2 nd 9 Weeks
El Paso, TX
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We hope you had an enjoyable and restful intersession. We have successfully completed our 1 st 9 weeks through many hours of hard work and dedication. With the coming months many holidays will bring us joy and extra things to do. Let’s remind ourselves to stay focused and dedicated to another successful 9 weeks.
We read our e-mails on a daily basis.
If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail us at the following addresses:
Mrs. Aveytia eaveyt@sisd.net
Mrs. Taggart ptagga@sisd.net
Mrs. Rodriguez arod144@sisd.net
Educationally yours, Mrs. Taggart lflore05@sisd.net
Mrs. Taggart, Mrs. Aveytia, Mrs.
Flores, and Mrs. Rodriguez
Our conference period is from 2:30
to 3:15. Please contact the office at
915-937-6801 if you would like to make an appointment.
Parents, please keep your teachers current with any phone number or email changes in case we have to contact you.
November 2-4 District Benchmarks
November 11 Veteran’s Day Holiday
November 23-27 Thanksgiving Break
December 18 Early Release
December 21 Winter Break Begins
We will continue using your child’s agenda to write down homework and important reminders. Please read, check and sign daily. There may be times when notes will be written to you.
You may use the agendas to write us notes as well. We encourage as much contact with us as possible. Agendas are written in everyday.

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Parents, these 9 weeks we will:
Reading
 Establish purposes for reading, ask questions, monitor comprehension, make inferences, summarize, and make connections in written text.
 Evaluate impact of sensory detail, imagery, and figurative language
 Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Culture and history
 Make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar of different genres
 Identify author’s viewpoint or position
 Recognize exaggerated, contradictory, or misleading statements in text
 Interpret details from procedural text to complete a task, solve a problem, or perform procedures
 Interpret factual or quantitative information presented in maps, charts, illustrations, timelines
ILanguage Arts
 Write formal and informal letters that convey ideas, include important information, demonstrate a sense of closure, and use appropriate conventions
 Write persuasive essays for appropriate audiences that establish a position including sound reasoning and detailed evidence
 Plan, develop, revise and edit drafts for coherence, organization, grammar and mechanics.
 Identify and use properly nouns, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, adjectives, commas, quotation marks, and prepositional phrases.
Social Studies
 Explain the events that led to the American
Revolution; including French and Indian War and
Boston Tea Party
 Summarize the results of the American Revolution
 Identify issues that led to creation of the Declaration of Independence
 Describe causes of War of 1812
 Identify events associated with US territorial expansion
 Identify the issues that led to the creation of the US
Constitution and branches of government
 Explain the reason for the creation of the Bill of Rights
 Symbols of citizenship and leadership in constitutional republic
Projects
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Home Project: Students will be creating a diorama for diorama for Woods Runner
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Technology Project: Students will create a newspaper set during the time of the American Revolution
Mathematics
 Solve with proficiency for quotients of up to four digit dividend by two digit divisor using strategies and standard algorithm
 Represent multiplication of decimals with products to hundredths using objects and pictorial models
 Solve for products of decimals to the hundredths
 Represent quotients of decimals to the hundredth up to four digit dividends and two digit whole number divisors
 Solve for quotients of decimals to the hundredths up to four digit dividends and two digit whole number divisors
 Add and subtract positive rational numbers fluently
 Algebraic reasoning; identify prime and composite numbers
Science
 Explore uses of energy
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Demonstrate flow of electricity in circuits
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Demonstrate light travels in straight line until striking another object
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Explore processes that led to formation of sedimentary rocks and fossil fuels
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Recognize how landforms are results of changes to
Earth’s surface by wind, water, and ice
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Demonstrate that Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours causing day/night cycle
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Identify and compare physical characteristics of the Sun, Moon and Earth