Pier 24 News
Mrs. Ebert
Dear UMAC Parents,
Progress reports will be available on ParentVue starting December 11. Progress reports will not be printed and sent home, they will only be accessible online. If you have trouble accessing your child’s report card, please call the help desk line at 815-788-5080 or email hd@d47.org.
All of the schools in District 47 have the same guidelines for determining if recess will be indoors or outdoors. If the temperature is 15 degrees or above, students are expected to go outside for the entire recess. If the temperature is 0 - 14 degrees, students go outside for 20 minutes. If the temperature is below 0 degrees, students have indoor recess. Please make sure your student is dressed appropriately for the winter weather.
Have a wonderful weekend!
I’m so proud of our team for taking the reading MAP test today! We are taking the math MAP test on Monday. I’ll be conferencing with the students to analyze their winter scores and reflect upon the goals they set in the fall.
April Ebert
Shared Reading
This week in shared reading students read another historical fiction text, Tucket’s Travels. Set in the mid 1800’s, a fifteen year old boy and two younger children travel through the American plains and are in danger. Students learned what it means to have good instincts as we analyzed the actions our characters took to change their fate. We worked on sequencing main events in the story to help us understand how the scenes fit together to provide the overall text structure.
Math
Old Friends: Our old friends completed unit 4 this week. I have been so impressed by the students’ effort in improving their multiplication and division facts. I can definitely tell that many friends have been practicing! Keep up the great work. When able to recall facts quickly and accurately students are much more successful in tackling more complex problems. Next week we will dive into unit 5 which focuses on fractions, decimals, and percents.
New Friends: It is crucial that new friends know their multiplication facts to be successful. This week we used multiplication to solve multiple step problems. First, students made magnitude (rough) estimates to judge whether a product is in the tens, hundreds, thousands or more. Then, we used the traditional method to solve for the exact answer. Next week we will identify digits and their values in whole numbers to the hundred billions. We will also use exponential and expanded notations to represent powers of 10.
Writing
Social Studies
Upcoming Events
Monday, December 7: Fifth grade winter band concert 7pm
Thursday, December 10: PTO board meeting 7pm (learning center)
Friday, December 11: Trimester 1 progress reports available in ParentVUE
Friday, December 18: Holiday celebration 2:30 - 3:15