9/21 Newsletter

Upcoming Events:   9/25-NO SCHOOL Teacher work day 10/6- DARE parent night 5:00-5:30 in cafeteria (informational meeting, not mandatory) 10/13- PTO Meeting 6:30pm at the Superintendent's Building 10/16-End of quarter (Last day for AR this quarter)	Attention Parents: Sign up for a fast and easy reminder through text message! Send a text to 81010  that says @stj5t to get info on Math, ELA, and Science! 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. The Health Department will not be coming to the school to administer flu shots this year.
Science:      We will continue working through our unit over Force, Motion, & Simple Machines.  This week we will be introducing the 6 simple machines and how they make work easier (By spreading out the force over a longer distance).         Students will have an edmodo.com quiz this Thursday covering the topics from this week as well as some review questions from previous weeks.  The items students need to know for the weekly quiz can be found by clicking the “Science” tab on my class website at nsiders.weebly.com      The 6 steps of the scientific method will be on every quiz and test the entire year, please study these with your child so they are prepared.  Students who are still unable to correctly order the six steps will begin practicing them during Fun Friday until they are able to complete this task. HOMEWORK - Students have homework this week.  They will need to complete a worksheet finding simple machines at home in each room of their house.  This is due on Thursday. **You can also get the weekly newsletter by         going to…...nsiders.weebly.com            …...and clicking the Newsletter Tab                                                        -Mr. Siders	Math: This week in Math we will begin our unit on Place Value. We will extend student understanding of the place value system through the thousandths. Students will begin to understand the relationship between the same number in a different place value. Homework this week is a review of our last unit. It will be due on Thursday, September 24. Students and Parents can visit the website www.learnzillion.com to learn more. Just type in the standard 5.NBT.1  to explore what we’re doing this week! Students will continue working on Rocket Math this week in which they will have daily 1 minute tests on multiplication facts. Students will benefit greatly from extra practice at home.
ELA info, Specials schedule, and Contact info on back.
ELA: Unit One: Why and how do we play with language? Engelbrecht: Language: We will be focusing on adages and proverbs. Reading: We will be reading “LEt Freedom Ring” and “Alaska and Hawaii Struggling for Statehood”. We will quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says and drawing inferences. Reading logs due Monday! They are worth 5 points. Writing: We will be working on an informational writing. AR: Students should be at or around 60% this week Sandusky: Reading Logs due Friday, with parent signature. Tuesday all PT Character Analyzation papers are due! (Both the outside and ‘inside’ of their character.) Reading: finishing our famous historical figures with biopoems, and moving into theme using Casey at Bat and Baseball Saved Us as our text examples. Language: We will be wrapping up context clues, affixes, and conventions and post-testing on each. (Quiz your kid on the different commas we learned about on Friday!) To get special notifications about my class for ELA sign up for Remind by texting @sandus to 81010 or email me and let me know you’d like the newsletter online and any updates through my ‘Parent List’. Shultz: No book logs are coming home this week. Reading: We are continuing with RL5.2--understanding theme. We will read baseball saved us this week and review RI.5.1 during small groups. Language: We will continue with figurative language and begin the discussion of using context clues and affixes to understand the meaning of unknown words. AR: Students should be at 62% of their goals this week. Read Aloud: Our first read aloud will be Wonder by RJ Polaccio.

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Week 1

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