Last night's Spaghetti Dinner was a big success! The PTO did a wonderful job. The children really enjoyed the ice cream sundaes!

Back-to-School Night for Lower School will be on Monday, October 5th. I hope everyone can make it.

Friday, September 25th our first Interim Reports will be sent home. Please review the white sheets and return the envelope and blue sheet signed.

PICTURE DAY!

October 7th is picture day at Southampton Academy. Please remember to pick your background color and which pose you would like. Return your forms to your child's homeroom teacher. Remember SMILE!

Chapter 1 Math Test

All of Mrs. Vinson's Math classes will be having a math test on chapter 1 on Friday, Sept. 25th. We will have a practice test on Thursday, Sept. 24th. If you get a 92 or better you will have the option of not taking the test on Friday. During math class you can bring in your electronics as a reward for doing so well on the practice test. There will be no homework this week in any math class. Look over your chapter 1 notes as a review for the test.

Order of Operations Challenge

Today Math 6A challeneged Math 6B to a timed order of operations drill. Mrs. Vinson used her projection screen to display the problem. The children had to see how many they could get right in 2 minutes. 6A did 22 problems correctly with no errors! 6B didn't quite get to 22 but are going to practice to rechallege 6A on another day. Congratulations 6A!

Math 5 students were busy working on adding and subtracting decimals. They are really excited about how good at it they have become. Math 5 students also went into the computer lab today to work on their written math assignment. Students have to research three mathematicians from a list and write a brief paragraph about the people. Most students were able to find out some facts and print their pictures. Remember this assignment is due by October 5th.

Math Writing Assignment

All math classes will be assigned a writing project today. I will be giving the students a list of mathematicians and they will need to pick three and write a short paragraph about them. They will also need to include a small picture of that person. Typed papers will be due on October 5th. Fifth grade students will be able to start the research in computer classes today.

Today my Math 6 classes learned about variables. The children really enjoyed learning how to replace the variable and solve problems. We are also getting quite good at solving problems using the order of operations. As a class they can solve 15 problems in 2 minutes. We are trying to practice and improve our record. Here's a web site to practice at home: http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol7/order_operations.html

In Math 5 today we learned how to subtract decimals. We realized the same rules for adding apply to subtracting. The children remembered the most important thing was to line up their decimals and add a 0 in the missing places.

In grammar class this week we are learning about nouns. We have talked about what a noun is, whether or not it is singular or plural and tomorrow we will discuss proper and common nouns. Ask your child about proper and common nouns at dinner tomorrow and see if they can explain it to you.