September+Newsletter

=September Newsletter = Community Circle will be on September 28. Field Trip money and forms are due on that day as well. We will be taking students to a production of Peter Pan at the Albany Municipal Auditorium on Dec. 5. The price is $15 and includes lunch from Chick-fil-A. Permission slips were sent home Friday, Aug. 30, but see Mrs. Patterson or Mrs. Gay if you need another copy.

If you need an extra form you can download from below. [[file:Peter Pan FIELD TRIP.docx]]
We need all parents to sign up for times to volunteer at the fall festival. Please see the letter below for additional information.

Reading
Red class: The red class is reading the novel The Outsiders. They should be finished reading by Sept. 20, although many students will be finished before then. They can expect to have a test over the book on Sept. 24 and then will complete a project on the book that will be due Sept. 27. Students are examining the literary elements of setting, character, and plot as they relate to the novel.

Students can also expect to spend some time writing about the text and we will be looking at sentence and paragraph structure during the month of September as well.

Blue class: The blue class finished a unit on close reading and will be reading some short stories examining literary elements of setting, character, and plot as they relate to short stories.

We will also be working on writing in this class, talking about basic sentence sentence construction as well as sentence and paragraph structure.

Social Studies
// We will have a test over all we have studied on Africa on Oct. 1, so please make sure your child is studying over notes regularly to ensure they are understanding. //

Students are continuing to study about the geography, the people, and the history of Africa. We will be spending the rest of the month talking about geography of Africa and how geography affects population and some of the issues that causes in Africa. We will be exploring the health of the people on the continent of Africa, as well as the environmental issues that affect health of the people, as well as how that affects the environment.

__//** Students need to regularly study their notes! **//__

Math:
Some students really need to brush up on their multiplication tables!! If this applies to your child please help them practice a few minutes each night.

Red class: This week (Sept. 16-20) students have continued to work with percentages. Students have learned how to apply percentages to real world applications by exploring things like sales tax, sale items, commission, tips, and percent of increase or decrease.

This week (Sept. 3-6) the red class will focus on operations with fractions and decimals. Students will review the steps for adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators. We will also review adding and subtracting decimal numbers. Next, we will begin multiplying and dividing rational numbers.

Sept. 9-13- the red class will continue to work on multiplying and dividing rational numbers. Students will review for an assessment on Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday we will begin working with percentages.

Blue class: This week (Sept. 16-20) the blue class has been busy working on operations with mixed numbers and fractions.

This week (Sept. 3-6) we will complete Saxon lesson 15 on finding equivalent fractions. Students will practice giving answers in simplest form. Then we will review skills and prepare for a math assessment on Thursday. Some of the skills that will be tested include: ordering integers, converting mixed numbers, properties, fractions of numbers, factors, and equations. On Friday, we will review the test and reteach any weak areas. Then, we will look at making conversions in the US customary system of measurement.

Sept. 9-13- this week students will be working on Saxon lesson 16-20. These lessons cover many different skills including function tables, measuring angles with protractors, finding similar and congruent polygons, finding the perimeter and area of polygons, and writing repeated multiplication with exponents. Student will have homework everynight!! This has been a repeated problem in this class please ensure your child is completing homework each night.

Science:
This week students will continue to research and create a food web for a region in Africa. We will continue to look at vocabulary located in chapters 11 and 12 and prepare to test on these chapters on Friday.

Sept. 9-13 Students will work to finish their food web projects. They are due Tues.!! all late projects will be -10points each day they are late. Next, we will begin looking at chapters 12 and 13. These chapters cover changes in populations in ecosystems and relationships between animals. Students will have vocabulary words to begin studying!!

Students must continue working on their biome project. These projects are due Tuesday, October 1. If you need the rubric and project descriptor you can download it from below.