J. Michael Conley Elementary School at Southwood

This website is my class newsletter.

Please check it DAILY for updates.

Parent Announcements:  (Can't find it here anymore...? Check the "archive" page.)

-(5/5)  All late work due by next Monday, 5/12......    

-(5/3) Other dates to remember-    Wed-5/14  Fifth Grade "Bye-Bye" walk 8:45.

                                                        Thurs 5/15 Fifth Grade Promotion Ceremony  9:00

                                                        Fri  5/16  Fifth Grade Patrol field trip  early early early 

                                                        Mon 5/19  Fifth Grade trip to Wonder Works  (Time TBA)

-(4/23) Here is a link to FAST practice resources and a list of instructions to find those resources on that site.

                                     Link to FDOE's FAST resource & practice page

                                     Link to a printout of my powerpoint on how to find the FAST resource and practice page.

-(3/23)State testing is on the way...  Please note the schedule below and do all you can to have Junior present on these days.

-(3/27)  Parents...  I too, appreciate that birthdays come around only once a year (at my age I am very thankful that they are still occurring).  I appreciate that we want to make them fun.... BUT please contact me or Ms. McGrotha by email ahead of your child's birthday to set up a date for a birthday snack to share with the class.  SOMETIMES there are things going on that would make a particular day a bad day for a snack.... For instance, we may have a test scheduled, or we may have another snack (like blue pops or someone else's birthday treat) already scheduled.  Scheduling takes just a few moments of your day, and it makes the school day go so much smoother. 

-(8/09) I communicate only through school email or school land-line phone.   Because Ms. McGrotha and I will be involved in teaching activities throughout the day. We often will not be able to answer phone calls. The best way to contact us is through email. I check my email 2 to 3 times a day and will do my best to contact you by the end of the day.  I’m sure there will be a lot of questions during the first weeks of school and I look forward to communicating with you.   

Mr. C's email:   christianos@leonschools.net   

Ms. McGrotha's email:  mcgrotham@leonschools.net  

By making email your primary means of contact, it allows us to get back to you in a more timely manner.  

-(8/09) *****If you need to change your child's dismissal plan for a particular day, please send an email to CSSOffice@leonschools.net by no later than 2:00 PM.  If you are planning to pick them up early from school, it should be done before 2:15.*****

10/9-  Two great math fact games that I highly recommend on TangMath.com  -   Numtanga   &   Kakooma

           Numtanga is a game that helps students with number recognition in multiple formats.

           Kakooma is a multi level game that challenges growth in mastering multiplication and addition facts. 

-(2/13)  A listing of African American Inventors

Our classwork   (subject to change...  Please check EVERY day for updates)   

Week of  05/05         FAST Math Tuesday   FSSA Science on Thursday

Monday:

Math –    Review day 2      Division overview

 Science –  Lesson 10-1   "How do Environmental Changes Affect Organisms?"   Lesson Vocabulary.  Lesson reading pages 493-505.  We'll work through our digital lesson today.

Tuesday:

FAST Math 

Science –   Lesson 10-1  "How do Environmental Changes Affect Organisms?"    Lesson Vocabulary.   Lesson reading pages 493-505.  We'll go through the reading in class, drawing  up comparisons of positive and negative effects we have on the environment.

Wednesday:

Math –    Math for grade 6 lesson 1 Prime Factorization   Page P249-250

Science –   Lesson 10-1  "How do Environmental Changes Affect Organisms?"    Lesson Vocabulary.   Lesson reading pages 493-505.  We'll go through the Sum it Up and BrainCheck on pages 506-510.

Thursday:

FSSA Science

Science –  Lesson 10-1   "How do Environmental Changes Affect Organisms?"    Lesson Vocabulary.   Lesson reading pages 493-505.  We'll take our lesson quiz and check our work on pages 506-510.

Friday:

Math –    Math for grade 6 lesson 2 Modeling Percentages   Page P251-252

Science –  LESSON 11-1 "What is Adaptation?"  Lesson vocabulary.  Lesson reading pages 523-533.  Today we'll work through our digital lesson today.

Week of  05/12  

Monday:

County Science Assessment

Tuesday:

Math –  Math for grade 6 lesson 3 Relate decimals and Percents.  pg p253-254 

Science – Lesson 11-3 What are some Adaptations for Life on Land?   Lesson pages 541-543.  Lesson Vocabulary.  Today we'll complete the digital lesson.

Wednesday:   5th Grade Bye-bye walk

Math –    Math for grade 6 lesson 4 Ratios   pgs 261-262

Science –   Lesson 11-3 What are some Adaptations for Life on Land?   Lesson pages 541-543.  Lesson Vocabulary.  Today we'll complete the work on pages 534-536.

Thursday:

Fifth Grade Promotion Ceremony  (you may check Junior out afterward if you'd like)

Science –   Lesson 11-4  What are some Adaptations to Life in the Water?   Lesson pages 559-571.  Lesson Vocabulary.    Today we'll complete the digital lesson.

Friday:   Patrol and Student Leadership Field trip

Math –     Math for grade 6 lesson 5  Equivalent ratios  Pgs  263-264

Science –     Lesson 11-4  What are some Adaptations to Life in the Water?   Lesson pages 559-571.  Lesson Vocabulary.    Today we'll complete the work on pages 572-574.

Daily Schedule  

Did Junior forget an assignment... was he or she absent... here they are.  Any late assignments that are turned in will be put in the gradebook, but will lose 10% unless there is an excused absence attached to the day the assignment was given or due.

Assignment pages for this quarter:

Work that's in the gradebook

Math                                                Science

 Pg 533                                                    pages  200-204

 pages 539-540.                                  pages 218-222.   

pages 541-542.                                     Pre-Test                    

 pages 553-554.                                      pages 442-444                            

  pages 553-554. 

   pages 559-560.                                    (482-484)

   pages 561-562.                                    pages 462-466.                    

   pages 565-566.                               

   pages 581-582.                                                                             

  pages 589-590.                                                   

     pages 605-606                                        

    pages  611-612 .                                    

  pages 599-600.    

     pages  617-618 .                                             

    635-636.                               

    pages 657-658   

   pages 641-642.                                                       

     pages 643-646   (pgs 345&346)                                                                                     

Week of  04/28          Math test Tuesday (chp 18)          FAST ELA Thursday          Science test chapter 9 Friday    FAST Math NEXT Tuesday

Monday:  Math –    Chapter 18 Review.   Pages 661-666

Science –  Lesson 9-4  "What body parts enable Digestion, Waste Removal & Reproduction?"  Lesson vocabulary.  Lesson reading pages 471-481.  Today we will cover the pages concerning waste removal in class.

Tuesday:   Math –      Test chap 18

Science –    Lesson 9-4  "What body parts enable Digestion, Waste Removal & Reproduction?"  Lesson vocabulary.  Lesson reading pages 471-481.  Today we will cover the pages concerning reproduction and we'll do the Brain-Check pages (482-484) in class.

Wednesday: Math –      review day 1      2 & 3 digit multiplication whole numbers and decimals

Science –    Lesson 9-4  "What body parts enable Digestion, Waste Removal & Reproduction?"  Lesson vocabulary.  Lesson reading pages 471-481.  Today we will check our Brain Check  (482-484)  and take our lesson Quiz in class.

Thursday:   FAST ELA 

Science –  Review Chp 9  test

Friday: Math –      Review day 2       division with and without decimals

Science –   Test Chapter 9

Week of  04/21        

Monday:  Math –        Lesson 18-5 Mean Median Mode and Range  Here are the lesson pages 655-656 and complete these lesson pages 657-658      

Science –  Lesson 9-3   "What body parts Enable Movement, Support, Respiration , and Circulation?"  Lesson Vocabulary,  Lesson reading pages 449-466.  Today we'll complete our Q&A on pages 462-466.

Tuesday: Math –      Chapter 18  Lesson 2  Line Plots (with Mean Median Mode & Range)  Lesson pages 637-638  Complete pages 639-640  Lesson video.       

Science –  Lesson 9-3   "What body parts Enable Movement, Support, Respiration , and Circulation?"  Lesson Vocabulary,  Lesson reading pages 449-466.  Today we'll check  pages 462-466. Then we'll take our lesson quiz.      

Wednesday: Math –      Chapter 18  Lesson 2  Line Plots (with Mean Median Mode & Range)  Lesson pages 637-638  Complete pages 641-642.   Lesson video.     

Science –  Lesson 9-4  "What body parts enable Digestion, Waste Removal & Reproduction?"  Lesson vocabulary.  Lesson reading pages 471-481.  Today we will cover the first part of the digital lesson together.

Thursday:   Math –    Lesson 18-3  Represent and interpret line graphs.  Complete the digital lesson on ED-Learning.  Complete pages 643-646     

Science –  Lesson 9-4  "What body parts enable Digestion, Waste Removal & Reproduction?"  Lesson vocabulary.  Lesson reading pages 471-481.  Today we will cover the second part of the digital lesso together.

Friday: Math –     Lesson 18-4  Balance Point and Fair Share Calculations.  Lesson pages are found on  653-654.   Complete the Digital lesson on ED-Learning.      

Science –  Lesson 9-4  "What body parts enable Digestion, Waste Removal & Reproduction?"  Lesson vocabulary.  Lesson reading pages 471-481.  Today we will cover the pages concerning Digestion in class.

Week of  04/14           Math test Tuesday

Monday:   Math –    Today we'll check lesson 17-7  pages  617-618 .  Then we'll do our chapter review (Pages 621-626).             

Science –  Lesson 9-3   "What body parts Enable Movement, Support, Respiration , and Circulation?"  Lesson Vocabulary,  Lesson reading pages 449-466.  Today we'll dive into the digital Lesson together.

Tuesday:    Math –      Chapter 17 Math test.

Science –   Lesson 9-3   "What body parts Enable Movement, Support, Respiration , and Circulation?"  Lesson Vocabulary,  Lesson reading pages 449-466.  Today we'll go through the reading pages about the Muscular and Skeletal Systems.

Wednesday:   Math –      Chapter 18-1   Collecting and Interpreting Data-  Lesson pages are found on 631-632.  Complete pages 633-634.   Here's a video lesson.

Science –  Lesson 9-3   "What body parts Enable Movement, Support, Respiration , and Circulation?"  Lesson Vocabulary,  Lesson reading pages 449-466.  Today we'll go through the reading pages about the Repiratory  System.

Thursday:    Math –      Chapter 18-1   Collecting and Interpreting Data-  Lesson pages are found on 631-632.  Complete pages 635-636.  Here's a video lesson.

Science –  Lesson 9-3   "What body parts Enable Movement, Support, Respiration , and Circulation?"  Lesson Vocabulary,  Lesson reading pages 449-466.  Today we'll go through the reading pages about the Circulatory  System.

Week of  04/07           

Monday:  Math –      Lesson 17-2   "Writing Rules for Number Patterns in Tables"  Lesson pages    585-586.   Complete pages 589-590.  Here's a lesson video  from Mr. Math Blog.

Science –  Lesson 9-1 " What are Organs and Body Systems?"   Take a look at the lesson vocabulary.  Please complete the reading of pages 429-441. Today we'll complete the digital lesson.

Tuesday: Math –      Lesson 17-5  "Understanding Ordered Pairs"   Lesson pages  603-604. Complete pages 605-606  .  Here's a lesson video from Mr. Math Blog.

Science –  Lesson 9-1 " What are Organs and Body Systems?"   Take a look at the lesson vocabulary.  Please complete the reading of pages 429-441. Today we'll  go through the first part of the reading.

Wednesday: Math –      Lesson 17-6  "Graphing Data"   Lesson pages 609-610 . Complete pages  611-612 .  Here's a lesson video  from Mr. Math Blog.

Science –  Lesson 9-1 " What are Organs and Body Systems?"   Take a look at the lesson vocabulary.  Please complete the reading of pages 429-441. Today we'll  go through the last part of the reading.

Thursday:   Math –      Lesson 17-4  "Graph a Number Pattern"    Lesson pages 597-598 . Complete pages 599-600.  Here's a lesson video from Mr. Math Blog.

Science –  Lesson 9-1 " What are Organs and Body Systems?"   Take a look at the lesson vocabulary.  Please complete the reading of pages 429-441. Today we'll  complete pages 442-444.

Friday: Math –      Lesson 17-7 "Graph and Analyze Relationships"   Lesson pages  615-616. Complete  pages  617-618 .  Here's a lesson video from Mr. Math Blog.

Science –    Lesson 9-1 " What are Organs and Body Systems?"   Take a look at the lesson vocabulary.  Please complete the reading of pages 429-441. Today we'll  check  pages 442-444  and take our lesson quiz.

Week of   03/31             FSA Writing Test Tuesday - Science test Wednesday  - Math test Thursday

Monday:   Math –      Lesson 16-2 day 2 "Metric units of Measure"... Lesson resources are found on pages 557-558.  Complete pages 561-562.  Here's a video lesson from MrMathBlog.  

Science –  Chapter 4 review.  (prepare by having  pages 225-228 done)  (weather symbols)

Tuesday: Math –     Lesson 16-3 "Multi-Step Measurement Problems"  Lesson pages 563-564.  Complete pages 565-566.  Here's a video lesson from MrMathBlog.

Science –        Florida State Writing Assessment 

Wednesday: Math –       Chapter 16 review.  pages 569-574

Science –     Chapter 4 test.  (on ED-Learning)

Thursday:   Math –      Chapter 16 Test   (do the ED-Learning Digital Lesson "Writing inputs and outputs on 2-column tables")

Science –      Chapter 9 "The Structure of Living Things" (Our focus will be on body systems in the human body and a comparison to similar structures in other species.)   Pre-Test

Friday: Math –      Lesson 17-1  "Record Inputs/Outputs in a 2-Column Table."   The lesson pages are found on 579-580.  Please complete pages 581-582. 

Science –    Lesson 9-1 " What are Organs and Body Systems?"   Take a look at the lesson vocabulary.  Please complete the reading of pages 429-441.  Today we'll discuss the 5 requirements that all organisms must meet to be considered living and we will go through the vocabulary on the digital lesson.

Week of   03/24            

Monday:   Math –      Chapter 15 math test

Science –   Lesson 4-6  "What Factors Affect Climate?" (Our focus will be on GEOGRAPHIC factors)  Here's the lesson vocabulary.  Here are the reading pages ... 209-217; Please read this tonight.  Today we will go through the first part of the digital lesson.  

Tuesday:    Math –      Lesson 16-1  Customary units of measure...  Review.  Today we will discuss, build graphic organizers for and practice converting between measurements for customary units of LENGTH, CAPACITY, and WEIGHT/MASS.     Customary Conversions

Science –        Lesson 4-6  "What Factors Affect Climate?" (Our focus will be on GEOGRAPHIC factors)  Here's the lesson vocabulary.  Here are the reading pages ... 209-217; Please read this tonight.  Today we will go through the second half of the digital lesson.   Here are 3 climate zone maps  to help visualize what we are studying.

Wednesday:   Math –      Lesson 16-1   Customary units of measure...    Lesson resources are found on pages 551-552.  Please complete pages 553-554.  Here are 3 lesson videos from MrMathBlog.    Vid 1 vid2 vid3

Science –     Lesson 4-6  "What Factors Affect Climate?" (Our focus will be on GEOGRAPHIC factors)  Here's the lesson vocabulary.  Here are the reading pages ... 209-217; Please read this tonight.  Today we will go through the lesson reading pages and put together a graphic organizer for geographic climate factors.

Thursday:    Math –      Lesson 16-2  Metric units of measure...  Review.  Today we will discuss, build graphic organizers for and practice converting between measurements for METRIC units of LENGTH, CAPACITY, and WEIGHT/MASS.  Metric Conversions

Science –    Lesson 4-6  "What Factors Affect Climate?" (Our focus will be on GEOGRAPHIC factors)  Here's the lesson vocabulary.  Here are the reading pages ... 209-217; Please read this tonight.  Today we will  complete pages 218-222.   

Friday:   Math –      Lesson 16-2  Metric units of measure... Lesson resources are found on pages 557-558.  Complete pages 559-560.  Here's a video lesson from MrMathBlog.  

Science –    Lesson 4-6  "What Factors Affect Climate?" (Our focus will be on GEOGRAPHIC factors)  Here's the lesson vocabulary.  Here are the reading pages ... 209-217; Please read this tonight.  Today we will check  pages 218-222   and complete the lesson quiz.

Week of   03/17            

Monday:

No School

Tuesday:     Math –      Check  page 533 and review or study of 3-D figures and volume calculations thus far.

Science –      Chp 4 Lesson 4  "How do Weather Patterns Help us Predict the Weather?"  Here is the lesson vocabulary.  Read pages 191-199.  Today we'll look at the reading and explore air pressure and the 4 types of air masses.

Wednesday:    Math –      Lesson 15-6 "Finding the Volume of Composed Shapes."  The lesson is found on pages 537-538.  Complete pages 539-540.   Here's a lesson video from MrMathBlog.  

Science –  Chp 4 Lesson 4  "How do Weather Patterns Help us Predict the Weather?"  Here is the lesson vocabulary.  Read pages 191-199.  Today we'll look at the reading and explore how meteorologists map the weather and what citizens need to do to prepare for weather events. 

Thursday:      Math –      Lesson 15-6 "Finding the Volume of Composed Shapes."  The lesson is found on pages 537-538.  Complete pages 541-542.   Here's a lesson video from Khan Academy

Science –   Chp 4 Lesson 4  "How do Weather Patterns Help us Predict the Weather?"  Here is the lesson vocabulary.  Today we'll complete pages  200-204.

Friday:     Math –      Chapter 15 review. Pages 543-548

Science –    Chp 4 Lesson 4  "How do Weather Patterns Help us Predict the Weather?"  Here is the lesson vocabulary.  Today we'll take our lesson quiz and check pages  200-204.

Having difficulty logging in to your child's classlink account (or FOCUS) at home..?

The process is simple:

1. Go to the school or LCS website,
2. Click on the Classlink link.
3. When prompted for username or email, use their student email, which is their student ID (found on your Portal account) which in most cases starts with 171.... or 1800..... and is 9 digits in length, followed by @edu.leonschools.net        For example:    180001234@edu.leonschools.net
4. When prompted for their password, it is the same 5 (or for a few 6) digit PIN they use at school.  

That should get you in to their ClassLink account... If you have more than one child who is a student using a computer at home, I suggest NOT saving the login information in your browser as it will make it next to impossible for the 2nd or 3rd children to log in to their own accounts.

Email me if you have need for their ID number and PIN....

Link to FDOE's FAST resource & practice page

Link to a printout of my powerpoint on how to find the FAST resource and practice page.