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October 3: "Take-Home Book Fair" orders due
October 8: Early Release Day
October 9: Fall picture day
October
10: *PTA meeting 2:30
*Patrols Movie Night
October 18: Down Syndrome Buddy Walk 9:30 AM Seawalk Pavillion
October 21: 1st grade field trip to the Cummer museum
October 22: 9 weeks ends
October 24: No school: Teacher planning day
October 27-31: Red Ribbon Week
October 28: Wear crazy socks
October 29: Wear your shirt backwards
October 30: *"Vote
for Books" convention 9 AM
*Red Ribbon Week assembly
*Wear crazy sunglasses
*KG
field trip to the zoo
October 31: *Character Book Parade 9 AM
*wear red
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Chaffee Trail Elementary adheres to the standards-based curriculum of Duval County Public Schools, which is based on the America's Choice School Design. This includes a 2 1/2 hour literacy block comprised of Reader's and Writer's Workshops, Math Investigations, the 25-book campaign, and school-wide book-of-the-month selections.
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here for an overview of these programs
Chaffee Trail also prepares students for middle school through science and social studies standards
Science Learning Schedule:
The science strands below are listed in the order in which they should be taught. This sequence will help to prevent gaps in learning if or when students move from school to school. Strand H, Nature of Science, is introduced at the beginning of the year and then reinforced all year. You are encouraged to integrate reading, writing, and mathematics into science instruction.
|
Grading Period |
KG | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
| All year | Strand H: observing, comparing, describing, sorting, measuring | Strand H: measuring weight, capacity, length | Strand H: measuring weight, capacity, length, temperature | Strand H: inquiry, measuring weight, capacity, length, temperature | Strand H: inquiry, measuring weight, capacity, length, temperature | Strand H: inquiry, measuring weight, capacity, length, temperature |
| 1st 9 weeks | Strand A:
observing, comparing, describing, sorting matter introduction to science tools |
Strand C: pushes and pulls, magnetism | Strand E: Day and
night, objects in the sky Strand D: heat from the sun, ways to produce heat, light and shadows |
Strands F and G: animal groups, plants, adaptations of animals and plants, producers and consumers | Strand E: earth's seasons; planets and the sun | Strand A: matter,
changes in state, physical and chemical changes Strand B: forms of energy |
| 2nd 9 weeks | Strand C: sound Strand F: our body parts, our 5 senses, needs of living things |
Strand D: rocks and soils | Strand D: Weather | Strand D: rocks and soil, weathering and erosion, water cycle | Strand B: electricity and magnetism | Strand B: forms of
energy, fossil fuels Strand C: force and motion |
| 3rd 9 weeks | Strand F:
animals Strand G: where animals and plants live |
Strand F: living and non-living things, needs of living things Strand B: Heat and light from sun |
Strands F and G: needs of living things; living and non-living things; habitats and adaptations for living things | Strand A: properties of matter Strand B: heat |
Strand F: human body systems, cells | Strand D: changes in
earth's surface, natural disasters Strand G: ecosystems |
| 4th 9 weeks | Strand E: changes in the sky, seasons of the year | Strand F: plants and their life cycles, animals and their life cycles | Strand A: solids, liquids, gases | Strand E: Earth as a sphere, earth's moon, stars | Strand C: sound, forces and motion, simple machines | Strand G: energy
flow Strand H: ANture of science Strand E: earth and space |
| Field trips | Strand F: Jacksonville Zoo | Strand F: Jacksonville Zoo | Strand F: Jacksonville Zoo | Strand F: Tree Hill | Strand E: MOSH planetarium | Marine Science Center |
To find out what your child is
learning for each academic subject, check out the district's newsletter
for academic information on each grade level.
Click on the icon below for access
to Destination Success, a portal for interactive academic activities on
Riverdeep to help your child learn! Username is FirstnameLastname142 (no
spaces. ex: JohnSmith142). Password is birthmonthday
Chaffee Trail Elementary is
dedicated to engaging the students in project-based, inquiry learning
through resources such as Apple technology. Click on the link below to
see some student-created podcasts based on Duval County standards:
Chaffee
Trail Elementary Podcasts!
Students in all grade levels read
the following books each month. The books are read many times, each time
focusing on a different literacy aspect such as author's purpose or
inferring. Students create a response to literature, which may
incorporate an aspect of writer's workshop, or a project which
synthesizes concepts learned.
All students in grades 3-5 take the
Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. 4th graders take Florida Writes
February 12-15, 2008. March 11-24, 2008, students in grades 3-5 take the
reading and math portions of FCAT and the Norm Referenced Test (NRT).
5th graders take the science portion of FCAT as well as reading and
writing.
Students can prepare
for the FCAT by logging in to FCAT Explorer.
Students can get their log-in information from their classroom teacher
ALG
8/18-8/29
ALG 9/1-9/19
ALG 9/22-10/3
ALG 10/6-17
(ex: January 5th= 0105 November
25th=1125)
September:
Winners
Never Quit by Mia Hamm
October:
Owen and
Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship by Isabella
and Craig Hartkoff and Dr. Paula Kahumbu
November:
December:
January:
February:
March:
April:
May:
June:
Students
can also do the quizzes and lay the games on Study Island to prepare.
Click on the logos to access the sites.
