Mitchell Minute

We have COVID-19 test kits for ALL students at Mitchell. As a safety precaution, we cannot send testing kits home with your students. Parents, please come to Mitchell between 9am and 1pm Monday-Friday to pick up your children’s kits. We will have kits available in the front office until April 29, 2022.

For Parents/Guardians of Magnet students, it’s time to submit your residency verification information, again. Visit this link for a list of the required documentation. Call or email Ms. Cierra Hennix at Cierra_Hennix@charleston.k12.sc.us to set up a time to submit your information. Please note, our front office staff will not be in the building after June 3rd. You must submit your residency verification before that date.

• ELA: We are starting our new study focusing on water! Throughout this unit the scholars will explore the importance of water and its many uses at school and at home, investigate how water changes, and learn about how water helps people and the environment. Be sure to point out and discuss the variety of ways you use water at home with your child! We are on our last “letter of the week” this week. For the remainder of the year, we will have a big “letter countdown” where we focus on one letter each day until the end of the school year!

• Math: We are continuing to expand our number recognition and counting skills every day through our daily number corner and bridges unit. This month, our theme is ladybugs! We are working on our patterning skills, putting numbers in order from 1-10, ten-frames, and even addition! The scholars are doing an amazing job with this!

• ELA: We are continuing our study of trees by looking at how trees are important to us and to our community. We are keeping journals and writing sentences everyday! Ask your child to tell you about the tree that they studied and how people can enjoy trees!

• Math: We are adding and subtracting like crazy in kindergarten! We have been adding all the way up to 20 using all sorts of strategies and models including our fingers, counting on from the bigger number, and our tens frames. We are excited to continue practicing these strategies to get faster and faster with our facts!

• ELA:

• Math: In Number Corner we have been focusing on fractions of a whole or a set. This has been challenging for the students but many are catching on to it. In Bridges, we’ve been learning about shapes and finding the area of shapes. We’ve had fun doing a lot of hands-on activities with tiles and pattern blocks. Each class made their own Churn Dash Quilt. The students had to make squares, rectangles, and triangles in the correct colors to match a pattern. For review we continue to work on addition and subtraction with regrouping, money, and word problems.

• ELA: We are working on writing narratives and we will be performing our Divided Loyalties play at the end of the month! Stay tuned for upcoming announcements regarding the performance!

• Math: We are learning about strategies for multiplications and division. We will also dive deeper into area and perimeter in order for the students to be more prepared for the fifth grade.

• Science: We are continuing our studies in Plants and Animals. Students will take a field trip to experience this phenomenon hands-on.

• ELA: Studying athletes of social change, working on writing summaries and factors of success.

• Math: Working in unit 6 on geography, coordinate grids, classifying shapes, and volume.

• Number Corner- Students will work on finding dimensions of rectangular prisms and will determine the volume. They will multiply and divide fractions and will add and subtract fractions by recognizing the relationship between equivalencies.

• Field Experience: 5th grade students will have an opportunity to visit the charleston air exposition on the united states air force base. We will explore STEM and force and motion.

• Reading Intervention: We are happy to see our literacy students becoming stronger readers and applying strategies. We are now working to decode multisyllable words using the clap and tap strategy(for example: ath-lete, re-mind). We are also beginning to talk about how to break a suffix from a base word to read longer words (for example: look-ing, play-ed). Teaching strategies to figure out new words is helping our students become more independent readers.

Art: CD is working on a recycling project.

K is working on nature drawings.

1st is creating painted flowers by mixing paints.

2nd is learning about Claude Monet.

3rd is learning about sweet grass baskets. The students are weaving.

4th and 5th grade students are working with model magic.

PE: K-1st graders are working on developing their ball handling skills by learning and practicing how to dribble a basketball in many different ways through various activities. Grades 2-5th just started their basketball unit and are learning and practicing the different skills in basketball such as dribbling, passing, and shooting. The goal is to get them comfortable with these basketball skills so that they can get themselves on a court and be able to play with one another and reap the cardiovascular benefits of participating in the sport.

Music: 1st-2nd graders are working on basic musicianship and fundamentals. We are learning about solfege and preparing songs for our upcoming May performance. 3rd-4th grade students are working on basic musicianship with the recorder and are preparing for an upcoming performance in May. 5th grade is wrapping up creating songs for the culminating Salt Marsh Project. They are also preparing for an upcoming performance in May.