9/28/15 Newsletter

Upcoming Events: 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) The Health Department will not be coming to the school to administer flu shots this year. 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.	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! LUNCH- We recommend you not send your child with anything that needs to be microwaved. (They have a limited time as it is to eat their lunch, and there is one microwave available.) Bathrooms- We’ve been having a lot of issues as far as behavior goes; objects shoved down the toilet, paper thrown on the ceilings, etc. We’re currently trying to figure out a solution to the problem.
Science:      We will continue working through our unit over Force, Motion, & Simple Machines.  This week we will be learning more about incline planes and levers.   Students will be doing experiments to see how the force and distance change when using these two simple machines compared to using no simple machine.      Students will have an edmodo.com quiz this Friday covering many of 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. **You can also get the weekly newsletter by         going to…...nsiders.weebly.com            …...and clicking the Newsletter Tab	Math: This week in Math we will continue 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 PEMDAS. It will be due on Thursday, October 1. 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! Congratulations to Erika Deardeuff and Peyton Gruver from Mrs. Watson’s class, Mariah Norton, Kylie Cook, Olivia Wilson, Blake Redburn, and Silas Redburn  from Mrs. Cornelius’ class for Completing ALL Multiplication Rocket Facts
ELA: Unit One: Why and how do we play with language? Engelbrecht: Language: This week we will be discussing independent clauses, dependent clauses, and semi colons. Reading: We will be reading Wonder. We will wrap up quoting 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 80% by Friday. We will be testing on our read aloud this week. It is worth 10 points. I have been sending home an AR update in Monday folders for the last couple of weeks. The highlighted part is the comprehension (should be above 80%) and the percentage is their goal. Sandusky: Reading Logs due Friday, with parent signature. Phantom Tollbooth packets came home last week! Reading: moving into theme using Casey at Bat and Baseball Saved Us as our text examples. Language: Students will be post testing on conventions this week, and writing their Informational Essays about their historical figure for their Fall Writing Assessment. Sign up for Class Dojo if you haven’t yet, notes coming home today for sign up! 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: We are back on for book logs and extra credit this week! Extra credit is for language. Reading: We are reviewing theme in small groups this week. Language: We are working on using context clues and capitalization this week. AR: Students should be at 78% of their goals this week. Read Aloud: Next week, we will work on finishing Wonder through a literature study.

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Week 2

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