We miss you!

Ms. Rahaman and I are hanging out today and we are talking about how much we miss you!

Be safe and have fun!

What are you doing?? Tell me in the comments!

Field Day!

 Our schedule consists of a relaxing morning, then we will play tug-o-war at 11:00 (we'll probably win), then we will eat lunch, and at around 12:30 we will begin the outdoor rotations. If you are thinking of coming, the outdoor rotations are where the serious fun takes place!

We had a long discussion in class today about what the kiddos needed for field day, and I gave them a sticky note to put the list on.....but just in case they forget:

- A full set of extra clothes (including underwear) some of the rotations have water elements, and they will get wet.

- Kids can wear crocs or water shoes for the rotations if they would like (please no flip flops) so they do not get their good tennis shoes wet or dirty. If you do not have crocs, no worries, and old pair of shoes that you don't mind getting messy will do just fine. However, it will help if they are easy to get on and off as they will have to remove their shoes for the inflatible rotations, and I am sure they don't want to waste a lot of time in trasition.

- We will be eating lunch in the room, so if possible send a lunch from home. The lunch room will not be serving hot lunch tomorrow. They will have sack lunches availiable for kids who forget their lunch or for those who were unable to bring one.

- Be sure to send your student with some type of water bottle. It will be hot outside, and we don't want them to be dehydrated. There will be jug coolers outside for them to refill their water bottles as needed.

- If you would like, you may send in a treat for the class. This is one of the few days a year we can give them sweets. If you do send something though, please send enough for the whole class. There are 22 in each class.

- Field Day shirts were sent home today. Please don't let your kids write on them or cut the sides until AFTER tomorrow.

I think that is it, but if you have any questions, please let me know.

Homework Changed to GAGGLE!

We've set up our own GAGGLE accounts. It is a safe and secure email service. The kids can only email people in our school district. If they try to send someone outside the district an email (like you), it will be blocked and I will have to approve. I can look in any of their accounts and the messages are automatically blocked if anything inappropriate is sent. We've learned a lot about friendly emails, and writing complete sentences! Tonight's homework is to write an email to someone in their class.

Please email me if you have any questions!

margaret.pickert@fortbendisd.com or now at Gaggle margaret.pickert@fbisd.gaggle.net 

Objectives

This Week’s Objectives:

Reading: Students will study the elements of a print ad, and then students will design print ads for their cereal boxes.

Science: Students will continue to investigate how water makes changes to the Earth’s surface, including weathering, erosion, and deposition.

Social Studies: Students will complete a review poster that covers the most important information learned in Texas History this year.

Writing: Students will publish and illustrate their Modern Day Fairy Tales. They will share their stories with their book buddies on Thursday.

Math:  Students will continue to explore division with 2-digit divisors.  We will also review our metric measurement system by completing the “Metric Olympics.”

SPELLING TEST MAY 20TH!

Dentist
Final Finish
Narrow
Shelter
Ahead
Corner
Hollow
Divide
Famous
Recent
Silver
Capture
Cabin
Dinner
Minus Minute
Value
Reward
Broken
APPRECIATE
CANDIDATE
NOCTURNAL
INTELLIGENT
LEGISLATURE

Spelling Test May 20th!

Dentist	Corner	Capture	Reward
Final	Hollow	Cabin	Broken
Finish	Divide	Dinner	APPRECIATE
Narrow	Famous	Minus	NOCTURNAL
Shelter	Recent	Minute	INTELLIGENT
Ahead	Silver	Value	LEGISLATURE
			CANDIDATES

Objectives

This Week’s Objectives:

Reading: Students will study the advertising tricks used to sell cereal. They will then design a cereal box for a cereal brand they create being sure to use the advertising tricks we have been learning about. Students will then write a commercial to advertise their product.

Science:  Students will complete our study of the Solar System. We will then begin investigating changes in Earth’s Surface due to weather, erosion, and deposition.

Social Studies: Students will explore the changes the cattle industry and railroads caused in Texas at the turn of the century.

Writing: Students will revise and edit their modern day fairy tales and conference with the teacher to polish their hard work. Students will then begin their final copy.

Math:  Students will continue Mini-Society in their homeroom classes.  We will begin interviewing for jobs in our society. We will also be learning about adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators, comparing and ordering fractions with unlike denominators; and comparing and ordering fractions and decimals on a number line.

A Creative Tale by Alexis

What A Day                   

One day in a small land called Perfect Canyon a little girl was born, her name was Pickert while she was growing up she painted, played soccer, colored, and took pictures. While Pickert grew up she met a man named Justin Bieber. They dated for 5 years then one hot day Justin took Pickert to a huge hill to look at there territory once they got to the top they saw lumber, plastic, and lots of traffic. Then all the sudden Justin ask “Will you marry me?” Pickert thought then all the sudden Pickert said……………….”YES I will!” she exclaimed as proud as a clown. They moved into a palace and planted crops but did she know that who she was dating was danger! A few days later they got marred Justin’s dad attend the wedding. While the flower girl was collected her flowers Pickert finished her makeup then the music turned up and the flower girl walked out with a huge smile and though flowers everywhere. Then Pickert came out in white gown and smiled. Her last name turned into Seldom Pickert tried to support herself from falling so she walked slower when she was there Justin’s dad asked the questions then said “you may kiss the bride!” That night they had stew with pepper, shrimp, carrots, and green beans. She talked to her friends and family then a lady came up and said  “you made the wrong choice he is the bad guy!”When they got home from the wedding Justin proposed to  take her to the movies the went to watch kiss and tell. When it was done they came home to go to bed while they were Justin went to get some water, And tripped down the stairs he hit his head and died when Pickert went to get some water she saw Justin and said “yea he is dead.” But at the same time she was sad he did not survive. It took a lot of effort for her to get over his death. A few days later that day she heard a engine in front of her house a Mexican lady come out and were speaking Spanish then a interpreter the Spanish lady asked the interpreter to accompany to the bathroom. When she was back she started to talk about Justin and what he did to make him bad, even though that made Pickert mad she planned a funeral that coasted a fortune. The night before the funeral she took all his things and through them out, she was very thirsty and found some water on his dresser she took a drink….. it tasted nasty she spit it out but it was to late she drunk some she stated to fell sick and went to rest in her bed the next day she dressed in black and made some pictures it coast so much she asked her mom if she could borrow some money. She said “yes,” the funeral lasted 4 hours Pickert got older and older but never died by the time she was 1million and thirty she died….but had a great live!!!!

        The  end!

Do you have a story you want to see published? Type it up and send it to Ms. Pickert!

Library Notice

No Spelling test on May 13th!

NO SPELLING!!

Enjoy the break!

Objectives for the week of May 9th!

This Week’s Objectives:

Reading: We will continue our study on reading and media literacy. We will discuss the need to think critically when we read and hear messages. As a class we will talk about the impact of public service announcements, social media, television, and advertisements.  The students will also create their own public service announcements in class.

Science:  Students will continue our study into the Solar System. We will discuss the different planets in the Solar System and space exploration. Also, National Lab Day is on Wednesday and all of our science classes will be attempting to create a robot that can shoot a basketball!

Social Studies:  Students will continue our study on the impacts of the Civil War on Texas. We will be using the textbooks and a recent Time for Kids commemorating the anniversary of the war.

Writing: We will explore fairy tales and how they are written. Although tales are written very differently from around the world, they focus on certain lessons, points, and core values. We will begin by comparing the writing in the different versions and then begin writing our rough draft for our fairy tale.  

Math:  Students will continue Mini-Society in their homeroom classes.  We will begin interviewing for jobs in our society. We will also be learning about adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators, comparing and ordering fractions with unlike denominators; and comparing and ordering fractions and decimals on a number line.

Ring!



Today we saw a ring around the sun at recess time. Shortly, after fourth grade saw it, Mrs. Brewster came over the announcements to encourage classes to go see it. It is actually a 22' Halo. You can read about them here. It was pretty cool that we got to see it!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Ms. Pickert

Spelling Test May 6th

Million
collect
lumber
pepper
plastic
borrow
support
thirty
perfect
attend
canyon
traffic
fortune
danger
soccer
engine
picture
survive
seldom
effort
TERRITORY
ACCOMPANY
INTERPRETER
CORPS
PROPOSED

Objectives

This Week’s Objectives:

Reading: We will begin our study on reading and media literacy. We will discuss the need to think critically when we read and hear messages. As a class we will talk about the impact of public service announcements, social media, television, and advertisements.  The students will also create their own public service announcements in class.

Science:  We will conclude our investigation of the water cycle. This week we are beginning our study into the Solar System. We will discuss the order and movement of the planets and learn more about the Sun and Stars.

Social Studies:  Students will study the impacts of the Civil War on Texas. We will be using the textbooks and a recent Time for Kids commemorating the anniversary of the war.

Writing: We will explore fairy tales and how they are written. Although tales are written very differently from around the world, they focus on certain lessons, points, and core values. We will begin by comparing the writing in the different versions and then towards the end of the week we will begin the planning stages for writing a modern day fairy tale.  

Math:  Students will begin Mini-Society!  We are beginning our discussion in math starting with scarcity, supply and demand, and trade. We will also be learning about adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators. There will be a fraction assessment on Friday.

What You Know About TAKS?

A presentation from Yellow Group!

Stone fox yellow group.ppt2

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Objectives

This Week’s Objectives:

Reading: We will continue Reading Detective Academy this week. It is our intensive review camp to ensure our students are ready to do their best on the TAKS test at the end of the month. This week’s focus will be on comparing and contrasting characters, settings, and story plots. We will continue to work on test taking strategies.

Science:  We will continue investigating the water cycle and weather patterns, including measuring and recording changes in weather and making predictions about the weather using weather maps and symbols.

Social Studies:  Students will continue their investigation into the causes of the Mexican War. We will also integrate history through our research topics in reading.

Writing: We will continue our on poetry writing where students will investigate and write various forms of poetry. Poetry Café April 29^th.

Math:  Students will review objective 3 which include the attributes of 2 and 3 dimensional shapes as well as fractions and decimals on the number line.  They will be assessed on these skills Friday. 

SPELLING!

There will be NO SPELLING TEST the week of April 18th!

The Clockwork Three

 

The Clockwork Three by Matthew J. Kirby was a complicated story of three children. The three kids have some problems, big problems. One supports her family financial, and the other two are orphans, eventually their stories intertwine and they solve a mystery... 

The book is a tough read, but I definitely recommend it for someone looking for an interesting challenge.

Social Studies Vocabulary!

Chapter 7 Vocabulary

Quiz on April 15

Debt: money owed to someone else

Term: a set period of time

Redback: a kind of money created by the Republic of Texas; it was red in color

Archive: a collection of government records

Slave state: a state in which slavery was allowed

Free state: a state in which slavery was not allowed

Abolitionist: a person who worked to end slavery

Manifest Destiny: the belief that the United States was meant to stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

Public lands: the land that people of a state or country own

Negotiate: to discuss a problem to try to reach an agreement

Invasion: an attempt to take over a place by force

Cession: land that is given to another country

Diversity: the state of being made up of different kinds of people

Stagecoach: a horse-drawn, four-wheeled vehicle that carried passengers and mail on a set route

Descendant: a person’s child, grandchild, and so on

Spelling Words- Test on April 15th!

Spelling Words

Unused

Refresh

Dislike

Replace

Unpaid

Redo

Disorder

Unplanned

Distrust

Rewind

Untrue

Unload

Recall

Displease

Uneven

Rebuild

Restart

Uncover

Untidy

Discolor

GIGANTIC

MINIATURE

ESPECIALLY

DELIBERATELY

JEALOUS

Objectives for the Week of Aprill 11

This Week’s Objectives:

Reading: We will begin Reading Detective Academy this week. It is our intensive review camp to ensure our students are ready to do their best on the TAKS test at the end of the month. This week’s focus will be on context clues, figurative language, main idea and test taking strategies.

Science:  Students will review the science District Assessment that we took in March. They will also continue investigating the water cycle and weather patterns, including measuring and recording changes in weather and making predictions about the weather using weather maps and symbols.

Social Studies:  Students will continue their investigation into the causes of the Mexican War. We will also integrate history through our research topics in reading.

Writing: Students will complete their research papers using the “Stop Light Writing” format. We will also begin our unit on poetry writing where students will investigate and write various forms of poetry.

Math: Students will continue our TAKS Test review.  This week we will focus on Objective 6. We will focus on making generalizations, missing info, time and elapsed time, and reviewing our strategies. We will complete review packets and another TAKS Release Test in class during small group, as well as play review games.  Students will also have a homework packet for review each week.  We will check 2 pages each day.

Island of the Blue Dolphins Presentation

Island of the blue dolphins purple

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Objectives for the Week of April 4 - 8

This Week’s Objectives:

Reading: This week we will finish our research on extreme bullying. Bullying can be linked to oppression, wars, and anytime a group of people are without rights. The students will choose a topic of extreme bullying (Holocaust, Slavery, Women’s Suffrage, etc.) to research. We will then begin practicing our strategies for the TAKS test in April.

Science:  Students will begin investigating the water cycle and weather patterns, including measuring and recording changes in weather and making predictions about the weather using weather maps and symbols.

Social Studies:  Students will continue their investigation into the causes of the Texas Revolution. We will also integrate history through our research topics in reading.

Writing: This week students will be participating in STAAR field testing for the state of Texas.  We will be using “stop light” writing and expository writing techniques to write our research papers.

Math: Students will continue our TAKS Test review.  This week we will focus on Objective 2.  Our focus will be on describing the relationship between two sets of related data such as ordered pairs in a table, using compatible numbers and rounding to solve problems, and using patterns understand basic fact patterns.  We will complete review packets and another TAKS Release Test in class during small group, as well as play review games.  Students will also have a homework packet for review each week.  We will check 2 pages each day.

Spelling Test on April 8th!

Glance	Marriage	Manage
Judge	Baggage	Palace
Damage	Office	Bandage
Package	Message	GRADUATE
Twice	Bridge	SYMBOL
Stage	Chance	DISOBEY
Carriage	Notice	CONFIDENCE
Since	Ridge	CEREMONY
Practice