Nov. 30

Good morning my kiddos! I hope you had an amazing Thanksgiving with your friends and family, and are now ready to finish off the semester with a bang!

*IOWA testing will be held on the mornings of Dec. 3rd, 4th, and 7th. Please make sure your child arrives to school on time!

*This week we are beginning our Exhibition products. We will be meeting every afternoon with the groups so they can have plenty of time to design and create their products. Please check with your child and see if they are responsible for bringing any supplies for their group.

Here are the objectives for the week:

Math: Tuesday: Final test on Multiplying and Dividing fractions and whole numbers

 Wednesday: Converting units of measurement within Customary and Metric systems (NO converting across different systems (only customary units to customary units and metric units to metric units))

 Rule of Thumb: If you are converting from a large unit to a Small unit...Multiply! If you are converting from a Small Unit to a large unit...Divide!

Reading: Review of reading comprehension skills

Spelling

NO Wordly Wise!

Science: Wednesday- unit test on Forms of Energy.

The students have a study guide with them as well as their Science Journals and their Science Textbooks. Feel free to review any videos from previous posts on Forms of Energy.

Social Studies: Bill of Rights

Spelling Bee!

Roberts Spelling Bee Information

Students in first grade through fifth grade are invited to participate in the Roberts Elementary preliminary grade-level spelling bee. Each grade-level bee will be held before school on December 9^th at 7:15 am in the designated grade-level classroom (see below). This is a student-only event. Parents will be invited to the school-wide spelling bee on January 7^th.

First	Boston
Second	Cornelius
Third	Engen
Fourth	Heemer
Fifth	Ruff

Students interested in participating in the class bees should sign up with their teacher no later than Monday, November 30^th by the end of the school day. Your child’s teacher has already given copies of the spelling lists to each interested child so that they can begin studying.

On testing day, please have your child arrive between 6:55 am and 7:10 am- late students will not be permitted into the classroom. 20 words will be selected from the designated grade level spelling lists and the participating students will write the words on a sheet of paper. When the test concludes, students will be escorted to their designated morning arrival areas.

Administrators will then grade each test and winners will be selected based on the highest amount of words spelled correctly. There is a possibility that more than one student from each grade level will advance to the school-level bee. Each grade-level winner will then receive a spelling packet of words to study and prepare for the school-wide bee which will be held on January 7^th. Winners of the school-wide Roberts spelling bee will then qualify to participate in the district-level bee in February.

If you have any questions, please email Mrs. Turek at mturek@houstonisd.org

November 16

*Early Dismissal on Wednesday: Kids will be dismissed at 12:30 pm. Please make sure you have a way for your child to be picked up early that day.

*CoGAT test this Tuesday. This is the 30 minute timed test that will help identify your child for the GT/Vanguard programs for Middle Schools that offer a Gifted program. Please make sure your child is at school on time, we will begin at 8:15.

Here are this week's objectives:

Math: Multiplication of fractions and whole numbers

Thursday - dividing whole numbers by unit fractions and unit fractions divided by whole numbers

Visuals of dividing whole numbers and fractions
Keep Change Flip...dividing fractions!

Reading: Poetry unit. The students are busy understanding all of the elements of Poetry and applying those elements as they dissect a poem. This week, the students will choose two forms of poetry and create their own poems.

Test on the elements of Poetry and Figurative language on Friday.

Wordly Wise and Spelling Test this week. *Don't forget for Wordly Wise: go to www.quizlet.com type in Wordly Wise Book 5 Lesson 12 for extra practice on this week's words!

Science: This week we are wrapping up our unit on Light Energy! Feel free to review any videos on light energy from previous Blog posts.

Social Studies: Revolutionary War Test on Tuesday. The students have a study guide and their Social Studies journals to study from.

November 9

The Fun Run has been postponed to Monday, so please wear your fun-run shirt!

Next week’s objectives:

Math: Order of Operations (without exponents) PEMDAS Test on WEDNESDAY!

ü  On Thursday, we start multiplying fractions

Reading: Poetry

ü  Poetry Project (pick a poem, analyze, and memorize to present)

ü  Poetry Hwk Every day!

ü  Wordly Wise and Spelling Test this week.

Science: Forms of energy

ü  Sound Energy

ü  Light Energy

ü  Go to the Energy and Light section, watch the videos titled Heat, Light, Light Absorption/Reflection/Refraction. Science Study Jams

Social Studies/Exhibition: End of Revolutionary War

ü  Test on Revolutionary War on Thursday

ü  Look over class notes on timeline and key people

Exhibition:  We are done with our research, are collecting the Glossary terms, and writing our 5 paragraph research essays.