We Finally made it a FULL WEEK!!

   Well, it took until this past week to have an entire full week of school since Christmas Break!  No days off and no delays.  WOW, it sure has been a winter!  We have been busy with our latest project and with our critters in science.  

    We have been working hard to get ready for the first round of the ISTEP which will be here in a few short week.  We want our kids to just do their best on this test and know that it is new for everyone in the state.  We know that they will all work hard and do their best.  

   Enjoy the photos of this busy week!  Have a good one!

Journaling in math

 Working on volume

 Researching

 Riverside Reads

 Practicing

 More volume work

 Observations in Science

 Pajama Day

 Touring the 6th grade projects on Climates

 Representing our team with our Green

February WOW!

      Well, we made it through most of the week last week.  We were very glad to only have missed one day with all of that snow.  19.6 inches that was some crazy snow!  The kids did a good job this week completing ACT Aspire testing.  These are tests that replaced Acuity testing and are supposed to give us information and help us get the kids ready for the ISTEP test.  We are please with the effort the students put into these tests.
    We got down to working on our latest project this week and the groups have been working hard.  We are excited to see what they come up with as they are each going to be teaching part of the class about their event and important person from the Revolutionary War.  We are planning on going to PHS the week of the 24th to work with the advanced acting class.  Look for more information on this coming home soon.
     This week is dress up week for Relay for Life.  Monday is SuperHero day, Tuesday is Crazy Hair day, Wednesday is mix and match day, Thursday is PJ day and Friday wear your team color and our team color is GREEN!!!  Each day this week kids can dress up and we ask for a dollar each day they dress up to go to our school goal for Relay for Life.  This was a lot of fun last year and the kids always enjoy dressing up!  These different fundraisers will run through the rest of the year and will culminate at the end of the year with an awesome celebration for the entire school.
     Don't forget to be reminding your students to be reading.  Achieve 3000 two articles at 75% each week is still the expectation.  They are really working hard at this each week.  Let's hope for a good weather week!  Have a good one!
   

Do you think it will snow?

     Here is my view as I sit here writing this week's post.   We are well over ten inches here and it has not stopped snowing all day!

     My guess is we will soon be getting a call that school will be canceled for tomorrow.  It is beautiful if you don't have to go out and drive in it.  We hope our students had a chance to go out and play in the snow before the temperature drops tonight!  It sure is wet. good packing snow!  If we are canceled tomorrow encourage your children to read for a while, practice their math facts.  If they have access to a computer tell them to work on MobyMax or Achieve 3000.  

     This week we kicked off our latest project dealing with the American Revolution.  This should be a fun project and we look forward to sharing it with you as it unfolds.  Students took a survey and they were placed into new groups according to this information. We did some fun team-building activities on Wednesday and we learned that working together we can accomplish so much more then by ourselves. It was a lot of fun!  

     The first round of ISTEP is coming in about a month.  The test this year is very different then the previous tests.  Here is a link that you are welcome to go to and check out the types of questions that could show up on the test.  There are language arts, math, science and social studies.  (Some questions are for 6th graders but still will let you see types of items.)  We have shown some of these already to the students and will be doing some required Department of Education practice tests in the next few weeks as well.  We don't want our students to be totally shocked by what they see on this test, but we only know what we have been told.  We just want the students to be confident and try their best.  If you take a look at some of these questions feel free to talk to your students about them and about how them might answer a question similar to those shown.  The more they see them and talk about them the less overwhelmed they will be when it is time to take the 'real" test.  

    Well, I just got my call.  We are out of school tomorrow.  Stay warm and safe.  We hope to see the students back on Tuesday!  Have a good Superbowl Sunday!

 It was ThrowBack Thursday for the staff this week!  We love to dress up!