YOU'RE ALL AMAZING!! - FLASHMOB VIDEO

Here is the video from our amazing Flashmob:)

   

For providing snacks for the whole class:

K’myiah’s family

Joshua’s Family

Kayla’s family

We really appreciate your generosityJ

MARCH IS READING MONTH

UPA is having a school-wide reading contest to see who reads the most books this month. The winner of the contest from each grade level gets to be "Principal for the Day."  Every time your child reads a book and completes a book report form for that book, s/he will receive credit for that book.  The book report must be signed by a parent to verify that your child has read the book. The books must be read at home. Books read at school for guided reading or independent reading do not count toward the contest. Book report forms for my class will be available from me. Completed reports will be displayed outside of our classroom. Books read should be books at your child's level and not too easy for him/her.

FIELD TRIP

The fourth graders will be going to the Charles H. Wright Museum as a cultivating experience for our study on slavery! The cost of the trip is $5.50. Please submit payment, along with the permission slip as soon as possible.  

Amazing People Milestone 2

Below you will see the outline example for your 2nd Milestone.  Notice that I've written in detail what I plan on putting on the pages for the scrapbook.  You may need/want to add to your outline, based on your amazing person.  Also, I wrote an epitaph as my person is no longer living.  If your person is still alive you will need to write a celebration of that person's life.  Remember, your pages need to be very creative.  I will be using a quote from George Gershwin on the epitaph page, and so I will also decorate that page to make it interesting to my reader.


Gershwin Outline-Milestone 2

BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION

To conclude our studies of Black History Month, there is a program in the evening (5-6pm) on February 29th. Some students will be participating in the program and we will be featuring the work that we've done all month. We would love to see you there. Come to see what your child has done and learned!

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TAKE THE QUIZ - HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

To encourage our students to learn more about Black History month, Mrs. Johnson has  created a take-home Black History Month quiz contest. Students in grade 3-5 will be participating. The quiz was sent home last Friday. Students are to work as independently as possible. Have them do a Google search for the key words in the questions. The quiz is due back by March 27th. It is not a requirement, but I encourage you to have your child attempt to do it to practice web-searching skills and to learn more about Black History.

To Madishon T. and family for donating snacks for the past 2 weeks, as well as reams of paper.  We really appreciate your generosity!

NO SCHOOL

WEDNESDAY, 2/22-FRIDAY, 2/24

THE SCHOOL WILL BE CLOSED FOR OUR MID-WINTER BREAK.  

THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BEGIN WORKING ON YOUR 2ND MILESTONE, WHICH IS THE OUTLINE FOR YOUR SCRAPBOOK.  I WILL BE POSTING AN EXAMPLE OF THE OUTLINE WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK.

                                             WELCOME TO MADISHON-

         Madishon joined our classroom community this past week.  Students welcomed her with a bead greeting during morning meeting - each student handed Madishon a bead, introduced themselves, and said "Good Morning". Madishon then went to each student, handed a bead, and said "Good Morning".  I am so proud of the kids - they have brought Madishon into our "family", showed her the routines, and ropes.  Kayla will be helping her with catching up on the college project, and her table mates have already filled her in on exhibitions, math challenge, and other pertinent information.  

Madishon has put herself right into learning, sharing, laughing, and enjoying our days.

The following students passed Milestone 1 and participated in Fun Friday - many students brought their milestones in early - which I always encourage.  They were prepared with enough time to make corrections if needed.  

Morgan, Lauryn, Micah, Brianna, Madison, Khalila, K'myiah, Cameron, Kayla, Moses, Devin,and Darnishia.

I'm looking forward to seeing Milestone 2.  Students had awesome information already, based on what I saw from their research.

Devin and his Mom for bringing in snacks for the entire class.  They lasted for several weeks & were really appreciated:)

EXHIBITION REMINDER:

Milestone #2 is Due Thursday, March 22nd

This milestone is the outline for all the pages for your AMAZING PEOPLE scrapbook.

Each page will correspond  to one of the Roman numerals of the outline.  Within the next week I will post an example of the outline with information on an amazing person.  

Below you will find 2 power points of AMAZING PEOPLE scrapbooks done by former students of Mrs. Tiggs.  The Duke Ellington power point is split into 2 power points. Students are encouraged to take their scrapbook to the next level - creativity, lots of information, playing music of musicians, explaining/interpreting artwork of artists.  This is one of my favorite exhibition projects (maybe I'm a little biased since I'm a musician). Students learn so much about these amazing people and, hopefully, what they learn will influence them along the way in their own lives.

Vincent v. gogh scrpbk

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Duke #1 9

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Duke #10 13

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Narrative (Report Cards) and MAP Scores

Inside of the envelope will be the narrative with a percentage for each subject area with comments and your child's MAP scores on a report called, Student Progress Report. If you need help understanding it, there are explanatory notes at the bottom. If you need more clarification of what the MAP test is, please see theNWEA Parent Toolkit website(http://www.nwea.org/support/article/930/parent-toolkit).

DESPERATE!!

We are in desperate need of healthy snacks!  We appreciate whatever you are able to donate.


As always - thank you for your generosity.

Milestone #1 for our Amazing People Exhibition is Due February 9th.  I've been encouraging the students to bring them in early in order to correct any errors before February 9th.  This milestone requires 3 book sources and 3 website resources.  Any student who completes the milestone in time, with all correct information, will participate in Fun Friday!

Our students’ first narrative for the 2011-2012 school year was scheduled to come home today, January 27, 2012.  However, due to technical difficulties we will send them home next week.  The expected date I Monday, January 30, 2012.

COLLEGE PROJECT UPDATE

I’m so IMPRESSED WITH HOW THE STUDENTS HAVE WORKED ON THEIR COLLEGE PROJECTS.  THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED AND SENT THEIR BUSINESS LETTERS:

              Morgan

              Lauryn

Micah

Madison

K’myiah

Kayla

Devin

Darnishia

Joshua

Now we need to wait for all the packages from the colleges to come in. That is always exciting to see what is sent!

We have started Phase 2 of the project this week.  We have looked at Feature Articles and the characteristics of the articles.  Some of these are: a title, captions, pictures, maps, graphs, paragraph chunks.

Students do not have the information yet to actually write the articles.  So far the only homework assignment was to bring in an article and find some of the characteristics.

The following 2 steps are needed to complete Phase 2 of the College Project:

Phase 2

Compare the information about the three colleges with assigned criteria on the Facts and Figures sheet.

Write a feature article comparing two colleges and picking the best one out of the 3 colleges that they sent letters to)

This will be written mostly in class, however information on how to access it on Google Docs will be forth coming.

 

UPA is participating in fundraiser to help Leukemia patients. The students have collection boxes that they should have brought home already. They can collect pennies and bring them to school for our class' box. The class that raises the most money gets a pizza party from the organization.  We have one more week left to collect.  This is our second community service project and the kids are really excited about helping other children.  

CONGRATULATIONS TO MADISON!  MADISON WAS THE FIRST ONE TO TURN IN HER MILESTONE #1.  IT IS GOING TO BE AN AMAZING EXHIBITION!