Dear Family,
This week I sent home the permission slip for our 1st grade
field trip to The Thinkery. Please fill out and return the yellow form
and the front and back of the green form. Cost is $7 per
student. Please send in exact cash or check payable to Sommer Elementary.
(Be sure to include your driver's license number and child’s first name
on the check.) If you wish to volunteer, please indicate that on the bottom of
the yellow form. You will also need to fill out the district
online volunteer form if not previously done this school year.
I will then contact you about chaperone payment.
Next Week...
Math: We will be working with 2D/3D shapes and examining their
properties. Students will be able to identify & distinguish between solid
figures that can roll, stack, and/or slide.
Science: We will wrap up our unit on the
physical properties of objects in which we observed, compared, described, and
sorted the components of soil by size, texture and color, identified and
described natural sources of water and how rocks, soil, and water were used to
make products. At the end of the week, we will begin our unit on weather
by learning about and recording the relative temperature.
Reading/Writing: We will continue our work with
fairy tales and their elements. We will be focusing on Cinderella and the
various versions included fractured fairy tales. In writing, students will
continue creating their own fairy tale and learning strategies to help them
make the story more detailed.
Balanced Literacy: In phonics, the students will
be working on recognizing the beginning and ending sounds in words as well as
changing those sounds to make new words.
Social Studies: The students will be exploring
Aesop’s Fables. They will learn about the lessons that each story teaches
as well as make connections, inferences and address any questions they may
still have regarding the story.
Campus News…
-It’s that time of the year again!
Science Fair is right around the corner. Join us in the library for
Science Research Night on Wednesday, December 12th from 5:30-6:30. We will have
books, rubrics and some science project examples displayed to help your child get
in their scientific mindset. All grade levels may participate, however,
only grades 3-5 will be judged and may progress to the regional fair. Science
fair projects will be due Friday, January 11 no later than 7:35 am. Students
will take projects to their classroom. Judging will take place on Monday,
January 14.
We will need Science Fair Judges
on Wednesday, January 14th from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. No science
background needed! Your job will be to talk with students about their science
fair project,and fill out simple judging rubrics. There will be a
brief training from8:00-8:15 that day. It is OK if you cannot
help the entire 4 hours, just let us know your availability in your email.
Contact Laure Stroh at Laure_Stroh@roundrockisd.org.
-"Passport to Sommer is November
30th from 5:30-8:30pm! It is such an amazing event! Please consider
volunteering for a slot or two to help us make it successful."https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090845a5ac2ba4f85-passport1 Thank
you so much!!!
Best,Marta Pinheiro and Khushbu Kapasi
MultiCultural Committee Chairs
2018-19
Important Dates:
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Nov. 30 Passport to Sommer
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Dec. 7 Field Trip permission forms and $7 payment due
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Dec. 14 Friday Assembly K-2
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Dec. 19 Winter Party 10:40 - 11:30 AM.
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Dec. 20-Jan.7 No School for Students//Winter Break
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Jan. 8 Students return to school
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Jan. 21 No School/Holiday
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Jan. 23 Thinkery Field trip
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Jan. 25 Schlitterbahn’s Waves of Pages Reading Logs due
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Feb. 15 Six Flags Read To Succeed Reading Logs due
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Feb. 18-19 No School for students
*Library is every Tuesday. Please
return books!
Don't forget to complete your RAZ
kids assignment each week!