also working on narrative writing using a graphic organizer and producing at least a three paragraph essay.

SCIENCE/SS -  We are still exploring Native Americans.  We are studying how the physical geography of North America had an impact on where and how Native Americans settled,  how the early Native American cultures developed in North America as well as how people (Native Americans) adapt to their physical environments.   We arefocusing on how Native Americans used their environments to obtain food, clothing, and shelter.  We have discussed the Pawnee and Nex Perse tribes.  We are currently reading about the Kwaikuitl and will move on to the Inuit, Hopi and Seminole.

 

This week's homework is a writing assignment.  It is due on Friday.  Please be sure to read the directions sheet attached to the front and use the rubric to guide your writing.

Don't forget that conference week is early dismissal!!!

We will also have a different lunch (10:30 - 11) and

specials schedule (12:35 - 1).

What We are Learning

MATH - This week we are going to continue multiplying by a two digit number.  We will be applying the distributive property and using a gird to help us as well as the traditional algorithm.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110202093118/http:/nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/47783   

L.ARTS - We will begin our sort 22 spelling list.  We will work with helping and linking verbs verbs.

Download SORT 22

Download Verb - Helping verb song

READING -  "Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills."  Sound exciting?  It is!  It is our new novel Sign of the Beaver.  We will examine

• the elements of literary text
• make judgments and inferences about the story
• identify and make connections to themes in the storiy 
•   We are also working on narrative writing using a graphic organizer and producing at least a three paragraph essay.

SCIENCE/SS -  We are beginning a unit on Native Americans.  We will study how the physical geography of North America had an impact on where and how Native Americans settled,  how the early Native American cultures developed in North America as well as how people (Native Americans) adapt to their physical environments.   We will focus on how Native Americans used their environments to obtain food, clothing, and shelter.