Request: Does anybody have the DVD "The Polar Express" and/or the book "The Polar Express" that I could borrow until Winter Break? Also, any hand sanitizer is welcome!
Picture day retakes: Please email me to let me know if your child will be getting his or her school photo retaken on Wednesday, I need to send you home a new form.
I made a boo boo, please forgive me!: On the Jamestown Unit test I goofed on the grading for standard related to the House of Burgess and the General Assembly, I've corrected the error in Phoenix and bumped everyone up to make up for this mistake. My apologies!
Grading Update: Pinebrook has adjusted the grading of formative assessments so that the highest grade a student may earn is a 3+ for formatives. This change is effective for December, however I went back in to adjust the grades for November as well. The reason for this change is so that the "3's" won't pull final grades down. For the first quarter, I had to adjust about 85% of grades and overide what Phoenix calculated because of the new averaging progression and formula.
Please send in any photos of your darlings! Please also feel free to send in photos of any pets you have!
This week in...
Science: Students did very well on the weather instruments quiz, things are going to get a bit more challenging as we begin to learn about fronts and clouds. There will be a quiz on fronts on Thursday, December 10th. Students should feel confident defining the following to feel prepared for the quiz: air mass, air pressure, cold front, warm front, and atmosphere AND how to label a cold and warm front. We will discuss these topics this week. The quiz on clouds will be on Wednesday, December 16th.
Virginia Studies: Students will continue to learn about Colonial Life in Virginia this week, specifically the economic terms debt, credit, money, savings, and barter. The test on the Colonial Life unit will be Tuesday, December 15th.
Writing: Students will continue to work on their Resolutions essays and will work to provide supporting details for each paragraph, as well as write strong topic and conclusion sentences. 200 Total Points of Word Study are due Friday, and the Word Study test will be on Friday, December 11th as well.
Reading: Students will continue to identify the main idea in non-fiction by first identifying text structures in order to write a cohesive summary of nonfiction texts.
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