Week of Oct. 10

We’ve had a fun and exciting week here in 5^th grade! Monday we wrapped up our explorer unit by completing maps of all kinds, as well as our science unit by a visit from Discovery Gateway for their “Reaction Time” presentation. Tuesday was our full day at BizTown and the students were fantastic! They were mature responsible adults for the day and successfully ran a business; I am so proud of all of their hard work!

Wednesday we jumped back into schoolwork, these are some highlights of what’s happening and coming up:

Science: By now you should have a parent packet as well as a student packet. This coming Wednesday they have a project proposal for their science fair project due.  We made this due date this early so we will have a chance to discuss any ideas during parent teacher conference. Please continue to check future deadlines!

Language Arts—Because this week was cut bit a short (due to explorer day and BizTown) and next week is a short week we have decided to give everyone the same spelling words and will give the test on Wednesday. We are starting in our reading texts and after UEA we will begin mixing students with Mrs. French’s class in order to give everyone the appropriate level of instruction and necessary support. It’s been working well in math and we feel will be of benefit for language arts as well.

Social Studies—We’ve started our unit on early colonial America. We plan on being up to the Revolutionary war by Thanksgiving

What you can be doing:

·      Practice, practice, practice those math facts! It’s only going to make math easier!

·      Help your child read for a minimum for 20 minutes a day then make sure their reading logs get turned in; on average I’m only getting about half of them per week and I’m sure we have more readers than that!

·      Please remember to schedule a time for parent teacher conferences online! I sent a note home this week with instructions on how to do so, if you are having problems accessing it, please let me know. I look forward to meeting with each of you.

Finally, UEA fall break is on Thursday and Friday of this coming week. That makes Wednesday the 19^th an early out day (1:15pm). Thanks for all your support!