August 27th Newsletter

5^th Grade Newsletter
Mrs. Sandusky’s Class

Important Dates:

·         8/27- School Library Visit

·         9/3- No School

·         9/7-Early Out (Fall Festival)

·         9/14- Mid-quarter

Monday	Art
Tuesday	PE 1
Wednesday	Music 2
Thursday	Computers
Friday	PE 2

ELA (Sandusky)- This week we will be focusing on how to compare and contrast, figurative language, and parts of speech. The parts of speech we will be focusing on are interjections and prepositions. For figurative language we will be looking at exaggeration, alliteration, and personification. We’ve been very busy lately, so students haven’t had lots of AR time, so please make sure that your child is reading at home. Students should be reading chapter books at this point and need to be bringing them with them to class every day.
List 3
cheerleaders
read
lead
race
racer
cheer
dealer
reader
search
cheered
searcher

ELA(Shultz)-. The pre-test for poetic devices will be coming home this week. We used this test as a review tool and while everyone received a grade for participating in the review of the test, he or she did not receive the actual grade they earned. We will have a post-test that will look very similar this Wednesday. 
This week, we will be presenting our biopoems and beginning our lessons on comparing and contrasting, as well. Please help me in encouraging your student to read at home each night. I have shown students how reading just 4 extra pages a night will result in 20 pages over the course of a school week. Students should be at 22% of their AR goal by the end of the week.
The new take-home spelling paper is in this week's folder. We are working to discover patterns in writing words. This week's pattern is: er, meaning person or thing that does something.

 SCIENCE: Students should be bringing home their test over Scientific Method in Red Folders today.  This week we will begin our exploration on cells and body systems.  Tuesday we will walk over to Mr. Bond's classroom at the high school to observe plant and animal cells under the microscope.
Thanks,
Mr. Richards   

Math: Math is FLEXED!!! We were able to bump our pre-assessment to Monday, due to a computer issue with STAR Math Testing... and therefore we were able to start flexing on Thursday of last week!! We feel so much better having the students in flex groups. Students will mostly stay with the teacher they are with now, for Math, for the majority of the year. We will move students, based upon needs/observations, to best suit the individual student. We are very excited about this!! Students will be working in SMALL GROUPS to wrap up our review skills next week. We have re-launched ReFlex math! This is something that students can work on at home. Students can also work on Khan at home! Both are linked on Mr. Siders' (www.stjschools.org/nsiders) and Mrs. Meurer's (www.mrsmeurer.weebly.com) websites!