Week 15

Hello B5 Families,

 Welcome Back! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We have a busy three weeks before Winter break begins. We will be creating our annual Gingerbread houses soon and having a Christmas party on Friday, December 19th.

Homework and Reminders:

Gingerbread Houses: Please read the pink paper being sent home with your child on Monday regarding our upcoming gingerbread house project. We will need 5 volunteers to help fill candy orders for our Gingerbread houses. Volunteers should arrive by 8:30 AM on Wednesday, December 17th. This process usually takes about 30-45 minutes. Volunteers will be filling bags with candy supplies for each student. Students will be making their Gingerbread houses the following day. Please click this link if you are interested in volunteering: Sign Up Sheet 

Inclusive Schools Week: Please see the flyer above for our Inclusive Schools Week spirit days for THIS WEEK. 

See's Candy Fundraiser: Our See's Candy fundraiser is still ongoing. Support Tierra Linda by purchasing See's Candy through our annual fundraiser. Flyers were sent home prior to Fall Break. The last day to submit orders is Friday, December 5th.

• Return the signed Weekly Green Folder on Tuesday

• Daily 20 reading log due on Thursday 

• Check homework and sign communicator daily

• Wear House shirts every Thursday

• Hawk Spirit Day every Friday (optional)

Our Week at a Glance 

Math: This week, students will continue working in module 3. Throughout this module, students will apply multiplication and division concepts, representations, and strategies from module 1. They use the commutative, distributive, and associative properties to help them multiply and divide. Students advance their representations to more abstract arrays and tape diagrams and begin to use a letter to represent an unknown quantity. Students will be doing lessons 7-10 this week. As a reminder, we will have our multiplication test on Friday. Please continue practicing multiplication for at least 10 minutes daily. 

Reader's Workshop:  Students will be working on unit 4 week 2 in our Comparing Points of View book. Our focus will be answering the essential question: What makes people view the same experience in different ways? Students will also be learning about reindeer this week! They will read a book about reindeer and then write about what they learned using text evidence. They will focus on reindeer habitats, diet and adaptations. 

Writer's Workshop:  This week we will write a Winter acrostic poem.

Science: Students will be learning more about trait variation. Students will continue to utilize our Handbook of Traits book to identify how traits vary among different species. This week, students will be observing different wolves.

Social Studies: We will continue with Week 21 in our Studies Weekly curriculum. Lesson 21 will teach students about using charts, reading maps, and understanding data. This lesson will discuss the population and how some areas are more populated than others. 

P.E.: Please dress appropriately on Monday and Thursday for P.E. 

Weekly Reminders:

Daily 20 Reading Log: Please make sure your child is reading a "Just Right" chapter book. Picture books or books that are too easy will not be accepted for daily 20 reading. Your child should begin a book and continue reading it throughout the week. Please make sure they are writing the book title correctly and neatly in their folders. 

Weekly Folder: A parent/guardian signature is required weekly. Students will return the folder the next school day. 

Communicator: Each day, please read the communicator with your child, check off completed assignments, then sign the communicator.  

Thank you,

Mrs. Gibbins