Friday, March 29, 2019

Makerfaire was a hit!

Our 3rd and 4th grade students are quite the makers and we had a great time with our makerfaire project.  We would like to share the experience with you below.
We had bakers, artists, builders, scientists, and more!



Welcome to the Faire!






















Thursday, January 17, 2019

End of the 6 weeks approaches.

Sorry for the hiatus of updates.  We have been communicating through upper school update.  Those will now be posted here, in case you miss the e-mail, along with more fun updates of kids activities in class.

 Friday, January 18th,  is the last day of the 3rd 6 weeks and is an Early Release Day: 12:45 p.m., no extended day.   
 Monday January 21st is a student holiday, MLK Jr. Day, and there will be no school that day.  
Make sure and get any incomplete work or redo's in no later than January 18th.  We will not accept any work after this date.   The beginning of the 4th 6 weeks is Tuesday January 22nd.  



Notes from Mrs. Conover (Math) bconover@braination.net  
All three grades will continue with "Mad Minutes" this week.  This helps to practice math fact fluency.    

3rd 4th and 5th grades all have a project due on Thursday, please remember to wear presentation shirt.  They were all given a review today, to be completed by tomorrow. We will review it tomorrow in preparation of a 6 weeks test on Wednesday. 


Notes from Mrs. Crow (Reading) gcrow@braination.net  
I conferenced with all students today and tomorrow about their grade for the 6 weeks and discussed with them the results of their work this 6 weeks. 

All grades fiction stories are to be published and turned in on January 17th.  This project was assigned in November and has been completed in parts throughout the 6 weeks. We will be creating our own library of authors and students will give book talks Thursday and Friday before books are able to be read by their classmates.  I am excited to see how our little authors are pushing themselves to add details to their writing and can't wait to read the final versions of all the stories we have been discussing. 

No tutoring for 5th grade invitees due to early release this week.  I will not be having reading tutoring for invited students next week.  I am out for training next week. 


Ms. Raiford Science and Social Studies Notes araiford@braination.net  
In science, 3rd grade is reviewing content about soil and slow and fast changes to Earth's surface for a quiz. And they are also going to be introduced to natural resources.  
4th grade is reviewing content on soil, slow changes to Earth's surface, and natural resources for a quiz.  
5th grade is moving forward in science to start talking about weather and climate patterns. 

In social studies, 3rd grade is reviewing levels of government and citizenship. 
 4th grade is reviewing the European influences in Texas and the explorers that came through.  
And 5th grade is continuing the nation as a new country and its historic documents written to govern it.