Dear Parents and Students,

Welcome back to all of our classmates! My heart rejoices with the peace of knowing Jesus. Thank you so much for showering both myself and our school staff with love through gifts and donations. Your giving has blessed my family and I. We appreciate you!

I’ve prepared and am ready to kick off a great new year with our class!  The following is an overview of goals and objectives as we start the month of January.

January Standards Overview-

Communication folder (blue)-Student will continue to place daily work and assignments in their communication folders. Graded work will continue to go home on Mondays. All students will need to utilize a planner to record weekly assignments. This will allow you the opportunity to check in on the work assigned. 

Language Arts:  Students should have chosen a poem during the month of December and started memorizing it over Christmas break. We will have the next two weeks to practice and prepare the presentations of their oral poetry. Presentations will be given in class and the top three students will be awarded advancement to our school oral presentation chapel. Grades will be based on a rubric scores and advancements made by outside judges based on presentations and scoring.Standard: L05S2.3 – Oral responses

Writing-During this third quarter, students will learn how to write creative short stories by using the Excellence in Writing techniques. In February, students will become Young Authors and create their own stories. Standards: L05W1.1 – Multiple-paragraph narrative compositions, L05W1.1.a – Establish and develop a situation or plot, L05W1.1.b – Describe the setting, L05W1.1.c – Present an ending

Reading-

1.  Teacher read aloud:  Timothy of the Cay

2.  Independent Reading: Biography

Students will have the opportunity to create a Biography book cube. The rubric will go home on Monday.

Bible:  Study of the Four Gospels

Memory Verse test on 1/18/2013   1 John 3:17-18.  “If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need and has not pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?  Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.”

Math: 

Common Core:  Week #1.  Penny puzzles

Unit of Study:  Geometry and Measurements (5th grade will include multiply/divide of fractions)

Science 3rd Quarter: Nutritional studies and the digestive system. Students will incorporate AIMS and Healthyhabits/CA. Please have your child cut out a few magazine pictures or coupons with food pictures and bring to class on Monday or Tuesday.

Social Studies:  

5th grade will begin a study on US States and Capitals.

6th grade will be given a World Map and begin a study on countries.

There are many ways for students to study: flash cards, interactive web based programs, puzzles, ect. An assessment will be given at the end of the 3rd quarter. I will incorporate five states or countries each week or learning.

Spelling and Vocabulary: 

Spelling Unit 19 “Silent Letters”

 

1. limb

2. crumb

3. gnaw

4. plumber

5. tomb

6. foreign

7. column

8. campaign

9. hymn

10. salmon

11. design

12. palm

13. yolk

14. chalk

15. calm

16. assign

17. autumn

18. reign

19. resign

20. soleman

 

Vocabulary:  cent, centi=hundred, dec-, deca- ten

 

  1. centennial
  2. centimeter
  3. centipede
  4. century
  5. decade
  6. decagon
  7. decathlon
  8. decimal

January Calendar:

School resumes-Monday, Jan. 6

Chapel-Tuesday, Jan. 7, 8-8:45

1/2 Day Teacher Inservice-Wed., Jan. 15

Martin Luther King Remembrance-Jan.20 No School

Teacher In-service Jan. -Half Day 12:00 Dismissal