The Dragon’s Tale Weekly School Newsletter November 26, 2019 Volume 6, Issue 13

139 S. Monroe Avenue Green Bay, Wisconsin 920-448-2135

November/December Calendar Notes

No School Thursday and Friday

November 28th and 29th

Early Release 12:35 PM

Friday, December 13th

Fifth Grade Basketball

Season Underway

The fifth grade boys’ basketball team began practices yes-terday. A special shout out to Justin Steinbrinck and Kristof-fer Engebretson for volunteering to coach our players. Games will begin in January and will be noted in the calen-dar on page two of the Dragon’s Tale publication.

K-5 Music Concerts

K-5 students will share their musical talents on Thursday, December 12th at 8:30 AM and 1:00 PM. The students will present the same concert twice. The doors will open 30 minutes before each concert. Concert day information: Due to concert set up we are unable to welcome guests

for lunch on December 12th. If you won the concert preferred parking spots, please

display the parking pass in your front window when ar-riving. You will be able to park in the old playground next to the visitor lot.

Thank You for Practicing Math Facts

Practicing math facts for ten minutes each night will help your child reach the math fact goals. Having flash cards in the back seat on the way to school can be a quick way to review facts each day. Students can even practice their facts on the school bus.

NOVEMBER

26 2:35—4:00 Basketball Practice (Boys) 28 No School—Thanksgiving 29 No School

DECEMBER

2 Popcorn Order Day 2:35—4:00 Basketball Practice (Boys) 3 Popcorn Delivery Day 2:35—4:00 Basketball Practice (Boys) 4 2:35—4:00 Chess Club 5 2:35—4:00 Show Choir 2:45—3:45 Forensics Meeting 9 2:35—4:00 Basketball Practice (Boys) 10 2:35—4:00 Basketball Practice (Boys) 11 Grade 3 walks to library 2:35—4:00 Chess Club 12 No lunch guests please 8:30 K-5 Vocal Music Concert 1:00 K-5 Vocal Music Concert 2:35—4:00 Show Choir 13 12:35 Dismissal 14 9:00 –12:00 SeaPerch 16 K-5 At Home Projects Due 2:35—4:00 Basketball Practice (Boys) 17 2:35—4:00 Basketball Practice (Boys) 19 2:35—4:00 Show Choir December 21—January 1 WINTER BREAK

Calendar Notes

Our Mission:

Educating world leaders… one child at a time.

Our Vision: Leonardo da Vinci School for Gifted Learners provides the ap-propriate level of challenge for academically gifted students in a rigorous, student-centered and diverse learning environment that prepares them to be world leaders.

L E A R N E R S Excel—We excel academically.

Altruistic—We are altruistic; we give back to our community.

Determined—We are determined to accomplish our goals.

Engaged—We are engaged in all that we do.

Respectful—We are respectful of our learning, our school community

and ourselves.

PTO Information

PTO In The Know!

December 21, 2019 through

January 1, 2020.

Students return to school

Thursday, January 2, 2020.

At Home Projects Due December 16th

K-5 students will begin sharing their At Home Projects on Monday, December 16th. These projects were sent home with students in September and included with the weekly handouts on 9/24/19. If you have any questions please contact your child’s base team teacher.

English Language Arts 411 Find your child’s teacher and review what was learned last week.

Davister

Retell a story to a partner

Use specificity when writing

Illustrate the problem in a story

STAR assessment

Brainstorm a personal experience to write about

Listen for sounds and write words

Illustrate what happened first, next and last in a story

Use word patterns to help spell

Use personal narrative storyboard to write important details about a

memory

Johnson

Write sentences using compound words

Use a personal narrative planning sheet to write about third event

Understand the short and long “u” sound and create a list of words with

short “u” in them

Understand the different types of ending and write an ending for a per-

sonal narrative

STAR assessment

Pick a new topic and complete a personal narrative planning sheet for the

new topic

Understand the different types of hooks and write a hook for a personal

narrative

Use a personal narrative planning sheet to plan out and compose a per-

sonal narrative

Work with team members to sequence events

Hanson

Distinguish between main idea and details

Categorize details and determine a main idea heading for the list of

details

Use the writing process to compose a personal narrative

Distinguish between main idea and details

STAR assessment

List details that support a main idea

Read a paragraph and determine the main idea of the paragraph

Korth/Frelich

Ask and answer questions about characters in The Green Book

Revise and edit a personal narrative with a partner

Publish a personal narrative

Read and discuss chapter 3 of The Green Book

STAR assessment

Describe a character using character traits and evidence from the text

Becker

Read and compare/contrast two explorers

Research an explorer with a partner

STAR assessment

Create explorer presentation

Continue writing a fictional narrative

Revise and edit narrative

Plan Dragon’s Tale story

Carlsen

Write a letter to a main character of a story

Review and reflect on new writing skills

Support information about author’s message with evidence from the text

Plan and compose a narrative writing piece

STAR assessment

Use paragraphs to organize a piece of writing

Create a table to record author study information

Use a checklist to guide writing

Durant

Complete novel assignments

Compose a “circle back to the hook” ending

Participate in a novel discussion group

Compose a personal narrative writing piece

STAR assessment

Edit and revise a personal narrative writing piece

Compare and contrast two books

Mayenschein

Discuss how a character in the class novel changes

Review descriptive attributes and understand new ones

Develop a before and after poster to show how a character changed after

an adventure

Use descriptive attributes to describe objects

STAR assessment

Revise a boring paragraph making it more interesting by varying sen-

tence length

Create a land based off of the lands in the class novel where visitors will

learn a lesson through various places that they can visit

Expand sentences with adjectives to provide more details

Participate in gallery walk

Write a picture prompt using descriptive attributes and varying sentence

lengths

Griffin

Build a character into a personal narrative

Draft first memoir

STAR assessment

Use an ending technique to conclude a personal narrative

Finalize and proofread Roald Dahl comparison

Develop computer reading skills

Compare two online articles about polar bears

Write a comparison essay

Watson

Identify the qualities and purpose of a procedural writing piece

Comprehend and analyze “The Golden Touch”

Brainstorm a list of things to use as the topic for a procedural writing

piece

Analyze the elements of reasoning as it relates to story plot

Create a thesis for a procedural writing piece

STAR assessment

List and order the steps for a procedure and write the steps using sen-

tence variation

Engage effectively in a collaborative discussion, build on other’s ideas

and express ideas clearly

Create a paragraph for a procedural writing piece

Complete a comprehension quiz

Gussert 6—Courage

Understand the format and definition of a sonnet

Analyze the sonnet “Nature” by responding to discussion questions

STAR assessment

Implement a learned self-editing technique to review and revise any

needed parts of a science essay

Review essay on constellations paragraph by paragraph making revi-

sions as needed

Oldenburg 6—Persuasion

Analyze how an author develops a narrator or speaker’s point of view

STAR assessment

Identify and fix run-on sentences

Trace how a character changes through the course of a novel

Gussert 7—Justice

Understand how nurture and nature can directly affect success

Formulate an argument about nurture vs nature and its effects on IQ and

student success

STAR assessment

Defend an argument with textual evidence

Understand the expectations for the new novel unit Bad Boy A Memoir

Oldenburg 7—1940’s

Understand the expectations for Maus

Know who Anne Frank is

STAR assessment

Consider the importance of Anne Frank’s diary

Analyze how the artists visual choices support the message of the text in

a graphic novel

Gussert 8—Utopia

Make decisions about the ethical factors of cloning living beings– human

and other

Gather evidence to support chosen argument

STAR assessment

Develop and prepare argument for mini-debate

Present findings in a style of mini debate with the opposing viewpoint

Oldenburg 8—Threads of Change

Find evidence to support multiple themes in Huck Finn

Find evidence of character traits

STAR assessment

Analyze and determine author’s purpose

Compare a protagonist and antagonist from the novel

English Language Arts 411 Find your child’s teacher and review what was learned last week.

Math 411 Find your child’s teacher and review what was learned last week.

Davister—K/1 Math Cluster

Solve for unknown partners or totals in word problems

STAR assessment

Review for unit assessment

Complete unit assessment

Recognize 10 as a group of ten ones and count decade numbers as

groups of tens

Johnson—Math 1 Cluster

Add a 1-digit number to a 2-digit number

STAR assessment

Add with groups of tens

Identify tens and ones in 2-digit numbers and add with tens and ones

Compare two-digit numbers

Hanson—Math 2 Cluster

Explore methods of 2-digit addition that involve making a new ten or

hundred

Use a strategy to solve a word problem

STAR assessment

Apply addition concepts and strategies to real world situations and solve

2-digit addition problems

Write real world problems involving 2-digit addition

Solve two-step addition word problems involving 2-digits

Dragon Dash

Korth—Math 2/3 Cluster

Complete unit 4 assessment

STAR math assessment

Practice double-digit addition and subtraction with a partner

Dragon Dash

Novak—Math 3 Cluster

Measure length with inches, half inches, and quarter inches

STAR assessment

Use line plot to record measurement data

Collect class data by measuring

Collect measurement data and share with classmates

Dragon Dash

Becker—Math 3 Cluster

Measure and estimate weight and mass

STAR assessment

Solve problems involving liquid volume and mass

Tell time and write the hour before and after

Carlsen—Math 4 Cluster

Find the mean, median and mode for a data set

STAR assessment

Divide with remainders

Use multiplication to help solve division questions

Solve problems with 3-digit solutions

Reflect on unit 2 assessment

Soleski—Math 5 Cluster

Use cross simplification to multiply fractions

STAR assessment

Multiply mixed numbers

Compare fraction operations

Add, subtract, compare and multiply fractions to solve real world prob-

lems

Watson—Math 4/5 Cluster

Review and reflect upon unit assessment

STAR assessment

Create a chart or table to help solve a word problem

Divide whole numbers by one digit

Mayenschein—Math 5 Cluster

Multiply with mixed numbers

STAR assessment

Complete a Quick Quiz

Relate operations with fractions and whole numbers

Add, subtract, compare and multiply fractions to solve word problems

Soleski—Math 6 Cluster

Multiply decimals

STAR assessment

Divide decimals

Solve real world problems involving multiplication of fractions and deci-

mals

VanStraten—Math 7 Cluster

Reflect on DAC performance and prepare for module 4

STAR assessment

Understand what a unit rate is

Find and use unit rates

Identify a constant rate of change

Durant—Math 8 Cluster

Review for unit 2 DCA

STAR assessment

Complete unit 2 DCA

Oldenburg—Accelerated 7

Calculate percent increase and decrease

STAR assessment

Calculate percent mark up

Apply percent to real world problems

Feldhausen—Adv. Algebra 1

Write equations of lines in point-slope form

STAR assessment

Review slope-intercept and point-slope form

Write equations of lines that are parallel

Write equations of lines that are perpendicular

Karoliussen—Geometry

Review and prepare for unit assessment

STAR assessment

Complete unit 3 assessment

Learn and apply translations

Apply reflections and symmetry

Wallberg—Adv. Algebra II

Complex numbers

STAR assessment

Solve by completing the square

Solve quadratic formula

Math 411 Find your child’s teacher and review what was learned last week.