Another Fresh Start!

We had another fresh start today! We're finally cooled down and ready to go! Thanks again for all your patience last week during the "warm up" at school!

We had our fundraiser kick off this morning on WSTAR! Midland has provided us with a great opportunity to help out Northpoint! Students should have come home today with the envelopes and ordering information. There are some great incentives to work towards! Please consider sharing this with family and friends to help out Northpoint! Completed order forms and money is due back on Monday, September 8th.

LA: Our story this week is called, A Walk In The Desert. We went over vocab words and listened to the story on CD this morning. We also took our spelling pretest which focuses on long a patterns. Due to a change in PHM's grading policy this year, there was a slight change in how spelling lists were assigned. With the new policy, 100%-85% is now a P, 84%-65% is an M and below 64% is an N, therefore, spelling lists may look slightly different than last week. We also worked on main idea and supporting details today, along with subjects and predicates in grammar.

We continued work on our ISTEP preparations using our new writing program. The students are doing a fantastic job putting more details and thought into their writing. We will continue to work on this in the days to come.

HW: Fluency and Flow is due Friday. The spelling test will be on Friday. Students were given back all their assessments today. Please look over them carefully with your child. There is one that needs to be signed and returned tomorrow. Book orders are due tomorrow!

Math: We spent quite a bit of time on polygons today. We learned about important prefixes in math and what they mean. We also discussed the difference between concave and convex polygons!

HW: Math Boxes 1.5, Study Link 1.5 and the subtraction sheet from Friday's centers are all due tomorrow.

Health: We reviewed the three systems that will be on our quiz tomorrow: Digestive system, skeletal system and muscular system. We also talked about the circulatory system, nervous system and lastly the respiratory system.

HW: Study for the quiz tomorrow.

Don't forget picture day is Wednesday! Bring your smiles!