First Week of April

Report cards come home today. You are welcome to keep the report card, but please sign and return the envelope. Thanks! 

Great Job, ALERT Students
The ALERT students have been exploring past civilizations and today they showed their projects off.

Military News from Mrs. Skinner

April is the Month of the Military Child!  LCEU will be celebrating our 125 students with military parents this month.  All parents and students can show their support by wearing purple on Friday, April 7th.  Parents can also volunteer to provide dessert items for a special military kid lunch that will be held on April 26th or volunteer to help serve food and visit with military students while they eat in the Blue Wing on the 26th.  If you are interested in volunteering with the Military Kid Lunch, please email Mrs. Skinner at jskinner@richland2.org for more information.  Thank you for your support!

Insulator Experiment

The students will be doing a fun insulator experiment next Thursday. I told them today to start bringing in any insulator materials (material heat doesn't move through easily) they can find around the house that can be used and then thrown away when we are done. Please do not go buy anything. I wanted to give you a heads up in case they mention it to you. 

Math- We will start our last module this year, Module 7. We will focus on Geometry and Measurement Word Problems. I will send a Parent Tip Sheet soon. 

Language Arts-We will continue to read Civil War on Sunday. The students will have a quiz on Thursday over chapters 6-10. We will also focus on Text Dependent Analysis and Author's Purpose. 

Science- We will wrap up our unit on Heat with a test on Friday. The students will need to bring any insulator materials from home by Wednesday for a experiment next week.  

Social Studies- We continue learning about the Civil War. 

A Look Ahead

Math- We will wrap up Module 6 on Collecting and Displaying Data with a test on Friday. We will also be starting a real world research project in class called "Spring Break". Students will work with a partner or group to plan out a trip. They will figure out how much it will cost for travel, accommodations, visiting attractions etc. Maybe when they are done you can have them plan your next family vacation. :)

Language Arts- We will continue reading Civil War on Sunday. The students will have a quiz over chapters 1-5 on Wednesday.

Science- We will start our unit on Heat.

Social Studies- We will start discussing the Civil War with the focus being on South Carolina. 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!🍀

Math- We have MAP testing on Tuesday morning. We continue working in Module 6 on Collecting and Displaying Data.

Language Arts- We will focus on prefixes and suffixes, author's purpose and text dependent analysis. We will also start reading Civil War on Sunday towards the end of the week.

Science- We will wrap up our unit on Matter with a test on Friday.

Social Studies- We will wrap up our unit on Antebellum Times with a test on Thursday. We will start Civil War on Friday. 

Have a great weekend! 

Hopefully we do not get anymore snow and the weather starts to warm up!! ☀

Congrats!

Congratulations to Logan for mastering her multiplication facts!! Who will be next? 

Oreo Stacking and Balloon Poking

We collected data on how many Oreos each student could stack with one hand. We will be using this data to create a line plot and discuss mode, median, mean and range.

Balloon Poke

Arin pokes the solid balloon to show that solids have a definite shape. There was ice in the balloon. 

Shane pokes the balloon with water to show that liquid takes on the shape of it's container.
The front row got a little wet!  

Monika pokes the balloon with air to show the gas takes the shape of it's container. 

Autobiography Sharing and Volume of Matter

Jacob and Lily try to figure out the volume of the golf ball during science. 

Donovan and Sulli share their autobiographies with students from Mrs. Neal's class. 

Gabriel and Shane share their autobiographies with students from Mrs. Neal's class. 

A Look Ahead

USC Reading Log

The USC reading log that students have been filling out is due on Monday. Please make sure your child has added up all the pages they have read and recorded the total at the bottom! 

Northeast News
Make sure you check out the Northeast News...our class was on the back page for Read Aloud Day. 

Math- We continue to work in Module 6 on Collecting and Displaying Data. The students will have a quiz over lessons 1-4 on Thursday. 

Language Arts- The students will take MAP Reading on Tuesday morning. They will also be completing a performance task on figurative language to show they understand all the different types that authors use in their writing. 

Science- We will change our focus to Matter (properties of matter, states of matter, changing states of matter). 

Social Studies- We will continue discussing Antebellum Times.

Have a great weekend! 

Next Week

Columbia Fireflies Reading Program 

Your child is coming home with another reading log. This one is for tickets to a Fireflies game. I would love to see everyone to participate! It is due back by March 31st.

We simulated a volcanic eruption this week. 

Math- We will wrap up Module 5 with a test on Tuesday. We will also review a little for MAP math next week before we start Module 6 on Collecting and Displaying Data. 

Language Arts- We will continue to look at figurative language focusing on idioms, hyperbole and onomatopoeia this week. The students will have a performance task to complete on figurative language instead of a test. 

Science- We will wrap up Fast and Slow Changes to the Earth with a test on Thursday. We will then move into Matter. 

Social Studies- We will wrap up Government with a test on Wednesday, which will be open book and notes, and move into Antebellum Times.