Thriving in Third Volume 21

Prestwick Spirit Squad will start up on Wed, Feb 9th and run through the end of school. We will only be taking 20 girls on a first come, first serve basis. Each cheerleader will need the complete registration, teacher recommendation, and payment which is due Mon. Feb 6th. Please reach out to Mrs. Tuffs at jutffs@leisd.ws with any questions!

The American Heart Association’s Kids Heart Challenge (KHC) is kicking off soon! This year, our school will be learning about staying strong in body and mind while helping others with special hearts.

Have you joined our Kids Heart Challenge team yet? Hurry!! Sign up today and be the first student to complete Finn’s Mission. Download the Kids Heart Challenge App or visit heart.org/KHC to register and earn your own BE THE TORCH WRISTBAND so you can help light the way!

• Download the Kids Heart Challenge App
• Register your child/acknowledge you are doing it again
• Start the Finn's Challenge
• Siblings just need to do a different password for each child.

Thank you for working to keep your mind and heart healthy!

Respectfully

Mr. Jillson

January

• 30th: Jump Rope for Heart Begins
  
• 31st: Unit 8 Math Test

February

• 1st: Mrs. Tuffs' Birthday
• 7th: Reading Interim STAAR testing
• 8th: Math Interim STAAR testing
• 14th: Valentine's Party (more info to come)
• 17th: No School
• 20th: No School
• 24th: STEM Night @ 5:30pm

Grammar: Apostrophes: Contractions & Possessives

Foundational Skills: decoding & spelling multisyllabic words with multiple sound-spelling patterns (aw, au, al, all)

Writing: respond to reading through writing and personal narratives

Vocab: Drama

Reading: Analyzing Plot Elements and Making Inferences

3.2 (B) compare ways in which people in the local community and other communities meet their needs for government, education, communication, transportation, and recreation.

I can compare ways in which people in the local community meet their needs by studying the systems in our community.

Academic Vocabulary:

communication: the exchange or sending of information and ideas

transportation: moving people or things from one place to another

recreation: anything we do to have fun or relax

government: group of people who run a community

education: learning of knowledge and skills

This week in Math:

-Unit Fractions

-Compose and Decompose Fractions

-Equivalent Fractions

This week in Science:

• We will be working on a project all week. The students will be choosing a vacation destination. From there, they will tracking the weather in The Colony and their destination. At the end of the week, they will be creating a weather report on Flipgrid.

Jennifer Tuffs- jtuffs@leisd.ws

Brittany Golec- bgolec@leisd.ws

Jennifer Franks- jfranks@leisd.ws

Shua Cho- scho@leisd.ws