Schedule for American Education Day Grade Visit Classroom Lunch

Math Guided Reading

K 2:05 12:50 12:00-12:25

1 10:15 1:05 12:00-12:25

2 9:15 12:45 11:30-11:55

3 2:20 9:35 11:30-11:55

4 11:30 9:50 12:30-12:55

5 1:20 10:05 12:30-12:55

Turkey Trot Back by popular demand, our Wellness

Committee, in partnership with our PTA and Mrs.

Potter, our Running Club coach, will sponsor the

LSES Turkey Trot. In order for all students to

participate irregardless of grade or membership

in the running club, we will hold this during the

day on November 25th at the following times:

9:30-10:10 K & 1st

10:20-11:00 2ND & 3RD

11:10-11:50 4TH & 5TH

Lake Shore Elementary

November Newsletter Julie Little-McVearry, Principal

American Education Week

Every year school systems throughout the country take time to welcome parents and guardians of students to spend some time observing their children and teachers in the schoolhouse. American Education Week has long existed in schools and now includes a special day of recognition for families/volunteers known as Parent Involvement Day (November 21st). In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of our PTA Executive Board, Committee chairs, Volunteers, Community Partners, and Watch DOGs for the many hours of time they give to Lake Shore Elementary to support students and teachers. We are grateful for all of your assistance as, “it does take a village.” November 19th will also serve as our School Visitation Day for guardians of Lake Shore students. Please see the schedule below for visitation times when children will be having classroom instruction as well as the school lunch schedule. Guardians who wish to bring lunch with them to join their child are welcome to do so. Please remember to bring a photo ID.

Fall Giving Campaign Sponsored by the 21st Century Education

Foundation Please consider making a pledge to support us in our efforts to increase student engagement and

active learning through arts integration www.aacps.org/fall

Fall Literacy Festival November 21st – 6:00-7:15

The cafeteria will be turned into a fall festival with

lots of literacy games and activities. There will be a

special Reader’s Theatre too!

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Counselor’s Corner

- Ms. Philip ➢ Character Education:

Our value for the month of November is HONOR.

Honor is “Letting someone know you see how valuable they really are.”

Please encourage your children to show honor by:

• making someone feel better with my words and actions.

• accepting differences when working in groups and teams.

• letting someone else go first.

Each day on the ride to practice or at the dinner table, ask your child what she or he did to show

cooperation. We are looking for these character traits to honor students as “Lions of the

Quarter”.

Electronic Devices: Parents, you’re in charge!

As you know, it is a focus of Lake Shore Elementary to monitor and set limits for the use of electronic devices with our children. It will be easier to adjust rules now, during the elementary years, then later when our children are entering adolescence. Setting limits will allow time for the children to fully engage in social and academic experiences without distractions, as well as get better sleep.

Remember: Children in Elementary School need an average of 10

hours of sleep a night.

--- This month try: requiring your children to “turn in” their cell phones and game controllers before bed. If there’s a game system in your child’s bedroom, put it on a cart and wheel the cart out of the room at bedtime.

Fall Fun! Fall is a wonderful time to visit the parks in Anne Arundel County. We have

several close by! Entry is only $6 a car (or $30 for a year-long pass – good for all county

parks). For more information use these links:

http://www.aacounty.org/departments/recreation-parks/parks-explorer/

http://www.aacounty.org/locations-and-directions/?type=regional-parks

Music Notes

Did you know? The cognitive structures developed through music instruction help to expose and illuminate more general

organizing structures relevant for other disciplines. –Research in Music Education, 2009

Our Winter Concert is coming soon! It will be held on Wednesday, December 11th in the school cafeteria. The

concert will begin promptly at 7 PM and all parents and family are welcome to attend. We are very excited to

share our hard work and musical skills!

Students should wear a white shirt, black pants & shoes for the evening performance. Music shirts will be worn

for the daytime (school) performance. Permission slips with report times and further information will be sent

home very soon.

Chorus will be performing on Saturday, December 7th at Lake Shore Plaza. Permission slips will be coming home

with all chorus students soon. We will need to arrive at 11:30 and we will perform at 12:00 P.M.

Music Spirit Days: There will be several music spirit days announced each month when students can wear their

Music Pride shirts to school for extra points. Small groups of students will also be performing in school on the

morning announcements where they will also wear their music shirts.

BSO- Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade students will be attending the BSO on Friday, December 6th to see the show

“The Snowman”. The cost of the trip is $12. Permission slips will be coming home soon.

5th grade parents: Do you have a talented and very interested musician? AACPS offers special middle school

magnet programs just for these students. They still receive all regular middle school course instruction, but benefit

from extra time in the arts area for which they apply. Arts magnets do require auditions which take place in

December. Further information can be found at: www.aacps.org/pva or contact your child’s music teacher.

Instrument Storage: As we enter the colder months, please keep in mind that exposure to the much colder

air can damage any instrument, as can constant changes in temperature. Transporting the instrument to and from school should not present any problems, but when instruments are being stored they should be kept away from heat/ cooling vents, outside doors, windows, & anywhere that moisture collects. Please try to avoid leaving it in cars for long periods of time as well. Proper storage will help ensure that your child’s

instrument remains in good working order.

Practice: Please encourage your instrumental students to maintain regular practice habits at home. This can be

a very busy and hectic time of year. Students may need more gentle reminders than usual to practice and maintain

their skills.

We will be working on different types of short songs in instrumental music over the coming weeks. Many of

them will be perfect pieces for your young musician to perform for family over the Thanksgiving/Winter breaks.

Ask for a little solo performance at home to help encourage your musician!

Does your musician need extra practice points? Are you looking for another festive event for your family? A free

practice sticker will be given to any musician who brings Mrs. Dickinson a program from another group’s show

and can identify what their favorite song was and why. Looking for some events?

• The Bay Winds community band is hosting their FREE public holiday concert at Our Shepherd Lutheran Church on December 10 at 7:30 PM.

• Chesapeake High school is hosting all their free music events in the high school auditorium each night December 16-18 @ 7PM.

• Category 5 Wind Ensemble will be performing at Old Mill High school on December 7 @ 7PM.

Grades: Band and Strings grades will be included on the 1st quarter report cards as well as General Music and

Chorus.

CD = Consistently Demonstrating (your student is doing exceptionally well!);

PR = Average (Students are performing their skills right where they should be);

EM = Emerging Development of Skills (You are demonstrating growth but probably need extra practice time to

develop your skills to your best. Remember to do your best in class);

ND = Needs Development (Try for more practice time at home to help develop your skills and earn more practice

points. Increased lesson attendance and/ or participation is also necessary.)

Arts and Humanities: Project Based Learning

Project based learning is sustained projects over 8-12 weeks where students design, learn concepts,

apply concepts, and move through the design process of iterations (drafts) and peer critiques over the period of time in which projects take shape.

Semester 1

Kindergarten is working on PBL "Imagination"

First Grade's PBL is "Yoga Stories"

Second Grade's PBL is "Improvisation - Yes and..."

Third Grade's PBL is "Mandala"

Fourth Grade's PBL is "The Titanic: Cause and Effect"

Fifth Grade is "Pop-up Theatre" (Where fifth grade is going through the design process to design the flats and stage pieces for LSE's spring musical by reading the script, creating designs, peer critiques, and the iterative process. Fifth grade recently went on a field experience to AACPS's Studio 39 in collaboration with Annapolis High School's PVA students, and learned about lighting, costuming, flat

design, and stage direction.)

MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement) - began meeting in October

and will travel to John's Hopkins Physics Lab for a STEM field trip with the Naval Academy's Middies November 13, 2019

Art News

It finally feels like fall, but in the art room we are looking ahead. We will be starting all our winter work this month. Please check your email regularly since Artsonia emails you whenever your child has

a new piece of artwork up on the site. I do my best to get them up as quickly as possible so you can always see what your child is creating. If you are not receiving emails from Artsonia please let me know. Sometimes there is a mistake on one end that does allow the emails to come through.

Thank you for your support and if you have any art materials at home that you no longer wish to own, feel free to send them in to the art room.

November 4-22: Gift Card Raffle

$250.00 Target Gift Card

1 for $5.00 and 3 for $10.00

Please return raffle tickets if you don’t want them or stubs and money to purchase. If you

would like more – contact lakeshoreptavp@gmail.com

Drawing is 11/25

November 7 – PTA meeting 7:00 pm in the media center

Upcoming events:

Sundaes with Santa – 12/6 6:00-8:00 pm

Look for classroom theme baskets to be announced at the beginning of November. Each class

creates a basket by sending in donations based on the class theme to be auctioned.

More information to come!

Mountain Road Branch

First Grade Flash

Have a wonderful November! 😊

2nd

Grade Newsletter

Math:

We have noticed that students are still struggling with subtraction with regrouping so below is an example of how to regroup by breaking apart a ten and putting it into the ones.

We are now entering the problem-solving unit. The best way to help your child is to review any work that comes home in their take-home folder.

English/ Language Arts: A big push that we are making with

our students is giving text support! You can help by when you are listening to

your child read each night asking them questions that they have to go back in

the text to find the answer to.

Example: How does the author let you know that ____ is a mean character? (Then have your child go back in the text to support their answer.)

Science & Social Studies:

The Preservation Problem Solvers

module is part of the Primary Talent

Development Early Learning Program

curriculum which teaches higher level

thinking. While your child is working on

the tasks in this unit, I will be looking for

resourceful and leadership behaviors.

Resourceful is using what is available to

solve problems efficiently and

effectively. Leadership is the ability to

motivate others to achieve a goal.

Researching a challenge within the

school environment will allow many

opportunities for your child to

demonstrate these behaviors.

Important Information:

-BSO permission slips have gone

home. We will be attending on

December 6th. Please make your

payment online, using the

directions attached to the

permission slip.

-Please be practicing basic math

facts & reading with your child

EVERY night!!

Third Grade Mrs. Bowman Mrs. Mays Ms. McNulty

rbowman1@aacps.org amays@aacps.org mamcnulty@aacps.org

Third Grade Mrs. Bowman Mrs. Mays Ms. McNulty

rbowman1@aacps.org amays@aacps.org mamcnulty@aacps.org

Here’s what students are learning in 3rd grade!

In Reading…

We will be focusing on identifying the main idea of a text. Students will be able to use text evidence to support the main idea. Additionally, we will be reading tall tales and fables. You can support your child at home by encouraging them to read daily. Ask them about what their reading with you.

In Writing....

In writing students have been busy writing short stories and poems to enter in the Young Author's Contest. Stay tuned for more information to follow.

In Math…

Students will be exploring and developing understanding of unit fractions. This is the first time third graders are officially introduced to fractions as numbers. Prior to this unit, in Grades 1 and 2, students work with partitioning shapes. They have some familiarity with vocabulary related to partitioning shapes from those grades, especially "halves", "thirds", and "fourths", but have yet to name those parts using numbers. In this unit, students will come to understand unit fractions and use them to build other fractions. This idea is tightly connected to what students know about using "1" to build other whole numbers. Students are likely to struggle with understanding that fractions are one number, rather than two. They will use number lines to explore how fractions are numbers that live on the number line with the whole numbers they already know. Fraction denominators are limited to 2,3,4,6 and 8.

FIRST IN MATH! How many stickers has your child earned? Remember that students should spend 5-10 minutes on First In Math a few times a week. To get to First In Math at home, go to https://my.classlink.com/aacps and have your child enter their log-in and password.

In Science....

Students will finish force and motion and begin a new unit focusing on molecules and organisms. The students will explore three questions:

1. “How can models help explain the unique and diverse life cycles of plants?”

2. “How can models help explain the unique and diverse life cycles of insects?”

3. “How can models help explain the unique and diverse life cycles of other organisms?”

In Social Studies…

Students will continue their study of communities. Students will begin to explore communities beyond Anne Arundel County through exploring the questions:

1. “Why do people migrate/ move from one location to another?”

2. “How are different cultures represented in the community?”

3. “How can we learn about different cultures?”

4th

Grade Newsletter

Math:

-Students will be finishing Unit 4:. Using Multiplication and Division Strategies with Larger Numbers

Some important concepts that we will

be covering in this unit are:

- Multiplying multi-digit numbers (up to a 4 digit x 1 digit or 2 digit x 2 digit)

- Dividing multi-digit numbers (up to a 4

digit ÷ 1 digit)

- Interpreting the remainder of a division problem in a real world

problem

-Unit 5 Information:

Some important concepts that we will be covering in this unit are:

-Generate equivalent fractions by

multiplying or dividing the numerator and denominator by the same number.

-Use benchmark fractions such as 1

2 to

compare fractions as well as common numerators and common denominators

to compare.

*We will continue to send home the parent newsletters for each new unit.

Language Arts/Writing

- Language Arts: Students will begin focusing

on reading and answering comprehension

questions about non-fiction texts

-Writing: Students will be finishing their

narrative stories and will begin writing their

opinion writing pieces. Students will also

continue practicing answering writing

prompts.

Science & Social Studies:

-Science: Students will be finishing learning

about communicating through code and

begin learning about the outrageous acts of

earth.

-Social Studies: Students will be finishing

learning about how exploration leads to

discovery and begin learning about how

Maryland evolves from a state to a colony.

Important Information:

-Make sure you check your child’s planner for

any important reminders.

-Also check their take-home folders for any

important papers every night.

- Please be sure that you are initialing your

child’s reading and math homework before

they return to school the following day.

Students should be reading for 20 minutes

and doing 15 minutes of math fact fluency

every night.

Mark Your Calendar Math Game

Peek At The Month

Things To Do And Be Aware Of

Important Notes

Math

• Multiplying Fractions

• Comparing and Rounding Decimals

Science

• Matter & Action

Social Studies

• Colonization

Multiplying Fractions:

Misconceptions: Students may believe that multiplication always results in a product greater

than either factor.

Things to Do: Students need ample opportunities to explore using visual models when multiplying

with fractions. Encourage your child to draw pictures or use a number line when working with

fractions.

Comparing and Rounding Decimals:

Misconceptions: When comparing decimals with a different amount of digits students may think

the number with more digits is the bigger number. Students who are taught to round using a rule

rather than place value will have difficulties explaining and justifying their thinking.

Things to Do: Continued practice with number lines and a place value chart, will allow students

to deepen their understanding while working with decimals.

Nov. 4th – Math Quarterly Assessment

Nov. 6th – Science Quarterly Assessment

Nov. 7th - 8th – Half Days

Nov. 11th – Second Marking Period

Nov. 20th – Report Cards come home

Nov. 27th – 29th – Thanksgiving Break

• Math & Reading homework are assigned and due every other Monday.

• Take Home folders come home everyday & contain homework and announcements.

• The 5th grade website has great resources to practice for the upcoming math quarterly

assessment: https://sites.google.com/aacps.org/lses5thgrade2019-2020/home

5th Grade News