January 26
I hope you are enjoying your weekend and are able to spend time outdoors on this beautiful day. Remember, the more time children spend outside, enjoying nature, exercising, playing, the more successful they are sitting in a classroom all day.
We have had lots of sicknesses these past couple of weeks and would love more clorox wipe donations! Please be sure not to send your child if they need medicine for a fever. If they have a fever, they should stay home. Any snack donations would be greatly appreciated as well!
We are at the end of second quarter, hard to believe we are halfway to graduation already. This Tuesday, Jan. 28th is our NC Check In test for 2nd Quarter Math. Please make sure your child arrives ON TIME because they will have to sit in the office for three hours if we have already started administering the test at 9:20.
Our DC trip is fast approaching. Please make your last and final payment of $125 by February 7th!
Remember, Wednesday is a teacher workday. I will be spending the day finalizing grades and inputting grades into the report cards that will come home next week. Please remind your child to finish and turn things in on time. Their first person narrative stores and group Science Biome projects are due this Thursday.
We will begin our third quarter on Monday, Feb. 3rd, which are some of my favorite standards and concepts to teach! In EL, we will be learning about Athletes of Social Change as we read about Jackie Robinson's life. In Science, we will be studying the Human Body Systems that include Muscular, Skeletal, Nervous, Respiratory, Circulatory, and Digestive. The Human Growth and Development Unit is a separate four day unit we teach at the very end of the school year (May 26-29). In math, it's all about fractions. We will be adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions and decimals.
One other thing...thank you for reading all the way to the end of this. I used to have a giant library in my classroom, filled with books that I have spent my own money on over the years. There are now so many missing that students have borrowed, taken home, and have never returned. My favorite series, See You in the Cosmos, which I used to have six hard copies of, is completely gone. I have been so generous letting students borrow these personal favorites and would love to see some of them returned to my shelves. Thanks for your help. If you have any books that your child has finished and you would like to donate, we would love it!
January 21
Just a reminder that our fifth grade field trip to the NC Museum of Natural Science in downtown Raleigh is tomorrow! The cost of this trip is $9.00 so if you haven't paid yet, please send tomorrow morning. I have everyone's permission slip already.
We will be departing Douglas right after the morning announcements. If you are chaperoning, please meet us at the front door to the museum at about 9:45-9:50. We will be spending the first hour touring the museum in small groups, then we will meet at the Curiosity classroom on the second level for our 11:00am wildlife program.
We had planned to eat lunch outside after, but due to the cold temperatures, we will board the buses and eat back in the classroom at school. Don't forget to pack a lunch because this will be after our regularly scheduled lunchtime.
Chaperones, please rsvp to this email so I can be sure you are still planning on joining us.
Thanks.
January 14
Happy New Year to you all! I hope you enjoyed your holiday break and time with your family. I am sorry this email is coming out so late but I have been fighting an awful flu for many days now. I miss the students and am hoping to return to class tomorrow or Thursday, it has not been fun here at home. I hear that they have been in good hands though with both Mrs. Peters and Mr. Michtener.
Next week is our field trip to the NC Museum of Science. We will be leaving school at 9:30am. We would love it if you would like to be a chaperone either following our bus or meeting us there to help lead a group. Let me know if you would like to join us! Students will need to bring a lunch because we plan to eat in the courtyard outside of the museum after our tour and program. Let's hope for good weather!
Last Tuesday, the fifth grade students began their LEADER program here at Douglas with Officer James Carlton. LEADER, short for Learning to Earn and Demonstrate Exemplary Respect, is an eight week session aimed to help kids navigate the many complex challenges they will face next year as middle school students. Topics include bullying, peer pressure, drugs, alcohol, family relationships, and goal setting.
Our Washington DC trip is fast approaching. Please remember that your child's, and chaperone's, last payment installment of $125.00 is due by February 7th.
Other important dates:
Monday, Jan. 20th: No School
Tuesday, Jan. 21st: CLUBS
Wednesday, Jan. 22nd: Science Museum
Monday, Jan. 27th: End of Quarter
Wednesday, Jan. 29th: Teacher Workday
Monday, Jan. 3rd: In House Science Is Fun
Friday, Feb. 7th: Report Cards go homeNovember 24
We have a short week ahead. We didn't get around to planning a fun party for Thanksgiving, but if you would like to send a treat for the class on Tuesday, we will share at snack time in the afternoon!
Speaking of snacks, we have many students who are not bringing in a snack and everyone seems to be starving right around 2:30, so last week I began passing out snacks. I have not done this the past two years because it seems as soon as kids know they are available, everyone needs one. I would love to continue snack donations but will need your help with donations and reminders that they are only for kids who don't bring one from home. Thanks for your support!
Please remember to sign and return the report card envelopes (we are still missing several), and the math test that will go home tomorrow. Also, if you ordered pictures, they will be sent home tomorrow as well.
The students have been working so hard these past few weeks and have work to share with you. Have them log into our google classroom to show you the class slide presentation we did for the rainforest. They also have copies of their published monologues from the end of first quarter saved in their google docs and in their student portfolios that they created in class the past few weeks. Ask them for access to this portfolio and you will be able to see all the work they drop and save in there for the rest of this year and then on into middle school.
We will be headed to Ligon Middle School for a holiday concert on Friday, December 6th. Our next field trip will be in January, to the Science Museum. Don't forget to make your $14.00 payment.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families,
October 10
On Tuesday, Ms. Bazemore met with most of you but there were a few who couldn't attend so I wanted to share this with you.
Packets were sent home with all children about the trip. This included: a covering letter, a copy of the draft itinerary, a permission slip, a medical consent form and finally the accident insurance certificate. All three forms will need to be returned by October 31st along with the first payment of $125.00.
These were some key messages from the meeting:
I hope you are enjoying the day. Interims will be sent home tomorrow, along with the Unit 1 EL Assessment. Please take time to go over these with your child, sign, and return by Thursday of this week. The interim report reflects grades for two EL (Literacy) assessments and one Math assessment, as well as a few Science classwork grades. On some of these standards, their grade represents only one or two opportunities they've had to show proficiency at this point in the school year. They will continue working on these standards throughout the quarter and their end of quarter report card grade will represent having several opportunities to grow and improve. Please know that if they received a level 2 on a particular standard, it does not mean they have failed but rather, it is an area to focus on and improve moving forward.
I am enjoying working with your children and we look forward to many exciting things coming up in October...
Wednesday, Oct. 2: STEAM with Mrs. Bledsoe
Wednesday, Oct. 9th: Teacher Workday
Thursday, Oct. 10th: School Skate Night at United Skates
Thursday, Oct. 17th: Family Night at Douglas 5:30-7
Tuesday, Oct. 22nd: Clubs
Wednesday, Oct. 30th: Fall Pictures
Thursday, Oct. 31st: Make-Up Day
September 22
Students will bring home their Unit 1 Math Assessment tomorrow. Please find a time to go through this with your child, sign, and return. Have them explain where they notice glows and grows in their own work. I notice with this particular group one math practice in particular that could be improved right away is making sense of the problem and persevering in solving it. We will be working on this during the next two weeks! I have attached a copy of the rubric we use to assess the eight mathematical practices in math. Our next Math Assessment will be on Friday, October 4th.
I have also attached the Power Point I shared at Open House for those of you who were not able to make it. I realize life get's busy so no worries. There will be field trip information coming out this week, as well as quarter 1 interim reports on Friday.
I hope you had a nice weekend.
September 5
Class Code for Google Classroom 3g0dce
Yesterday the students joined our google classroom and worked on their first online math assignment. They collected a ten day temperature forecast and created a graph. Please remind them to finish this assignment by answering the questions on the back of their hard copies and post their finished graph to the home page of our google classroom for all to see! Those students who were not able to get into their wakeid accounts should now be able to using their student id number as their username and password. I have reset them!
Ms. Bazemore would like to remind all students and parents that the bus loop is for bus riders ONLY. There should not be any cars driving through there or students walking through there during morning and/or afternoon arrival/dismissal unless you are a bus rider. For safety reasons, Douglas protocol is for students to enter and exit through the front door of the main building and in/out the back door near Mrs. McGrath's Kindergarten classroom. We cannot monitor students who are cutting around the building or through the parking lot in the woods. Thanks!
PTA would like to remind you to join! Please go to https://www.wcpss.net/douglases for more information!
September 3
Good Morning Parents,
It was a wonderful first week of school! We enjoyed getting to know each other while jumping into some of our fifth grade curriculum as well.
In EL, we are focusing on Human Rights while reading the novel Esperanza Rising. Tonight the students will have questions to answer for homework that refer back to the chapter Las Papayas, that we are reading together in class. In Math, we are learning to classify data and track data over time using a coordinate line graph. Students will begin math homework this evening, having one sheet that goes with that day's lesson. In Science, we began out first unit relating to Force and Motion. We have a lot of fun activities ahead for this! Ask your child to tell you about the spaghetti towers, cup stacking, and hopper poppers activities from last week's lessons!
Upcoming Dates:
Monday Sept. 23rd - Vision Screening
Tuesday Sept. 24th - CLUB DAY
Thursday Sep. 19th - Open House 5:30-6:30
Friday Sept. 27th - Interims Go Home
Monday Sept. 30th - Teacher Workday
Have a nice week,
Mrs. Jennell DeFrancis
5th Grade Teacher
Douglas Creative Arts and Science Elementary
August 22, 2019
Welcome to fifth grade!
I hope all of you had a wonderful summer break. I am overjoyed to be teaching 5th grade again this year! I have worked as a classroom teacher in Wake County for eighteen years and this will be my eighth year here at Douglas. I am so thrilled to be part of such an excellent team of educators once again.
We will begin the first couple days of school getting to know each other and participating in several activities to familiarize our students with class materials, procedures, and expectations. The students will take part in many team building exercises to learn how to be successful while working within a group. We will begin creating our classroom norms by actively observing what protocols and transitions will look like. We will also discuss ways to ensure that our classroom runs smoothly.
For our first week of homework, the students need to begin having discussions at home about the goals they have as a fifth grader. How will they stay organized? How can they keep a positive attitude each day? Make new friends? Complete assignments? Be an effective learner? The students will be setting goals in class at the end of this week. This year is all about preparing for independence in middle school! They also need to find a "good fit" book to read at home for homework and begin the 30 minutes of read to self time that will be expected of them each night.
Regularly scheduled homework will begin the second week of school. If your child likes to keep track of assignments and dates in a planner they are more than welcome to use one of their own. Please know that fidget spinners/cubes and slime are prohibited in all of our fifth grade classrooms. If there is a need for a focusing device for your child, we can meet to discuss what school appropriate item would be best for them.
I look forward to getting to know you and your child. Please feel free to contact me whenever you have a question, concern, idea, or just to say hello. I can be reached at [email protected].
I look forward to a wonderful school year!
Fifth Grade Supply List:
Two 1.5-inch three-ring binders
Scissors
Zipper pencil pouch for binder
Dry erase markers
Notebook filler paper
Expo Board cleaner
1 folder with pockets
Paper Towels
2 composition books (not spiral)
1 pack copy paper
Glue sticks (Elmer’s preferred)
2 boxes facial tissues
#2 pencils – 2 packs (Ticonderoga preferred)
Colored pencils (no markers or crayons)
Ear buds labeled with student’s name
Backpack – regular size (not large), no wheels
Small umbrella or raincoat
Last name A-L: sandwich size zip-top bags
Last name M-Z: gallon size zip-top bag
I hope you are enjoying the day. Interims will be sent home tomorrow, along with the Unit 1 EL Assessment. Please take time to go over these with your child, sign, and return by Thursday of this week. The interim report reflects grades for two EL (Literacy) assessments and one Math assessment, as well as a few Science classwork grades. On some of these standards, their grade represents only one or two opportunities they've had to show proficiency at this point in the school year. They will continue working on these standards throughout the quarter and their end of quarter report card grade will represent having several opportunities to grow and improve. Please know that if they received a level 2 on a particular standard, it does not mean they have failed but rather, it is an area to focus on and improve moving forward.
I am enjoying working with your children and we look forward to many exciting things coming up in October...
Wednesday, Oct. 2: STEAM with Mrs. Bledsoe
Wednesday, Oct. 9th: Teacher Workday
Thursday, Oct. 10th: School Skate Night at United Skates
Thursday, Oct. 17th: Family Night at Douglas 5:30-7
Tuesday, Oct. 22nd: Clubs
Wednesday, Oct. 30th: Fall Pictures
Thursday, Oct. 31st: Make-Up Day
I hope you are enjoying your weekend and are able to spend time outdoors on this beautiful day. Remember, the more time children spend outside, enjoying nature, exercising, playing, the more successful they are sitting in a classroom all day.
We have had lots of sicknesses these past couple of weeks and would love more clorox wipe donations! Please be sure not to send your child if they need medicine for a fever. If they have a fever, they should stay home. Any snack donations would be greatly appreciated as well!
We are at the end of second quarter, hard to believe we are halfway to graduation already. This Tuesday, Jan. 28th is our NC Check In test for 2nd Quarter Math. Please make sure your child arrives ON TIME because they will have to sit in the office for three hours if we have already started administering the test at 9:20.
Our DC trip is fast approaching. Please make your last and final payment of $125 by February 7th!
Remember, Wednesday is a teacher workday. I will be spending the day finalizing grades and inputting grades into the report cards that will come home next week. Please remind your child to finish and turn things in on time. Their first person narrative stores and group Science Biome projects are due this Thursday.
We will begin our third quarter on Monday, Feb. 3rd, which are some of my favorite standards and concepts to teach! In EL, we will be learning about Athletes of Social Change as we read about Jackie Robinson's life. In Science, we will be studying the Human Body Systems that include Muscular, Skeletal, Nervous, Respiratory, Circulatory, and Digestive. The Human Growth and Development Unit is a separate four day unit we teach at the very end of the school year (May 26-29). In math, it's all about fractions. We will be adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions and decimals.
One other thing...thank you for reading all the way to the end of this. I used to have a giant library in my classroom, filled with books that I have spent my own money on over the years. There are now so many missing that students have borrowed, taken home, and have never returned. My favorite series, See You in the Cosmos, which I used to have six hard copies of, is completely gone. I have been so generous letting students borrow these personal favorites and would love to see some of them returned to my shelves. Thanks for your help. If you have any books that your child has finished and you would like to donate, we would love it!
January 21
Just a reminder that our fifth grade field trip to the NC Museum of Natural Science in downtown Raleigh is tomorrow! The cost of this trip is $9.00 so if you haven't paid yet, please send tomorrow morning. I have everyone's permission slip already.
We will be departing Douglas right after the morning announcements. If you are chaperoning, please meet us at the front door to the museum at about 9:45-9:50. We will be spending the first hour touring the museum in small groups, then we will meet at the Curiosity classroom on the second level for our 11:00am wildlife program.
We had planned to eat lunch outside after, but due to the cold temperatures, we will board the buses and eat back in the classroom at school. Don't forget to pack a lunch because this will be after our regularly scheduled lunchtime.
Chaperones, please rsvp to this email so I can be sure you are still planning on joining us.
Thanks.
January 14
Happy New Year to you all! I hope you enjoyed your holiday break and time with your family. I am sorry this email is coming out so late but I have been fighting an awful flu for many days now. I miss the students and am hoping to return to class tomorrow or Thursday, it has not been fun here at home. I hear that they have been in good hands though with both Mrs. Peters and Mr. Michtener.
Next week is our field trip to the NC Museum of Science. We will be leaving school at 9:30am. We would love it if you would like to be a chaperone either following our bus or meeting us there to help lead a group. Let me know if you would like to join us! Students will need to bring a lunch because we plan to eat in the courtyard outside of the museum after our tour and program. Let's hope for good weather!
Last Tuesday, the fifth grade students began their LEADER program here at Douglas with Officer James Carlton. LEADER, short for Learning to Earn and Demonstrate Exemplary Respect, is an eight week session aimed to help kids navigate the many complex challenges they will face next year as middle school students. Topics include bullying, peer pressure, drugs, alcohol, family relationships, and goal setting.
Our Washington DC trip is fast approaching. Please remember that your child's, and chaperone's, last payment installment of $125.00 is due by February 7th.
Other important dates:
Monday, Jan. 20th: No School
Tuesday, Jan. 21st: CLUBS
Wednesday, Jan. 22nd: Science Museum
Monday, Jan. 27th: End of Quarter
Wednesday, Jan. 29th: Teacher Workday
Monday, Jan. 3rd: In House Science Is Fun
Friday, Feb. 7th: Report Cards go homeNovember 24
We have a short week ahead. We didn't get around to planning a fun party for Thanksgiving, but if you would like to send a treat for the class on Tuesday, we will share at snack time in the afternoon!
Speaking of snacks, we have many students who are not bringing in a snack and everyone seems to be starving right around 2:30, so last week I began passing out snacks. I have not done this the past two years because it seems as soon as kids know they are available, everyone needs one. I would love to continue snack donations but will need your help with donations and reminders that they are only for kids who don't bring one from home. Thanks for your support!
Please remember to sign and return the report card envelopes (we are still missing several), and the math test that will go home tomorrow. Also, if you ordered pictures, they will be sent home tomorrow as well.
The students have been working so hard these past few weeks and have work to share with you. Have them log into our google classroom to show you the class slide presentation we did for the rainforest. They also have copies of their published monologues from the end of first quarter saved in their google docs and in their student portfolios that they created in class the past few weeks. Ask them for access to this portfolio and you will be able to see all the work they drop and save in there for the rest of this year and then on into middle school.
We will be headed to Ligon Middle School for a holiday concert on Friday, December 6th. Our next field trip will be in January, to the Science Museum. Don't forget to make your $14.00 payment.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families,
October 10
On Tuesday, Ms. Bazemore met with most of you but there were a few who couldn't attend so I wanted to share this with you.
Packets were sent home with all children about the trip. This included: a covering letter, a copy of the draft itinerary, a permission slip, a medical consent form and finally the accident insurance certificate. All three forms will need to be returned by October 31st along with the first payment of $125.00.
These were some key messages from the meeting:
- All permission slips and details re: payments will go home with students on Thursday October 10th.
- The itinerary is very much just a draft and subject to change (e.g. the visit to Dulles Airport may not happen).
- Any medication must be noted on the medical consent form and will be followed up with a phone call from the school nurse, as per WCPSS policy. (This includes simple, seemingly insignificant things like taking headache or travel sickness pills. If it's not on the form, we cannot give it to your child!)
- A nurse provided by the district will attend the trip in cases where this is deemed necessary (e.g. regular medication must be given).
- Holbrook Field Trips are the company responsible for the trip. They are a reputable company that provided DC field trips to over 70 NC schools last year.
- The trip will visit Arlington Cemetery where four Douglas students will have the opportunity to lay a wreath at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. These four students will be decided by an optional project. Further details will be given to students prior to the Spring break.
- Chaperones are welcome and encouraged but numbers were very high last year. We have to ensure that there is enough room on the buses for every child in the fifth grade. For this to happen, we are limiting the number of chaperones to 8 per class. The first 8 chaperones who pay their initial payment and turn in permission slips will be guaranteed a place. (There may be further places available once we know the number of children attending, but those who were not one of the first 8 to turn in their own deposit will have to go on a waiting list.)
- Chaperones are reminded that, though they must pay the full amount for their own place on the visit, they are attending the trip as a volunteer helper. They will be responsible for a small group of children and are very much needed to ensure a smooth, successful trip.
- Male chaperones will share a room with three boys (e.g. their son and 2 others), and female chaperones will do likewise with three girls.
I hope you are enjoying the day. Interims will be sent home tomorrow, along with the Unit 1 EL Assessment. Please take time to go over these with your child, sign, and return by Thursday of this week. The interim report reflects grades for two EL (Literacy) assessments and one Math assessment, as well as a few Science classwork grades. On some of these standards, their grade represents only one or two opportunities they've had to show proficiency at this point in the school year. They will continue working on these standards throughout the quarter and their end of quarter report card grade will represent having several opportunities to grow and improve. Please know that if they received a level 2 on a particular standard, it does not mean they have failed but rather, it is an area to focus on and improve moving forward.
I am enjoying working with your children and we look forward to many exciting things coming up in October...
Wednesday, Oct. 2: STEAM with Mrs. Bledsoe
Wednesday, Oct. 9th: Teacher Workday
Thursday, Oct. 10th: School Skate Night at United Skates
Thursday, Oct. 17th: Family Night at Douglas 5:30-7
Tuesday, Oct. 22nd: Clubs
Wednesday, Oct. 30th: Fall Pictures
Thursday, Oct. 31st: Make-Up Day
September 22
Students will bring home their Unit 1 Math Assessment tomorrow. Please find a time to go through this with your child, sign, and return. Have them explain where they notice glows and grows in their own work. I notice with this particular group one math practice in particular that could be improved right away is making sense of the problem and persevering in solving it. We will be working on this during the next two weeks! I have attached a copy of the rubric we use to assess the eight mathematical practices in math. Our next Math Assessment will be on Friday, October 4th.
I have also attached the Power Point I shared at Open House for those of you who were not able to make it. I realize life get's busy so no worries. There will be field trip information coming out this week, as well as quarter 1 interim reports on Friday.
I hope you had a nice weekend.
September 5
Class Code for Google Classroom 3g0dce
Yesterday the students joined our google classroom and worked on their first online math assignment. They collected a ten day temperature forecast and created a graph. Please remind them to finish this assignment by answering the questions on the back of their hard copies and post their finished graph to the home page of our google classroom for all to see! Those students who were not able to get into their wakeid accounts should now be able to using their student id number as their username and password. I have reset them!
Ms. Bazemore would like to remind all students and parents that the bus loop is for bus riders ONLY. There should not be any cars driving through there or students walking through there during morning and/or afternoon arrival/dismissal unless you are a bus rider. For safety reasons, Douglas protocol is for students to enter and exit through the front door of the main building and in/out the back door near Mrs. McGrath's Kindergarten classroom. We cannot monitor students who are cutting around the building or through the parking lot in the woods. Thanks!
PTA would like to remind you to join! Please go to https://www.wcpss.net/douglases for more information!
September 3
Good Morning Parents,
It was a wonderful first week of school! We enjoyed getting to know each other while jumping into some of our fifth grade curriculum as well.
In EL, we are focusing on Human Rights while reading the novel Esperanza Rising. Tonight the students will have questions to answer for homework that refer back to the chapter Las Papayas, that we are reading together in class. In Math, we are learning to classify data and track data over time using a coordinate line graph. Students will begin math homework this evening, having one sheet that goes with that day's lesson. In Science, we began out first unit relating to Force and Motion. We have a lot of fun activities ahead for this! Ask your child to tell you about the spaghetti towers, cup stacking, and hopper poppers activities from last week's lessons!
Upcoming Dates:
Monday Sept. 23rd - Vision Screening
Tuesday Sept. 24th - CLUB DAY
Thursday Sep. 19th - Open House 5:30-6:30
Friday Sept. 27th - Interims Go Home
Monday Sept. 30th - Teacher Workday
Have a nice week,
Mrs. Jennell DeFrancis
5th Grade Teacher
Douglas Creative Arts and Science Elementary
August 22, 2019
Welcome to fifth grade!
I hope all of you had a wonderful summer break. I am overjoyed to be teaching 5th grade again this year! I have worked as a classroom teacher in Wake County for eighteen years and this will be my eighth year here at Douglas. I am so thrilled to be part of such an excellent team of educators once again.
We will begin the first couple days of school getting to know each other and participating in several activities to familiarize our students with class materials, procedures, and expectations. The students will take part in many team building exercises to learn how to be successful while working within a group. We will begin creating our classroom norms by actively observing what protocols and transitions will look like. We will also discuss ways to ensure that our classroom runs smoothly.
For our first week of homework, the students need to begin having discussions at home about the goals they have as a fifth grader. How will they stay organized? How can they keep a positive attitude each day? Make new friends? Complete assignments? Be an effective learner? The students will be setting goals in class at the end of this week. This year is all about preparing for independence in middle school! They also need to find a "good fit" book to read at home for homework and begin the 30 minutes of read to self time that will be expected of them each night.
Regularly scheduled homework will begin the second week of school. If your child likes to keep track of assignments and dates in a planner they are more than welcome to use one of their own. Please know that fidget spinners/cubes and slime are prohibited in all of our fifth grade classrooms. If there is a need for a focusing device for your child, we can meet to discuss what school appropriate item would be best for them.
I look forward to getting to know you and your child. Please feel free to contact me whenever you have a question, concern, idea, or just to say hello. I can be reached at [email protected].
I look forward to a wonderful school year!
Fifth Grade Supply List:
Two 1.5-inch three-ring binders
Scissors
Zipper pencil pouch for binder
Dry erase markers
Notebook filler paper
Expo Board cleaner
1 folder with pockets
Paper Towels
2 composition books (not spiral)
1 pack copy paper
Glue sticks (Elmer’s preferred)
2 boxes facial tissues
#2 pencils – 2 packs (Ticonderoga preferred)
Colored pencils (no markers or crayons)
Ear buds labeled with student’s name
Backpack – regular size (not large), no wheels
Small umbrella or raincoat
Last name A-L: sandwich size zip-top bags
Last name M-Z: gallon size zip-top bag
I hope you are enjoying the day. Interims will be sent home tomorrow, along with the Unit 1 EL Assessment. Please take time to go over these with your child, sign, and return by Thursday of this week. The interim report reflects grades for two EL (Literacy) assessments and one Math assessment, as well as a few Science classwork grades. On some of these standards, their grade represents only one or two opportunities they've had to show proficiency at this point in the school year. They will continue working on these standards throughout the quarter and their end of quarter report card grade will represent having several opportunities to grow and improve. Please know that if they received a level 2 on a particular standard, it does not mean they have failed but rather, it is an area to focus on and improve moving forward.
I am enjoying working with your children and we look forward to many exciting things coming up in October...
Wednesday, Oct. 2: STEAM with Mrs. Bledsoe
Wednesday, Oct. 9th: Teacher Workday
Thursday, Oct. 10th: School Skate Night at United Skates
Thursday, Oct. 17th: Family Night at Douglas 5:30-7
Tuesday, Oct. 22nd: Clubs
Wednesday, Oct. 30th: Fall Pictures
Thursday, Oct. 31st: Make-Up Day