Burleson Elementary News

We are excited to celebrate Random Acts of Kindness this month. We sent home a calendar for your child to complete this month in which they choose a random act of kindness. We are always supporting your children in developing good character, and promoting a culture of kindness. Please work with your child in completing all the random acts of kindness and send the calendar back to school to submit to his/he teacher. We will display all of our kind students on our walls! We want our students to spread kindness like confetti and can't wait to see how each child grows from supporting one another!

Next week is National School Counselor Week! Our counselor, Sherryll Barclay is an asset to our district. Please make her feel loved by sending notes and sharing kind words with her! She takes care of our students in many different ways, and we are proud that she is an integral part of the Bronco family!

Estamos emocionados de celebrar actos de bondad al azar este mes. Enviamos a casa un calendario para que su hijo complete este mes en el que elige un acto de bondad al azar. Siempre estamos apoyando a sus hijos en el desarrollo de un buen carácter y promoviendo una cultura de bondad. Trabaje con su hijo para completar todos los actos de bondad al azar y envíe el calendario a la escuela para entregárselo a su maestro. ¡Exhibiremos a todos nuestros amables estudiantes en nuestras paredes! ¡Queremos que nuestros estudiantes difundan la bondad como confeti y estamos ansiosos por ver cómo crece cada niño apoyándose unos a otros!

¡La próxima semana es la Semana Nacional del Consejero Escolar! Nuestra consejera, Sherryll Barclay, es un activo para nuestro distrito. ¡Haz que se sienta amada enviándole notas y compartiendo palabras amables con ella! Ella cuida a nuestros estudiantes de muchas maneras diferentes y estamos orgullosos de que sea una parte integral de la familia Bronco.

Pre-K students had a wonderful week!

Letters: Aa, Tt, Ll, Vv, Zz, Xx, Hh, Ff, Ee, Kk,

Mm, Yy, Ii, Dd, Oo, Cc, Qq, Gg, Uu, Pp

• Focusing on letter Pp this week and number 11.
• PLEASE Review letter sound & recognition at home.
• Write down the # of words read by you on new Reading log.
• Don’t forget to send a water bottle every day.
• Please check your child’s folder.
  
  Thank you, parents, for all your support!!
  
  Mrs. A 😊

Just a few things for Kindergarten:

• Be sure to be completing the reading log each night.

• Our next sight word test will be on Wednesday, February 9th. Please let me know if your child is missing any of their sight word cards so that I can get them replacements.
• It's very important to study the sight words daily. The next sight word test will include sight words #1-50.

• Please make sure your child is bringing their library book to school every day so that they can take AR tests about them. We all want them to meet their AR goals so that they can be rewarded and praised for their hard work!
  
• Our field trip will be Thursday, February 10th. Check ClassDojo for more information. 🙂

Thank you for all that you do and for sharing your children with me!

Reminders……

· Phonics homework every night except Friday.

· Spelling test Wednesday, February 16.

· Test on purple sight words Friday.

· Doubles test on Friday.

· Please read a book every night and record it on the reading log.

· Please make sure your child is bringing their library book to school every day.

· Our Valentine exchange will be on Tuesday, February 15th. We have 16 students in our class. More information to come next week.

Thanks!!

Students have been working very hard for me to reach their goals!

-Trigraphs

-Fluency Sentences

-Chapter Books

-Regrouping in the 100’s place

-Intro to multiplication

-Prepositions

Keep reading your library books at home and practicing telling time.

Go Broncos!

Mrs. Hogue

Math/ Science

· In math we are learning to find equivalent fractions by using fraction bars, drawing the fractions, and using a number line.

· In science we are learning about weather by using tools, such as a thermometer, anemometer, windsock and rain gauge.

· Please make sure your child is practicing their math facts each night

· Math fact tests are on Fridays.

· Third grade will be going on a Field trip to the Texas Tech Museum and Planetarium February 18th.

ELAR/Social Studies

• We are wrapping up our elements of Drama this coming week in reading.
• We are continuing to study personal financial literacy in Social Studies.
• New reading logs have gone out, make sure your child is reading each night.
• Valentines Party on February 15th, check class dojo for information.
• Have a fabulous weekend!

Whitney Lamming

I wanted to give a huge THANK YOU to all of you for the wonderful baby shower. It was the biggest and best surprise and it's definitely a moment I will never forget! The kids were so sweet and excited to celebrate and share that time with me 🙂 They have been so invested in baby Barrett and I and I love them so much for it! Thank you again for blessing my family and for all the love and support ❤️

Reminders...

1. Spelling tests are every Thursday!
2. We are in the home stretch of the school year... every single day counts! Attendance is crucial, so please reach out if your child will be absent.
3. Continue pushing your students to read at least 20 minutes every night at home. We have BIG AR Goals to meet!
4. Valentines party will be on February 15th. More information will be sent home soon!

The students are continuing to work hard every single day and it shows. I am so proud of their hard work and diligence. Please let me know if I can help in any way.

Thanks, Jenna Wesley

4th grade Math--We are still working on our basic Geometry unit. We have done LOTS of conversions of both standard and metric units. We are still working super hard on word problems since that is an area where we struggle. We will continue with geometry for the next couple of weeks before moving on. Please have your child "estimate" weights, lengths, and capacities of common, everyday objects.

4th grade Science--we are finishing up with our weather unit and are preparing to move into our unit on the water cycle.

5th grade Science--we have just finished up with our water cycle review and are moving into our Earth/Sun/Moon unit. We will be looking at many things but will be starting with the rotation of the Earth on its axis and the resulting day/night cycle.

Thank you for sharing your children with me,

Mrs. Brown 🙂

Math

-We will wrap up volume next week, and slowly move into measurement conversions. This unit is little more challenging. The students must decide what operation to use and difference between one unit measurement from the other.

-We are slowly finishing up our math concepts that need to be learned so that we can cover all our 5th grade math TEKs. Afterwards, we will start to STAAR review. It is very important that all students are in school every day.

-Thank you for all your support.

Mrs. Gamez

ELAR:

In Reading we are learning all about DRAMA! We're working through different plays and discussing the difference between the elements of fiction and the elements of drama. This has been fun for the students because we have been able to act out some of the acts and scenes within the dramatic texts we've been reading. We will continue to work on this over the next week or so.

Social Studies:

We're headed to war in our Social Studies unit: the Civil War. We are focusing on what took place before the start of the Civil War and diving into the different reasons that led to the war in the first place. This is definitely a very interesting unit for the students to learn about and discuss.

A few reminders:

• New spelling words are being sent home today with your student. Our test will be next Thursday. Please practice those words every day with your child.
  
• Please be sure your child is reading at least 20 minutes every day. We have many who are not meeting their AR goals, and I know each child can meet them.
• Please let me or Ms. Gamez know if your child will be out so we can have work ready for them when they come back.
• Bronco folders are being sent home today with graded papers and information about our Valentine's Day party. Please look through those with your child.
• Check with your child if they have corrections or missing work from me.

As always, if you have any questions for me, please reach out to me so I can best help you and your child. I appreciate you allowing me to work with your child every day.

Thank you!

Mrs. Rasco