October 2009

Justina Road Elementary

Connection
child’s academics? Think about the
Student of the From Mrs. Maxey routines that you have established at
Month October has come and we are off home. Also remember that free
to a wonderful start! Justina’s staff and tutoring is offered at school. You can
students are focused on establishing stop by the front office to sign your
September Students of consistent routines and rituals during child up. Additionally you may need
the Month the school day. You can help us by to conference with your child’s
establishing routines and rituals at teacher to address any concerns and
✓ Amonni Jones
home by selecting a designated work together to come up with ways
✓ Tyronesha Alexander homework area, adhering to the to help your child succeed.
✓ Victoria Perrin attendance procedures, and having
your child read each night.
✓ Refgen Jean-Louis Upcoming Events
The staff has readily assessed your
✓ Sackhra Mill Oct 1st - Fall Pictures
child’s academic strengths, and
✓ Joshua Heath weaknesses in Reading, Math, Science Oct 7th - Early Dismissal
✓ Kebreion Williams and Writing. Based upon the data
derived from the assessments we will Oct 15th - PTA mtg
✓ Jonah Thompson
begin to safety net and/ or provide Oct 19-23 - Red Ribbon Week
✓ Gabriel Lawver enrichment for your child.
✓ Aziza Abbosova By now you have received your Oct 21st - Early Release
✓ Fabrizio Gutierrez child’s progress report card. Take Oct 26th - Teacher Planning Day
✓ Ti'keyah Tomlin time to go over this with your child as
this an indicator of their report card. NO SCHOOL
✓ Trejon Thomas What can you do to strengthen your
✓ Tamara Miller Oct 27th - Student of the Month
✓ Donnavin Lane
✓ Darvin Nelson
Fun at Home
✓ Jalissa Cuello Roasting Pumpkin Seeds
✓ Joesha Bowens Pumpkin seeds are healthy and roasting pumpkin seeds is a fun activity you
✓ Shemar Heyliger can do with your child
✓ Trent Smith Prep Time: 25 minutes
✓ Kerrica Coffey Cook Time: 15 minutes
✓ Rachael Harrison Ingredients: 1 cup of pumpkin seeds, 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, salt
✓ Jamie Privett Preparation:
✓ Kathryn Seabourn After you've carved your Jack-O-Lantern, clean the seeds by wiping them
with a clean cloth or paper towel. Toss the pumpkin seeds with the vegetable
oil and spread evenly onto a cookie sheet. Sprinkle with salt and bake in a
400 degree oven for between 10 and 15 minutes, checking frequently.
If you like spicy seeds, add a dash of cayenne pepper after you sprinkle the
salt.
Remove seeds from the oven when they are a golden brown color. Let them
cool and then enjoy your snack.
See, roasting pumpkin seeds was fun, wasn't it?
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Red Ribbon Week

Justina will celebrate red ribbon week Oct 19-23rd. Red Ribbon Week serves as a vehicle for communities and
individuals to take a stand for the hopes and dreams of our children through a commitment to drug prevention and
education and a personal commitment to live drug free lives with the ultimate goal being the creation of a drug free
America. Help us celebrate by participating in our Red Ribbon Week activities.
Red Ribbon Week Activities
✓ Monday: Please wear red whatever creative style you deem appropriate.
✓ Tuesday: We’re way to cool to do drugs. Shade out….drugs. Wear sunglasses.
✓ Wednesday: Sock it to drugs… wear mismatched crazy socks!
✓ Thursday: Drugs turn you inside out…that’s why we say no! Wear your clothes inside out.
✓ Night vision assembly 3rd-5th grade @ 1:30
✓ Friday: I’m too much of a “ jean”-ius to do drugs or saying no to drugs is in my “jeans”, and besides drugs give
you the blues. You get the point … Wear jeans to school.
✓ Singin & Smilin presentation K-2nd grade @ 1:30
Volunteers needed! Help turn justina red for red ribbon week. Parents are asked to help decorate the front hallway and
cafeteria.

Be sure to sign the Drug-Free pledge with your child.

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• Tell your youngsters not to eat any treat until they
Halloween Safety return home.
As suggested by the National Safety Council
• Review all appropriate trick-or-treat safety
Before children start out on their "trick or treat"
precautions, including pedestrian/traffic safety rules
rounds, parents should:
• Make sure that an adult or an older responsible youth
will be supervising the outing for children under age 12.
• Plan and discuss the route trick-or-treaters intend to Thank Yous
follow. Know the names of older children's companions.
✓ Arizona Chemical for making donations to Ms. Van
• Instruct your children to travel only in familiar areas Nagel’s class
and along an established route.
✓ Nathan Huebner for donating book bags to Justina
• Teach your children to stop only at houses or ✓ The Women of Fort Carolina Presbyterian Church
apartment buildings that are well-lit and never to enter a for continued support and volunteer hours
stranger's home.
✓ Arlington Full Service Schools for continued
• Establish a return time. support

Book of the
Book of
the Month
Month:
Spaghetti and Extra-Extra
Meatballs
Boxtops!
Mr. and Mrs. Comfort decide to
have a family dinner and invite their We are still collecting boxtops again this
children, parents, in-laws, and neighbors. year at Justina. Our goal is $ 1500. If every
To seat the 32 guests, eight square tables Justina family were to collect 50 boxtops over the course of the school
and the appropriate number of chairs year we could easily reach this goal. You can clip 10¢ Box Tops coupons
are rented and arranged according to a from hundreds of your favorite products such as Cheerios®, Betty
plan devised by Mrs. Comfort. However, Crocker®, Juicy Juice®, Ziploc®, Kleenex®, Hefty® and more! Make
as the guests arrive, they rearrange the sure to turn in your boxtops to your child’s classroom teacher.
furniture so they can sit together, Don’t Forget Your Family Passport!
resulting in mayhem until Mrs. Every time a parent or family participates in a
Comfort's original configuration once Justina Event (parent conferences, PTA,
again evolves. Subtitled “A Mathematical volunteering etc) you will receive a signature on
Story,” the focus of this picture book is your passport. Signatures can be redeemed for
math concepts, not story. various prizes. Stop by the front office to get your card
Learner signed!
Profiles & !
Attitudes:
Thinkers,
Inquirers,
IB Learner Profile of the Month
Curiosity
IB Inquirers They develop their natural curiosity. They acquire
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the skills necessary to conduct inquiry and research and show
independence in learning. They actively enjoy learning and
this love of learning will be sustained throughout their lives.
Contact Us Thinkers They exercise initiative in
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recognize and approach complex problems, and make
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reasoned, ethical decisions.
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Curiosity Being curious about the nature of learning,
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Academic Focus Mathematics

Reading & Writing
K - Targeted Comprehension Skills in Theme 1: Compare and
Contrast; Noting Details; Retelling Targeted Comprehension
Strategies and Skills in Theme 2: Predict/Infer, Sequence of Events;
Summarize, Inferences: Making Predictions.
1 - Targeted Comprehension Strategies and Skills in Theme 1:
Predict/Infer, Sequence; Summarize, Compare/Contrast; Evaluate,
Cause and Effect Targeted Comprehension Strategies and Skills in
Theme 2: Question, Noting Details; Monitor/Clarify, Fantasy/
Realism; Summarize, Story Structure.
2 - Targeted Comprehension Strategies and Skills in Theme 1:
Fantasy & Realism, Story Structure, Summarize; Fantasy & Realism,
Monitor & Clarify; Predict/Infer, Predicting Outcomes; Focus on
Poetry.
3 - Targeted Comprehension Strategies and Skills in Theme 1:
Predict/Infer Cause and Effect; Monitor/Clarify, Making Inferences;
Summarize, Sequence of Events.
4 - Targeted Comprehension Strategies and Skills in Theme 1:
Summarize, Story Structure; Predict/Infer, Author’s Viewpoint;
Monitor/Clarify, Text Organization; Question, Noting Details;
Understanding Mysteries.
5 - Targeted Comprehension Strategies and Skills in Theme 1:
Sequence of Events, Noting Details, Predict/infer, Story Structure;
Text Organization, Fact and Opinion, Sequence of Events, Question;
Categorize and Classify, Topic, Main Idea, and Details, Text
Organization, Monitor/Clarify; Understanding Tall Tales.
Social K - My World - Families & Friends:
Studies Schools have many different kinds of
people & places in them.
K - Observe & describe attributes.
Recognize & describe a pattern. Create &
extend patterns. Predict what comes next in a
pattern.
1 - Find combinations of numbers up to 15.
Find the total of two quantities up to 10. Find
larger of two quantities up to about 20. Use
pictures, stories, and objects to model number
combinations.
2 - Express numbers in more than one way.
Solve problems using doubling. Write about
problem solving. Use familiar number
combinations to add a total. Develop counting
strategies. Explore patterns and develop fluency
in skip counting.
3 - Recognize that finding the area of a
rectangle is one situation where multiplication
can be used. Use arrays to skip count. Use arrays
with skip counting to multiply/divide. Find
factor pairs. Make connections between number
and shape.
4 - Use arrays as a model for multiplication.
Become more familiar with multiplication pairs,
and a variety of notation used for multiplication.
5 - Develop, explain, and compare strategies
for estimating and finding exact answers to
multiplication and division problems. Record
strategies for solving problems. Solve problems
in more than one way. Use relationships between
multiplication and division to solve problems.
K - Explorations using the five

nce
1 - School & Family - People senses and tools of science to
i e observe and compare objects. A
Sc
Everywhere: Leaders and rules are important to
communities. performance task about the five
senses.
2 - Neighbors - People and Places: Some
communities are in rural areas. 1 - Explorations of and a
performance task about sorting and describing objects by
3 - Community - Old and New Communities: Old
observable properties.
and new communities are to be found throughout the
United States. 2 - Observing & measuring properties of states of matter.
4 - Florida History - The First Floridians: Native 3 - Explorations of how plants and animals are grouped.
Americans adapted their way of life based on their 4 - A performance task that highlights characteristics of
geographic surroundings. the planets. Explorations of Earth’s cycles.
5 - US History - Age of Exploration: People settled 5 - Explorations of physical and chemical changes in
the U.S. for various reasons: religious, economic, political,
geographic & social. matter.