Mrs. Kranau's School News~2/21‏

Dear Parents/Guardians~ **FLASHCARDS: Please make sure your child is doing the required set of flashcards each week! **Math Treats (extra credit) are due Tuesday, Feb. 23. New Math Treats will be due Tuesday, March 9. **Math Activity Checklist is due April 16. **Powerschool is available for you to see your child's grades and lunch accounts. If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Uridil. curidil@esu9.org **Students should be taking home graded papers, as they are either passed out in class or put in mailboxes. **Hopefully, you are seeing graded/corrected math papers. **New Scholastic Book Orders will be passed out this week. They will be due Wednesday, March 17. Parents PLEASE WRITE CHECKS TO: SCHOLASTIC. Book orders are on-line. www.scholastic.com Passwords needed: kranausclass and bookorder. Thank you for your online and paper orders!!! **Please be watching for the PAW TRACKS newsletter that is put in mailboxes every Tuesday. **Students that have three or more strikes are in the "Reach for the Stars" program. He/she needs to be checking in with Mrs. Miller, Mr. Uridil or Mrs. Keogh each morning before school starts and before he/she goes home. **Our school website is www.bluehillschools.org Some 5th graders have been researching his/her mathematician already, and I have listed many mathematician websites on our school website. **The DEADLINE for Thramer's and Allen's receipts is approaching fast! Please be saving Thramer's and Allen's receipts. You may drop your receipt in the box designated Blue Hill at Thramer's or drop off the receipts at school. Continue to save Box Tops 4 Education, Campbell Soup Labels, old cell phones, and empty ink cartridges and other fundraisers. Thramer's and Allen's receipts are due March 31. Your support is truly appreciated! Remember: I included information regarding a Cartridge/Cell Phone Drive in the school's newsletter. Thank you for bringing in cartridges, cell phones, and other items for our "Drive". 4th Grade: --Multiplying 2 Digit Numbers; Parentheses; Dividing w/Remainders; and Discussing Years, Decades, and Centuries will be covered this week. --A Quiz after Les. 55 is scheduled for Wednesday. Students need to know vocabulary terms also. --Please be Working on Flashcards... Thank you to the 4th graders that are doing flashcards each week! ;o) --If you get a chance, please give your child some subtraction and/or division problems. --Highlight Vocabulary Terms to Lesson 55. --Students had to write the basic facts that were difficult for him/her on index cards. These index cards should be reviewed every day!! Please ask your child if he/she has these index cards and if not, go over some facts with him/her and if they don't know the fact, it should be written down. --Students need to be correcting every daily math assignment! --We talked in class that any facts that are difficult for your child should be written on a piece of oak tag and then used as an AR book mark. I have pieces of oak tag available for your child. Only a couple students asked for the piece of oak tag last week. 6th Grade: --Adding Mixed Numbers, Adding 3 or More Fractions, and Changing Mixed Numbers to Improper Fractions are concepts that will be covered this week. --Students will have part of Monday and Thursday to work on the February Dynamath Issue. It is due March 4. --Students should continue to highlight math terms in glossaries to Les. 59. --Continue to work on flashcards! --Basic Facts which are difficult for your child were to be written on index cards. --A Math in the Real World letter was distributed to the 6th graders. If you have questions, please contact me. 5th Grade~~Homeroom Class: --We will review Directions on a Compass this week. --We will work in the Computer Lab researching a mathematician on Monday. I want the students to find a mathematician that has some importance to our math world now...this is why they need to research many before deciding on one. One of the questions that I will ask the students when they are done with the interview will be "Did you understand what this person did for the math world?" --Students will have Wednesday to work on the February Issue of Dynamath. Dynamath is due March 4. --Please work on flashcards! Thanks for taking the time to do the required amount. The more you practice...the easier they become. -- We will have DARE on Tuesday, Feb. 23 from 2:30-3:30. Keyboarding is scheduled in the morning. Your child should have brought home a DARE shirt. The DARE deputy has not told me when the last DARE class would be, but I would like for your child to limit wearing the t-shirt until the DARE program. We sure appreciate the BH Fitness Center and Glenwood as they paid for the shirts!