February 9 Newsletter

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January 5 Newsletter

Welcome back!
We had an awesome and productive 3 days back last week.  You may see graded papers coming home all week so that students can receive help at home if necessary to bring the grade up.  If your child has a grade lower than a 70 and you only see ONE grade, this means your child may return it corrected for partial credit.  Keep in mind the end of the 2nd nine weeks is approaching soon.  Please see important information below for upcoming dates.  PS: I have included the days we will have "Mastery Connect" assessments.  These are assessments mandated by the district.  It is important that your child is at school each day for these assessments so that we can minimize make-up times.  Some of these assessments may take all day and some may be half the day.  Please keep this in mind if you have appointments.

Dates to Remember:

January
15- Martin Luther King Day- No School
16- Mastery Connect Writing Assessment
17- Mastery Connect ELA Assessment
18- Mastery Connect Math Assessment; 2nd Nine Weeks Goals due
19- End of 2nd Nine Weeks; Half Day; Career Day; SOAR Celebration
22- Beginning of 3rd Nine Weeks; Mastery Connect Science Assessment
23- Mastery Connect Social Studies Assessment
26- eLc In School Field Study: Dr. Doug

Dr. Doug "Beat the heat- Change is Cool (or Hot)" in school field study is January 26th.  The cost of the program is $5 per child.  Please send money and permission form by Friday, January 19th.


Charleston Trip
Please send the permission form and payment as soon as possible.  Permission form by February 23 and full payment no later than March 30.  Payment plan dates are as follow:
1st payment- $20 by Friday, Dec. 15
2nd payment- $10 by Friday, Jan. 26
3rd payment- $10 by Friday, Feb. 23
4th payment- $10 by Friday, Mar. 30

Career Day is Friday, January 19

As a part of Career Day students will be allowed to dress up in the Career attire that they want to be when they grow up.

What's Happening This Week and Other Important Info 11/27

Welcome Back Families,

I am so excited to be back and thrilled to see my JETS. We have so many things to do this week, so I would like to share a brief overview of this week's class agenda. Also, I have included some important information regarding school-wide dates.

We are currently planning our Winter Party for December 15. More information will be sent in Family Folders on Friday.

PS: I have provided earbuds to all students who did not bring them with their school supplies. Remember this was not a required necessity for school but strongly encouraged along with a computer mouse. Just know that these are the only working headphones I have this year so your child will only be given one pair. If they are lost or broken, it will be the parent's responsibility to provide earbuds for the rest of the year. If you have any questions, please let me know.

ELA

• Every night your child should be reading a book for 20 minutes and then writing this in their ELA journal

• Students will choose a reading response topic. Students need to write me a letter before our next conference date. The letter must include a greeting, well written paragraph, closing, signature, and include appropriate capitalization and grammar. See the Conference Schedule to see when your child will have a conference with me. They need to have this completed by the same day the following week.

• Our eLc curriculum focus is on idioms. Try to talk to your child about idioms and the meaning of idioms. Here are a few sites that you can go to:
• https://www.studystack.com/flashcard-37063
• http://www.idiomsite.com/
• http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/idioms/idiom_2.html
• https://www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_idioms/id-a.htm
• https://www.quia.com/mc/66234.html

• We will also continue reading From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Students have been placed in a book club where they will be responsible for reading a second novel while staying current on the class novel. You will see more information about this at a later time.

• We are continuing our persuasive writings. You will not see this come home until the final product is completed by students.

• We are also practicing cursive letter writing. Our focus right now has been on lowercase, under curve letters. Please encourage your child to practice their cursive letters. We will finish with lowercase, under curve letters with a quiz this week on Friday for letters f, k, r, s j, and p. The challenge words are their last name and December. Challenge words are used as bonus points on their quiz.

Math

• We are currently working on place value in terms of reading and writing numbers up to hundred thousands. I know this says grade 4 but we are supplementing these lessons per the district
• Lesson 4 Concept (This will help with your child's Monday & Tuesday night homework)
• Lesson 5 Concept (This will help with your child's Wednesday & Thursday homework)

• Please make sure your child is practicing their multiplication facts. We will have our 2's multiplication quiz on Thursday.
• Helpful Sites: Math Trainer Multiplication, Math Magician Multiplication, Multiplication Self Correcting Quizzes

• We will move into Module 3 which focuses on multiplication and division. This is why it is so important that your child is practicing mastering these facts.

Science

We are learning all about rocks and minerals. We will work this week practicing how to conduct tests on rocks and minerals to help identify a mineral. Your child is always welcome to bring home their notebooks to review and discuss this information with you.

Social Studies

We will begin discussing Native Americans. I will send more information about this unit within the next few days.

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Opportunity to Share ….

Remember to check at the end for the NASA Opportunities!

Each year, Richland Two provides a unique opportunity for
students and district staff to share their story through video creation.

We are excited to be in our 5th year and know this will be a bigger event this year.

Our window of opportunity begins on November 6th,

where students can begin finding a school sponsor,

complete the interest form and turn in permission slips.

Visit our timeline of events page to get the important dates.

Spirit Wristbands

5th grade is selling "SOARING TO BE THE BEST" wristbands for just $2.00.

 All money raised goes to help with their STARBASE Swamp Fox field study.

It is hosted by the SC Air National Guard at McEntire Joint National Guard Base.

The students go each day for a whole week.

It is a great experience!  

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Mark your calendars …

Friday, December 1

Early Dismissal at 11:30

Breakfast and bag lunches are served

Thursday, December 14

6:00 PM

Winter Music Program Performance for Families

Presented by the 4th and 5th Grade Chorus and 3rd Grade

December 16 - January 2

Winter Break

Students return on Wednesday, January 3

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Magnet/Choice Information

Monday, November 27

District Magnet Commitment Letter

Each student that is attending Forest Lake through Choice
or is enrolled in eLc will receive this important letter.  
Please read it carefully, complete and return to school by the due date (Friday, December 8).

After you receive the letter, if you have any questions, please let me know.

Tuesday, November 28

Richland 2 Magnet Fair

5:45 - 7:00 (Elementary Schools)

6:15 - 7:30 (Middle Schools)

R2i2

FYI ...

Forest Lake’s Information Night for Prospective Parents
(for NASA Explorer School and eLc)
is scheduled for Thursday, January 18
with a school tour and class visits set for Tuesday, January 23

Please share with your friends that may be interested in eLc.

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NASA News & Opportunities

From the most recent edition of the NASA Education "Science WOW!" Message

Help Nickname New Horizons’ Next Flyby Target
Audience: All

Entry Deadline: 3 p.m. EST on Dec. 1, 2017

On New Year's Day 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft will fly past a small,
frozen world at the outer edge of our solar system.

Officially, the small world is known as "(486958) 2014 MU69."

NASA and the New Horizons team are asking for help in giving "MU69" a nickname.

Visit the site to submit ideas and to vote on names currently under consideration.

Submissions and voting closes at 3 p.m. EST/noon PST on Dec. 1, 2017.

NASA and the New Horizons team will announce the winning nickname in January.

For more information, visit http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20171106.

Math Homework Review Links

I hope these links help you with tonight's homework.  You can watch this for yourself to help explain these concepts to your child, or you can watch these with your child.  YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WATCH EVERY VIDEO.  (Just the one's you are unsure about)

Lesson 8 Conceptual Understanding
Lesson 8 Homework Front
Lesson 8 Homework Back

Lesson 9 Conceptual Understanding
Lesson 9 Homework Front
Lesson 9 Homework Back

Lesson 10 Conceptual Understanding
Lesson 10 Homework Front
Lesson 10 Homework Back

Lesson 11 Conceptual Understanding
Lesson 11 Homework Front
Lesson 11 Homework Back

Newsletter 10/16/2017

What's Happening with Ms. Jacobs' JETS

ELA

We have spent the last few weeks on identifying character traits. We will finish this reading skill this week and move into Story Elements (plot, setting, theme, etc.) We have also been working on identifying prefixes. It is important for students to understanding what the prefixes mean as this helps identify the meaning of difficult words the student may come to. Our William and Mary curriculum for eLc will further introduce students to the concept of using a Literature Web. Students are able to use this model to guide their discussion of the book. They will continue to learn helpful models to guide them through literary discussions. Here is the template and guiding questions for future readings using the Literature Web. Students have also written Opinion speeches that they will share with Mrs. Scullion. Students had to write a persuasive speech for the thesis statement, "We need more recess time." I will try to record some of the speeches onto Class Dojo. We will continue to discuss capitalization rules and begin punctuation next week. Students should also begin practicing the strokes necessary to begin cursive. We will continue to work towards writing cursive letters next week.

Math

We are moving into Module 2: Place Value and Problem Solving with Units of Measure. You may see homework on time. Students need more practice with this concept so this week, they will have a review packet. Here are some helpful links for this week's homework:Lesson 13, Lesson 14,  Lesson 15

Since this week is a short week, we will only begin discussing units of weight measurement.

Science

We finished presenting our Animal Research projects. Students did an amazing job. I will try to share with you their presentations. We are focusing on environments and habitats but this week we will be discussing how organisms get the energy they need in an ecosystem.

Social Studies

Students will go back to studying South Carolina geography with a focus on South Carolina's six regions. Students will get to make a brochure for a specific region as well as writing a tanka poem about the region.

October Birthdays

Evans McNair (Oct. 13)

Eagle Leader of the Week

Every 2 weeks I award a student for Eagle Leader of the Week.  These are students who are displaying SOARing behavior at all times.  Our first leader was Faiq Usmani and this week's Eagle Leader is Sydnee Turner.  Congrats to them both.

Emily Jefferson and Robert Wylie helped our class receive the NASA Space Shuttle this week for last week's question "What is the Parker Solar probe?". They answered the NASA WOW Question of the week. Emily was credited for her extensive research and details she provides for the answers. Congrats Emily and Robert!

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End of the 1st 9 Weeks is October 26th

Report Card & Interim Report Information

We will not be printing report cards or interims anymore.

Grades are posted and updated for you to view in Parent Portal.

Cookie Dough Fundraiser Kick Off - Monday, October 16

Ends Tuesday, October 31

Field Day - Wednesday, October 18

This is another great opportunity for volunteering.

Please let me know if you would like for me to forward your name
and contact information to Coach Mills and Coach Davis

They need shoe boxes for the .... you guessed it Shoebox relay.
If you have any that you can donate, please do so.  Each class needs four.

Grandparents Day @ Forest Lake

Thursday, October 19

9:00 - 10:00

Please invite grandparents or special “grandfriends”

Parents -

Please email your child’s teacher if your child will be going home
with his/her grandparent or grandfriend.

Also on Thursday, October 19 ...

Early Dismissal at 11:30

Breakfast and bag lunches are served

Student Holiday - Friday, October 20

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        FLE SPIRIT WEEK

Positive Choices Week

October 23rd – 27th

                                                 

Monday, October 23rd - Success Monday

Hats off to Positive Choices

Wear a baseball cap, silly hat or even a make a hat

Positive Choices Week introduced on Forest Lake Today.

SOCKTOBER begins!

Forest Lake will be collecting new socks for the homeless until November 1, 2017. These socks will be donated to our local homeless shelter to help families in our community.

        

Tuesday, October 24th – Super Tuesday  

We Make Super Choices!

   

Wear your favorite superhero t-shirt

Wednesday, October 25th – RED Wednesday

“RED”Y to Make Positive Choices!

Wear Red

Thursday, October 26th – Crazy Thursday

It’s Crazy Not to Make Positive Choices!

Wear wild, fun, colorful and crazy socks

Friday, October 27th - Future Friday  

My Future’s Bright, My Positive Choices are in Sight!!

Wear Favorite College Clothing