The Viking Pride Peaslee Class Newsletter

336-992-6060 Week of January 14, 2019 peaslej@gcsnc.com ____

IMPORTANT NOTES

The second GCS Interim Assessments (Benchmarks) will be this Tuesday and Wednesday. Please make sure your child is well rested and has eaten a good breakfast.

Reading passages: Please encourage your child to “tag” their answers/evidence in the text for multiple choice questions.

Monday, January 28th

2nd Quarter Parent Conferences

The 28th is a teacher workday for conferences. You may schedule a conference in person or by phone.

Please see the schedule on the back of this sheet to sign up. I will send

home a confirmation.

DATES01/14 Book Club (Whitlock - 2:45)01/15 Reading Benchmark #201/16 Math Benchmark #201/17 Skate Night 6-801/21 Holiday – MLK Jr.01/22 All make-up work due to me for 2nd Quarter01/25 2nd Quarter ends

Electronics Day Reward – BenchmarksPBIS School Store

01/28 Teacher Workday – No School*Parent Conference Schedule on back*

01/29 Report cards sent home02/01 Yearbook club photos02/04 Chick Fil a Night02/05 PTO meeting 6:3002/07 PTO / Eureka Night 6:00 – 7:00pm02/08 2nd Quarter Awards 7:50am

ACADEMIC CORNER

Math: Continue to review: Multi-step word problems: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, DivisionNew: Area and Perimeter

Language Arts: American Reading Company (ARC) reading lesson focus: Animal Adaptations Research Unit, Nonfiction Text Structure, Main IdeaTesting Strategies: Tagging

Science: Animal Adaptations

Social Studies: North Carolina Exploration

Continue to read 30 minutes nightly and log your steps!

Peaslee Parent ConferencesMonday, January 28th

Please choose a time to either come in person for a conference or to conference by phone. If you choose to conference by phone, please write the best phone

number to reach you at. I will call you at the time you selected.

Student Name: _____________________________

Parent Name(s): _____________________________

Conference Preference: In person ____ Phone ____Phone number: _________________

Number 1, 2, 3 in order of preference for conference time:

7:45 10:30 2:308:00 10:45 2:458:15 11:00 3:008:30 11:15 3:158:45 11:30 3:309:00 11:45 3:459:15 1:15 4:009:30 1:30 4:159:45 1:45 4:3010:00 2:00 4:4510:15 2:15 5:00

Please write in an additional time you would like to conference in person or by phone if the 28th does not work for you: