1/13/2025 - The Groton Elementary School Hawk Squawk Newsletter

What are we Learning this Week?

The Groton Elementary School Hawk Squawk Newsletter

"Your Weekly Dose of Hawk Happenings!"

516 Elm Street, Groton NY 13073 (607) 898-5853 Groton Central School District grotoncsd

January 13th, 2025

Board of
Education
Meeting
District Office
6:30 PM

January 20th, 2025

Martin Luther
King Jr. Day
No School

January 27th, 2025

Board of
Education
Meeting
District Office
6:30 PM

January 29th, 2025

Lunar New Year
No School

The Positivity Project (P2)

Dear Families,

This week, our school community will focus on the character strength of Prudence. Prudence means you plan for
the future and achieve your goals by making careful everyday choices.

Prudence is about doing the right thing at the right time for the right reasons. It's a way of thinking ahead, setting
goals, making plans, and having the discipline to follow through. It’s more about using your head than your heart.

Prudence helps with managing yourself effectively. Whether aiming for a sports record, getting good grades, or
saving for something special, you need to plan ahead and stay focused. Even with a plan, you must resist
temptations that might distract you. Prudence gives you the wisdom to use the right strengths at the right time
to achieve your goals.

This Week in Primary: Learning Highlights

Grade Level/Subject	ELA	Math	Science
UPK-3	Letters in our namesThe letter ONursery RhymesFairy Tales	The number 10Patterns	Social Studies - MLK Jr
UPK-4	Wonderful Word of the Week: villainPhonological Awareness:Identify rhyming words Concepts of Print: Spaces between words; first word in sentence and names begin with uppercase letters Alphabet Knowledge: Associate letters with sounds: /j/ Jj, /l/ Ll, /v/ Vv	Three-Dimensional Shapes	Programming Frog-E to move using two-step and three-step command sequences
LEAP K-2	Letter Qu Labeling by tapping sounds in writing	Numbers with 10	5 senses
Kindergarten	Our letter of the week is Ee and the sight word of the week is see!In Writing, we are starting our story’s rough drafts and using different resources to help us spell words!	We are exploring the concept of ‘is there enough?’ in a variety of capacity and area situations!
1st Grade			Students practice sound discrimination by listening to the sounds that objects make when dropped. They work with a partner to identify objects by the properties of their sound. They investigate how tuning forks and a tone generator make sounds and observe the effect of those sounds on other objects. Students gather evidence that sound can make objects vibrate.
2nd Grade	We will be learning about the vowel teams ee, ea, eyWe will be reading about who our government leaders are and inventions	We are continuing Unit 3 and strategies to help solve 2 and 3-digit addition and subtraction problems

Grade Level/Subject	ELA	Math	Science	Digital Literacy
3rd Grade	Third graders will be reading non-fiction texts and work on reviewing text & graphic features and author’s purpose & craft. Students will decode words with ar, or, and ore. Spelling words will follow Vowel + /r/ Sounds.	Students will continue practicing multi-digit subtraction with regrouping and word problems. We will review place value and work on building background knowledge that will prepare students to start rounding.	Students explore the surprising properties of magnets and experiment with an invisible force that acts at a distance. In the activity, Magnet Discovery, students use ring magnets and common objects to discover the push and pull of magnets and how magnets attract certain types of metals.
4th Grade	In shared reading students will be starting Module 6. They will be taking a look at 2 different nonfiction texts. The first text students will be discovering is Seven Natural Wonders. The second text students will be reading is Mariana Trench and Exploring Challenger Deep. As students are taking a look at these two texts they will be learning text & graphic features, summarizing, central idea and text structure. In writing students are learning about what Narrative Writing is. Students are learning about the planning process as well as the drafting process. As writers we learn that it is okay to be in different stages of the writing process. Students will be learning the spelling pattern with words that have /k/, /ng/, and /kw/.	In Math students will be learning about fractions. They will be learning about what a fraction is and that some fractions equal more than 1 whole.	Students explore how a city's electricity is derived from natural resources such as coal, sunlight, wind, and water. They investigate how using these different energy sources affects the environment. In the activity, Power this Town, students obtain and combine information about different types of renewable energy, and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of each energy source.
5th Grade	Students are completing the 5th module in our HMH Curriculum. They will read one more story related to Planet Earth with a focus on text structure.Our spelling pattern next week is adding -ed and -ing to base words with spelling changes.Students will be introduced to our wax museum project.	We are going to focus on unit fractions and equivalent fractions.	Students develop different models to help explain how water cycles from the Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back again. In the activities, “Cloud in a Bag”, “Shaving Cream Cloud”, & “Paper Plate Water Cycle” , students create simple models of the water and sky to see how these systems interact.

This Week in Intermediate: Learning Highlights