Creating Leaders Everyday January 2015 SPEAKS! My Favorite Habit My favorite habit is Habit 6, Synergize. I like this happen because working with other people is fun. When people work together they get things done faster. Synergizing can make things easier. Zaria Singleton 5th grade Upcoming Events Band and Orchestra Jan. 28th End of Marking Period Feb. 3rd 4th Grade NAEP Testing Feb. 4th PTA Meeting Feb. 5th Board Meeting Feb. 10th Cedar Lane Elementary A place where learners, leaders, & friendships grow! Using the 7 Habits at Home Our students and families are using the 7 habits at home and enjoying the results. Here are a few ways they are using the habits: Adrianna Mazzio, grade 4 says, “Everybody gets their work done before doing fun stuff. We Put First Things First”. Kacey Young, grade 3, says, “My favorite habit is think Win-Win because then my brother and I can all win”. Second grader, Ryan Parker says, “My family is proactive by doing our chores. We don’t have to be told what to do”. How are you using the habits? Let us know. Email your family’s favorite habit to: [email protected]. How do you use the 7 Habits at home? This could be a great conversation starter for your next family dinner! Melisa Stilwell, Principal Kim Gibbs, Asst. Principal www.cedarlaneschool.org Creating Leaders Everyday Page 2 A place where learners, leaders and friendships grow. First Grade News In first grade we learned about non-fiction. Nonfiction is about real people and real animals. Also we learned about non-fiction text features. They are heading, maps, index, glossary, table of contents and bold print. All of these help us to understand and read non-fiction texts. My favorite was learning about horses. Cara Killian Let me tell you about the fun we are having in science. We just are just starting to learn about solids and liquids. So far we know that color and shape are properties of a solid. I cannot wait until we do the sink and float experiment. Rylee Mancuso Let me tell you about social studies. In social studies we learned long ago in Colonial Times they did not Let me tell you what we have been doing in math. take any showers and they only took a bath once a In math we have learned how to add and subtract. We month. We have read colonial books that had a girl have also learned how to put two numbers together and a boy. We have also learned about clothes they and take two things apart. When we put two numbers wore long ago. Also we went to Hagley Museum to together we make a bigger number. When we subtract learn more about Colonial Times. My favorite part we make a smaller number. We have a lot of fun in was washing socks on a wash board. math. Ketan Antoneypillai Ashton Carswell Second Grade at CLE CLE 2nd graders are beginning an engineering unit called Civil Engineering: Designing Bridges, which is part of the Engineering is Elementary (EiE) curriculum developed by the Museum of Science, Boston. EiE is a curricular program that integrates the science students are already learning in elementary school with engineering design. Throughout this unit, students will use what they learn about science of balance and forces to design and improve a bridge. The unit will begin with a story about a boy from Texas who solves a similar engineering design challenge. There are many reasons to introduce children to engineering in elementary school: Engineering projects integrate other disciplines. Engaging students in hands-on, real-world engineering experiences can enliven math, science and other content areas. Engineering fosters problem-solving skills, including problem formulation, iteration, and testing alternative solutions. Children are fascinated with building and with taking things apart to see how they work. By encouraging these explorations in elementary school, we can keep these interests alive. Describing their activities as “engineering” when children are engaged in the natural design process can help them develop positive associations with engineering, and increase their desire to pursue such activities in the future. Engineering and technological literacy are necessary for the 21st century. As our society increasingly depends on engineering and technology, our citizens need to understand these fields. If you have expertise about the science, field of engineering, or have any general questions or comments about the engineering and design unit we are about to begin, please let your student’s teacher know. The following website has a list of resources and websites that students can explore at home to extend the bridges unit: http://www.bridgesite.com/funand.htm Creating Leaders Everyday Page 3 A place where learners, leaders and friendships grow. Third Grade Scoop Third Grade Math Do you know how to set up a multiplication equation for the word problem below? There are 3 sharks with 2 eyes each. How many eyes do they have altogether? If you set it up as 2 x 3, you would end up with two sharks with three eyes each. That equation would be incorrect. We know the equation has to be set up as 3 x2 to represent three sets of two eyes. Our class is currently using pictures and repeated addition (2+2+2=6) to help us solve multiplication word problems. Look out parents! It’s time to start using other strategies besides those listed above, such as skip counting and memorization to master our multiplication facts. By: Ryan Callaway, Ava Damiani and Tom Jackson Third Grade Geology Life as a geologist is exciting! We acted as geologists to discover the ingredients used to make a mock rock. First, we broke the mock rock apart with nails and were able to identify red gravel, green gravel, shells and sand. Then we used water to separate the broken down gray matter. After it settled for a day, we could easily identify the sand and flour in the mix. Our teacher said there are two more mystery ingredients dissolved in the water. We poured the water into dissolving dishes and observed the dishes after the water evaporated. When the water dissolved, we were left with crystals in our dish! Our mystery crystals were identified as salt and alum. Being geology mystery solvers was a blast! By: Ryan Callaway, Angel Vergara and Tom Jackson REAL MEN READ author visiting CEDAR LANE! Author Nathan Hale will be visiting grades 3, 4, 5 at Cedar Lane on Friday, February 20, 2015. Our district’s annual reading conference, READ MEN READ will be held at A. G. Waters the night before, February 19, 6 – 8 pm. REAL MEN READ will celebrate reading with special guest Nathan Hale and other presenters in the fields of sports, science, and agriculture. All students are welcome! Nathan Hale is the author/illustrator of the historical fiction graphic novel series, Hazardous Tales. His presentation will describe how he became an author/illustrator, but he also teaches a United States History lesson, often determined by vote, about Lewis and Clark, the Donner Party, the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack, or the helmets of WWI. He is excited about history, and we’re excited about his visit! Book order forms were sent home with students so they could purchase Nathan Hale’s books before his visit. Please contact Mrs. Jones, CLE Librarian, at [email protected] if you need a book order form or if you have any questions about REAL MEN READ or Nathan Hale. For more information on Nathan Hale: http://www.amazon.com/Nathan-Hale/e/B001IXMWVI Mrs. Jones, CLE Librarian Creating Leaders Everyday Page 4 A place where learners, leaders and friendships grow. 5th Grade News ELA: In ELA we are currently working on our Poetry Unit. This unit is designed to take 3-4 weeks to complete. This unit will contain lessons on figurative language, interpreting poetry and interpreting narrative elements of poetry. Be on the lookout for helpful handouts and graphic organizers in your child’s binder so that you can help them review for the unit at home. There is a lot of vocabulary this unit that your child will need to know and understand in order to be successful. Try to have them review their notes or flashcards with you over dinner or in between commercials if you are relaxing together. Math: After winter break, the students started their new unit on fractions. We will be covering a lot of concepts for this unit. A complete list can be found on the SLM in your son or daughter’s math folder. The students have been working with some hands on problem solving skills involving fractions. They have been using egg cartons and clocks as a strategy to find fractional amounts of a whole, add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators, and find equivalent fractions. Be sure to have your son or daughter share My dog ate my homework. That mischievous pup, got this strategy at home using an a hold of my homework and gobbled it up. egg carton or an analog My dog ate my homework. It’s gonna be late, I guess clock. They also have been using the teacher will just have to wait. 10 by 10 grids to model fraction/decimal/percent My dog ate my homework. He swallowed it whole, I relationships. Next we will be working on solving shouldn’t have mixed it with food in his bowl. word problems with fractions and converting fractional amounts in such items as recipes. Your Social Studies: Students have been working hard son or daughter recently completed round 2 of leaning about the circular flow of money in an their MAP assessment for math as well. Be sure to economy and practicing all that is ask them how far away from their goal they involved with managing a checkare. Students should be practicing with fractions at ing account. They are all excited home as well on IXL. for our trip to Junior Achievement on the 21st where they will the skills they have learned. We will Friendly Reminders: be finishing up our Economics JA TRIP: Will be rescheduled for a date in unit and taking the unit test on February, more information to come. Friday the 23rd. Students should be reviewing the Chaperones have already been selected. vocabulary we learned, concepts about the circular Thank you for volunteering! flow of money and all aspects related to writing a 2/11 & 2/12-No School, parent conferences personal check, deposit ticket and check register as 2/16-No School, President’s Day these will be on the test. Science: Our next unit in science will begin on Monday the 26th. Students will begin learning the Laws of Motion and demonstrating these laws through hands-on projects involving K’Nex. Look for information about our Fruit and Veggie Relay in the near future! Creating Leaders Everyday Page 5 A place where learners, leaders and friendships grow. Cold Weather Recess There has been a predictable increase in the number of children with high fevers being sent home from the nurse’s office. DHSS reports the First State has 1,616 lab -confirmed cases of the flu as of Friday. It may seem obvious, but DPH also emphasizes to wash your hand frequently with soap or use alcohol-based hand sanitizers, especially after you cough, sneeze or touch your face. DPH also said you should always cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue and dispose of that tissue immediately. DPH says droplets from a sneeze can travel up to six feet, so you should always try to cover up the best you can. Lastly, DPH stresses to stay home when symptoms are present. Nurse Cetrano Please see attached from DHSS Reading Rocks! February is “I Love to Read” month! Cedar Lane Elementary School will celebrate this special month by taking part in the One School, One Book program as we have for the past three years. One School, One Book is the flagship program of an organization called Read to Them. The goal of the program is create a culture of literacy between the school and families; to create a shared, community reading experience; and, to synergize as we read together. During the summer our school committee chose the book we will be reading this year. Throughout the week of January 26, the students will be given clues to the title of that book. On February 2, 2015 we will have our big book reveal assembly! Every student and staff member will receive a copy of the book to keep forever and a calendar that tells families which chapters(s) to read each day. Every day at school the students will have an opportunity to take part in activities that enrich and promote the shared reading experience. We are very excited about our book choice this year. We hope that every family will take a few minutes each evening in February to read the book together. If you would like to find out more about One School, One Book, please visit the Read to Them website at http:// readtothem.org/. Be on the lookout for our special book at the beginning of February! News from Mrs. Horsey, CLE’s Reading Specialist The Appoquinimink School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, age, disability, marital status, national origin, or other legally protected categories in its educational programs, activities, employment, or student admissions policies or practices. Inquires regarding compliance with the above can be directed to: Section 504 Contact Kittie Rehrig, Supervisor of Student Services, Appoquinimink School District, 313 South Fifth Street, Box 4010, Odessa, DE 19730-4010. Telephone (302) 376-4111 Section 504 Coordinator’s Responsibilities: To coordinate the Appoquinimink School District’s efforts to comply with the disability discrimination laws. Title IX Contact Matt Fallis, Director of Personnel, Appoquinimink School District, 313 South Fifth Street, Box 4010, Odessa, DE 19730-4010. Telephone (302) 376-4275 Title IX Coordinator’s Responsibilities: To coordinate the Appoquinimink School District’s efforts to comply with and carry out the District’s responsibilities under Title IX, including any investigation of any complaint alleging noncompliance with Title IX or alleging actions which would be prohibited by Title IX. Creating Leaders Everyday A place where learners, leaders and friendships grow. Page 6 Creating Leaders Everyday A place where learners, leaders and friendships grow. Page 7
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