9/26 Newsletter

Upcoming Events: -September 30th-Cash for Critters -October 11th; PTO Meeting- Needing new members!! -October 12th; Meramec caverns field trip-Please send in permission slip and $5 -October 17-20; Parent Teacher Conferences -October 20: Early out 11:30 -October 21st: NO SCHOOL -November 11th: Veteran’s day: Let us know if you know someone to be a guest speaker!

Attention Parents: *We are lucky to have enough headphones for our students! However, these are shared headphones. If you would prefer to send your child with his or her own earbuds, please feel free. *We can always use playground equipment! If you would like to donate a basketball, kickball, soccer ball, jump ropes, or sidewalk chalk we would love to have them! *Mid Quarter grades were sent home today. Please sign the grade card and return it by Friday to your homeroom teacher. Students who do not return it by Friday will not get Fun Friday.

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Math/ Science

Mrs. Ottaway Homeroom: *We are going on field trip October 12th to Meramec Caverns.  Please sign and return the permission slip and $5.00 if you have not done so already. Science: *We will continue to discuss force, motion, friction, gravity, magnetism, and simple machines. Math: *We will round decimals to any place value.  We will review and assess on all concepts we have discussed so far this year, including place value, expanded, unit, and words forms, comparing decimals fractions, and rounding decimals.

Mr. Copeland Please have your student study his/her multiplication facts. With just 5 minutes a night studying they will become fluent. There will typically be a weekly timed test which counts toward their grade. This week we will ≥ Have homework writing word forms of decimals. Homework is due on Thursday. ≥ Begin math lessons on comparing and rounding decimals. ≥ Learn about Force and Motion including the forces acting on us.

Mrs. Watson Science: This week we will continue our unit on Force and Motion. Students will learn about friction, gravity, magnetism, and simple machines. Math: This week in math we will continue our unit in Place Value. Students will work with reading and writing decimals as well as comparing decimals. Some students will be bringing home a missing assignments report that must be signed and returned by Friday. Homework: This week’s homework will be over multiplying and dividing powers of ten. It is due THURSDAY and is worth 10 points. Please call or email with any questions. Check out our website www.swatson18.wixsite.com/watsons5thgrade

ELA

Engelbrecht: We will be continuing conflict and theme. In language this week we will be focusing on synonyms, antonyms, and homophones. READING LOGS ARE DUE MONDAY 10/3. Students will miss Fun Friday if their reading log is not turned in and receive a zero. I sent home the STAR report and AR report today in Monday folders. If your child's AR comprehension is below 80%, it is highlighted in pink. I am encouraging them to bring home a picture book (in their level) and read it and come in ready to test so they can bring up their percentage. We will test on our read aloud, Wonder, this week it is worth 11 points. Sandusky: Reading Logs due Friday. We have a project on Donorschoose.org to raise money for comfortable seating for our Book Nook. I will send out an email later this week with the link and information! Still a few more spots left in Book Club, child must have a signed permission slip! Finishing biographies, writing a biopoem about famous historical person, and creating an infographic about the person of interest. Students will have rubrics for each of these before beginning activity. Circle my name above and bring back on Tuesday for 2 points extra credit towards language grade. Language: conventions (capitalization, spelling, & punctuation). Please note that students miss points when not applying these things in personal writing. Shultz: Reading logs are due Friday!!!!! These are for a grade!!! AR/Fluency: Continue daily fluency activity; students should be at least to 50% of goal. Unit activity: Reading for theme. Spelling: None: Parents initial here for 2 extra credit points in Shultz .________. Reading: We will visit the library on Tuesday. All books need to be returned on this day! Continue our read aloud of Wonder. Language: Using and identifying figurative language. Test on Friday (identify and explain similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, and idioms)

5th: Week 1	Art 1: Cahill	Music 1: Martin	PE 1: Conway		Art 2: Noltkamper	Music 2: Beanblossom	PE 2: Nesbitt
Monday	Tye Copeland	Watson	Englebrecht		Ottaway	Shultz	Sandusky
Tuesday	Englebrecht	Tye Copeland	Watson		Sandusky	Ottaway	Shultz
Wednesday	Watson	Englebrecht	Tye Copeland		Shultz	Sandusky	Ottaway
Thursday	Tye Copeland	Watson	Englebrecht		Ottaway	Shultz	Sandusky
Friday	Englebrecht	Tye Copeland	Watson		Sandusky	Ottaway	Shultz

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12/7 Newsletter

Upcoming Events: December 2-9 3rd grade Service Learning Project Please bring in mittens and place them on the Christmas tree in your hallway.  Third grade will collect them daily.  Bring in mittens to keep somebody warm! December 18- Boys Kiwanis Championship Game December 18- Classroom Parties December 19-January 4: Winter Break

Attention Parents: *We go out for recess if the wind chill is above 20 and if it is not raining. Please encourage your student to dress appropriately. We will not keep students inside. Mrs. Shultz’s classroom is available from 7:20 am to 7:50 am Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Students who need extra reading time or help with homework are welcome.

Mrs. Cornelius Science We will begin our unit over Landforms & Bodies of Water.  This unit also talks about water conservation, pollution, and erosion. Math Monday and Tuesday we will be doing our Math benchmark assessment.  This is setup very similar to our end of the year assessment.  The test will show us (and the kids) how well they are doing on the topics taught so far, as well as what areas each student needs to be working on. (This test is not for a grade). Wednesday we will be taking our Star Math Test.	Mr. Siders Science We will begin our unit over Landforms & Bodies of Water.  This unit also talks about water conservation, pollution, and erosion. Math This week students will be working with long-division with 2-digit divisors (ex. 457 / 17 & 3216 / 48). Students will also be learning exponents ( 4 to the 3rd power) and square roots (Square root of 81 = 9). HOMEWORK: Students have an 18pt homework assignment over adding and subtracting decimals as well as comparing decimals.  This is due back by Thursday.	Mrs. Watson Science: We will begin our unit over Landforms & Bodies of Water.  This unit also talks about water conservation, pollution, and erosion. Math: This week in math we will be learning about rounding decimal numbers to the thousandths. Students will also extend their understanding of multi-digit multiplication by multiplying 3 digit by 2 digit numbers as well as decimal numbers. Please be looking for rocket facts to come home with your student to study. Any student who has completed all facts by Dec. 10 will get pizza or ice cream :) Homework will be due on Thursday, Dec. 11 and is worth 15 points.
ELA INFO ON BACK

ELA: Engelbrecht: This week we will be wrapping up Unit 2 and beginning Unit 3 Language: Reference Sources Reading: This week we will be reading about Walk Two Moons and focus on inferencing. BOOK LOGS DUE MONDAY!!! WORTH 5 POINTS! AR: Student should be around 90% of their goal depending on what they are currently reading by Friday. Next week we will be finishing our read aloud and our literature circle book. Together they are worth 16 points. Keep that in mind when looking at the AR report in Monday folders. Students need to be at their goal on or before December 18th. Sandusky: Reading Logs due Friday, with parent signature. Students who turn in reading logs will be getting awarded with Dojo Points, if they do not they will owe the following Fun Friday. Wrapping up Unit 2 this week, jumping right into Unit 3. Unit 3’s essential question is “How does literature provide insight into a culture?”, and it focuses around Native Americans. We will be watching Brainpops on different cultures around the world. Research papers will be coming home later this week graded, please be looking for those to go over with your child. Make sure your child is reading at home, AR goals are due next week! Shultz: Last week for book log and extra credit for 2nd Quarter. Reading: We are starting a new novel study on the book, The Sign of the Beaver. This was a 3rd grade read aloud, so it should allow us to have more opportunity to dive into our standard of RL5.6 to draw inferences and conclusions from the text. Language and writing: We are completing our essays which will be a large part of our language grade. We are also working on catching up on conventions the parts of speech: conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections.. AR: Students should be at 100% of their goals by December 17.

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Week 6

	PE 1	Art	Music1	PE 2	Computers	Music 2
Monday	Cornelius	Siders	Shultz	Sandusky	Engelbrecht	Watson
Tuesday	Siders	Shultz	Sandusky	Engelbrecht	Watson	Cornelius
Wednesday	Shultz	Sandusky	Engelbrecht	Watson	Cornelius	Siders
Thursday	Sandusky	Engelbrecht	Watson	Cornelius	Siders	Shultz
Friday	Engelbrecht	Watson	Cornelius	Siders	Shultz	Sandusky