Dear Parents,
MAPS testing this week! Please make sure your child is well rested and has eaten a healthy breakfast.
Our class will test at 8:05 both days.
TUESDAY = Math
FRIDAY = Reading
A HUGE THANK YOU t o our PTO and parent volunteers for the wonderful
luncheon and desserts that were provided to the teachers last week.
Monday, September 3, 2012
No School/Labor Day
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Fourth and Fifth Grade Curriculum Night
I highly recommend attending this informational evening about the
5th grade curriculum!
You will visit your child's math class and homeroom.
THIS
WEEK IN MISS TREFONAS's CLASS:
SPELLING: LESSON 1 - The entire class will be on the regular list this week. We will begin having an alternate "challenge" list next week.
Spelling assignment - due Thursday
Spelling test - Friday
READING: COURAGE....We will be reading different selections that fit this theme! Our skill work will begin with character traits with supporting evidence.
ENGLISH: We have completed
autobiographical poems that are displayed in the classroom that you can
see at Curriculum Night. We also completed a descriptive writing
activity about a summer memory that will be made into a classroom
book.
This week we will begin Unit 1.
Your child should be able to identify the 4
types of sentences: declarative, imperative, interrogative, and
exclamatory. We will also be reviewing the subject/predicate of a sentence and identifying the simple subject and simple predicate or verb.
SCIENCE: We will be sharing your child's interpretation of a
scientist.
The students will be learning about the important skill of OBSERVATION using a variety of candles.
I hope they share what they learn with this activity!!!
We will begin our first unit, Chapter 11 Weather.
SOCIAL STUDIES: In
social studies we are beginning chapter 4 "Spain Builds an Empire." The
students will learn how Columbus's voyages led to a European settlement
of the Americas and an exchange of people , animals, goods, and ways
of life between East and West.
MATH: We will be Comparing
and Ordering Numbers and Rounding Whole Numbers.
A QUIZ will be given the week of Sept. 10th which will cover both of these concepts and place value
which we already covered.
