Week of Sept. 11th

Volunteers

We are in need of volunteers to work with small groups of kids on different skills, please click here to fill out the form.

Grading

As work starts coming home, we will be continuing to use the 4, 3, 2, 1 grading scale.  

“Grading”

• A score of “Exceeds” (4) indicates a high level of achievement; it communicates that a student has a strong understanding of the content/concepts/skills taught during the semester and can demonstrate understanding independently and with very few errors.
• A score of “Meets” (3)  indicates that a student demonstrates understanding of content/concepts/skills  most of the time and with limited support. Student makes few major errors or omissions when demonstrating concepts/skills.
• A score of “Approaching” (2)  indicates that a student requires moderate support to demonstrate understanding of concepts/skills. Demonstrated understanding of concepts/skills is inconsistent or infrequent indicating a partial understanding of the content/concepts/skills.  Errors or omissions in work are more frequent.   
• A score of “Does Not Meet” (1) indicates that a student seldom demonstrates understanding of concepts and skills taught during the semester.  Student requires considerable support to demonstrate learning of concepts and skills and makes frequent major errors when demonstrating understanding.

Please look over and review the work that is coming home in Thursday folders with your student; this will help the kids to practice things they may have missed.

Important Dates

• Digital Citizenship Week of 9/11
• Here is the link for the spirit days for the week
• Wednesday, September 13: Chipolte Night for PCE
• Friday, September 22: No School (Professional Development Day)

Reminders

Library is on Thursdays, please help the kids remember to bring the books they are no longer reading back so they can check out new ones! This is a great resource for students to find books for the 20 Book Challenge

Hardware Hustle donations are due Friday, September 15.

Current Learning

Social Studies

We are currently learning about Colorado geography. The students have been learning about the differences between Colorado’s geography, and the states surrounding Colorado. They have worked to learn about the climate, natural features, human features, and points of interest Colorado has to offer. Students then used this information to compare and contrast the features with another state. To show their learning, the students have collaborated to create a Popplet with information on both states.

Math

In math, we rounded numbers to estimate sums, differences, products, and quotients. Students checked to see if their answers are reasonable by using estimation. Next week we will find common factors and greatest common factor of two whole numbers. We will identify prime and composite numbers. Students will find multiples of whole numbers, find common multiples and least common multiples of two or more numbers.

Literacy

To start the year, we have been reviewing and digging deeper into strategies used to comprehend reading. As we have been reading various books, we have practiced making connections, identifying the theme, and asking questions during our reading. We have also been reviewing the structure of writing a paragraph. This year, the students will be using the “stop light” paragraph structure from Step-Up to Writing. In this structure, sentences are color coded to show what type of sentence it is, you may hear them refer to sentences in their writing as being green, yellow, or red.