Ms. Arnold's Weekly News
Week of 2-8-15
No School Friday 13th and Monday 16th!!!
Valentine's Party Thursday the 12th! Shirt $ also due the 12th!
**New videos attached at the end of the newsletter each week. Please share with your student. :)
***Multiplication Fact Focus attached to weekly math and multiplication videos attached to help with studying at home.
****See Mrs. H's website below for extra copies of My Math Homework pages.
Our Classroom Learning Time
Our Focus Points
Reading / Language Arts
Students are continuing to work through our Daily 5 rotations, Read to Self, Read to Someone, Partner Fluency Time, Listening Time, and Teacher Time. Students are also meeting with me one-on-one through the week to work on specific goals. Our comprehension focus this week is a using our prior knowledge to connect to text as well as to the story elements. We will continue to work on our summarizing and identifying author's purpose throughout the trimester. Other areas of focus throughout our Daily 5 rotations are: response to reading, writing, fluency, listening, book talks, book analysis, and word building. I am very excited to see their excitement and focus to their day to day reading and writing grow. We are truly building life long readers and writers.
In addition to the Daily 5 rotations, a reading resource we are excited to have this year is RAZ-KIDS. It's an online reading program that the students use a lot through the week. I monitor there reading and meet with them to discuss various reading skills and strategies.
Math (Chapter 6/Unit 6)
We wrapped up Unit 5 with our Unit 5 assessment on Friday. We will begin Unit 6 on Monday.
Multiplication Fact Focus: multiplying by 4
-Strategy focus: repeated addition
-Memorization
Previous Fact Focus: multiplying by 0, 1, 2, 3
Another Fact Focus: multiplying the "doubles" (1X1, 2X2, 3X3, 4X4, 5X5, 6X6, 7X7, 8X8, 9X9, 10X10, 11X11, 12X12)
Writing
Students are continuing to gather stories in their writer's notebooks. This is an ongoing process through the entire year. We are also creating an interactive "grammar" notebook that students will use through the year. This notebook will include pages that focus on: nouns, plural nouns, singular nouns, proper nouns, possessive nouns,... Students will also be working on building stories with multiple paragraphs, using commas in a series, developing informational pieces on a variety of topics and working on their revising and editing skills. Paragraph structure and legible handwriting are continuously encouraged and taught. This week will be begin our "informational" piece. Students will be selecting a topic on how we can help animals in our community/state. Research will be done in school prior to our drafting our first piece.
Science
We will begin working on our next science unit on traits, ecosystems, and habitats as we progress through our "Writing Research Paper".
Social Studies
In transition from our focus on "map skills", we are currently studying the difference between a hemisphere, continent, country, region, state, and city. We will look more closely at the different regions of the United States. This is in preparation for our more detailed study of Michigan that we will continue to dig into throughout the year. Some of these Michigan topics will include: natural resources, weather/climate, landforms, agriculture, government, economics, and historical events and people. Social Studies test Wed. February 18th! Please see study guide sent home last week!
This Week's Spelling Words:
No Test This Week
Please Read Homework Changes for 2015!!!
Weekly Specials and Nightly Homework
Tuesday: Gym; Math Homework #2; Study X facts; Red folders come home
Wednesday: Computers; Math Homework #3; Study X facts, folders come home
Thursday: Gym; Math Homework #4 (possibly), Study X facts; Red folders come home
Friday: No specials; Cardinal Connections; Facts Tests; Red folders come home; Study X facts
What information do you need from me?
Weekly Keicher News!!!
DATES AT A GLANCE
FEBRUARY
9 “Four Score and Seven Years Ago” Play – Mrs. DuBois’ Class – Jackson College – 9:15 – 11:30 a.m.
Good News Club – Permission Slips went home this week
School Board Meeting – MCHS – 7:00 p.m.
10 Michigan Center Community Food Pantry – 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
11 COUNT DAY
Credit Union Day
12 Hearing Rescreening – 4th Grade
13 NO SCHOOL – WINTER BREAK
16 NO SCHOOL – PRESIDENT’S DAY–WINTER BREAK
17 PTO Meeting – Keicher – 6:00 p.m.
18 Credit Union Day
19 Ice Skating at Optimist Arena – Mrs. DuBois’ Class - Big Brothers/Big Sisters – 8:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
23 Spring Pictures
24 Michigan Center Community Food Pantry – 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
25 Credit Union Day
26 5th Grade Project Night – 4:00 – 7:00 p.m.
27 End of 2nd Trimester
28 Daddy/Daughter Dance – More information to come
MARCH
2 Bible Release
3 NO SCHOOL - STAFF INSERVICE
4 Credit Union Day
6 Report Cards go home
9 School Board Meeting - MCHS – 7:00 p.m.
5th Grade Parent Band Meeting – Part 1 – Keicher West Cafeteria - 7:00 p.m.
10 Math & Science Night – 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. – More information later
Michigan Center Community Food Pantry – 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
11 Credit Union Day
12 4th Grade Music Program – Keicher West Gym – 2:30 and 6:30 p.m.
13 Carnival – More information to come
17 3rd Grade Music Program – Keicher West Gym – 2:30 – 6:30 p.m.
18 Credit Union Day
Spelling Bee – Western Community Arts Center – 6:00 p.m.
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1. Thank you for using parking areas other than the lot between the schools when you bring your child to school and/or pick them up after school. Our first concern is the safety of our children and we appreciate your help in this matter.
2. SPELLING BEE – Logan Heath – 5th Grade and Mya Mullinax – 6th Grade will be representing our school in the Jackson Citizen Patriot Spelling Bee. It will be held on March 18th starting at 6:00 p.m. at the Western Community Arts Center. Western High School is located on Dearing Road. Jaiden Tilford – 5th Grade and Michael Edwards - 6th Grade came in second place and will be our alternate spellers if for any reason the first place spellers cannot participate. Congratulations and good luck!
3. SNOW DAYS – With our “Global Connect” automatic calling, you should receive a phone call if school is called off due to the weather. Please make sure we have a working number for you on file.
4. EASTERN BRANCH LIBRARY HAPPENINGS – Boy, the snow started to fall in Jackson, and it’s finally looking like winter. So, why not come to the Eastern Branch Library, next to Arby’s at 3125 East Michigan Avenue in Jackson, for some indoor fun? This month we have several cool treats for kids of all ages.
This Saturday, February 7, at 11:00 a.m., we have Stella, the Story Dog, a beautiful lab, coming in for kids to read to her. Stella is a certified therapy dog, so this is a great chance for reluctant readers to practice, using a book of their choice, in a non-threatening environment. Come in and join the fun!
Also, don’t forget our preschool story times and crafts every Thursday at 10:30 a.m.
Sundays are a busy day at Eastern. We get lots of individuals and families coming in for our extensive movie collections as well as our many books and other items. Don’t forget that we have some great family opportunities, too, like Family LEGOS and Board Games. That’s right, we have some great games an LEGO kits for family fun. These are available from 1:30 –
4:30 p.m. every Sunday.
Feel free to call us at 788-4074 for any further information on these cool programs!
5. GIRL SCOUTS – The Girl Scouts are hosting a winter round-up at the Optimist Ice Arena, February 15th from 4:30 to
6:30 p.m. Cost is $5.00 per person. Families are invited to join us to learn more about Girl Scouts. If you are unable to attend this event and would like more information about Girl Scouts, please call Tammy Hackworth at 764-6788.
MCYL Baseball and Softball Competitive Tryouts
League age determination is as follows:
Softball: Age as of December 31, 2014
Baseball: Age as of April 30, 2015
10u Boys’ Competitive Baseball Tryouts:
Thursday – 2/12/2015 – (5:00 – 6:30 p.m.) at EXTRA INNINGS. Call/text Corey McCave at (517)206-5300 if you CAN’T make it or if you have any question.
12u Boys’ Competitive Baseball Tryouts:
Thursday – 2/12/2015 – (6:30 – 8:00 p.m.) at EXTRA INNINGS. Call/text Brian Cyrocki at (517)304-0095 if you CAN’T make it or if you have any questions.
10u Girls’ Competitive Team Softball Tryouts:
Thursday – 3/12/2015 – (5:00 – 6:30 p.m.) at Extra Innings. Call/text Lisa Haynes at (517)937-6542 if you CAN’T make it or if you have any questions.
12u Girls’ Competitive Team Softball Tryouts:
Thursday – 03/12/2015 – (6:30 – 8:00 p.m.) at Extra Innings. Call/text Lisa Haynes at (517)937-6542 if you CAN’T make it or if you have any questions.
14u tryouts will be scheduled for some time in April. Please stay tuned for date/time announcements.
Sick Science!!!
Cities, States, Countries, Continents!!!!!
Regions of the United States Video Tour
Region of the United States Song
The 5 Regions
Click the Link Below: Multiplication Videos to Practice From
Click the Song Below: Multiplying by 4s
Have an amazing week!
Ms. Arnold
Email: Stacy.Arnold@mccardinals.org
Location: Keicher Elementary School, Broad Street, Michigan Center, MI, United States
Phone: 517-764-5200
Facebook: facebook.com/KeicherArnold
Twitter: @Arnold12Stacy