Pleasant Hill Intermediate School

                                               1204 E. 163rd Street                  

                                            Pleasant Hill, MO  64080

                                                    816-540-3156                 

                                                     October 2013

Important Dates 10/7-11/13 - Scholastic Book Fair 10/9/13 - Picture Re-Takes in the AM 10/18/13 - End of First Quarter 10/24/30/13 - Parent/Teachers Conferences 10/29/13 - Evening Conferences 11/1/13 - No School

5B TEAM NEWSLETTER Playing Crab Soccer in P.E.

IF YOU HAVE NOT SCHEDULED A PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE, PLEASE CONTACT MRS. MURRAY TO DO SO.  WE DO GROUP CONFERENCES.  I WILL BE EMAILING A TEMPLATE (ON WEDNESDAY) THAT HAS ANY AVAILABLE TIME SLOTS AVAILABLE.

(rmurray@pleasanthillschools.com)

Communication Arts--Mrs. Murray, Ms. Love, Mrs. Dyer

We have been working on reading skills such as compare/contrast, main idea and supporting details,  character, plot  and setting.   In grammar we have reviewed sentence types, subjects and predicates, compound sentences, and complex sentences.  Next week we will be finishing up a nonfiction week of Space.  The students have been creating pic collages and using safari on the iPad to integrate technology.  We will be comparing and contrasting planets using

research and non fiction text.  The students will then write a letter to someone sharing out this information about space and planets this week.  Please continue to have your student read and support their reading goal.  Next quarter our goal will look differently.  I will email this information out this Friday.  Thanks for all you do.  Becky Murray and Sharon Dyer

Math--Mrs. Lucht, Ms. Love, Mrs. Dyer  

In math, we have just completed our first unit and had chapter 1 test.

We are beginning a unit on division.  You will notice that there is

only two grades per week.  te are doing lots of math practice in class

and they will have  homework each night.  There should be time to do

that in class for homework,  but there may be a few problems leftover.

For extra help, please know that we have math club on Tuesday and

Wednesday mornings at 7:25 a.m. and study buddies on Wednesday after

school with Ms. Dyer from 3:30-4:30.

I would like to make you aware that we will be doing Pumpkin Math on

October 31 in the science lab.  Each student needs a pumpkin with the

lid cut out to finish that project that day.  I need parents help with

this so please let me know if you are available.  I will be sending a

hard copy home to let you know all the details.

If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me or call me at

school.  Sincerely, Joy Lucht

Science-Social Studies--Mr. Haight, Ms. Love, Ms. Dyer

Social Studies -

Social Studies   We will take our first Social Studies test over Native Americans on Wednesday, 10-16.  We will then do a short project on reservations and the pros and cons of reservation life before beginning a unit on European exploration.

Science -

Science   We will be starting chapter 1 on the classification of living things.  We will specifically focus on vertebrates, particularly mammals.