Week of the 18th

                            February 18^th-21st

toparaji@iwcs.k12.va.us

Reading: SOLs:

Topic: Famous Americans

Writing Focus: Drawing conclusions

History ~ 2.2 b, 2.3 a,b,c,d,e, 2.4 a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,I,j

Writing ~ 2.10 d,e,h,i

Word Talk: au and aw sounds

Math- counting money up to $2.00 dollars

Some friends are not completing the reading assignment on a nightly basis It will be logged the same as last year, and the expectation is that students read 30 minutes. Also, please have them log in two steps and place your signature beside it. On a daily basis, we should have 4 steps. The time may be broken into intervals. PLEASE SIGN READING LOGS NIGHTLY

Homework

Do your know your power goal?

Monday   President’s Day

Tuesday: 2 steps; ST MATH

Wednesday : 2 steps; ST MATH;

Thursday: Have some quality family time; read for 30 mins and log in two steps;

Friday: 2 steps

Important Dates

2/17 – No school: Presidents Day

2/21 – 100th Day

2/26 – Black History Wax Museum Expo (6:00 p.m.)

2/27 – Kids Heart Challenge evening event

2/28 – College and military staff spirit day

3/2 – Book Fair begins / Teacher preview 8:15 a.m.

3/6 – Grand Lunch

3/9 – Book Fair ends

3/12 – Spring pictures / School Board meeting (6:00 p.m.)

3/16 –  No students: Staff PD

Week of Feb 10th

Mrs.Oparaji’s Team

                               February 10th

toparaji@iwcs.k12.va.us

Reading: SOLs:

Reading    2.8b Make and confirm predictions

2.8d Set a purpose for reading (text features)

Vocabulary      2.6f Use vocabulary from other content areas

Writing 2.12e Organize information in writing or a visual display.

History- Famous Americans

Some friends are not completing their reading assignment on a nightly basis It will be logged the same as last year, and the expectation is that students read 30 minutes. Also, please have them log in two steps and place your signature beside it. On a daily basis, we should have 4 steps. The time may be broken into intervals. PLEASE SIGN READING LOGS NIGHTLY

Math – graphing

Homework

Do your know your power goal?

Monday   read 2 steps, st math

Tuesday: 2 steps; ST MATH

Wednesday : 2 steps; ST MATH;

Thursday: Have some quality family time; read for 30 mins and log in two steps; ST MATH

Friday: 2 steps

Important Dates

2/10 – Kids Heart Challenge kick-off during Encore

 2/12 – Report cards go home

 2/13 – School Board meeting (6:00 p.m.)

2/14- Valentine’s Day – “No” party but extended snack+))))))

2/17 – No school: Presidents Day

 2/27 – Kids Heart Challenge evening event

Week of Feb 3rd

                                February 3^rd

The ground hog saw shadow. Maybe we will have a winter this year!

Today we will make oobleck in class to discuss states of matter

toparaji@iwcs.k12.va.us

Reading: SOLs:

Reading    2.8b Make and confirm predictions

2.8d Set a purpose for reading (text features)

Vocabulary      2.6f Use vocabulary from other content areas

Writing 2.12e Organize information in writing or a visual display.

History- Famous Americans

Some friends are not completing their reading assignment on a nightly basis It will be logged the same as last year, and the expectation is that students read 30 minutes. Also, please have them log in two steps and place your signature beside it. On a daily basis, we should have 4 steps. The time may be broken into intervals. PLEASE SIGN READING LOGS NIGHTLY

Math – graphing

Homework

Do your know your power goal?

Monday   read 2 steps, st math

Tuesday: 2 steps; ST MATH

Wednesday : 2 steps; ST MATH;

Thursday: Have some quality family time; read for 30 mins and log in two steps; ST MATH

Friday: 2 steps

Important Dates

2/4 – BayPort Savings Day

 2/5 – Class picture day

2/6 – Yearbook picture day for new students and staff

 2/6 – “Stories with a Twist” presentations

 2/7 – IWCS GO RED day

 2/10 – Kids Heart Challenge kick-off during Encore

 2/12 – Report cards go home

 2/13 – School Board meeting (6:00 p.m.)

2/17 – No school: Presidents Day

 2/27 – Kids Heart Challenge evening event

Week of Jan 27th

Mrs.Oparaji’s Team

                            January 27^th-31th

WE had a compliment party this past Friday and we are already filling our jar up for the third time. Way to go, kiddos!!!!

Book orders will be in soon!!!!

Today we will make oobleck in class to discuss states of matter

There is no school for students on Thurs. and Fri.

WE will have a Super Bowl Party in class on Wednesday!(Details at the bottom of newsletter)

toparaji@iwcs.k12.va.us

Reading: SOLs:

Reading    2.8b Make and confirm predictions

2.8d Set a purpose for reading (text features)

Vocabulary      2.6f Use vocabulary from other content areas

Writing 2.12e Organize information in writing or a visual display.

Science 2.1 Demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices

asking questions and defining problems 2.3 Investigate and understand matter can exist in different phases

c) heating and cooling can change the phases of matter

(K.3 investigate and understand physical properties can be described by a. color b. shapes/forms c. texture d. relative size & weight)

(1.3 investigate and understand objects are made from materials that can be described by their physical properties: a. objects are made of one or more materials with different physical properties b. when an object is changed in size most physical properties remain the same)

Some friends are not completing their reading assignment on a nightly basis It will be logged the same as last year, and the expectation is that students read 30 minutes. Also, please have them log in two steps and place your signature beside it. On a daily basis, we should have 4 steps. The time may be broken into intervals. PLEASE SIGN READING LOGS NIGHTLY

Science: We will be working on states of matter( we will be making oobleck in the class on Monday to show changes of matter

Math Review of all skills from this nine weeks: even and odd, subtracting and adding with regrouping, place value, greater than and less than, and ordinal numbers

Homework

Do your know your power goal?

Monday   read 2 steps, st math

Tuesday: 2 steps; ST MATH

Wednesday : 2 steps; ST MATH; super bowl party

Thursday: Have some quality family time; read for 30 mins and log in two steps; ST MATH

Friday: 2 steps

Important Dates

*Monday, January 27        260 Steps    Library

*Tuesday, January 21       264 Steps    Engineering

*Wednesday, January 22    268 Steps    P.E

Upcoming Events

· January 29:  End of the 2^nd Nine Weeks/1^st Semester

· January 30:  No School (Teacher Workday)

· January 31:  No School (Professional Development Day)

Super Bowl Party: The students will rotate through Super Bowl themed literacy stations:

*read a step while reading leveled football readers

*”Playing” with words- 2 syllables words and game board

* Casey’s Super Bowl comprehension passage ad questions

* Super Bowl Prediction: students write their prediction for the outcome of the Super bowl

* and chips and salsa

We are looking for fathers 2 to 3(moms are welcome too ) who can help out with the rotations

Week of January 22nd

                        January 21^st-24th, 2020

Happy 2020!

We will have our compliment party this Friday due to many sick kids in the class !!!! 

Book orders are due 1/21/20

Thanks for the donations for the ice cream. The kids had fun making the ice cream and talking about the properties of matter. We could use gift cards to the Dollar Store to use for other projects. WE will be making oobleck this week!

toparaji@iwcs.k12.va.us

Reading: SOLs:

Reading    2.8b Make and confirm predictions

2.8d Set a purpose for reading (text features)

Vocabulary      2.6f Use vocabulary from other content areas

Writing 2.12e Organize information in writing or a visual display.

Science 2.1 Demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices

a.            asking questions and defining problems 2.3 Investigate and understand matter can exist in different phases

c) heating and cooling can change the phases of matter

(K.3 investigate and understand physical properties can be described by a. color b. shapes/forms c. texture d. relative size & weight)

(1.3 investigate and understand objects are made from materials that can be described by their physical properties: a. objects are made of one or more materials with different physical properties b. when an object is changed in size most physical properties remain the same)

Some friends are not completing their reading assignment on a nightly basis It will be logged the same as last year, and the expectation is that students read 30 minutes. Also, please have them log in two steps and place your signature beside it. On a daily basis, we should have 4 steps. The time may bebroken into intervals. PLEASE SIGN READING LOGS NIGHTLY

Science: We will be working on states of matter( we will be making oobleck in the class on Friday to show changes of matter

Math 2.6- determine the difference of two whole numbers each 99 or less, using various methods; ordinal numbers

Homework

Do your know your power goal?

Monday   MLK day ; holiday

Tuesday: 2 steps; ST MATH

Wednesday : 2 steps; ST MATH

Thursday:Have some quality family time; read for 30 mins and log in two steps; ST MATH 

Friday: 2 steps

Important Dates

*Monday, January 20        240 Steps    Library

*Tuesday, January 21       244 Steps    Engineering

*Wednesday, January 22    248 Steps    P.E

*Thursday, January 23     252 Steps    SOAR

Extended resource 2:05- music and computer science

*Friday, December 24     256 Steps    Art

Upcoming Events

· January 29:  End of the 2^ndNine Weeks/1^stSemester

· January 30:  No School (Teacher Workday)

· January 31: No School (Professional Development Day)

Compliment party on Friday- I have it covered!!!!

Week of Jan 13th

January 13^th-17th, 2020

Happy 2020!

WE have another compliment party! We will have it on Friday!!!! What an awesome week we had back!!!!!

Book orders are due 1/21/20

We need supplies for Ice cream in a bag!

Ice Cream in a Bag on Wednesday

WE need 2 boxes of rock salt

Small bottle of vanilla extract

6 quarts of half and half

1 small bag of sugar

toparaji@iwcs.k12.va.us

Reading: SOLs:

Reading    2.8b Make and confirm predictions

2.8d Set a purpose for reading (text features)

Vocabulary      2.6f Use vocabulary from other content areas

Writing 2.12e Organize information in writing or a visual display.

Science 2.1 Demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices

a.       asking questions and defining problems (Ice Cream in a Bag)

e) developing and using models (Ice Cream in a Bag)

2.3 Investigate and understand matter can exist in different phases

c) heating and cooling can change the phases of matter

(K.3 investigate and understand physical properties can be described by a. color b. shapes/forms c. texture d. relative size & weight)

(1.3 investigate and understand objects are made from materials that can be described by their physical properties: a. objects are made of one or more materials with different physical properties b. when an object is changed in size most physical properties remain the same)

Some friends are not completing their reading assignment on a nightly basis It will be logged the same as last year, and the expectation is that students read 30 minutes. Also, please have them log in two steps and place your signature beside it. On a daily basis, we should have 4 steps. The time may bebroken into intervals. PLEASE SIGN READING LOGS NIGHTLY

Science: We will be working on states of matter( Making ice cream in a bag on Wednesday)

Math 2.6- determine the difference of two whole numbers each 99 or less, using various methods

Homework

Do your know your power goal?

Monday   2 steps, st math

Tuesday: 2 steps; ST MATH

Wednesday : 2 steps; ST MATH

Thursday:Have some quality family time; read for 30 mins and log in two steps; ST MATH 

Friday: 2 steps

Important Dates

*Monday, January 13        224 Steps    Library

*Tuesday, January 14        226 Steps    Engineering

*Wednesday, January 15    230 Steps    P.E

*Thursday, January 16     234 Steps    SOAR

Extended resource 2:05- music and computer science

*Friday, December 17      238 Steps    Art

Upcoming Events

· January 20:  No School (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

· January 29:  End of the 2^ndNine Weeks/1^stSemester

· January 30:  No School (Teacher Workday)

· January 31: No School (Professional Development Day)

Special event:::::

Ice Cream in a Bag on Wednesday

WE need 2 boxes of rock salt

Small bottle of vanilla

6 quarts of half and half

 1 small bag of sugar

Compliment party on Friday- I have it covered!!!