Tagged: Weekly Update

What’s Coming Up!-Week of Sept. 18

Miscellaneous-

  • The Walkathon is this week and is our primary fundraiser for the year!! The goal is for each student to raise $30.00 to support Georgetown’s PTC. Our PTC supports many different extra school activities for your children. Come join the SUPERHERO fun!
    • 9:45 – 10:30   Kindergarten, 1-3rd Grade
    • 10:45 – 11:30   4th and 5th Grades
  • Picture day is on Thursday, September 21st
  • Reading logs are due on Mondays, weekly goal 100 minutes
  • Michigan Landforms & Michigan’s Bodies of Water social studies quiz on Tuesday.
  • Spelling Pretest words come home on Mondays, spelling tests are on Friday’s
  • Keep having your child practice those multiplication facts of 5’s for five minutes each day! Once those are mastered focus on 2’s and review 5’s. Daily practice will help in mastering those facts and build their multiplication fact fluency that is so important for all future mathematical learning.

What’s Coming up- Week of January 20

penquinMiscellaneous:
  • S.A.V.E. began on Wednesday, January 15.  Every Wednesday for the next eight weeks officer Mike Petroelje will join us to educate the students on how to make good choices.
  • There will be a Social Studies Quiz on Tuesday over the Unit 3 Vocabulary words- Topic: Colonization.
  • There will be a Word Study Quiz on Thursday over suffixes.
  • There will also be a final multiplication quiz this week.  It will cover multiplying double digits and decimals.
  • Reminder: Reading is HOMEWORK and it is assigned every night. Please make sure that your son or daughter are taking part in this important endeavor.

Week of May 14

Miscellaneous for the week:

  • Please continue to look for updated dates on the link on right side of the blog under Upcoming Dates.  You may also find important Georgetown & Class dates on the  Class Calendar also on the right side of the blog, but near the bottom.
  • Our Daily Agenda is now being posted via Twitter.  Also found on the right side of the blog.  If you would like daily updates of the agenda just simply “Follow” our class on Twitter:
    AGENDA@GESBurdis
  • Tuesday, May 15, Just Write Celebration @ 2:30-3:30
  • Wednesday, May 16, Marco’s Pizza Night
Reading
  • Independent Reading Time   
  • Reading Conferencing
  • Synthesizing Non Fiction Information

Writing

  • Gathering Information to Write a Persuasive Essay
  • Revising Reader’s Theater

Science

  • Newton’s Second Law of Motion
  • Speed= distance traveled/time traveled

Social Studies

  • Events Leading up to the Revolutionary War
  • Formulating Metaphors to compare history to present

Math- Ratios and Percents

  • Ratios
  • Meaning of Percent
  • Unit Test