May 21 - 25

Dates to Remember:

May 23        Science Benchmark 

May 24        Social Studies Benchmark 
                  Yearbook signing    

May 25        Bring your favorite board game it's Game Day

May 28        School Holiday


We ask that everyone start cleaning out your personal things from your locker.  We will have a final locker clean out May 25th.


Math

"Pringle" type cans are due Monday the 21st.  We will be wrapping up our timelines we started in 5th grade.  

May 14 - 18

Dates to Remember:

May 14        Math STAAR 

May 15        Reading STAAR 

Students are asked to bring their lunch to school.  The snack bar at school will be closed both days.  Only regular lunches will be available.  We will be eating in the classroom and bringing your lunch make everything easier. 


May 18       Math Bee 

Congratulations to the following LC finalists.  

Jaxon Clough            Manya Singh       Gregory Wollard        Amelia Munson 
Samuel Berman        Stephanie Ma      Nicholas Woravka
Allie Halverson          Mark Hulet          David Kim
Nathan Kimmel         Josh Cryer           Declan Magee



MAY FUN CALENDAR

14   Mitchell/LC/School Colors Shirt
15   College Shirt
16   Disney Day 
17   Stylish Sunglasses 
18   Flip-Flop Friday


Math

We will be wrapping up our timelines that we started in 5th grade. Each student will need an empty "pringle" type can.  Pringle cans work the best.  All cans need to be here at Mitchell by May 21.

Monday         Math STAAR 
Tuesday        Reading STAAR
Wednesday   Graphs 
Thursday      Graphs


Enrichment daily will be from our MM books.         

May 7-11

Math 

Please check student/parent access and take care of missing work. 

We will be reviewing all 5 strands for STAAR this week.  Each day a new packet of 18-20 will be worked on and due for a grade the following day.  NO EXCEPTIONS!!  Students will begin work in enrichment and continue in class.  

STAAR is May 14 and 15th!!

April 30 - May 4

Math 

All classes will have a DMR Quiz on May 4. 

Please remember your child's enrichment work is part of a major grade. 

All classes will be Data including Bar and Percent graphs, Stem and Leaf, Dot plots, histograms and dot plots.  We will covering a great deal of information in a very short period of time. 

STAAR is only 2 weeks away.

April 23 - 27

Dates to Remember:

April 24     Progress Reports
April 24     Math Release STAAR 



Math 

New DMR starting April 23 

Enrichment paper due April 27 

We will be working on volume and triangles. 

April 16 - 20

Dates to Remember:

Progress Reports will be coming out April 24.

Please don't forget to make your Food Drive contribution.  Two LC dollars per item will be given.  Thank you for helping us make someone's summer better.  If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. 

Math

Monday - we will be working on task cards to review area of geometric shapes. 
Tuesday - District Benchmark Test
Wednesday  -  Reading Release Test
Thursday and Friday we will be working on volume. 

April 2 - 6

Dates to Remember:

April 3                      School Pictures 
April 9                      Volunteer Brunch @ 9:00am



Math


We will have a new DMR this week.  

Last week your child received Part 1 of 3 in enrichment of a benchmark review.  This week's enrichment will be due on Friday the 6th.  

All classes will be starting work on finding a percent of a number. Next will be finding area and volume of various figures.  

Our Middle of the Year benchmark will be on April 16.  

March 26 - 29

Dates to Remember: 

March 30      No School 
April 3          School Pictures



Math

All classes will continue working with proportions.  

All classes received a practice packet for the Assessment on Wednesday, March 28.  This Assessment will be for a major grade. 

The DMR quiz will be on Thursday, the 29.  

March 19 - 23

Dates to Remember:

March 23      Report Cards sent home 
March 30      School Holiday 



Math

All classes will have a new DMR.  Our quiz will be on March 29. Our DMR is a mixed review of fractions, decimals and one step equations. 

All classes are working on the different parts of PROPORTIONS.  We will start with ratios, rates and unit rates.  We will progress to finding equivalent proportions.  More to come next week.  

Common Assessment practice will be done in class on Friday with the assessment itself next week. 

Enrichment will be due (as always) in class on Friday the 23rd.  

March 5 -9

Dates to Remember:

March 9      Early Release



Math

All classes will have a common assessment March 6th.  A practice packet was started in class on Tuesday and we checked and discussed Friday the 1st.

All classes will begin working on proportions.

Weekly Review will continue to review previous skills.

February 26 - March 2

Dates to Remember:

March 1       Author Visit
March 5       Ms. Taylor's Birthday
March 9       Early Release

Spring Break is March 12 - 16

Math

First and Fourth

We will begin working on independent and dependent variables. 

Test on Friday , March 2  inequalities.  We have been working on a review in class.  Please sign and return it for +3 bonus points.  I will check for signatures on Monday only!


Second and Third

Test on Friday, March 2 on inequalities.

We will continue to work on independent and dependent variables. 

February 19 - 23

Dates to Remember:

February 19                  School Holiday


It's that time again!  Our Spring Social is February 23rd.  Students are asked to bring in 2-liter sodas.  The following list is by attendance classes.    Remember, each bottle is worth 5 LC $.

Mrs. H's  girls - orange      boys - Sprite 
                             
Ms. Taylor's  - root beer 

Ms. Conner's - Mr. Pibb 

Mrs. Novak's  - Coke

February 23             Spring Social from 4-6pm  No bikers or walkers and all 
                               students must be picked up in the LC.


Math

Dependent and Independent Variables