Happy Spring Break!

Looking Forward Week of April 9

Looking Forward 

Week of April 9-13

ELA:  Students will be working to determine author's purpose.

Math:  Students will continue to work with fractions.

Social Studies:  Students will wrap up learning about antebellum times.

Science:  Students will learn about fast processes that change the earth.

Week in Review March 26-29

Week in Review

March 26-29

ELA:  This week, students have been learning about how to determine point of view in literary texts.  They have also been working with creative writing.

Math:  Students have continued working with fractions and number lines.

Social Studies:  Students have been learning about antebellum times in South Carolina.

Science:  Students have been learning about slow processes that change the earth.

Fireflies Field Trip

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Exciting Opportunity!

Please be on the lookout today for a special opportunity for our school and the Columbia Fireflies baseball team.  On Wednesday, May 23 our ENTIRE school will be going to a Fireflies game!  Our students will receive free admission and a free boxed lunch!

Parents are welcome to attend the game as well, but will need to purchase tickets in advance in order to be seated with our school.  

The order form is due on March 29.  Please look for this to be in the Friday folder today.  

Looking Ahead Week of March 26-30

Looking Ahead 

Week of March 26-30

**Miss Jackson is completing full time solo teaching this week.**

Math:  We will continue to learn more about fractions, in particular finding fractions on a number line and ordering fractions.  We will have a quiz on lessons 14-17 on Thursday.

ELA:  We will be learning about perspective and point of view in fictional works.  We will be reading Nacho and Lolita, from our reading book.  There will be no Nacho and Lolita test this week.  

Science:  We will be learning about slow processes that change the Earth (weathering, erosion, and deposition).

Social Studies:  We will be learning about antebellum (before the Civil War) times.  

Week in Review March 19-23

Week in Review

March 19-23

ELA:  This week we completed MAP testing and showed a tremendous amount of growth!  We also continued learning about summarizing of fictitious texts.

Math:  This week we completed MAP testing, and like reading, we did a WONDERFUL job!!  We also continued learning about fractions.

Science:  We compared and contrasted nonrenewable and renewable resources.

Social Studies:  We wrapped up our unit on government.

Week in Review March 12-16

Week in Review

March 12-16

ELA:  This week, we learned more about summarizing text.  We also practiced our TDA (Text Dependent Analysis) skills.  

Math:  We continued to learn about fractions. In particular, we have learned about unit fractions and how to correctly describe fractional parts.

Social Studies:  We continued to learn about SC government.

Science:  We began learning about renewable and nonrenewable resources.

Looking Forward Week of March 12

Looking Ahead 

Week of March 12

ELA:  Students will continue working with the skill of summarizing. We will also continue to prepare for MAP testing.

Math:  We will continue to work with fractions. We will have a quiz on fractions on Wednesday.

Social Studies:   Students will learn about the three branches of government.

Science:  We will learn about renewable and nonrenewable resources.

Week in Review March 5-9

Week in Review 

March 5-9

ELA:  We wrapped up a unit on cause and effect and began to learn about summarizing. We have also been preparing for upcoming MAP testing, which is on March 20 for ELA.

Math:  We began a unit on fractions.  We have also been preparing for upcoming MAP testing which is on March 22 for Math.

Social Studies:  We have been learning about how states began to build a government after the American Revolution.  

Week in Review February 26-March 2

Week in Review

February 26-March 2

ELA:  We began a a unit on cause and effect.  Also, in preparation for Spring MAP testing later this month, we are working a lot in small groups to practice new skills.

Math:  We learned more about perimeter.

Science:  We worked on inference skills.

Social Studies:  We ended our unit on the American Revolution.