Week of November 13-16

Happy first 2 hour delay!

Wow, I cannot believe the snow amounts we got over last night!  I wonder what the rest of our fall/winter will be like!  

The students have been working really hard this week.  Here's a glimpse into what they've been working on...

Literacy

• Writing different kinds of poems based on their narrative (Lyrical, Free Verse, Ballad)
• Practiced their poem on SeeSaw to see where to improve
• Practiced with partners as well
• Book clubs started up again
• Groups did a SeeSaw activity on a character

Math

• Unit 3 began
• Students met with me to discuss where to start in the unit based on their pre-assessment
• Full menu began with students in may different places and going at a pace that works for each individual

Science

• New unit on Matter
• Students have worked in 5D and 5L on many experiments showing the difference between PHYSICAL and CHEMICAL changes
• Students will travel to the other 5th grade classrooms after Thanksgiving break

Choose Love

• Please ask your child about the important lessons we've done this week
• We talked about being courageous and how that can make you a happier and healthier person
• We talked about the brain and how it works when you are feeling anxious or scared
• Kids created personal mantras and their own brave breath stance for a "Choose Love App"
• We have a bulletin board showcasing all this important work!

Read Aloud

• We started a new book called Restart.  Ask your child about it! It's hard to put down!

Next week we only have Monday and Tuesday.  Wednesday is a day off to prep for your holiday!  Time to be thankful and grateful!

Choose Love Apps

Enjoy the weekend!

Shannon

November 5-9

Happy Friday 5D Families!

Want to help out the Book Fair?  Here's a sign up!  

 https://volunteer.scholastic.com/#/signup/oZH4ELaZP 

This week the students were quite busy in all academic areas!  Here are some pictures to enjoy and questions to ask about their week.

Questions to promote school conversation...

• What did you put on SeeSaw this week?
• What was Trashketball like?
• What kinds of poems did you learn about?
• How are you changing your narrative into a poem?
• What have you learned about matter so far?
• What kind of experiment did you do?
• How were Houses on Friday afternoon?

Some pictures of Trashketball

Students put a few things each week on SeeSaw.  It's a great way to showcase learning.  If you have not signed up yet, let me know and I will send the link again.

A reminder of items we need for a craft and science experiment if you have them to spare.  It would be great to have these items early next week.  Thanks in advance!

For science

graham crackers

hershey's chocolate bars

oreos

heavy whipping cream

marshmallows

For a craft

mason jars (no top please-medium size)

ribbons

gems 

hot glue sticks

Have a wonderful THREE DAY weekend in honor of our VETERANS!

Shannon

Week of October 29- November 2

 Happy Friday to all!

Thank you to the parents who came in this week for conferences.  It was great to celebrate your child with you!

A few nuts and bolts for this week...

• Reminder that the conference notes will be the report card for this quarter.  Look for an envelope in your child's bag. (The ones from this week will go home Monday.)

• Make sure your child shows you their Digital Reader's and Writer's notebooks on a regular basis!  They should be proud of their work in progress.

• We work on these each and every day and it'll keep you updated on what we are working on in literacy.

• IXL practice:  You are more than welcome to have your child practice IXL.  Use any topics they need to review or strengthen from grades 3 and 4 (place value, decimals and intro to fractions).  5th grade concepts can be studied during our units. You can also use beyond 5th to challenge if he/she is ready for it!

• Every student should be reading each and every night for 20-30 minutes.  This will really help boost their reading muscles!

• Math facts should be done nightly if your child has not mastered them.  I used to keep cards in my car and have my own children read them to me on a long car trip, during carpool, or at a simple stop light.

• Thank you for all the goodies on Wednesday.  The new Wellness policy is in effect so no worries if your stuff wasn't sent to Nurse Lilly prior to 48 hours.  It's a work in progress.

Buddy Nature Craft on Wednesday

Have a wonderful weekend!

Shannon

Week of October 22-26

Hello families,

The kids have been busy this week reflecting on quarter one.  They've also started Three Worlds Meet projects in groups.  Make sure to ask your child about these things as well as our new "Choose Love" social curriculum and playing games with buddies.  Thanks to the parents I sat down with this week!  I look forward to meeting with the rest of you next week.

Early Release this Thursday at 12:50.

Enjoy some pictures of our Buddies!  We had a blast.

More importantly, enjoy the weekend with your children!

Shannon

October 15-19

Happy Friday 5D Families!

The students have been working diligently in all curriculum areas so far this year.  See what they've been working on!

Math

• Math Menu is still going well with check ins each day to make sure the students know what they need
• We have worked on multiplying and dividing decimals by powers of ten
• Reinforced the decimal point moving to the right with multiplication
• Reinforced the decimal point moving to the left with division
• Practiced ten times more and 1/10th of within place value
• Reviewed our first unit
• Played TRASHKETBALL and then took a unit assessment

Literacy

• Book Clubs have continued with character problems as well as plot versus theme
• Book range from The Thing About Jellyfish to Schooled,  Wringer,  Absolutely Almost and Rules
• Students should be reading nightly from their book AND keeping track of their things on sticky notes or in an electronic document
• In writing, students took a second look at their lead and reworked it using a mini-lesson on effective leads (Mystery, Dead End, Onomatopoeia, Descriptive, Question)
• Students were asked to work with literacy partners to get to the bottom of what their story is truly about ( the "SO WHAT?" of the story)

Social Studies

• We've visited all three worlds in depth, pre-exploration
• Push and Pull factors of exploration were discovered
• Students worked on the Venn-Doodle Gram to add these factors
• Ask your child if they thing exploration was a good or bath thing depending on who you were
• Ask them about how Africans ended up in the Americas and how slavery began
• History and perspective is an amazing life lesson

Remember we have conferences on 10/25 and 11/1 so those Thursdays will be early releases at 12:50.

Our school day will end at 2:55 starting on 10/29.  Also, lunch and recess have been changed to 25 minutes a piece.

Wellness Policy can be found here.  Letter

Halloween Party will be on 10/31 starting after lunch.  A signup will go out and you can send things in with your child.  

Literacy Partners

Math Games to Review!

Book Clubs

Have a wonderful, crisp fall weekend with your children!

 ☼ Shannon

Hiking with our Science Buddies

Enjoy some pictures from our hike with our buddies last Friday.  We will go again in the month of November to jot down our observations of the changing patterns in nature.  

Week 6

Happy Friday everyone!

Well, another full week of energy and learning has passed!  These students have been working so hard and you should all be proud of them!  Here's a glimpse into our week...

Exciting news in 5D!  WE have elected our first Student Council representative, and it is....

Chloe!

All four speakers were very impressive and gave it their all.  Well done!

Bhumika

Cole

Eesha

Social Studies

• Students looked closely at Europe pre exploration
• Students noticed many similarities and differences between Europe and the Americas
• Worked in pairs to create a Venn-Doodle-Gram
• We are onto Africa, our final world next week

Some Venn-Doodle-Grams

Literacy

• Students "Dreamed the Dream" of an important moment in their life through the five senses
• Ask them all about Mrs. Loh's and my dog story along with the music video we watched
• Book browsing for our first unit took place mid week for our first unit
• Book clubs met to talk about a contract, schedule as well as calendar
• Look for their book to come home each night to keep up with their book group
• We also had a Poetry Slam at the "DeLoh Cafe"!  Make sure to ask your child about it!

Math

• We worked hard on standard, expanded and word form of decimals
• Some used manipulatives to make connections
• Continued onto comparing, ordering and rounding decimals
• Powers of ten was touched upon
• Ask your child how the self guided "Math Menu" is going for them
• We played games on Friday to boost our decimal skills

Technology

• Mr. Burch came in for his second out of 4 digital citizenship lessons

Conference Sign Ups

Important!  Students will be going outside for a photography unit in Art.  They should dress warm and wear appropriate shoes for Art next Wednesday.

Important Dates

Columbus Day 10/8

Early Release 10/25

Early Release 11/1


ENJOY the three day weekend!

Shannon