WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 24 - 28

Students will begin their new math classes on Monday, Sept. 24. Please contact your child's math teacher with any future math questions -
Mrs. McCann - mccannl@fccps.org
Ms. Blandford - blandfordl@fccps.org
Ms. Mueller - muellerl@fccps.org


Monday, September 24

ATLANTIC SCIENCE and MATH: No Homework

PACIFIC MATH: 1. Complete "Bar Graphs: It's a Wonderful Life!" due Tuesday.


Tuesday, September 25

PACIFIC SCIENCE: No Homework

PACIFIC MATH: 1. Complete "Line Graphs: Hello? Are You There?!" due Wednesday.

ATLANTIC MATH: 1. Complete "Bar Graphs: It's a Wonderful Life!" due Wednesday.


Wednesday, September 26

ATLANTIC SCIENCE - No Homework

ATLANTIC MATH: Complete "Line Graphs: Hello? Are you there?" Practice reading line graphs and making predictions. Due Thursday. We're on a roll! All Atlantic math students turned in their homework today. Don't let the streak end with you!

PACIFIC MATH: Complete "Pictographs: TV Nation" - Reading and interpreting Pictographs. Remember to check the key! Due Thursday. Let's get back on a roll and have ALL HOMEWORK in tomorrow!

Thursday, September 27

PACIFIC SCIENCE - Finish THURSDAY THOUGHT about school food and childhood obesity if not already done in class. DUE FRIDAY.

PACIFIC MATH - Complete "Stem and Leaf Plots: Hold on to your Hats!" Due Friday.

ATLANTIC MATH - Complete "Pictographs: TV Nation" - reading and interpreting pictographs. Remember to check the key! Due Friday.

Friday, September 28

ATLANTIC SCIENCE - Finish THURSDAY THOUGHT about school food and childhood obesity if not already done in class. DUE MONDAY.

ATLANTIC MATH - No Homework :)

PACIFIC MATH - No Homework :)


HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 17 - 21

ANNOUNCEMENTS - Back to School Night! Thursday, Sept. 20 - 6:30 - 8:30. You should receive your student's schedule in the mail. Please report to his or her A Day Home Base. Look below at our apples after a week. Not so yummy after all:




Then we needed to graph our data:


DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

Monday, Sept. 17

PACIFIC ONLY - Finish graphs and conclusion for LAB: Water-in-Apples. Due WEDNESDAY!


Tuesday, Sept. 18


Wednesday, Sept. 19


Thursday, Sept. 20


Friday, Sept. 21

THE METRIC OLYMPICS! We are fine tuning our estimating and measuring skills. Grams, centimeters, milliliters, SQUARE centimeters? We can use them all!

How much do you think your handful of marbles weighs?

With just one squeeze, how much water do you think you could put in a tub?

How many square centimeters is your foot? For each task we estimated, found out the actual. The mathlete with the closest estimate wins the gold!

How far can you throw a cotton ball? These things don't go very far.....

WEEK OF SEPT 10 - 14

School Pictures on Friday, Sept. 14. Please have your child notify his/her home base teacher if you do not have a picture ordering form. It is due to the photographers by Friday.

Monday, Sept. 10
BOTH CLASSES -- WS - "How to Become a Mathlete - Step 1" Students are working on estimation.


Tuesday, Sept. 11
BOTH CLASSES -- WS - "How to Become a Mathlete - Step 2" Students will use the blue tape measure constructed in class to take measurements of different items around the house. This is due FRIDAY.

Wednesday, Sept. 12 -Measurements due tomorrow.

ATLANTIC ONLY - Science Lab Safety Contract. Parent/student signature due tomorrow.


Thursday, Sept. 13 - Measurements due tomorrow.

PACIFIC ONLY - Complete "Thursday Thought" if not done in class. DUE FRIDAY.
Science Lab Safety Contract. Parent/student signature due tomorrow.


Friday, Sept. 14

ATLANTIC ONLY - Complete "Thursday Thought" if not done in class. DUE MONDAY.

BOTH CLASSES - Complete "LAB: Water in Apples" Data Reporting (Graphs) DUE MONDAY.

CHECK US OUT COLLECTING DATA FROM OUR APPLES THIS WEEK!

And here is how we measure the mass of the apples....

Check us out! We are measuring with non-standard units... no wonder we couldn't agree on an accurate reading.... Next time we'll use our standard tape measure.

WEEK OF September 3 - 7

WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL!
Monday, September 3 - Enjoy your Labor Day!

Students and Families can find daily assignments and announcements right here throughout the year. Assignments are listed on the day they are assigned and are due the next class period unless otherwise noted. (**Science only meets every other day, so science specific assignments are due two days after they are assigned).


TUESDAY, SEPT. 4 - First day of school!
ATLANTIC ONLY
1. Parent homework - blue packet; Please keep the blue top page for reference, complete the attached four pages and place in your child's homework folder to be returned to school on Wednesday.

2. WS (Worksheet) "The Big Day" - Students reflect on their first day of school.

3. Parents will be receiving a peach "School Board Policies and Information Packet". Please keep this at home for reference.

4. White "Back to School" envelope. Please go through the documents in the envelope, complete the necessary forms, place the completed forms back in the white envelope and return with your student on Wednesday.

5. "My Brown Bag" - Students received an assignment today to put together a brown bag of artifacts about themselves. Please see requirements.
BROWN BAG - DUE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10.


Wednesday, September 5
BOTH CLASSES, Atlantic and Pacific

1. Gather pictures, cut-outs, photos, drawings for math notebook. Students have an assignment sheet --> Gather 4 pictures that show math being used outside of the classroom and 3 pictures that tell something about the students. Bring these to class on Friday as we make our math collages. Again, students can find these on the internet, draw their own, or find photos (with parent permission).

Atlantic -
** Brown Bag due Monday


Thursday, September 6

No new assignments. Students should be gathering photos, pictures, or drawings, for their math collage. Due tomorrow.


Friday, September 7
Atlantic -
** Brown Bag due Monday

Scholastic Book Order forms went home today. Look over them. If you would like to purchase any items, please indicate that on the order form and return it to Mrs. McCann by Friday, September 14 with a check made out to Scholastic Books.