Entries by Dana Heaton

Week of January 2, 2019

Class Donations Tissues Wipes Scissors Used small tissue-size boxes (for our math unit) Happy New Year! January 2019 January 2 (Wednesday) – Back to School! PTA Meeting 6pm January 15 (Tuesday) – Chorus Concert 7pm January 21 (Monday) – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – School Closed January 28 (Monday) – School Closed Writing In […]

Week of October 15, 2018

Class Donations Tissues Wipes Dry Erase Markers Important Dates October October 25 (Thursday) – Picture Day (All Day) November November 2 (Friday) – *Quarter 1 Ends November 5 (Monday) – School Closed for Students (teacher work session) November 6 (Tuesday) – School Closed November 7 (Wednesday) – 4 Hr. Delay Opening for Parent-Teacher Conferences November […]

Week of October 08, 2018

Class Donations Tissues Wipes Dry Erase Markers Important Dates October October 25 (Thursday) – Picture Day (All Day) November November 2 (Friday) – *Quarter 1 Ends November 5 (Monday) – School Closed for Students (teacher work session) November 6 (Tuesday) – School Closed November 7 (Wednesday) – 4 Hr. Delay Opening for Parent-Teacher Conferences November […]

Week of October 01, 2018

Writing As we continue with narrative writing, we are focusing on leads and elaborating on important parts of our stories. We will focus on slowing down the action, telling it bit-by-bit, adding dialogue, giving more details, showing small actions and adding internal thinking. Science We will develop a model using an example to describe ways […]

Week of September 24, 2018

Writing We are going to select a seed idea (a small moment) from our writing journals and develop the story into a publishable writing piece during the course of the week. Science We will develop an understanding of each of the Earth’s major systems (geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and the biosphere). Math We will solve word […]

Week of September 17, 2018

Writing We will continue to generate ideas for writing by exploring small moments in our lives, turning points and places that are meaningful. We will create journal entries in our writing journals. Science We will answer the question “How much water can be found in different places on Earth?” Math We will find whole-number quotients […]

Week of September 10, 2018

Writing We will generate ideas for narrative writing by creating small moment stories. We will establish a situation, introduce characters and a narrator, events in a story. Science We will we will obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect Earth’s resources and environment. Math We will use the multiplication […]