October 7th, 2013

5th Grade Newsletter

October 7, 2013  

Upcoming Dates:

• 10/8; McTeacher Night to support DARE
• 10/8; Benchmark Testing--Do your best to be at school!
• 10/11; End of 1st Quarter, AR Goals due
• 10/17; Early Out Parent Teacher Conferences
• 10/18; No School
• 10/21; No School

Specials Week 3

Cursive- Week 8

HOMEWORK- Students will be able to label the oceans of the world:

Veteran’s Day Service Learning Project- If you have a Veteran in your life, we would love to see pictures of them in uniform. We will be putting together a slideshow to show at our Assembly on November 11th. The easiest way to get us the photos is to take a picture of the picture (camera, iPad, phone,etc.) and email it to either bsandusky@stjschools.org or ruffman@stjschools.org. If you send in an actual photo please know that we will do our best at getting it back to you, but cannot guarantee it will make it back home.

McTeacher Night- PLEASE come out and support the 5th grade DARE program on Tuesday October, 8th from 4-8 pm.  The proceeds made from this go to supporting our DARE Program for this year. We look forward to serving you with a smile! :)

MATH: This week we will be taking our end of quarter assessment covering all topics that the students have learned so far this year.  We will also be taking our benchmark assessment which will help show a prediction of how the students will do on the 5th Grade MAP test.

Writing is an important component of math, and we encourage this every day by doing journal prompts at the beginning of class. We are using the Read-Draw-Write problem solving steps to complete our journals. Our expectations for journals are as follows:

1. Write the entire word problem in your journal.
2. Read and Underline key words. Circle the question.
3. Draw a model/picture/chart/graph.
4. Write a number sentence.
5. Write a solution statement.
6. Explain how you got your answer (like you are explaining to a kindergartener).

ELA: Mrs. Kemnitzer and Mrs. Shultz: **Bookorders are due on October 11. We have completed Unit 1 by taking our posttest and answering our essential question, “How and why do we play with language?” This week, we will continue some review over capitalization and punctuation. We will complete a personal narrative with editing and we will take our first quarter benchmark assessment.  Please remember, if you ever have questions or would like to contact Mrs. Kemnitzer or Mrs. Shultz you can do so by writing a note in the red folder, calling us at 265-2300 x4292 or emailing dkemnitzer@stjschools.org and kshultz@stjschools.org.

Sandusky: Book orders sent out and are due on October 10th. Students will be working on their Personal Narratives this week. In order for students to participate fully in class, rough drafts are due on Tuesday of this week. If students do not finish in the time given to them in class, it will be assigned as homework. Final narratives will be completed by Friday.Tuesday students will be taking a Benchmark Test (much like the Acuity tests they took in 3rd and 4th grades). We will also be working on Language 5.1, which consists of verbs and verb tense. Students will be introduced to perfect tense this year, and in the past it’s taken awhile to master this concept, L5.1 will be a standard you will be seeing for the next few weeks.

Engelbrecht:This week we are still working on comma usage and verb tense.  We are also publishing our personal narratives.  Students will be doing research on inventors. In Reading we will be starting the book The Invention of Hugo Cabert.

Congratulations to our Students of the Month and our Artist of the Month!