This has been another great week at the Lake, though we have been inside for recess the past 4 days battling the cold, frigid temperatures. Thank you to Mrs. Emokpae and Mrs. Harvey for sending in boxes of tissue! We normally just get it from office, but with the weather, allergies, and colds, we have been running out pretty quickly. I've been reminding them to sanitize their hands as soon as they finish with their nose. Would you mind reiterating that as well? These bad cold germs are running wild at school.
Also, I have some pictures from our presentation on S.C. State College. This was the school we researched for Black History Month. It was hard for me to choose presenters because most of my little heroes are very vocal, so names were pulled from the name cup and that's how we choose who presented. Thank you to Mrs. Santana for watching over the little heroes, making sure they get upstairs, and taking pictures for me!! That really helped out a lot! Please remind our little heroes to always be on their best behavior, we never know who's watching and we definitely want to leave a good impression to others. Our little superheroes (Aaliyah, Aditi, Ava, Caleb, Genesis, Jaden, Jhobe) did a great job!!
Green folders came home Friday. I have been running into the problem of students not reading carefully. I'm sure most of you have had the chance to go through their graded papers by now and see what I am seeing. Before they turn any papers in, I ask them to go back and check it and look over the questions and answers again, especially if I see a lot of careless errors, missing details, or rushed writing. Please tell them to take this opportunity to go back over their answers. I have watched a couple of them go back to their seats, sit for a few seconds, and turn the papers in anyway. They are rushing to finish and as we know, there's no reward for finishing early. None of the assignments I give are timed. I have started something new with social studies in which they have to write about the notes we took the day before. They know this and should be bringing their social studies notebooks home daily.
Last but not least, I have quite a few students who do not have headphones. Most were broken on accident. When they do individual lessons or work, it's hard to concentrate when you have multiple people playing different lessons. With the size of the room, there's not enough space to send 6+ people to separate corners of the room. Would you mind checking to see if your little hero has headphones? I would greatly appreciate it. Well, I think that's all!! I'm looking forward to another great week at the Lake!!
Sneak Peek at Next Week
Please refer to last week's blog post for practice and study links.
Math
Lessons 1-4 Quiz on Thursday, February 27th
Math Vocabulary on Friday, February 28th
Words are in their math notebooks
Please review the Math 4 Today (We take quizzes on them as well.)
Reading
I Survived the American Revolution chapter book
We are reviewing skills while using the book. We read 2 chapters together at a time, discuss, complete the questions worksheet (homework) and complete a book study guide (one pager in class) on them. I do not allow them to take the book home, because I have some students who enjoy the book so much they would read ahead. They are not reading it by themselves, I have been informed that I make the book even more exciting, so I read and discuss it with them in class. We are working on figurative language and context clues. There will eventually be a figurative language quiz, not this week but next week.
Science
Renewable and Nonrenewable resources
Slow and Fast Land Changes -fires, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and floods
Human impacts such as farming, mining, and building
Ways to reduce these impacts
Social Studies
American Revolution
Causes of American Revolution Quiz on Tuesday, February 25th
Declaration of Independence
The Constitution
Battles and People
Bell Ringers
Nicole R.
Joseph S.
Black History Presentation
