Some reminders for the week:
Curriculum Night is Monday from 6:30-8:00. The first classroom session is 6:30-6:55 and the second classroom session is 7:35-8:00. Inbetween the classroom sessions is a whole-school session led by Principal LeCrone in the gym from 7:05-7:25. Please remember to sign up for Parent-Teacher Conferences in the multi-purpose room and remember that Curriculum Night is for adults only. I look forward to seeing you all!
Fifth Grade students will take the CogAT this week. The test is split between three days. Students will take sections of the test on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Ms. Andrews is looking for parent volunteers to help with Track and Field Day. If you are available October 6th, she'd love your help! Please send her an email if you're interested (terri_andrews@ipsd.org).
5H Math: Students will be coming home with their unit 1 tests tomorrow. Please take a minute to review their test with them, and celebrate what your child has accomplished and take note of areas your child needs continued support. Because of CogATs, we will not have math on Tuesday, but we will meet every other day this week. We are starting unit 2 this week, please take a look at the standards below.
Unit 2 Standards
Language Arts
The kids did such an awesome job working to understand the poem, "Where I'm From". We've read it a few times and they are getting a better understanding each time as we go deeper into each line. We will work with the poem a couple more times this week. Kids will write what they believe the meaning of the poem is by referencing lines in the poem and explaining their inferences. Later in the week we will use nonfiction text to talk about the benefits of the text features (introduction, headings, picture captions, etc.) in these texts and how the features work with the text.
Word Study
We begin lesson 4 this week which is about open syllables. We will not have a quiz this week, because I know we will be short on time because of the CogAT assessment. Kids will learn or review what this syllable type is (info below), learn a couple exceptions for this type and begin breaking apart some example words.
Open Syllable: (op) Open Syllables have one vowel. The vowel is at the end of the syllable. The vowel is long.
Science
We've spent a bit longer on the water cycle than expected. We have been working on making sure we have an in-depth explanation. We are almost finished with our organizer. Kids may need to finish it for homework. This will be a helpful tool for reviewing!
Next, we'll work on understanding air pressure, what causes it and how it changes with elevation. As well as how temperature changes with elevation. This knowledge is important in understanding how and why clouds form. Then we will finally be ready to learn about the different types of clouds :). We will be using our science textbooks this week, which will again be helpful when reviewing for our science test (this will probably be coming up the week of 9/29).
Community Time/Citizenship
This week we will talk about the all important...MANNERS!
Curriculum Night is Monday from 6:30-8:00. The first classroom session is 6:30-6:55 and the second classroom session is 7:35-8:00. Inbetween the classroom sessions is a whole-school session led by Principal LeCrone in the gym from 7:05-7:25. Please remember to sign up for Parent-Teacher Conferences in the multi-purpose room and remember that Curriculum Night is for adults only. I look forward to seeing you all!
Fifth Grade students will take the CogAT this week. The test is split between three days. Students will take sections of the test on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Ms. Andrews is looking for parent volunteers to help with Track and Field Day. If you are available October 6th, she'd love your help! Please send her an email if you're interested (terri_andrews@ipsd.org).
5H Math: Students will be coming home with their unit 1 tests tomorrow. Please take a minute to review their test with them, and celebrate what your child has accomplished and take note of areas your child needs continued support. Because of CogATs, we will not have math on Tuesday, but we will meet every other day this week. We are starting unit 2 this week, please take a look at the standards below.
Unit 2 Standards
- 5.NBT.A.4. Use place value understanding to round decimals to any place.
- 5.NBT.B.5. Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
- 5.NBT.B.7. Add, subtract,
multiply, and dividedecimals to hundredths, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.
The kids did such an awesome job working to understand the poem, "Where I'm From". We've read it a few times and they are getting a better understanding each time as we go deeper into each line. We will work with the poem a couple more times this week. Kids will write what they believe the meaning of the poem is by referencing lines in the poem and explaining their inferences. Later in the week we will use nonfiction text to talk about the benefits of the text features (introduction, headings, picture captions, etc.) in these texts and how the features work with the text.
Word Study
We begin lesson 4 this week which is about open syllables. We will not have a quiz this week, because I know we will be short on time because of the CogAT assessment. Kids will learn or review what this syllable type is (info below), learn a couple exceptions for this type and begin breaking apart some example words.
Open Syllable: (op) Open Syllables have one vowel. The vowel is at the end of the syllable. The vowel is long.
o
Examples:
me, so, she, I, go
We've spent a bit longer on the water cycle than expected. We have been working on making sure we have an in-depth explanation. We are almost finished with our organizer. Kids may need to finish it for homework. This will be a helpful tool for reviewing!
Next, we'll work on understanding air pressure, what causes it and how it changes with elevation. As well as how temperature changes with elevation. This knowledge is important in understanding how and why clouds form. Then we will finally be ready to learn about the different types of clouds :). We will be using our science textbooks this week, which will again be helpful when reviewing for our science test (this will probably be coming up the week of 9/29).
Community Time/Citizenship
This week we will talk about the all important...MANNERS!
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