Marumsco Hills Eagle News

This newsletter will provide parents with updates and events at Marumsco Hills Elementary for November.

• November 1: Picture Re-takes
• November 8: School Closed
• November 9: Report Cards Available in ParentVue
• November 11: School Closed
• November 22: Lockdown Drill, NED Show Assembly
• November 23-25: School Closed
• November 30: Advisory Council Meeting at 6:00

Attendance is extremely important. We want our students to be in school every day, unless they are sick. Students should arrive to school beginning at 8:45 each day. Students should be in school by 9:00 to avoid being tardy. Students are considered chronically absent when they miss 10 or more days each school year. This included excused and unexcused absences. If a student misses 1 day every month of the school year, they will be considered chronically absent. Please avoid taking trips and vacation during the school year. Thank you for your assistance in ensuring students in class each day.

We love seeing our students wear our school colors and show their school spirit! Here at Marumsco Hills Elementary, we are Eagle Leaders! We show our Eagle Pride through everything we do. Purchasing spirit wear also helps our school raise money for supplies and fun activities!

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We know that there are days in which buses are running slightly behind schedule. As a reminder, we encourage you to track your student’s buses in real-time. Please download the Here Comes the Bus mobile app.

On November 22 we will be conducting a lockdown drill. We are required to conduct drills throughout the year. Students will complete the drill as if we needed to enter a lockdown status due to a threat in the school.

We are going to have a schoolwide assembly on Tuesday, November 22 at 2:00, The NED Program. The assembly will be virtual. This is a 45 minute character education program featuring a cartoon character whose name is an acronym for

• Never give up (focus and persistence)
• Encourage others (kindness and shared learning)
• Do you best (diligence and excellence)

Additional information about the show will be provided closer to the show date.

Kindergarten

Reading:

• Retelling with story elements
• Asking and answering questions about what is read
• Reading and explaining drawings

Math:

• Comparing objects using measurable attributes
• Classifying objects by one attribute
• Identifying and describing plan figures (circle, square, rectangle, and triangle)
• Relative location

Science:

• Properties of water
• How things can change over time

1st Grade

Language Arts

• Reading: Fiction: Theme, Important Events and Retelling
• Reading: Nonfiction: Text Features, Asking and Answering Questions, Identify the Main Idea
• Phonics: S Blends, Decoding Contractions, End Digraphs, Open Syllable Words
• Writing: Informational

Math

• Time to the Hour
• Counting Pennies and Dimes
• Number Sense
• Skip Counting by 10s
• Grouping Tens and Ones
• Comparing and Ordering Numbers
• Join Story Problems

Science

• Weather and Seasonal Changes
• Plants

Social Studies

• VA Government and People

2nd Grade

Reading/Language Arts:

• Nonfiction text
• Text features
• Retelling
• Main idea
• Generating ideas and organizing writing

Math

• Adding and subtracting numbers to 20
• Fluency with addition and subtraction to 20
• Part-part-whole
• Calendar: days and dates
• Equalities

Science:

• Habitats
• How the weather effects living things
• Seasons

Social Studies:

• Famous Americans
• American holidays

3rd Grade

Reading: Unit 3 - Exploring Nonfiction and Biographies

• 3.6g: Main Idea
• 3.6h: Details
• 3.6f: Summary
• 3.6c: text features
• 3.4b: prefixes and suffixes

Math: Unit 3 - Multiplication and Division 1

• 3.4a - Represent multiplication and division with models
• 3.4b - Create and solve word problems
• 3.4c - Demonstrate fluency with multiplication facts 0, 1, 2, 5, and 10
• 3.17 - Create equations to represent equivalent math relationships

Social Studies: Unit 2 - Geography

• 3.6c - Geographical features of Europe
• 3.6d - Geographical features of North America
• 3.6e - Geographical features of South America
• Begin Unit 3 - Economics

Science: Unit 3 - Interaction in Ecosystems

• 3.5a - Ecosystems are made of living and nonliving components
• 3.5b - Relationships exist among organisms in an ecosystem

4th Grade

Reading:

Nonfiction

• Text features
• Main idea and supporting details/summarizing
• Cause and effect
• Drawing conclusions and making inferences

Writing:

• Finish personal narrative
• Begin research/expository

VA Studies:

• Jamestown
• Colonial Virginia

Math:

• Graphing
• Multiplication
• Division

Science:

• Weather

5th Grade

Reading:

• Beginning to explore nonfiction texts
• Being able to identify main idea and supporting details in nonfiction text

Writing:

• Brainstorming ideas for informational text
• Drafting informational texts
• Editing and revising informational texts independently and with peers
• Creating a final draft of their informational writing

Math:

• Be able to determine measures of center (mean, median, mode and range)
• Compare data given a stem and leaf plot, as well as a line plot

Science:

• Review elements of weather that were taught during fourth grade
• Identify Earth’s processes in regard to energy
• Look at plate tectonics, internal movement of the Earth and the role of rocks on the surface of the planet

Social Studies:

• Understanding the geography, climate, natural resources and life today of the Southeast United States
• Understanding the geography, climate, natural resources and life today of the Midwest United States

Art:

In November we are starting our painting units.

• Kindergarten and 1st grade will practice painting routines and using different types of brushes.
• 2nd through 5th grade will experiment with color mixing. They will mix primary, secondary, and tertiary colors to create new ones. They will add black or white to create shades and tints.

PE

• Kindergarten and 1st Grade: Learn the basic skills of catching an object.
• 2nd and 3rd Grade: Learn how to overhand throw at targets and catch a moving object.
• 4th and 5th Grade: Continue overhand throwing and catching games and activities.

Music

• Preparing for our holiday sing-along by practicing proper signing technique, choreography, and body percussion.

Website: www.marumscohillses.pwcs.edu
Location: 14100 Page Street, Woodbridge, VA, USA
Phone: 703-494-3252
Twitter: @MHES_Eagles