JCCS 4/5 Front Page

• Please remind your student to bring their purple folder back to class.

• Check out what is going on in counseling!

• Volunteers are welcome on hikes every Wednesday from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM

• Volunteers are welcome in the classroom to help with math, science/social studies, or reading/writing - see below for times.

• Volunteer Sign Up Link:  https://signup.com/client/invitation2/secure/64833852033/false#/invitation

Exciting News!

• Nutcracker Field Trip December 5th!

  • Did you turn in your permission slip? 

  • Does your student need lunch purchased from the school?

  • Can you chaperone

• Artist in Residence with SEAlaska Heritage - Abel will teach students how to make their own drum

  • December 1st through 19th.

    • Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays: 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM

    • Tuesdays & Thursdays:  Noon to 1 PM

  • December 11th - Meet the Artist Night (DH Commons after school, for parents to come. Time TBD).

  • December 12th - drum making - we will need parent volunteers!

  • December 17th - practice painting 

  • December 18th - paint drums

  • December 19th - Make Drum Beaters - parent help requested, there is a lot of knot tying involved.

What are we working on?

Science: We learned about how to tell if there is salt in the water - students are welcome to bring in water from different areas in Juneau, and we'll see what is left behind after it evaporates. Next, we will be learning about the water cycle and water-related disasters.

Reading: We are finishing our shared reading unit with 2/3 this week with some activities. Students should have finished Who Was Milton Hershey? 

We will finish the novel, No Talking, by Andrew Clements. Students have a copy of the book and should finish chapter 16. Each student has a job to do, so we can have a class discussion (instead of writing summaries/doing a book report). The jobs are included at the end of this page. This is really important. If they do not do their job, it is really difficult to have a class discussion, which has been the case most of the book.

Writing: Fiction short story. This week, we will work on writing, and the next two weeks will be revising and editing.

Math: I would like to start a fraction art project in the next two weeks, but could use help cutting colored paper into 1 cm by 1 cm squares.

We have a wide array of math skills in our classroom; volunteers are very welcome, as many students seem to learn better in smaller groups. We are working on multiplying multi-digit numbers in 4th and 5th grade and adding multi-digit numbers in 4th grade.

Social Studies: Students did a great job on their presentations on different Native Tribes throughout the United States. We will continue learning about native tribes this week, focusing on finding the main idea of various newspaper articles from Studies Weekly.

Students can read their studies weekly at home at https://online.studiesweekly.com/login.  I can send you their username and password if you need it. The online version gives students the option to have the newspaper read to them, which can be very helpful for processing the information being shared.

This week our Marmot of the Week is Layla!

November 24th, our Marmot of the Week is Michelle!

Our school is a community school; and we count on volunteers to help make our school feel like a community.  We love seeing parents in our schools helping out at fun events and in the classroom. Students love seeing their family members at school, and it helps drive home the importance of school when you are involved.

• Consistent Volunteer Times:

  • • Math 9 AM to 10 AM Tuesdays & Thursdays and 9:30 to 10:25 Monday, Wednesday, Friday

    • ELA (English Language Arts) from 12 to 1:30 PM Monday, Wednesday, Friday and 1:30 to 2:15 Tuesday & Thursday

    • Science/ Social Studies 2:15 to 3:00 PM

    • Forrest School - Wednesdays from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM

• Making candy in early December 

• Making goods for the bake sale at movie night

• All School Centers - every other Friday 

• The class would like a class pet - There is a lot of value to having a class pet; however, I'd like to know if anyone is willing to keep the pet on weekends (rotationally) and/or over winter and summer break. 

• Additionally; we will probably need to fundraise for the pet (place to live, food, supplies, vet care/pet insurance?); if you see or hear of any opportunities for fundraisers or pets looking for new homes, please let me know.

• December 12th - Drum Making with Voices of the Land

• Cutting little pieces of paper for a fraction/decimal art project

• Creating a timeline for the wall in the classroom above the whiteboards going from 1600 to 2026. With space for students to add to the timeline as we learn things.

** Remember if you are volunteering more than 2 hours Juneau School District requires you to fill out the volunteer form for a background check. **