April 2010

Justina Road Elementary

Connection
Maxey’s Corner
Student of the
The school year is winding down with only one grading period left. Hopefully,
everyone had the opportunity to enjoy their Spring Break. Spring is the time of year Month
for beginnings, new starts, and a period of renewal in the land and us. With that
renewal, I want to impress upon you that the students and staff are working hard to March Students of the
continue the rigorous academic pace of instruction that is provided at Justina. In the Month
upcoming week, I look forward to seeing many parents at the school to assist in Field ✓ Hussain Aljaberi
Day activities, Field Trips, Summer Academy Enrollment, and many other school- ✓ Chynah Andrews
based opportunities. ✓ Re’cord Bennefield
Remember: “Success Comes When We All Pull Together” ✓ Jaden Petruska
✓ Jeremiah West
Q & A Handling Peer Pressure ✓ Darry Jackson
Q: My son recently decided to stop being friends with a classmate because ✓ Jada Barclay
other kids said, “We don’t like him”. How can I teach my child to think for her/ ✓ James Brown
himself. ✓ Chasity Avila
A: It’s important to give your child the tools he/she needs to stand up for ✓ Adonne Tillman
themselves—especially now, before she/he faces peer pressure about things like ✓ Jayla Smith
drugs and alcohol. Talk to your child about choosing friends who share his/her
✓ Johnathan Basso
interest and values. Kids often give in to peer pressure because they want other
✓ Osha Harvey
kids to like them. If your son has good friends on his side, she/he won’t be as
✓ Zeniya Andrews
likely to go along with the crowd. Also teach him/her to walk away from
uncomfortable situations. For example if the kids playing basketball are being ✓ Keithshon Thomas
mean to others, your child could go to another part of the playground to play. ✓ Snailanda Corneil
✓ Trevon
Upcoming Events ✓ Azayvien Dennis

April 14 Early Dismissal ✓ Keiaysha Andrews

April 16 NED show

April 19 Stranger/Danger & Officer Friendly Grades

K-4 Thank Yous
Fort Caroline McDonald’s for providing
April 22 PTA meeting
free breakfast for 3-5th grade students
the first day of FCAT.
Contact Us Big Brother /Big Sister for providing
mentors for Justina Students
Justina Road Elementary
Full Service School for their continued
3101 Justina Road
support of Justina Elementary School.
Jacksonville, FL 32277
904.745.4909
www.duvalschools.org/justina
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Box Tops

We are still collecting boxtops at Justina. Our goal is $ 1500. If every Justina family were to
collect 50 boxtops over the course of the school year we could easily reach this goal. You can
clip 10¢ Box Tops coupons from hundreds of your favorite products such as Cheerios®, Betty
Crocker®, Juicy Juice®, Ziploc®, Kleenex®, Hefty® and more! Make sure to turn in your
boxtops to your child’s classroom teacher.
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Hip Hop Speaks to Children
Book of
Learner Profile & Attitude: Communication &
the Month
Appreciation

This anthology highlights the use of rhythm and vernacular in hip-hop, rap,
and African-American poetry. The 51 pieces - which also include a passage
from Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech - use gospel rhythms,
"hambone" rhythms (which Giovanni explains in her informative
introduction), jazz and blues rhythms, and language from the fields and the
city streets. Artists range from Langston Hughes to Kanye West, from Eloise
Greenfield to Queen Latifah. Much of the subject matter focuses on hope,
self-esteem, respect for the past, and determination to make a better future.
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Academic Focus
Reading
K - Instruction continues in Theme 7. Targeted Comprehension
Strategies and Skills in Theme 7: Summarize, Text Organization and
Summarizing; Monitor/Clarify, Cause and Effect; Question, Making
Predictions.
1 - Instruction continues in Theme 7. Targeted Comprehension
Strategies and Skills in Theme 7: Summarize, Problem Solving;
Question, Noting Details; Predict/Infer, Making Predictions.
2 - Instruction begins in Theme 4. Targeted Comprehension
Strategies and Skills in Theme 4: Monitor/Clarify, Drawing
Conclusions; Question, Text Organization; Summarize, Cause and
Effect; Evaluate, Understanding Biographies. Instruction begins in
Theme 5. Targeted Comprehension Strategies and Skills in Theme 5:
Evaluate, Making Generalizations; Questions, Following Directions;
Predict/Infer, Making Judgments; Monitor/Clarify, Sequence of
Events, Monitoring Student Progress, Focus on Genre-Chapter
Books.
3 - Instruction begins in Theme 4. Targeted Comprehension
Strategies and Skills in Theme 4: Evaluate, Fact & Opinion;
Summarize, Compare & Contrast; Monitor & Clarify, Making
Judgments; Question, Understanding Biographies; Review previously
taught strategies and skills.
4 - Instruction continues in Theme 4. Targeted Comprehension
Strategies and Skills in Theme 4: Predict/Infer, Predicting Outcomes,
Evaluate, Problem Solving; Monitor/Clarify, Understanding Poetry;
Summarize, Drawing Conclusions; Question, Story Structure.
5 - Instruction continues in Theme 4. Targeted Comprehension
Strategies and Skills in Theme 4: Predict/Infer, Problem Solving/
Decision Making; Monitor/Clarify, Noting Details; Phonics/
Decoding; Question/Compare/Contrast; Making Inferences;
Evaluate/Making Judgments; Understanding Plays, Visualizing,
Responding: Preparing for Literature Discussion.
K - Explorations and observations
of the size of objects that can be
Science seen in the sky.
1 - Explorations of and a
performance task about living and
nonliving things.
2 - Explorations of habitats for plants and animals.
3 - Explorations of the properties of light energy. A
performance task about heat and light energy.
4 - Explorations of the functions of human body systems.
5 - Explorations of balanced and unbalanced forces.
Turnaround Schools continue Benchmark Review lessons.
Mathematics
K - Describe attributes; sort items
according to their attributes. Record
information in a picture. Count a set of objects.
Use one-to-one correspondence to match two
sets of objects. Count items in a data set. Keep
track of and compare two sets of data.
Represent a set of data. Recognize shapes in the
environment. Observe/describe/develop
vocabulary to describe two-dimensional shapes.
Use shapes to make a picture.
1 - Find combinations of up to 20. Explore
relationships among different combinations of a
number. Find the total of two or more single-
digit numbers. Record solutions with pictures/
numbers/ words. Find more than one solution to
a problem. Show number combinations with
pictures/words/ equations. Develop strategies
for organizing sets of objects so they are easy to
count and combine. Find the total of several 2’s,
4’s, 5’s, or 10’s. Record strategies for counting
and combing, using pictures, numbers, and
words.
2 - Work with 100 and combinations of
numbers that equal 100. Add strings of numbers
by chunking/ grouping numbers that go
together. Write a story that reflects an addition
equation. Compare two quantities. Record
strategies for solving. Operate with 1’s/10’s on
the100 chart. Solve problems involving
combining/separating/comparing.
3 - Use measurement as a way of collecting
data. Conduct a data analysis project. Organize/
represent/analyze data. Make recommendations
based on conclusions drawn from data.
4 - Apply knowledge of coordinates to
locate points on a computer screen. Describe
geometric figures such as rectangles and squares
in several ways. Understand turns as a change in
orientation or heading. Explore what happens
when turns are repeated. Become familiar with
degrees as a common measurement for turns.
5 - Compare lengths expressed in different
ways, such as meters/centimeters & meters/
decimal fractions. Keep track of/calculate total
measurements. Develop benchmarks for and
measure distances of 100 meters. Compare the
relative sizes of US standard and metric
measures of weight/liquids. Order items by
measures of weight/liquid quantity.