STILLWATER TOWNSHIP NEWSLETTER
April 12, 2024
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
Board of Education Meeting 7:00 PM in Library 4/15/24
PTA Meeting 6:00 PM 4/15/24
PTA Family Fun Night 4/26/24
Board of Education Meeting 7:00 PM in All-Purpose Room 4/29/24
Teacher Appreciation Week 5/6-5/10-24
NJSLA ELA & Math Grades 3-6 5/6-5/10/24
NJSLA Science Grade 5 5/13, 5/14/24
NJSLA Make Ups 5/15-5/17/24
Spring Concert 5/14/24
PTA Spring Book Fair 5/13-5/17/24
PTA Meeting 5/13/24
PTA Family Fun Night 5/17/24
MEMORIAL DAY 5/27/24 - School Closed
SECOND GRADE NEWS
Second graders and their families had a wonderful time at our annual Book Tasting! Students participated in reading book clubs. As their culminating activity, they were tasked with creating a “menu” about their book to explain the main events through the beginning as the “appetizer”, middle as the “entree”, and end as the “dessert”. Students shared their books and menus with their family and enjoyed some delicious treats together!
Mrs. Bird
FIFTH GRADE NEWS
The fifth graders are currently focusing on a deep understanding of the measurable attribute of volume and using numbers and operations to describe and compute the volume of rectangular prisms and composite shapes. The students will learn to use the formula length x width x height and/or area of the base x height to find volume. Additive volume is a challenging concept. Students will learn how to find the volume of a three-dimensional solid by decomposing it into rectangular prisms, finding the volume of each prism, and then adding the volumes together.
In Science, the students will learn how to use the metric system. Students will learn to understand the relative size of metric units, and recognize the relationship between the conversion factors in the metric system and our base-10 numeration system. The same prefixes are used for length, capacity, and mass and each unit is 10 times as much as the next smaller unit. To aid in remembering the units, the students are using the acronym King Henry Doesn’t Mind Drinking Chocolate Milk!
Mrs. Bickhardt
SIXTH GRADE NEWS
6th Grade Math
Sixth graders are working to complete a unit in math about geometry. This unit is different from the units we have previously explored this year, as it examines the relationships between points, lines, shapes, and the space they take up. The students began the unit by exploring how a parallelogram is related to a rectangle. They decomposed parallelograms and composed rectangles by creating a triangle and moving it to the other side. They then developed the formula for the area of a parallelogram to be the base times the height. We extended this formula to develop the formula for a triangle which is half that of a parallelogram. Once students were comfortable finding the area of parallelograms and triangles, they used these formulas to find the area of irregular shapes by “taking them apart” to find the area of the smaller shapes that make them up and then “putting them back together” to find the total area. We will continue to explore geometry by learning how to find the surface area of prisms and pyramids. We will use these skills and apply them to find the volume of rectangular prisms with fractional side lengths and then will explore “statistical analysis”. This concept will be new to most students. They will learn how to find the center and variability of a data set and use that information to solve problems and make decisions.
Mrs. Mahedy
NEWS FROM MRS. SMETANA
Summit Students
Our 6th grade Summit Leaders completed a school-wide Kindness Quilt displayed near the main office. The quilt is a collection of positive notes and pictures created by Stillwater students to represent our year long campaign Never Underestimate The Power of One!.
The quilt is intended to represent Stillwater’s promise to unity and kindness and to serve as a reminder that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
Core Team
Just prior to Spring Break, Core Team hosted our 2nd Den Rally of the school year. Thank you to Mrs. Collier for being the MC and Mr. Tiberi and Mrs. Early for being our game show hosts in a quiz game show “Teachers versus Students.” The event included audience participation, team work challenges, student shout-outs, and our School Chant. All students and staff had a fun time being entertained and coming together to show our Cougar Cub Pride!
YEARBOOK NEWS
THERE ARE ONLY 6 DAYS UNTIL THE SALE IS OVER
RESERVE NOW
Our yearbook sale is quickly coming to a close. The last day for orders is April 19, 2024. If you have not already done so, please place your order soon. For ordering or payment questions, please contact Kimberly Williams Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent at 973-383-6635 or email kimberly.williams@stillwaterschool.net.