Weekly Update-March 10

Announcements

Paxton Keeley will be having a Spirit Week March 20-24! Our theme is Kindness, and students will be asked to participate throughout the week in the following ways:

Monday, March 20th-Cozy Up to Kindness Day (Pajama Day)

Tuesday, March 21^st-Be Kind, Stomp out Bullying (Funky Socks and Shoe Day)

Wednesday, March 22^nd-Hats Off to Kindness (Hat Day)

Thursday, March 23^rd-Color Our World with Kindness (Crazy Color Day)

Friday, March 24th-In the Spirit of Kindness Day (School or Team Spirit Day)

The MAP testing window for this year is April 17-May 12. More specific dates will be coming at a later time, but please refrain from scheduling appointments or vacations during this time.

In the Classroom

In math this week, we finished our Division unit. Students learned about fact families for multiplication and division and practiced solving for n. We will begin our next unit, Perimeter and Area, next week.

This week in writing, students learned about acknowledging other people's point of view in their opinion pieces. We also learned how to write three different reasons to support our thesis. Finally, we chose our topics for our published pieces and completed an outline on it. We will begin typing these pieces next week..

We focused on summary writing in reading this week. As a class, we used the book, Bedhead to practice this skill.

We also used short stories in small groups. Students learned how to put their summaries in their own words, pick out the important events, and use specific details. 

In Health this week, we learned about body defenders. Students learned about skin, the immune system, antibodies, and more! We also talked about how to prevent from getting infectious diseases. We will finish our Health unit next week and move on to Weather. 

Upcoming Events

Spring Pictures-March 16
Field trip to Planetarium at Rock Bridge High School-March 23

Spring Break-March 27-March 31
Comet Culture Night-April 11 at 6:00

MAP testing window-April 17-May 12