11-26-12

5th Grade Newsletter

November 26, 2012

12/1/12—PTO Christmas Bazaar! DARE bake sale organized by Mrs. Lambeth. If you would like to donate your time or a homemade baked good, please call Laurie at 573-308-7797 or email her at laurielambeth@gmail.com or send a baked good with your student on Friday. Please do not send items earlier!

If you would like for your child to have additional AR time, a quiet place to study for a test, or time to work on an assignment, please let his teacher know. I am here from 7:20-7:50 am on Tuesdays and Thursdays for students to have a quiet place to get a head start on the day.
 Richards—Science:  This week we will complete lessons 6 and 7 from Nature Unleashed.  There will be a quiz over lesson 7 on Wednesday.  By Friday students should have all 4 BIG CHARTS filled out in their green notebooks (100 points).  They will be able to bring them home all week to complete this task.

Thanks,
Mr. Richards
Meurer/Siders—Math: We are jumping back into division- only taking it 3 digits by 2 digits. Division is tricky for kids- so please have your child solve ONE problem a night, and have them check using multiplication and addition (for the remainder). We challenge those who are solving at home, to bring them in and show his/her math teacher!! Our next test is scheduled for Dec. 5th. Tests are worth 100 points and make up 70% of the overall math grade. If your child's math  grade is of concern, please let us get this test in and you should see a better grade. As we did NOT have a math test for the first part of 2nd quarter. 

Sandusky—ELA:  This week students will be starting their book clubs. We are going to be studying realistic fiction so that it goes along with our read aloud, Belly Up. (Book clubs are a HUGE part of your child’s reading grade, I will keep you informed when I grade them with a piece of red paper coming home that has to be signed and returned). We will do a brief lesson on Author’s Purpose (PIE), and then talk about author’s opinion and viewpoint. For grammar we will be looking into verb tense. In writing this week students will continue working on their personal narrative, final copies are due Friday. Rough drafts will be worked on Monday and Tuesday during class, editing on Wednesday, final writing on Thursday. If final copies are not completed Thursday during class it will be homework to return on Friday. These are 5 paragraph essays, 5 sentences per paragraph,using one quote.
Spelling Letters: a,a,e,i,u,l,m,n,p,r,t
real, ripe, mine, time, timer, miner, ripen, paint, plant, planet, unreal, unripe, planter, replant, implant, painter, repaint, planetarium

Shultz-ELA: In our ELA classes this week, we will be reviewing author’s purpose by taking a 2 question quiz daily (called a Doorbuster). We will use the Doorbuster as a way of determining quickly if we understand the concept. I will use this same method in the future with other topics. A grade will be taken at the end of the week for the entire week’s work. Stations will begin this week. They will include audio literature circles, Study Island and ScootPad practice, and handwriting/typing. Mr. Allen and I will also be a station where we will review literature circles and individual needs. Other things this week include: perfect verb tenses, library visit, point of view, and spelling. We will NOT be having spelling tests in this class.

Kemnitzer—ELA:  

Reading- In my class this week, students will be learning about point of view and author’s purpose. We will also be learning how to use context clues when reading.

AR- Students should have completed 70% of their 2nd quarter goal by the end of this week. Please encourage your child to read 30 minutes a night. Please check red folders for your child’s AR weekly progress.  AR is 25% of a student’s reading grade.

Writing- Students will be starting a personal narrative story this week.

Language – We will continue working on linking verbs, verb tense, prefixes, and suffixes.

Spelling- The list this week will include words that have the prefixes of “un”, and “re”, and the suffixes of  “ly” and “y”. The words are: in, run, fun, fund, rude, line, dine, diner, funny, runny, inner, unify, friend, rudely, refund, reunify, unlined, unkind, friendly, unfriendly, The spelling test will be on Friday.

Have a great week!

Mrs. Kemnitzer

Reminders

Just a few reminders as the week comes to an end....

Rough drafts of students' research papers are due Monday. It is VITAL for them to come back with them finished if they did not finish them during class today. If they do not it will hurt their grade!

Book Orders are going out on Monday, due on the 8th.

McTeacher Night for DARE on Thursday the 15th, please let us know if you're interested in volunteering (or your child!) 

Veteran's Day letters are all turned in and graded. I've copied their final copies to send home to you on Monday. If you're child has written to a family member or friend I will be sending home the original final copy (written on bordered blue star paper), it would be great if you could make sure the Veteran in your child's life gets their letter.