Week of Dec 3-7

Announcements:

Students will be MAP testing during the afternoon hours on Tuesday and Wednesday December 4 and 5.

Timothy Road will be hosting clusters for all students starting in January. See the message below from Kisha Bailey and consider leading a cluster for students!

You are invited to join the Local School Governance Team and teachers of Timothy Road Elementary School as we implement EPIC Clusters. EPIC is the Emotional Prosperity in Children.

Please join us in leading a small group of children in an interest/hobby that you share.  We will match students to your group, and a classroom teacher will accompany and assist you. We will also purchase all materials needed for your cluster. The clusters will meet on Fridays from January 11 through March 1 for one hour.  

If you are interested in leading an EPIC Cluster, please complete this brief interest survey.  https://goo.gl/forms/j5Sh5r4eqUvnGSz72

Thank you for your interest in our project!

With EPIC appreciation,

Kisha Bailey 

Reading:  Students will continue working on comparing and contrasting a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic. Students will also work on determining the main idea of a text and explaining how it is supported by key details.

Math: Students will learn how to convert units measurements. Students will do this with conversion charts and converting units of measurements word problems.

Sample problems:

To solve this conversion table students would complete the following steps: 

1. 2 x 8 = 16 ounces

2. 3 x 8 = 24 ounces or 24/8 = 3

3. 5 x 8 = 40 or 40/8 = 5

4. 7 x 8 = 56

In this sample problem the students would need to complete the following steps:

1. 1 liter + 3 liters = 4 liters

2.  4 liters x 1,000 milliliters = 4,000 milliliters

3.  4,000 milliliters divided by 500 milliliters = 8 

4. Answer the question: 8 students will get juice at snack. 

Grammar: This week in grammar, students will continue learning how to identify prepositional phrases and use them in their writing. 

Writing: This week in writing, students will continue working on persuasive piece.  They will continue learning about how to transform an opinion writing into a persuasive piece of writing.  Students will work on body paragraphs, and closings to their persuasive pieces.

Science/Social Studies: Students will continue learning about the Articles of Confederation, and the challenges faced by the framers of the constitution. Students will learn the terms monarchies and confederations.  

Week of November 26-30

Announcements:

Thanksgiving break will be November 19 - November 23.

Timothy Road will be hosting clusters for all students starting in January. See the message below from Kisha Bailey and consider leading a cluster for students!

You are invited to join the Local School Governance Team and teachers of Timothy Road Elementary School as we implement EPIC Clusters. EPIC is the Emotional Prosperity in Children.

Please join us in leading a small group of children in an interest/hobby that you share.  We will match students to your group, and a classroom teacher will accompany and assist you. We will also purchase all materials needed for your cluster. The clusters will meet on Fridays from January 11 through March 1 for one hour.  

If you are interested in leading an EPIC Cluster, please complete this brief interest survey.  https://goo.gl/forms/j5Sh5r4eqUvnGSz72

Thank you for your interest in our project!

With EPIC appreciation,

Kisha Bailey 

Reading:  Students will be working on comparing and contrasting a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic. Students will also work on determining the main idea of a text and explaining how it is supported by key details.

Math:

This week in math, students will be practicing on finding the area and perimeter of a rectilinear shape by decomposing rectangles.

Grammar: This week in grammar, students will be learning how to identify prepositional phrases and use them in their writing. 

Writing: This week in writing, students will complete research to support the persuasive piece. They will continue learning about how to transform an opinion writing into a persuasive piece of writing.
Science/Social Studies: Students will continue learning about the Articles of Confederation, and the challenges faced by the framers of the constitution. 

Week of November 12 - 16

Week of November 12 - 16

Announcements:

Thanksgiving break will be November 19 - November 23.


Timothy Road will be hosting clusters for all students starting in January. See the message below from Kisha Bailey and consider leading a cluster for students!

You are invited to join the Local School Governance Team and teachers of Timothy Road Elementary School as we implement EPIC Clusters. EPIC is the Emotional Prosperity in Children.

Please join us in leading a small group of children in an interest/hobby that you share.  We will match students to your group, and a classroom teacher will accompany and assist you. We will also purchase all materials needed for your cluster. The clusters will meet on Fridays from January 11 through March 1 for one hour.  

If you are interested in leading an EPIC Cluster, please complete this brief interest survey.  https://goo.gl/forms/j5Sh5r4eqUvnGSz72

Thank you for your interest in our project!

With EPIC appreciation,

Kisha Bailey 

Reading: This week in reading, students are determining the meanings of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology. We are also working on the reading strategy, "Steps to determining importance". Click here to see an example!

Math:

Monday: Unit 3 Pre-Test on area and perimeter

This week in math, students will begin learning about area and perimeter. Students will learn how to find area and perimeter using mathematical formulas within real world problems.

Grammar: This week in grammar, students will be working on using reference materials to determine the meaning of unknown words. Students will practice this with dictionaries, thesauruses, and textbooks. Writing: This week in writing, students will finish up the final drafts of their opinion pieces. They will then begin learning about how to transform an opinion writing into a persuasive piece of writing.

Science/Social Studies: Students will finish up the unit in science on light and take their end of unit test on Tuesday. Students were given study guides on Wednesday of this past week to prepare for this test.Students will then begin the next unit of social studies, learning about the Article of Confederation, and the challenges faced by the framers of the constitution.