Choctaw County School District

Senior Spotlight!! Class of 2020

Attention Seniors! Look for an email from Ms. McLendon concerning the Senior Profile info for the Choctaw Plaindealer!

Congrats to our Seniors! We are proud of your accomplishments! Starting tomorrow, we will highlight our seniors with a Senior Spotlight page. On May 1st, we will start the countdown to graduation!

Mrs. Rachel is guiding us on how to draw with charcoal. Check this out it is really cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMvdACBEpdE #WeirExcellenceShines

Thursday, April 30: MATH Pre-K: Gather 20 blocks. Parents write the numbers 1-20 on them. Build a tower putting the blocks order from 1-20. Kindergarten: Greater Than/Less Than practice - here’s what you need: playing cards and a small piece of paper with a greater than/less than sign drawn on it (alligator mouth). Have a grown up draw two cards and lay them down and you use your alligator mouth (greater than/less than sign) down between the two cards. Remember that the alligator eats the biggest number. 1st: I will video these instructions in class dojo. Ok looks like the math theme this week will revolve around occupations and greater than and less than or greatest to least. Each player will need to have 2 dice, index cards (or pieces of paper cut up into card size), and strips of paper with different occupations (have your parent(s) write some jobs on a paper). To play the game you will have to wear the occupation strip around your forehead without knowing what it is. The pieces of paper or index card will have greatest, least, or greater than signs or less than signs. Pick who will be the first to go first by rolling one die - lowest number goes first. The person who goes first chooses the index cards that are face down and chooses a challenger (another player). Whoever wins gets to ask someone to give them a clue of what occupation they are - you can’t tell another player what they are. The game continues until someone figures out who they are then they win, but you can put on another occupation strip to see if you can get another one before the game is over. Or play until everyone guesses who they are. If you have no dice then you can use cards. Deal two cards to every player. Joker is the wild card - whatever number 0-9 that you want it to be. Ace adds 50 to the other number, King adds 30 to the other number, Queen adds 20 to the other number, Jack adds 10 to the other number. If you are ready to move to a 3-digit number (and we have been over this - use 3 dice instead of 2 dice; or three cards instead of two. 2nd: I will video these instructions in class dojo. Ok second grade, I would like for you to play the game above with 3 dice, or 3 cards or if you are brave enough and feel like you can tackle a 4-digit number go for it! 3rd: Use the Supervalue sale paper that comes in the mail. Pretend you are a clerk who is responsible for filling orders for pick up. Choose 4 items you would like to purchase yourself. Use addition to determine how much these items will be. The person picking up their order will pay with $50.00. Determine how much change you will need to give them once that have paid for their 4 items at pickup. Happy shopping!! 4th: You will also pretend you are a clerk who is responsible for filling orders for pick up at SuperValue. Use the sales paper that comes in the mail for Supervalue each week. Your customer will purchase 4 different items. However, they will purchase 3 of each of the items you choose. Once you determine the cost of their items, there will be 12 items in all, use multiplication to find your prices. Your customer will use $150.00 to pay for their items. Determine how much change you will need to give them. Happy shopping!! 5th: Find the salary for the Math Department Chair (the person in charge, responsible for managing the math department) of 5 different universities. Find the average (mean) by adding all the numbers and dividing the sum by 5-the number of salaries added. Order the salaries from greatest to least. Round each salary to the nearest ten thousand. Which university has the lowest salary and which has the greatest salary? 6th: Find the salary of the Math Department chair for 7 different major universities and round each to the nearest hundred thousand. Find the mean, median, interquartile range (IQR) and mean absolute deviation (MAD). Is there a mode? If so, what is it? #WeirExcellenceShines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifox9P4UEnQ Mrs. Wise is reading "The Energy Bus" with permission from Jon Wiley and sons Inc. This is a book about staying positive and overcoming problems. This book will be read in two parts. The next part will post next Friday. HAVE FUN! STAY SAFE! #WeirExcellenceShines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTPBBYe4kQ4 WES Read aloud Chapter 3...Mrs. Vaughan is reading "Ghost-town at Sundown" with permission from Scholastic. #WeirExcellenceShines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTPBBYe4kQ4 Mrs. Vaughan is reading Chapter 3 of "Ghost-town at Sundown" with permission from Scholastic. Chapter 1 and 2 have already been posted if you have not listened to them. Last Monday, Chapter 1. Hope you enjoy! #WeirExcellenceShines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G65z7_yFMg&feature=youtu.be Wednesday, April 29: Science Experiment: Making Predictions like Scientists. Scientists work to find cures, medicines that help people, create the best and most effective oils to use in cars through experiments, create/experiment making and testing different oils for cooking. What other things do Scientist do? First we will look at the Scientific process and then we will do some experiments that you can do at home to test your hypothesis and prediction. Supplies: paper to write on, three different individual bottle drinks (three different flavors), baking soda, and balloons for each bottled drink. HAVE FUN!!!! #WeirExcellenceShines

Choctaw County High School Graduation Announcement

Charger Baseball News!! We welcome Coach Justin Flake, his wife Stephanie and son Parker to the Charger Family!

All athletes who have uniforms to turn in need to bring them to the front of the Ty Cobb building on Thursday, May 7th from 9-11. You must be seen by your coach in order to be marked off their uniform list. This includes junior high as well as high school athletes.

Letter jackets will be handed out on Monday, May 4th from 9-11. Anyone picking up their jacket needs to report to Coach Wood’s office in the Ty Cobb building.

If you have a student going to school at CCSD please take a minute to fill out our Family Digital Readiness Survey to help us better prepare for our students technology needs in the future. Thank you! https://forms.gle/GoqwCMuzUkuVem7E6

Tuesday, April 28: Writing Pre-K: What do you want to be when you grow up? Draw a picture and color it. Kindergarten: Sentence starter: When I grow up I want to be...Write the sentence starter then finish the sentence by writing what you want to be when you grow up. Be sure and illustrate your sentence with a pretty picture! 1st & 2nd Grade: Write about what you want to be when you grow-up, and send it into class dojo or to your teachers email. We would love to post them in the class story of Class DoJo. 3rd &4th Grade: PROMPT: What do you want to be when you grow up? Write about what you want to be when you group up. Make sure you explain to me why you chose that job. ALSO, include some facts about that job that you learned in the story you read yesterday. 5th & 6th Grade: Interview someone in your family about their job! Using these 5 questions, interview a family member about what he/she does at his/her job. Why did you decide to have a career in this profession? How long have you been working as a ______? What do you like best about your job? What is your least favorite part about your job? If you could change anything about your job what would it be and why?

WES Staff and Teachers wanted to send all WES Students a note. The picture quilt was a team effort. Thank you, Mrs.Talley for putting the picture quilt together. We are all learning new things and this was one of them! WES Although our school is empty our hearts remain full because you're our amazing wonderful students! We are here for you! Keep up the great work! We love and believe in each of our terrific awesome WES students! #WeirExcellenceShines

Ackerman Elementary School would like to provide some resources to parents to help with explaining Covid-19 to our students. If at any time you need additional resources, please feel free to call the school or email us at helpaes@choctawsd.ms. Talking to your child about Covid-19 - A short YouTube video - https://youtu.be/WhVad8ToCiU Social stories- These stories help teach harder information about different situations to students. Preview the books/videos to see which one best fits your family’s needs - https://sites.google.com/schoolsofwestfield.org/cub-learning-adventure/social-stories Stay safe and stay strong! #teamAES

Amplify is offering free science lessons and videos! The website has activities and lessons broken down by grade. Check out their website for some fun learning! #teamAES https://freeresources.amplify.com/amplify-science/

Reading Pre-K: Name different jobs people can have. Identify the beginning sounds of each job. Kindergarten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soKRa6D90WQ - This is the link to the read aloud Career Day on YouTube. Listen to the story with an adult or friend and talk about the different jobs people can have. Talk about what you want to be when you grow up. 1st & 2nd grade: If you have Internet, search an occupation (job) that you would like to have when you grow up. Read about this job (on EPIC or watch a read aloud book on youtube) and list 5 important things this person does on their job. If you don’t have Internet access, ask a grown up about a job and list 5 important things that person does. 3rd and 4th grade: Log onto EPIC and search for a non-fiction book that is about what you would like to do when you grow up. For example: If I wanted to be a nurse when I grow up, then I would type “nurse” into the search bar on EPIC and select the “non-fiction” button. Then, select which book that you want to read! 5th & 6th Grade: Log into Epic! and search for books on what you would like to be when you grow up! There are tons of books to choose from! #WeirExcellenceShines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STGsMiTQUv0 WES Chapter 2 of "Ghost-town at Sundown" read by Sarah Vaughan with permission from Scholastic. Chapter 3 will be posted on Wednesday. Chapter 1 was posted last week on Monday. #WeirExcellenceShines