February 5- February 9

Here's What's Happening...

ELA: We are doing great at the start of our new unit: Nature's Fury. In stations we will be covering: hurricanes, tropical cyclones, and tornadoes, practice skills of sequencing, inferring, as well as word work list 5 words. For writer's workshop, we will take a look at our informational writing on Natural Disasters through the lens of a scientist and a geographer. We will practice note-taking, asking questions, noticing patterns, and reflect upon the information we gathered in our writing. At the end of the week, we will cover map features to help us include geographical facts in our informative. 

Social Science: We will finish up Chapter 15, Lesson 3: Heat energy and how it is transferred. We will have a quick study taken for a participation grade, and the next lesson's quick study will be taken for a grade as well. 

Ms. Gari's Math Class: We will continue our work in Unit 2 Module 3. We are going to review concepts such as adding and subtracting fractions, comparing fractions, using ratio tables to figure out which deal is the "better buy", and multiplying fractions by a whole number. We will take our last checkpoint of the unit on Tuesday, complete and go over a study guide on Wednesday, play a review Jeopardy game on Thursday to end our Unit 2 on Friday! The following week we will begin with a Unit 3 pre-test. 

Important Info...

PV Kid With a Cape

Don't forget to keep looking for opportunities to practice acts of kindness and snap a picture with your PV Kid With a Cape!  We are looking for more examples of how our PV community is throwing kindness around like confetti!

Important Dates...

• Monday, February 12- District Spelling Bee (YAY, Lily!) 

• Monday and Tuesday,  February 12 and 13- optional P/T Conferences

• Wednesday, February 14- Valentine's Day Party

• Thursday, February 15- Picture Day 

• Friday, February 16- No School 

• Monday, February 19- No School