1. What’s Happening in Class ! Language Arts ( Fuller)- Our new unit in a nutshell? Summarizing! In vocabulary we are trying our second week of Greek/Latin roots with struct and frequently misspelled words that start with the letter f. Students have new word work requirements to write spelling words twice, make an illustrated 10 square colored ‘dictionary,’ and write five vocabulary context sentences with two vocabulary words per sentence (must show that they know the meaning of words). We are doing a school based mini-research project in groups that will result in a PSA video (Public Service Announcement). Students are off to a great start and I will put the videos on my Fusion page. Last year’s videos are posted under the blog section if you want to check them out! Math (Young) – This unit has been very vocabulary intensive, and students are working hard to remember words like isosceles, scalene, equilateral, acute, obtuse, chord, and circumference. We will be adding more vocabulary to the mix next week with words like rhombus, parallelogram, and quadrilateral. Many of these words are review from last year, but there have been some new ones as well. Our focus next week will be defining different types of quadrilaterals and looking at their similarities and differences as well as seeing what happens when we subdivide and combine them. Our test will be on Friday, and a study guide came home this week with IXL lesson numbers and extra practice problems. Please let me know if you would prefer an actual answer key instead of the QR code answers. Science (Rodgers) The students completed a lab today to see if salinity affects how currents move. Next week, we will be doing some research on waves, tides and currents. I will give the students a study guide next week for our test on December 18th. The students are encouraged to be reading something related to oecans or ocean animals at home to help with their understanding of this fascinating unit. Social Studies (Rodgers) -Our Midwest test is on Thursday. The students seemed to enjoy Sarah, Plain and Tall. We will be learning some more about the Midwest states next week. Quick Reminders IXL is up and running for Reading! Students will start coming home with homework on this site, but please have them log-in and use it for practice anytime! Please check your student’s agenda daily. A signature from you will communicate that you were able to see assignments and upcoming quizzes/tests. (Not required!) Attendance hotline number: 703-445-0809 Keep up to date on the latest goings on at school by viewing the Ashland Announcer and Falcon Flyers on the school website. School News Birthday cookies (peanut free) can be purchased through Mrs. Schrader in the cafeteria. Call her at 703-590-0739 to make arrangements. Cookies cost $3.70 per dozen. ***Please use the link on Ashland’s home page to register for Parent Portal if you have not done so already. This will also link you to our classroom webpage. This will enable you to check your student’s grades from home. It will also add you to our Fusion Pages. Your student can long onto Fusion from the Ashland homepage using their student number as their username and their birthday with only numbers as their password....example October 3, 2001 would be 10032001 'Like us' on Facebook for fun updates and reminders https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ashland- Elementary-School-PWCPS https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ashland- Elementary-School-PWCPS Important Dates 12/4-6 Holiday Book Fair 12/6 Holiday Store 12/9 Watch Dog group sign-up! More info to come 7-9:00 12/11 Student Leader & Make a Difference Mtgs. 8:00 & Strings a.m. during school practice & Strings Concers @7:00 p.m. 12/8 Pto Cookie Exchange 12/11 Midwest Test 12/12 Geometry Unit Test 12/18 Reading Unit 4 Test 12/18 Interims Go Home 1/16 Reading Passport Project due 1/23 End of 2nd Quarter Classroom News Specials Days (12/8-12/12)– Next week’s specials days are: Mon: Day 3, Tues: Day 4, Wed: Day 5, Thurs: Day 6,, Fri: Day1:(See student agenda’s for rotation schedules or check our Fusion pages.) 5 th grade doesn’t go to lunch until 1:25, so please send in a small healthy snack daily. Snack will be eaten at 10:30. No nut products for snack. When checking Parent Portal, please note: 1-Our team has students who receive Special Education Services, so you will see grades that are designated as McManus or Dawson...if your student doesn't see them, them your student will have an 'ex' or exempt in that column. 2-CW=Classwork grade and 3- interims are coming up next week, so all missing work will show up in Parent Portal as "NG" or No Grade=F. Red Team Weekly Newsletter December 5 fullerkn@pwcs.edufullerkn@pwcs.edu, youngjl@pwcs.edu & rodgerbj@pwcs.edu 703.583.8774youngjl@pwcs.edu rodgerbj@pwcs.edu