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100 Cans! |
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In celebration of 100th Day of school, students will be able to bring in cans to help the needed. The last day to bring the cans is on February 1st, 2008. Boxes are being placed in each grade level chair’s classroom. The first grade level team to reach 100 cans will have a pizza party. |
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Math Problem-Solving Contest! |
 Math Problem-Solving contest starts on January 22nd, 2008 every Tuesday until the week before Math TAKS test on April 8th, 2008. The problem is located on the Problem-Solving Wall in the cafeteria. Kindergarten has red hands problem, 1st grade has blue hands problem, 2nd grade has yellow hands problem, 3rd grade has green hands problem, 4th grade has orange hands problem, and 5th grade has pink hands problem. Students are to write their first and last name, their teacher’s name, and the answer to the problem neatly on the colored hand and place it in the box. On Friday, there will be a drawing for each grade level and the winners will be announced. Students MUST show their work and it MUST be neat and readable!
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Count Down to TAKS |
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Teachers, starting 10 weeks to TAKS, we will work with the students on every objective before the Math TAKS test on April 8th, 2008 for 5th grade and April 27th, 2008 for grades 3 and 4.
Teachers will be given TAKS countdown sheets every week to go over a TAKS problem during the problem solving time in the 5 Step Math Outline that was provided to the teachers. During that time, I will be looking to see this during my walk-throughs.
5th grade 10 weeks count down starts on January 22nd, 2008. 3rd and 4th grades start on February 11th, 2008. |
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Fast on Facts |
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Teachers, you will test the students in the morning at 8:30 a.m. every Thursday. If you have Open Court, put it in when you can. Remember, it’s only 2 minutes! Please use the copies Mrs. McNeil gave you to start preparing the students for the "RED" fast on fact sheet. Mrs. McNeil will come by each class and pick up the test about 9:00 a.m. and grade them. The students get 3 times to master, those that master will go on to the next level. We will have a display by the cafeteria to keep track of all of this. In April or May, we will have the district-wide Fast on Facts competition at Hillard Elementary School. Three students from each grade-level will represent Lakewood Elementary School at this event.
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958 Cans! |
 The 100th Day Can Good Drive was a success! We collected a total of 958 can goods! The charity that will receive the can goods will be Star Hope. Grade levels collected as follows:
Kindergarten- 196 cans
1st grade- 33 cans
2nd grade- 120 cans
3rd grade- 235 cans
4th grade- 213 cans
5th grade- 161 cans
Congratulations to the 3rd grade team that brought the most number of cans and received a pizza party!
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Yummy! |
 3rd grade teacher Mrs. Roberts handed out pizza to all the 3rd grade students. |
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100th Day of School 2008! |
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100th Day celebration was a huge success on February 6th, 2008! Lakewood students did many different activities to celebrate the 100th day of school. A big shout out goes to Math Coach Paula McNeil for making the activities possible!
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Fast on Facts 2008 Winners! |
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Congratulations to all the Lakewood Fast on Facts winners on May 8th, 2008:
Kindergarten- Jose Morales (with a time of 2 minutes and 27 seconds out of 4 minutes)
1st grade- Yolanda Garza (with a time of 1 minute and 38 seconds out of 4 minutes)
2nd grade- Nydea Ortega (with a time of 1 minute and 25 seconds out of 4 minutes)
3rd grade- Shermaine Hennington (with a time of 3 minutes and 20 seconds out of 6 minutes)
4th grade- Jonathan Ramos (with a time of 4 minutes and 22 seconds out of 6 minutes)
5th grade- Hector Salinas (with a time of 4 minutes and 9 seconds out of 8 minutes)
A JOB WELL DONE!!!
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