Important reminders for this week:
~Monday, November 8th = Skating Party
Students attending the roller skating party on Monday, November 8th will need to report to school at 3:45 p.m. to check in and have their hands stamped before boarding the buses. Students should bring their fast pass with them at check in which will go home with them on Monday. Please remember not to park in the bus lanes when dropping your student off and for pick up. Thank you
~Thursday, November 11th = No School - Veteran's Day
~Friday, November 12th = End of Trimester
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 will be picture retake day. Any student that did not have their picture taken prior to this date may do so. They will be required to have a picture envelope with money to have a picture taken. Any student wishing to have a picture retaken will have to return the original picture packet for a retake.
CAN YOU DONATE.......
We need Q-tips and buttons for misc. classroom projects.
Scratch n' Sniff stickers
Snacks....
*Goldfish Crackers
*Cheese n Crackers
and any other individually wrapped healthy snacks that are "peanut free"
THANKS!!!!!
HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR CLASSROOM:
SPELLING: Lesson 10 and word of the week (worth 1 bonus point for word and definition)ENGLISH: Monday = Unit 5 "Capitalization & Punctuation" Test
Next we begin - Unit 2 Nouns!
READING:
We will begin writing extended responses this week. This skill is taught using a short story called The River and a technique with the acronym IEIEIE which stands for Idea, Evidence, Interpretation, Evidence, Interpretation, Extension. Fifth graders should be familiar with this technique.
Furthermore, we will continue to review all the skills we have studied so far this school year, specifically, summarizing, drawing conclusions, inferencing, identifying author generalizations, and visualizing while reading CRASH.
We are also doing a lot of word work with vocabulary words.
SCOOPer Reading: We will be planning our celebration for meeting our goals. The "party" will be on Tuesday, November 16th......stay tuned....more details to come soon!
The students will be setting their Trimester 2 goals and receive their new book activity packets the week of November 15th.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Colonial Games = Tuesday, November 9th
This week we are doing an activity based on Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac.
SCIENCE: Chapter 5 - Lesson 2 How is Energy Passed Through an Ecosystem
MATH:
Chapter 6 L1 Rounding Decimals
L2 + & - decimals
L3 Estimate Sums
Friday = Lesson 1-3 review & homework sheet
