We are so excited that Leadership Day is coming on Friday! Please be sure to dress your best and be prepared for lots of hand shaking and talking with adults about our learning. We will be eating lunch in our classroom that day so be sure to bring your lunch if you returned your form saying that was your plan. There will be no extras sold that day, so please plan accordingly.
We had a wonderful week of learning last week. We began a unit on fractions in math. We have learned all about whole, halves and fourths. We will continue our unit this week with learning all about sets of objects and how that can relate to fractions. For example I have four crayons and two are blue and two are red. I have one half red. Our phonics last week focused on the sounds of bossy r again. This time we learned that or makes a unique sound but the er, ir and ur are called the Bossy R triplets! They all sound the same. We had some fun learning some new ways to be sure to know which triplet to use when spelling words with the bossy r sound. In reading we are working hard creating a booklet all about the nonfiction text features. We have learned about photographs and the table of contents. We are wrapping up our study of Harriet Tubman this week. We visited the computer lab on Friday and created a bubble map that listed some of the character traits she had and the Seven Habits she used on her courageous journey. Our writing last week was wrapping up procedural writing. We had so much fun writing about How To Blow a Bubble! We got to chew gum! In school!!! We did a fun craftivity with this project and I will post some pics soon.
Special thanks to Mr. Steer, our Mystery Reader last week. If you haven't had a chance to come and read to the class, please do! The children really love it and they get so excited to have their loved ones in their environment!
Also thanks so much to all the Dads and loved ones who made it out for Donuts with Dad! I hope you were able to sign up for a WatchDOG day with your child. I love seeing the students come in with their dads and show them around the room. They are so proud to have you see what their day is like. Of course, having a donut for breakfast is pretty wonderful too!
A message from the Superintendent
Cobb County School District is committed to providing quality education for all students. Each school in the district has developed a school strategic plan to identify specific goals and activities that will address the unique needs of its students.
Feedback from staff, parents and community members is important to the school strategic planning process. Your participation in School Improvement Survey will provide feedback about the quality of educational services and programs in our schools.
Your responses to the survey are anonymous. Results will be provided to the principals later in the school year and will be used, along with other information, to identify priorities for the school.
We invite you to take a few minutes, respond to the survey which can be found at this link:
http://www.cobbk12.org/sisurvey
The survey will be available until February 10, 2012, and should take about 15 - 20 minutes to complete. Your opinions are vital to the future of our schools and through participation in this survey you become active in helping your child's school principal identify critical issues to be addressed.
If you have any questions concerning the survey, please contact the principal at your child's school.
Respectfully,
Michael Hinojosa, Ed.D.
Superintendent
WOW! Wasn't science night so much FUN?! There were cool hands-on 
experiments for everybody to do! Now it’s time to Be Proactive and Begin With the End in Mind as you start brainstorming some ideas for the Science Fair. I am strongly encouraging all of my students to enter Pickett’s Mill Science Fair. Start thinking of a topic and a title this weekend but more information about it will be coming home in your child's red PTA folder. Remember, try to come up with something creative that nobody has done before! Here are some links with great Science Fair ideas. Beware...these links take you outside of CCSD and may contain advertisements. Science Fair Ideas and More Science Fair Ideas
Mystery Question!
Noah and Ansley decided to order a pizza! The pizza was cut into 6 pieces. How many pieces would each of them get?
Draw what the pizza would look like if the pizza was cut into four pieces? What fraction of pizza would Noah get?
