Welcome to Mrs. Smith's web page.  I will try to keep this page updated with school-wide happenings and daily assignments.  Please contact me at any time if you have any questions or concerns.

INFORMATION

All students are required to have a separate binder with dividers that is used only for Math class.  Students must bring their binder and planner to class every day.  

It's hard to believe, but we're actually entering the second half of our school year.  Please check your child's grades regularly in all classes.  It is very difficult to bring a failing grade up to passing if you wait until the 4th quarter. 

FCAT testing will soon be upon us; March 9 is the first day of testing.   We will be continuing with our regular curriculum while at the same time, reviewing and practicing for FCAT.

DATES TO REMEMBER

Feb. 9 - 11:  Florida Writes - Grades 4 and 8 only

Feb. 12:  Interims Distributed in School

Feb. 15:  Presidents' Day - No School

Feb. 16:  Teacher Inservice Day - No School for Students

March 5:  Interims Distributed in School

March 9 - 19:  FCAT Testing Dates

March 31:  End of Quarter 3

April 1 - 9:  Spring Break

April 14:  Student Led Conferences                                  

                                              HOMEWORK

Please check you child's planner nightly for notes and to see that all assignments are being completed.

IN ORDER FOR ANY ASSIGNMENT TO BE CONSIDERED COMPLETE, ALL WORK MUST BE SHOWN.  REMEMBER:  NO WORK = NO CREDIT

Wed. - Jan. 27:  Study Guides 11-4 and 11-5

Tues. - Fri., Jan. 19 - 22:  Students will be taking Districts Assessments all week.  There won't be any homework assigned this week.

Friday, Jan. 15:  Students worked on finding the Area and Perimeter of regular figures today.  There is no homework assignment over the long weekend. 

Thursday, Jan. 14:  Students completed their Progress Monitoring Assessment today.  Tomorrow we will be checking SG 6-8 which was assigned on Tues.   We will continue to work on area and perimeter.

Wednesday, Jan. 13:  Students worked on their Progress Monitoring Assessment which they will finish tomorrow.  Since there is no homework tonight, students should use this time to complete any assignments they missed during Quarter 2

Tuesday, Jan. 12:  SG 6-8 (Area and Perimeter)

Monday, Jan. 11:  Chapt. 6, Mid-Chapter Test (worksheet)

Friday, Jan. 8:  1) Finish Classwork, Study Guide 6-6; 2) Finish Graph Art, Frosted Friendship 

Wed. & Thurs, Jan. 6 & 7:  Students were working on a Diagnostic and make-up work.  There is not written assignment either night but they do have a graph art, Frosted Friendship, that is due on Monday, Jan. 11

Tuesday, Jan. 5: PWS 6-4, Odd Numbers Only

Monday, Jan.4:  Multiplication of Fractions - Study Guide 6-4

Tuesday, Dec. 15:  Interims will be coming home on Friday.  Today was used for students to make up work that they have missed due to absence or lack of effort.  Tonight students are to continue working on completing missing work.

Monday, Dec. 14: Finish Practice Work Sheet for lesson 6-4

Thursday, Dec. 10 (rev.) Today we worked on changing Improper Fractions to Mixed Number and changing Mixed Numbers to Improper Fractions.  I revised my plans so that all work could be finished well before the end of class so that students would not have to do homework tonight. The students were given about 45 minutes to work on an assignment at the end of class.  For those who did not complete the work (which should take no more than 15 or 20 minutes), it must be turned in tomorrow.

Thursday, Dec. 10:  Since so many children will be at school until late this evening, there is no written assignment.  Please contact the school to purchase tickets for either the Thursday night or Friday night performance of The Nutcracker.  Your entire family will enjoy seeing the performance by our very talented students!

Wednesday, Dec. 9: Due to the large number of students who are out of class due to their performance in the Nutcracker, there is no written assignment tonight.  However, students need to be constantly reviewing previously taught concepts.

Tuesday, Dec. 8: No Homework other than continuing to work on late or missing assignments

Monday, Dec. 7:  Tomorrow the students will be taking a test on Addition and Subtraction of Fractions.  In my experience, students who are not present on the day of a test and need to take it in a "make-up" situation, do not usually do as well as if they had taken the test on the assigned day.  Please do your best to see that your child is present on test days.  Homework:  Study for test; pay particular attention to finding the LCM, the GCF, and Simplifying Fractions.

Friday, Dec. 4:  Students were given grade reports in class and had the opportunity to make-up missing assignments.  Students who still owe me assignments are to continue working on them over the weekend.

Thurs., Dec. 3: Study Guide 5-3

Wed, Dec. 2: Study Guide 6-5-3

Tuesday, Dec. 1:  Study Guide 5-2

Friday, Nov. 20:  Have a great weekend!

Thursday, Nov. 19:  Students worked on the Unit 3 test for the entire class period.  There is no homework tonight.

Wednesday, Nov. 18:  1) Finish L 40 HW ws, 2) review all Unit 3 work for test tomorrow

Tuesday, Nov. 17:  1) L. 39 Homework worksheet, 2)  Study for Unit 3 test on Thursday

Monday, Nov. 16:  students are to complete the even numbered problems on the Least Common Multiple worksheet that they started on Thursday.

Friday, Nov. 13:  Students are to work on assignments that they have not completed this quarter due to absence or neglect.

Thursday, Nov. 12: worksheet - finding the Least Common Multiple

Tuesday, Nov. 10:  14 problems on finding equivalent fractions.

Monday, Nov. 9: L 37 HW ws

Friday, Nov. 6: Complete the classwork from today....Finding Equivalent Fractions and complete your vocabulary Frayer Models

Thursday, Nov. 5:  1) L 36 HW ws, 2) Graph Art is due tomorrow

Wednesday, Nov. 4:  Finish 10 practice problems (adding and subtracting fractions)

Tuesday, Nov. 3:  L 35 HW ws and continue to work on graph art that is due Friday.

Monday, Nov. 2:  Study vocabulary and work on graph art that is due Friday.

Wednesday, October 28:  Students were each assigned one graph, either Guardians of Freedom or First Thanksgiving.  The graph is due, completed and colored, on Friday, Nov. 6

Tuesday, October 27:  L 34 Homework worksheet

Monday, Oct. 26:  L 34 workbook pages

Friday, Oct. 23: 1)  Work on any missing assignments, 2) Enjoy the weekend

Wednesday, Oct 21: 1.  Complete Classwork - 25 problems on Rules of Divisibility (Period 1 has finished this work), 2.  Study the Rules of Divisibility   

Tuesday, Oct. 20:  L 33 ws

Monday, Oct. 19:  Finish L 32 wb pages 99 and 100; complete L 32 ws

Thursday, Oct. 15:  L 31 ws