December 17th -- December 19th

Dates to Note this Week!

Monday we will be having our midyear Science/VA Studies Assessment. This test will cover everything they have learned in content this far. A review packet was sent home in on Friday. PLEASE study with your child over the weekend. 

Tuesday morning we will be doing some winter activities. We would appreciate any parents that could come and be an extra set of hands as we do crafts, building, etc. We will need help from 8:45-11:00. Please contact your child’s homeroom teacher if you can support us. 

We will be out of the building from 9:30-1:00 on our Field Trip to the Movies. Lunch will be as soon as we arrive back at SRES. Students will eat a snack before they leave. Please do not send any money for concessions, this will not be a place we stop. 

Have a safe and happy holiday season.

December 10 -- December 14th

Dates to Note: 

December 10th

• Mary Poppins field trip permission slip due

December 10 -- 13

• 2 Day Reading Midyear Assessment*

December 14

• Science/VA Studies Midyear Assessments   

Reading Update

  This week we will be taking our Reading Midyear Assessment. This is a test provided to us by the county to see how well children are doing with the curriculum thus far. This is NOT a graded assessment. Instead, it is used for us to determine individual strengths and weaknesses in children and it guides our instruction for the second part of the year. 

Math Update

We are working on linear measurement until Winter Break. We will be using both the US Customary and Metric systems. This is a great unit to practice at home! Your child can measure the length and width of any household object, they can estimate how large something is, and they can also tell you the best unit to use when measuring something. 

Content Update-

Now that students have rotated through every teacher for a unit, we will be giving a cumulative test. You can review VA. Geography, Plants, Force, Motion, and Energy at home.  Look for study materials coming home on Monday. 

Mrs. Canalichio's Homeroom: Continuing work on a unit on Virginia's Native Americans with Mrs. Canalichio. 

Mrs. Elsie's Homeroom: Continuing work on a Movie Making with Mrs. Elsie.

Ms. Shifflett's Homeroom: Continuing work on Ecosystems with Ms. Shifflett. 

Mr. Thompson's Homeroom: Continuing work on Electricity with Mr. Thompson. 

December 3 --- December 7

Dates to Note: 

November 26-December 7

• Food Drive

December 3

• Math Test

December 7

• Word Study Test   

Word Study Update

Over the next two weeks, the students will be working on vocabulary centering on Geometry. Our next math unit covers Geometry and we have found that teaching the words in Language Arts, makes a big difference in their overall understanding. The test will be about the meaning of the words as opposed to the spelling of the words. 

Reading Update

Website

  Or TFK as we call it has proven to be very challenging for the students. You can help at home by discussing the topics, especially the heavy vocabulary. This week's article focuses on the upcoming election. Some tough words are: 

• quality
• spew
• ultimatum
• preserve

Math Update

We have our test Wednesday. You can help at home by practicing multiplication and division word problems. Here are some examples:

• A hotel has 7 floors. The lobby, restaurant, and gym are located on the ground floor. The guestrooms are on 1st to 6th floors. 1. If there are 35 standard rooms on each floor, how many standard rooms are there? 2. There are 4 housekeepers working on each floor. One room only requires one housekeeper. If the housekeepers try distributing the work equally, how many housekeepers need to clean more rooms than the others?

Content Update-

Mrs. Canalichio's Homeroom: Beginning a unit on Virginia's Native Americans with Mrs. Canalichio. 

Mrs. Elsie's Homeroom: Beginning a unit on Movie Making with Mrs. Elsie.

Ms. Shifflett's Homeroom: Beginning a unit on Ecosystems with Ms. Shifflett. 

Mr. Thompson's Homeroom: Beginning a unit on Electricity with Mr. Thompson.