Parents: We have been preparing for the last 27 weeks of school for our upcoming STAAR tests and the first round of testing begins next Tuesday with the first administration of the Reading STAAR.  In preparation for this test, this week will look a bit differently. 

We are going to be doing a lot of preparation for the Reading STAAR test. In order to make the most of our time, we are putting Science and Social Studies aside for the week. We will be addressing reading skills instead. It will be both educational and fun. Math will continue as usual. Homework for the week will consist of math practice pages and reading for at least 20 min. nightly. (longer reading durations will build your child's endurance...) The AR deadline is Friday March 27.

 

Math: We are starting our Personal Financial Literacy unit which is also the last objective we have to learn prior to the Math STAAR.  We will be discussing income tax, payroll tax, and how to balance a budget.

 

Reading: Along with the above in the social studies and science blocks we will be discussing Author's Viewpoint this week.

 

A few important reminders:

 

Friday I sent home field trip permission forms and they need to be returned ASAP.  We will be travelling to the ship channel on Wednesday, April 1st for a tour.  At this point I have 2 confirmed chaperones and will need at least 2 more.  Please email me if you are available to chaperon.  You DO NOT have to ride the bus but please bear in mind that we have to be there at 9:45 to check in (all adults must show proper IDs for security purposes) and the tour starts promptly at 10 am.

 

Monday and Tuesday of next week are STAAR testing days beginning with the 4th grade Writing STAAR so we will be a closed campus on those 2 days.

 

Friday, April 3rd and Monday, April 6th are student/staff holidays. 

 

This Tuesday is our first ever Spirit Night at Center Court Pizza next to Yes! Fitness.  Hope to see all of you out there and please remember to tell them you are with Huggins Elementary.

 

Friday, March 27th is the end of the 3rd Nine Weeks!  Woohoo! We are 75% done with the 2014-15 school year!

 

Have a great week!

 

 

I hope everyone had a FANTASTIC Spring Break! I am so excited to see my class back today refreshed from the time off!  Here are a few reminders and the objectives we are working on this week:

Math: We are working on displaying information and analyzing it in a dot plot and scatter plot.  We will have a spiral review over information that we have learned this year on Friday. Please make sure your students are getting on Study Island to work on ALL skills.  On the last spiral review we had questions about dividing and multiplying fractions and the students seemed to struggle on this since it was from earlier in the year.

Science: We are doing labs all week to review over objectives that we felt the students were weakest on.  We will have science homework every night this week from the textbook, not StemScopes.  The homework is as follows:
                Mon: Read pgs. 65-75 and complete pg. 76
                Tues: Complete pg. 77
                Wed: Complete 78-79
                Thurs: Complete pg. 80

Social Studies: This week we are studying Ch. 20 in History Alive: Industrialization and Modern America.  We will have a Ch. 20 quiz on Friday.  Please encourage your student to go to the History Alive website and to take the practice quiz.

ELAR: This week we are focusing on comparing and contrasting themes or moral lessons in works of fiction from various cultures.  I have assigned assignments in Study Island for practice

****Coffee with the Principal is Thursday followed by the FOH and Room Moms' meetings.

I hope everyone had a great weekend.  We have a busy week ahead of ourselves and next week is Spring Break!!!

Math: We are working on analyzing data using various charts and graphs: frequency tables and bar graphs.  Our Module 15 test will be on Thursday.

Science: In science we are finishing up our last objective which is Metamorphosis.  The homework will be in StemScopes: Metamorphosis this week.

Social Studies: We are studying about the Civil War.  The students have been working on their projects: Abolitionist Cards in class and they are due on Wed.  They can bring their MLDs for the next two days. The History Alive Ch. 19 quiz will be on Friday.

ELAR: We are still working on the types of sentences in ELA. In reading we are done with our Book Clubs for this nine weeks and will be focusing on inferencing and drawing conclusions.

Don't forget that Friday will be an Early Release Day at 11:30 and that the Book Fair will be going on all week!