9/8/15 Newsletter

Upcoming Events:   9/8-PTO Meeting 6:30 at the Administration Building 9/11- Early Dismissal 11:30am 9/25-NO SCHOOL Teacher work day	Attention Parents: 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.
Science:    TEST RESULTS: Student’s Test Results over States of Matter should be in their Monday folder.  For more specific results, you can have them log into their edmodo.com account to show you the actual scoring of their test. This week we begin our unit over Force, Motion, & Simple Machines.  This unit will cover different types of forces as well as the six simple machines, how they make work easier and how to identify simple machines at home or in the classroom.        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 lesson on number patterns and the coordinate plane. Students will be doing many  hands on activities to further their knowledge of graphing ordered pairs and finding the rules to number patterns to figure out the relationship between the two concepts. Students and Parents can visit the website www.learnzillion.com to learn more. Just type in the standard 5.OA.3 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 Word Relationships; synonyms, antonyms, and homonymS.. Reading: We will be reading the poem “Casey at the Bat” and We are the Ship. We will be discussing the theme, rhyme scheme, mood, and point of view. Wonder is our read aloud. We will be finishing up with character traits and introducing character conflict. Writing: We will be working on our Fall Writing Assessment. Students will be writing an informational piece on the creative person they have been researching.   Due to the short week there will not be a reading log. AR: Students should be at or around 40%. Friday we will be watching The Phantom Tollbooth and comparing it to the book. Students may bring a snack and drink. Sandusky: No reading logs this week! (Unless your child wants extra credit; 5points, due Friday) We are finishing The Phantom Tollbooth, and hopefully will be able to watch the movie on Friday if there’s enough time. Our language piece this week will focus on affixes and Greek and Latin roots. Shultz: First week of book logs went better than expected. Please remember to have your child read each night (by himself or with you) and write down whatever time he spends. Reading: Due to technology issues last week, we did not finish typing our biopoems, so we will do that this week, along with our fall writing assessment and the introduction of RL5.2--understanding theme Language: We are learning about personification and idioms this week (those funny sayings we all have, but no one knows why). Share some favorites with your student! AR: Students should be at 33% of their goal this week. Read Aloud: Our first read aloud will be Wonder by RJ Polaccio.

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• Call us at 265-2300 x10133 (Siders) x10130 (Cornelius) x10131 (Watson) x10139 (Engelbrecht) x10136 (Sandusky) x10138 (Shultz)
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Week 5

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

9/1/15

Upcoming Events:   9/3-Picture Day 9/7-NO SCHOOL LABOR DAY 9/11- Early Dismissal 11:30am 9/25-NO SCHOOL Teacher work day	Attention Parents: Please send an extra set of clothes with your student--especially on muddy days! This week students are identifying the oceans and continents.
Science:    EDMODO We will be using a program called Edmodo for our weekly Friday quizzes.  Please have your child sign in and show you their score. *Students took their first Edmodo quiz this past Friday and you can view that score on Edmodo.     This week we will be finishing our unit on matter and energy.  We will do lessons on Mixtures vs. Solutions this week, then review before our test on Friday (also on Edmodo).   EXTRA CREDIT:  Any time we have a test this year in science, I will give 5% extra credit on the test for any student that makes flashcards to study.  The flashcards must match the ones on my website at nsiders.weebly.com.  If you hover over the Science tab, you will see the test review section.   ***We will be practicing how to make and use the flashcards on Wednesday.  Please send your child with a package of blank index cards to use for this.          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 be working on writing numerical expressions. This includes taking a word problem and writing it as a numerical expression and vice versa Students have HOMEWORK this week that is due Thursday, September 3. Students in AM/ PM 45 classes will have a Quiz on Wednesday over order of operations. Students in Mrs. Watson’s AM/PM 90 classes will have a Quiz on Thursday over order of operations. 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 finish up Figurative Language (metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, idiom/adage/proverb, alliteration, and onomatopoeias) seek opportunities at home to point these things out to your children. Reading: We will begin The Phantom Tollbooth and Wonder is our read aloud. We will be finishing up with character traits and introducing character conflict. Writing: Publish Biopoem about creative thinker Don’t forget to turn in reading logs! They are worth 5 points. Sandusky: Reading Logs due Friday. Reading- We’ve started the Phantom Tollbooth novel study in class. Each day we read the book and analyze different characters, story elements, or author’s intent. After our two chapters for the day students have a ‘quiz’ over the material that is 4 questions long. If your child is absent, it’s important that they take a book home the following day to make up what they’ve missed. The conversations in the classroom are what make novel studies fun! However, since it’s an ongoing project, they must be caught up in order to stay with the class that day. Language: We will be focusing on Word Relationships; synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms since Phantom Tollbooth ‘plays’ with so many of these types of words. Writing- We will be writing in our journals this week about our reading material, I will be looking specifically at capitalization this week in their writing. Shultz: First week of book logs! Read some each night and log it! Turn it in on Friday! Worth 5 points each week. Not extra credit! Reading: This is the last week of our focus on reading standard RI5.1--Reading information text and quoting accurately when referring to the text. Our inventor profile project will be complete soon and then we will use the information we gathered to create a biopoem. Language: We will work on spelling a select group of words with the long a sound and a few “no excuses” 5th grade words. We are also working on language standard 5.5 and identifying figurative language. AR: Students will visit the library each Monday. We will be discussing AR goals, graphing our progress, and hopefully taking a test this week! Read Aloud: Our first read aloud will be Wonder by RJ Polaccio.

Want to talk to a teacher?

• Write a note in the red folder
• Call us at 265-2300 x10133 (Siders) x10130 (Cornelius) x10131 (Watson) x10139 (Engelbrecht) x10136 (Sandusky) x10138 (Shultz)
• Email us nsiders@stjschools.org, amycornelius@stjschools.org, swatson@stjschools.org, lengelbrecht@stjschools.org, bsandusky@stjschools.org, kshultz@stjschools.org

Week 4

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