Wow! Winter definitely didn't want us to forget about it, did it?
Friday Folders (which will come home on Monday)
*There are electronic copies of some of the papers included in the Friday folders, if you want to print them off, fill them out and send them in on Monday, that is fine, if not, there are paper copies in the Friday folder.*
- Unit 5 Math Test
- Please look over the math test with your student, then sign and return it in the Friday Folder.
- Conference Time Request Form: Due Thursday, January 30
- Please choose the top 3 times that work for you and your family.
- We do our best to accommodate a time that works for everyone.
- We look forward to meeting with everyone.
- Here is the form.
- Chat and Chew
- Chat and Chew is a group that meets during lunch on set days to discuss a book they are reading.
- Parents can sign up to lead groups if it works in their schedule and they would like to.
- You can order the books (it's on the form) or if you already have the books, you can use them.
- Forms are due January 31 and no late forms are accepted due to planning and scheduling or meetings and groups.
- Here is the form.
- Book Order Forms
- The students saw the book orders on Ms. Mottaz's desk and got really excited about them, so they are coming home this week.
- You can order online and our class code is RZ6KY.
- Orders are due by February 7.
- Just a reminder, this is completely optional.
- Also, the Spring Book Fair is at the end of the month and some of the books may be available then as well, so you can wait o shop at the book fair also if you would like.
- As a fun activity/surprise for the students, we are trying to get Valentines from different places across the US and the world and map where the love comes from. We have posted out Twitter and reached out to contacts that we have across the country and the world. If you have family/friends across the US or the world that would like to send us a Valentine, we would love that! Our address is:
Attn: Team Moss
5151 S. Hwy 163
Columbia, MO 65203
Important Upcoming Events
- Wednesday, January 29: Early Dismiss at 12:10 p.m.
- Please let us know if your child is going home a different way than normal.
- Thursday, January 30: Conference Time Request Forms Due
- Here is the form.
- Friday, January 31: Chat and Chew Forms Due
- Friday, January 31: 100th Day of School
- Thursday, February 13: Valentine's Party at 1:45 p.m.
- We will pass out Valentines before the party.
- Students can choose to pass out to just their homeroom class (Ross (currently 22 students) or Mottaz (currently 23 students)) or to all of Team Moss (currently 45 students)
- We recommend students just write the "From" portion of the Valentine as it makes it easier to pass out when there aren't specific names on each.
- Friday, February 14 and Monday, February 17: No School (Teacher Work Day and President's Day)
- Tuesday, February 18-Thursday, February 23: Team Moss Conferences
- Monday, February 24: Special Friends and Family Day
- Special Friends and Family will attend specials with the students.
- Our specials start at 1:35 p.m. If the special family/friend is planning to do some shopping at the Book Fair, they may pull their students a few minutes early to shop.
- Monday, February 24-Friday, February 28: Book Fair
- Specific hours will come closer to the Book Fair. Students will be creating wish lists so parents/guardians/Book Fairies will know which books the students are excited to read.
- March 9-March 13: Read Week
- If you would like to sign up to be a mystery reader or if a family member/family friend would like to sign up, here is the link. The kids love when grandparents or older siblings come in to read. Of course, they love to see their parents also.
- https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c45aca62ca2fb6-read1
Next Week's Learning
Reading
- We will start our week long study of expository text next week.
- Students will be learning about how people express themselves through music and will be using evidence from the text to support their answers about the stories we read.
- Almost everyone finished publishing this week!
- In the next week or so, we will start to digitally publish these as well. The goal (time allowing) is to have them digitally published by conferences so we can share them with you then.
- We are starting Unit 6. This unit covers bar graphs, estimation and word problems.
- Next week, we will focus mainly on types of word problems and how to solve them. Some of the word problems have multiple steps, while others present the information in different ways and the students will be learning how to determine which information is needed and what to do with it.
- Next week, we will move onto weathering and erosion and how it changes the Earth.
- Trick words for this unit are picture, learn and Earth. For the additional 2 trick words, students will be looking at their unit 8 test to see what words they still need to practice.
- This unit covers -ir, -er and -ur. All of these spelling patterns make the /er/ sound so we are teaching students about the spelling options section of their Monster book which is similar to a dictionary.
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