October 1st Newsletter

5^th Grade Newsletter
Mrs. Sandusky’s Class

Important Dates:

·         9/19- Grades went home

·         9/27- Memorial Library Visit

·         10/3- DARE starts

Monday	PE 1
Tuesday	music 2
Wednesday	Computers
Thursday	PE 2
Friday	music 1

ELA (Sandusky)-
Moving right along with Unit 2! We will be really focusing on creative thinking through our writing this week. Last week students looked at Da Vinci’s inventions and created their own in their Writer’s Notebook. We are continuing working with subject verb agreement, and will also review adjectives this week. This is the LAST full week students have to read AR and test. Please make sure that your child is reading at home. As of right now in our classroom competition, Dogs are leading the way with 45 hours 39 minutes! However, cats aren’t far behind with 36 hours 59 minutes. Whoever wins will have a special reward at the end of first quarter!
This week students will be coming home with a small award if they scored Proficient or Advanced on the ELA Benchmark we took a few weeks ago. After going to the Memorial Library last week students will also be filling out a special slip within the next few weeks on an interesting person from history (they have to choose someone different from their biopoem) and we will be displaying the cards in our room so we can each learn about each other’s.

List 5
fingerprints
tip
spin
sift
fine
sting
print
finer
finest
sprint
sifter
finger
spinner
stinger
printer
sprinter
fingertips

ELA(Shultz)- This week in Mrs. Shultz's ELA we will begin working more in our stations and in small groups with teachers. Most of us have completed our Diagnostic Reading Assessments and I have had time to review student results from the first Acuity/Benchmark test. As we work within our new unit of study, we will also focus on skills that each student in weak in. Many students have begun working in literature circles and reading examples of historical fiction with other students. Word study this week is a review of the er/est:meaning more and most, er: meaning person or thing that does something, and re: meaning to do again. At the end of next week, we will have a word study review over how these prefixes and suffixes are used in language. In writing, students are now responsible for using correct capitalization, end punctuation, and adding conjunctions, interjections, and prepositions in their writing. Students should be at 78% of their AR goal by the end of this week. We will be finishing our first read aloud and all students will review and test on the book. We are also beginning the process of comparing and contrasting different works of historical fiction.

 SCIENCE: This week we will begin Section 2 of Nature Unleashed.  We will be outside everyday this week.

Math: In math this week we will wrap up Unit One from Buckle Down: Operations and Algebraic Thinking.  Students will test over writing numerical expressions and order of operations on Friday