Box Tops & Labels for Education
Don’t forget to send in your Box Tops and Labels for Education each week! The PTA is doing a contest each month to see which class and student has the best participation! We want to win : )
Friday, February 3rd: Instead of our normal spirit Fridays we are changing to to FALCONS FRIDAY in support of our own Atlanta Falcons going to the Superbowl on that Sunday! Let's Rise Up in support of our Falcons :)
From Mrs. Nadir: International Night will be March 23rd from 6 to 7:30. We have a site this year you can use to sign up. The link is here: newprospectes.wixsite.com/internationalnight There will also be flyers at the front desk if you want your student to pick up one!
Remind: In order to keep everyone updated and in attempt to reach the parents quickly, we are going to use Remind. It is an app/web based program that allows us to message you with reminders. We will still make sure things are written in their agenda but this allows Ms. Moore and Miss Wilson to get a hold of parents quickly. Please use this link to join: www.remind.com/join/e6a67g
Reading
This week we continued our character studies unit! We continued reading Because of Winn-Dixie as our read aloud. We will be talking about how we get to know characters and how we can describe them. The kids will be expected to move from "She is nice." to "She is nice because...... I know this because..." type of answers. We want to get to know our characters like we know our friends.
PLEASE make sure your kiddo is reading at home!! Remember that one of the best ways to help your kiddo become a better reading is by having them read every night. Some students haven't been filling out their reading log which tells us they haven't been reading. Please make sure you have your kiddo read about 20 minutes a night. Since I can never remember to give out a reading log, there is one attached here on the website.
Writing
We have dug deeper into our writing unit. This unit is a different one from what we have done in the past. We are going to focus on how to read and respond to certain texts. This is a unit that will allow us to dive deep on what type of answers they are looking for on the milestones. We will compare texts and respond with in depth answers. The writing unit goes great with our reading unit because they will be writing about characters and the changes a character makes throughout a book. We will take it step by step. The unit will last about 4 weeks.
Spell Check
If you didn't see our email, we will be starting to have spell checks each week. These go with our Words Their Way books. We will send home 10 to 12 words each week. We will post them here under the spell check tab (Click Here) as well as sending the list home with each kid. We will take a pre-test each week to see what the kiddos need to study! Please let us know if you have questions or concerns. :)
Science/Social Studies
We are missing a couple of science books, please check around the house and send back any textbooks that you find! :) THANKS!
We finished up Paul Revere and started on fossils this week! We will have a fossil vocabulary quiz on Tuesday 1/31 and our test will be on Friday February 3rd. They will get to bring home study materials and their interactive notebook starting this week. But please make sure their interactive book back and forth between school.
Please make sure you are sending those plastic tops and coke cans so that they can make some recycled projects in art! We need all different colors!
Quizlet:
Here is the link to the quizlet. This will allow the kiddos to practice their vocabulary anytime and anywhere. quizlet.com/latest If you don't want to create an account, you are welcome to use the login of: WilsonNPES and the password is panthers16. This way you can access all the study cards without making your own account. Please let me know if you have any issues with this. If you'd like to join with your own account, please use this link to connect to our homeroom: quizlet.com/join/e2Yfg5ZJb
Math
This week we talked about perimeter. We talked about adding up the sides to all different shapes. We started talking about finding the missing side when you have the total perimeter. Their interactive notebook is a great study tool. Their test for this unit is February 8th. We will be reviewing the week before.
This unit has a lot of vocabulary so please make sure you are reviewing with your kiddo using their interactive books. They will need to know the attributes of the shapes.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE still continue practicing multiplication facts. We can not stress how important it is to know these facts. Everything is building off of those facts. We have noticed that many kids aren't studying their facts! Area is so hard for them when they don't know their facts. We really need the kids to be studying those facts. The more successful they are with their fluency, the easier the rest of the year will be. We will be giving the kiddos plenty of tools and strategies to help make them successful but please know that we need your help as well.
A note from Mrs. Robson about Milestones:
Don’t forget to send in your Box Tops and Labels for Education each week! The PTA is doing a contest each month to see which class and student has the best participation! We want to win : )
Friday, February 3rd: Instead of our normal spirit Fridays we are changing to to FALCONS FRIDAY in support of our own Atlanta Falcons going to the Superbowl on that Sunday! Let's Rise Up in support of our Falcons :)
From Mrs. Nadir: International Night will be March 23rd from 6 to 7:30. We have a site this year you can use to sign up. The link is here: newprospectes.wixsite.com/internationalnight There will also be flyers at the front desk if you want your student to pick up one!
Remind: In order to keep everyone updated and in attempt to reach the parents quickly, we are going to use Remind. It is an app/web based program that allows us to message you with reminders. We will still make sure things are written in their agenda but this allows Ms. Moore and Miss Wilson to get a hold of parents quickly. Please use this link to join: www.remind.com/join/e6a67g
Reading
This week we continued our character studies unit! We continued reading Because of Winn-Dixie as our read aloud. We will be talking about how we get to know characters and how we can describe them. The kids will be expected to move from "She is nice." to "She is nice because...... I know this because..." type of answers. We want to get to know our characters like we know our friends.
PLEASE make sure your kiddo is reading at home!! Remember that one of the best ways to help your kiddo become a better reading is by having them read every night. Some students haven't been filling out their reading log which tells us they haven't been reading. Please make sure you have your kiddo read about 20 minutes a night. Since I can never remember to give out a reading log, there is one attached here on the website.
Writing
We have dug deeper into our writing unit. This unit is a different one from what we have done in the past. We are going to focus on how to read and respond to certain texts. This is a unit that will allow us to dive deep on what type of answers they are looking for on the milestones. We will compare texts and respond with in depth answers. The writing unit goes great with our reading unit because they will be writing about characters and the changes a character makes throughout a book. We will take it step by step. The unit will last about 4 weeks.
Spell Check
If you didn't see our email, we will be starting to have spell checks each week. These go with our Words Their Way books. We will send home 10 to 12 words each week. We will post them here under the spell check tab (Click Here) as well as sending the list home with each kid. We will take a pre-test each week to see what the kiddos need to study! Please let us know if you have questions or concerns. :)
Science/Social Studies
We are missing a couple of science books, please check around the house and send back any textbooks that you find! :) THANKS!
We finished up Paul Revere and started on fossils this week! We will have a fossil vocabulary quiz on Tuesday 1/31 and our test will be on Friday February 3rd. They will get to bring home study materials and their interactive notebook starting this week. But please make sure their interactive book back and forth between school.
Please make sure you are sending those plastic tops and coke cans so that they can make some recycled projects in art! We need all different colors!
Quizlet:
Here is the link to the quizlet. This will allow the kiddos to practice their vocabulary anytime and anywhere. quizlet.com/latest If you don't want to create an account, you are welcome to use the login of: WilsonNPES and the password is panthers16. This way you can access all the study cards without making your own account. Please let me know if you have any issues with this. If you'd like to join with your own account, please use this link to connect to our homeroom: quizlet.com/join/e2Yfg5ZJb
Math
This week we talked about perimeter. We talked about adding up the sides to all different shapes. We started talking about finding the missing side when you have the total perimeter. Their interactive notebook is a great study tool. Their test for this unit is February 8th. We will be reviewing the week before.
This unit has a lot of vocabulary so please make sure you are reviewing with your kiddo using their interactive books. They will need to know the attributes of the shapes.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE still continue practicing multiplication facts. We can not stress how important it is to know these facts. Everything is building off of those facts. We have noticed that many kids aren't studying their facts! Area is so hard for them when they don't know their facts. We really need the kids to be studying those facts. The more successful they are with their fluency, the easier the rest of the year will be. We will be giving the kiddos plenty of tools and strategies to help make them successful but please know that we need your help as well.
A note from Mrs. Robson about Milestones:
- We are pleased to announce that a refreshed Experience Online Testing Georgia website is now available with a demonstration test for each of three grade bands – grades 3-5, grades 6-8, and high school – with sample items from each content area. While the 3-5 and 6-8 grade bands will contain Science and Social Studies items, please be reminded that these two content areas will be assessed in grades 5 and 8 only. The primary purpose of this website is to provide exposure to the online platform that students will utilize when taking the Georgia Milestones tests. The highlight of this year's refresh of the site are examples of multiple-part, multiple-select, and evidence-based selected-response items. As communicated, these item types will be operational beginning with the Winter 2016 End of Course (EOC) administration in the areas of English Language Arts and Mathematics and with the Spring 2017 End of Grade (EOG) and EOC. These item types will be field tested, for the first time, in Science and Social Studies in Spring 2017 for both the EOC and EOG. Items that are field tested do not impact the scores of students. In addition, questions 1-5 will illustrate the Reading & Evidence-Based Writing section of ELA. Using a Chrome browser only, enter the following link to access the site: http://www.gaexperienceonline.com/