About the Week of March 23 and looking ahead...

About the Week of March 23 and looking ahead...

Monday March 30- HIV/AIDS lesson. Parent info page comes home with this.

  Your child has been bringing homework assignments for some of our puberty lessons. Thursday students will be separated by gender and we will watch videos about changes in boys and girls as they grow up. We will have a discussion and answer questions. Mr. Tebo will be leading this with the boys from Mrs. Custer's class and ours for the boys. Mrs. Custer and I will talk with the girls. All week we have been having a question box. If a student asks a question that is not something we should be answering, we let them know that they should be asking their trusted adult(s).  

CONFERENCES: March 30 and 31

   I look for ward to visiting with you about your child next week. I would like your child to join us and share his/her presentation with you and discuss goals and all the things that your child is doing well. It is great to include your child in the conversation about his/her learning and school life. 

** NOTE: These conferences are only 15 minutes and there is no 5 minute break built in as there was at the elementary schools. I need to stay on time in order to not make others late for their conference and possibly other children's conferences. You are welcome to schedule another conference and/or call if you need more time! 

HOMEWORK:  

1) Page 131 & 132 in the workbook- all.

For all:  Reading: Read every day.

For all:  March Book Project- Due March 30 - Students will present that day.

April Book Project: Students will be choosing a biography to read over spring break. We will be writing biographies (in class) based on these when they return from break. 

MATH:   

 We took the test on Thursday. I will have these for you at conferences. Friday we played a computer quiz game (Kahoot!) to review past concepts. Monday we will begin our new unit, Algebra, Patterns, and Coordinate Graphs.

 
 READING:  

We began Book Club on Friday. Students are in groups reading, discussing and working on comprehension strategies. I sit in with groups each day, listening in and joining the discussion. They will choose a project to complete and have an assessment at the end of their book. This book club may require homework on occasion if students are unable to finish in class.  
  Thursday we are watching the Sign of the Beaver movie and comparing it to the book. If students earned sit and sip, they may bring a drink for the movie. Everyone may bring in some popcorn to eat during the movie!

WRITING:

Students shared their Superhero brochures for the superhero they created! They were awesome and included the values a hero has, superpowers, and how he/she can help others. We studied Idioms such as "When pigs fly." and "Cat has your tongue". Students illustrated the idiom and wrote what it really means. We reviewed figurative language such as idioms, simile, hyperbole, metaphor, and alliteration.

Spelling  Students took Spelling Test 24 on Friday.This week there will be no spelling lesson.

About the Week of March 16 and looking ahead...

About the Week of March 16 and looking ahead...

Friday March 27......EARLY COLONIES DAY - Dress like early colonists- we will help

PUBERTY/HIV/AIDS Lessons- These begin on March 23rd
 

CONFERENCES: March 30 and 31

Last week you received information about signing up for conferences online. Already 20 people have done so! If you want to have a time that works for you, please sign up as soon as possible. 

 

FUN NIGHT (DAY)

I have some pictures in the photos tab.

The kids had a great time! I didn't know we had so many 5th and 6th grade boys that were such fabulous dancers! :) Games, music, inflatibles, ice cream sundaes- a good time. I tried a couple races on the inflatibles -and lost, but had fun, too! 

HOMEWORK:  

1) Page 116 & 117 in the workbook- all.

For all:  Reading: Read every day.

For all:  March Book Project- Due March 30

March Book Project: Create a book jacket for your book.

  I went through the March assignment and handed out directions for this 3 weeks ago 

  I have the book jacket templates at school and students can get those whenever they are ready. We review these assignment once or twice every week for a reminder.

MATH:  
 There are tutorials for division and some practice in order of the concept to be taught. 
  We have been reviewing and are taking the test on Wednesday. We will do a couple test reviews on Monday and Tuesday. Our next unit is Algebra, Patterns, and Coordinate Graphs.

 READING:  

We began Book Club on Friday. Students are in groups reading, discussing and working on comprehension strategies. I sit in with 3 groups each day, listening in and joining the discussion.
They will choose a project to complete and have an assessment at the end of their book. This book club may require homework on occasion if students are unable to finish in class.

WRITING:

Students are making brochures for the superhero they created! Can't wait to have them share. We discussed what a superhero is, how kids can be everyday superheroes, and the values a hero has. Groups of students read an article about a real kid hero, summarized the article and shared it discussing the values these kids represented. Their superhero pamphlet must also describe the hero's values.

SCIENCE:  Students took the Objects in the Sky test on Monday. We went over these. If your child received a '1' on any section, he/she will retake those sections on Monday, March 23rd. If they received a '2' they had the option of doing so. I went over with each student what to study and where to find it as well as answered more questions if needed.

Spelling  Students took Spelling Test 23 on Friday.This week's skill will be possessive nouns

  

About the Week of March 9 and looking ahead...

About the Week of March 9 and looking ahead...

Tuesday March 17... GREEN DAY wear green!
Friday March 20......YELLOW DAY wear yellow! and we have some "yellow activities"

Friday March 27......EARLY COLONIES DAY - Dress like early colonists- we will help

PINK DAY: A representative from the Susan G Komen Foundation came on Friday in order to thank us for our donation to the foundation. Sydney Wedeven had chosen this charity when her name was drawn for our Christmas Gift Giving project in December. You can see pictures on the foundation's Facebook page and I attached a few as well.

I HAVE SOME PICTURES IN THE "PHOTOS" TAB

PUBERTY/HIV/AIDS Lessons- These begin on March 23rd
 

CONFERENCES: March 30 and 31

Last week you received information about signing up for conferences online. Already 20 people have done so! If you want to have a time that works for you, please sign up as soon as possible. 

HOMEWORK:  

1) Page 115 in the workbook- all.
2) Grammar Cop page. I went over how to do this with the class.

For all:  Reading: Read every day.

   For all:  March Book Project- Due March 30

March Book Project: Create a book jacket for your book.

  I went through the March assignment and handed out directions for this last week. 

  I have the book jacket templates at school and students can get those whenever they are ready. We review these assignment once or twice every week for a reminder.

MATH:  
 There are tutorials for division and some practice in order of the concept to be taught. 
  We continue working in our Division unit.We are doing review of all division concepts and will continue this next week. It takes time for students to become fluent with dividing 2 digit divisors into larger dividends. We reviewed how to check answers with multiplication.

 READING:  

We  completed Sign of the Beaver.  We will review and discuss the book on Monday and have an assessment on Tuesday.

Students also compared and contrasted Echohawk from our Read Aloud Book, Echohawk, to Attean from The Sign of the Beaver. We will begin book club later next week.  Students will be working in groups of 4-5 with books at there reading level. Students also spent time reviewing and revising their goals and talking to me about them as they are preparing to use these in their conference presentations.

WRITING: Student wrote a persuasive paper about whether Matt (our main character) should stay and wait for his family or go with the American Indians.We will begin a short writing piece about Superheroes next week.

                                                                                                                              SCIENCE: 
I enjoyed all the presentations students completed about their planet or dwarf planet! We spent the entire week reviewing for the test on Monday. Students marked a page in their journals to study, they have a study guide, and we practiced reading a graph many times as this is also on the test.

Spelling  Students took Spelling Test 22 on Friday. This week's skill is homographs.

  We will continued to review and practice using comma, quotation marks, and  figurative language.

Week of March 2

In March we are having some special days. 
I will talk to the kids about these on Monday.

Friday March 13.......PINK DAY- wear pink!
Tuesday March 17... GREEN DAY wear green!
Friday March 20......YELLOW DAY wear yellow! and we have some "yellow activities"
Friday March 27......EARLY COLONIES DAY - Dress like early colonists- we will help


PUBERTY/HIV/AIDS Lessons- Your child brought home permission forms that need to be signed and returned by the due date on the papers. This is for all of 5th grade. You may opt your child in or out of the presentations. Students who don't return forms will be included in the presentations.
 
Homework: Page 114 in the workbook- all.
  

For all:  Reading: Read every day.

  

For some: Delta Math Review-  (This weekend some students may not have the packet at home as they were to get it returned on Friday.)

Several students brought home a packet to review concepts they need to continue to practice at home and school. These are to be turned in to me on Monday for a check in. There was a note attached to the front about them not having to be completed, just show that some work has been done.

  For all:  March Book Project- Due March 30

March Book Project: Create a book jacket for your book.

I went through the March assignment and handed out directions for this last week. 

I have the book jacket templates at school and students can get those whenever they are ready. We review these assignment once or twice every week for a reminder.

MATH:  
 There are tutorials for division and some practice in order of the concept to be taught. 

  We continue working in our Division unit. We reviewed using various problem-solving strategies. Some answers require, rounding up, some using the divisor and remainder as a fraction or decimal, and sometimes the answer is the remainder. We are reviewing dividing when there is a decimal in the divisor and dividend or when there is only a divisor in the dividend. We
READING:  

  Students presented their February Book projects. 

We are nearing the end of our genre unit reading Sign of the Beaver. It revolves around the theme of facing challenges. We have been reading as a class and in pairs to discuss this novel. Students are working on comprehension and strategies, quoting from  and paraphrasing text, and using text clues to respond to questions and find meaning of unknown vocabulary. We completed our read aloud, Echohawk, and will be comparing that character and Attean from The Sign of the Beaver. We will begin book club soon and students will be working in groups of 4-5 with books at there reading level.

 

WRITING:   Students compared and contrasted two articles from "The History of Yum" on a graphic organizer wrote a compare/contrast piece. They also presented their "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" comma illustrations.

                                                                                                                                       

SCIENCE: 

  Students will finish presenting their research projects about planets.We will be doing test review all week. The test will be on Monday March 16th.

 

Spelling  Students took Spelling Test 21 on Friday. This week's skill is the spelling of the /j/ sound.

  We will continue to learn about comma rules, have more lessons on using quotation marks, and continue to learn about and use figurative language.