Principal's Message

Good evening Inskip Families,

Please attend our PTO meeting tomorrow night beginning at 6. Mr. Dillingham, from the facilities department at Knox County Schools, will be here to discuss our new addition project.  We will also talk about the remainder of the year and plans for next year.  

Our 1st Annual Spring Dance will take place on Thursday from 6-8.  The cost is $5 per child or $10 per family.  This does include popcorn.  We will also have concessions during the dance in case you want to bring extra money.  

We will not have school on Friday due to observance of Good Friday.

As always, thank you for your support.  We are a great school with great kids, great teachers and great families!

Warm regards,

Lynn Jacomen

The Cold War

You are going to use your notes, the Brain Pop Video, your textbook, and the websites below to gather information about the cold war.

Then you will create a Google Slides project about the Cold War:

You need at least 10 slides, 5 pictures, you need to answer the important questions about the Cold War?

What is the Cold War?
What countries were involved?
When did it happen?
Why did it happen?
How did it end?


Check out this page for tons of information about the Cold War:

Ducksters

Lesson 25 Extra Credit

Remind your child that they have until Thursday to bring home and work on the lesson 25 extra credit that is located in their practice workbooks.

Lesson 25 Quiz

Lesson 25 Quiz

Click HERE to take the quiz

March 26 Newsletter

Lesson 24 Quiz

Click here to take a quick quiz over lesson 24

Message From our Principal

Good evening Inskip Families,

We have some exciting events going on the remainder of March! On Thursday, 3/22, Parent-Teacher Conference day is happening. Hopefully you have signed up with your child's teacher for a conference. On Friday, 3/23, we are having our 9 weeks "Celebration of Learning". This one will be for parents to attend if possible. We will recognize Good Citizenship, Perfect Attendance, Honors, and B.U.G. (Bringing Up Grades). We will also have a Mini-Music Program! The schedule is K - 8:00, 1st - 8:45, 2nd - 9:30, 3rd - 12:30, 4th -10:15, and 5th -1:15. Please come if you can! If you can't make this one, we will have our last celebration at our end of year Assemblies in May (schedule to come soon). 

We are still selling t-shirts and we do have some yearbooks left. Please contact your child's teacher or send in the order forms.  

As you already know, construction has started on our new addition. Please come out on Wednesday, 3/28 at 6:00 p.m. for a PTO meeting where Mr. Dillingham, Knox County School's Facilities Director, will provide more information about this exciting project.

On Thursday, 3/29 we will have our 1st Annual Spring Dance from 6-8 p.m.! A flyer is attached below. All proceeds will be donated to our 5th grade Safety Patrol trip coming up this summer.

Spring Dance Flyer.pptx

As always, thank you for your support. Great things are happening at Inskip!  

Sincerely,

Lynn Jacomen, Principal

Newsletter

Multiplying Fractions

Practice Multiplying Fractions HERE


Take a quiz and see how you do HERE

You can watch a video about how to it HERE

Read about how to do it HERE


A great lesson in how to multiply fractions can be found HERE


Once you have finished all of these tutorials and games, you can click on the document below. You can print it or write numbers 1-12 on a piece of notebook paper with your name at the top.

Show ALL of your work, and mark your answers clearly.

MULTIPLYING FRACTIONS EXTRA CREDIT CAN BE FOUND HERE

March 5- March 9 -- Newlsetter!

Lesson 25 Volume of Rectangular Prisms and Cubes

Lesson 25- Seatwork Activity



Now get a piece of notebook paper and put your name at the top.

You will number your paper 1-8 and click on the sheet below.

Volume Practice Sheet

Answer the questions on your notebook paper.



If you need help, use the websites below to practice finding the volume of cubes and rectangular prisms:

Mathgames.com

Saddleback.edu

Nearpod on Finding Volume


SheppardSoftware


This should be turned into your teacher.

Parent Conferences

Spring parent conferences are scheduled for March 22nd this year. Unfortunately, I will be traveling to a conference with my own children that weekend and will miss that Thursday and Friday of school.


If you would like to talk with me about your child's math grade, please feel free to send an email to jenifer.feagins@knoxschools.org or text me at 865-566-5637. We can schedule a time the following week before or after school.

Your child's grades are available on Aspen, and I usually post 3-4 math grades per week. If you do not have a parent login for this website, you can contact helpdesk@knoxschools.org to get one set up. Your child also has a login and you can see all of your student's grades with their logins as well.

Many of you have asked about extra credit, and as your child knows, every lesson comes with an extra credit opportunity. They have a parent/family engagement sheet in their workbooks that they can complete with any adult and receive extra credit. There have been 18 opportunities to do that this year, and there will be at least 15 more as we go through the lessons. They have to be completed and turned in by the Friday after we finish that lesson. For example, we took a text on lesson 18 this Wednesday, so the students have until Friday to get the extra credit in for lesson 18.

Your child has homework almost every week, unless we have schedule interruptions. Homework is due on Friday for full credit and can be turned in on Monday for a C.

I try not to give zeros, so if you notice your child has a score of 50 or a U, it is possibly because they didn't do the assignment at all. I do not take classwork assignments late unless the child has been absent, then they have 3 days to get them in to me.

I also give participation grades weekly. The child just has to interact with other students positively and contribute to discussion to earn an A. If you are seeing participation grades lower than an A, check with your child to find out why.

Also, the children have an I-ready account online which is geared directly towards their mathematical needs. We give them at least 1 hour a week to work on this in class. The goal for your child is to take and pass one lesson a week, often kids do 3-4 lessons per week. Your child can also work on this at home, they know their usernames and passwords. The website is: https://login.i-ready.com/

Please let me know if you have any questions about your child's math class. We are working hard to prepare them for middle school, and I love watching them learn and grow.