Thank you: To our PTO and parent volunteers for the wonderful luncheon and desserts that were provided on Thursday, September 1, 2011.
Monday, September 5, 2011
No School/Labor Day
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Fourth and Fifth Grade Curriculum Night - 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
I highly recommend attending this informational evening about the 5th grade curriculum!
You will also sign up for Parent-Teacher Conferences with your HOMEROOM teacher.
THIS WEEK IN MISS TREFONAS's CLASS:
SPELLING: LESSON 2 - Students who miss one or less words on the pretest will be on Challenge words for this week's lesson. This means they will do Challenge word activities and be tested only on the Challenge words. Every student is receiving a pink sheet with Challenge list activities to keep in their binder. This Challenge word activity sheet is for the entire 1st Trimester.
Word of the Week: This is a BONUS word that by spelling the word and giving the definition on Friday's test earns a bonus point!
Spelling assignment - due Thursday
Spelling test for regular list OR challenge list - Friday
READING: We continue with Tall Tales. The skills specifically targeted will be identifying story structure and distinguishing between exaggerated and realistic story elements. As a review, we will use our visualization skills and define unknown words using context clues.
SCOOPer READING: Your child should be reading a book for our classroom reading program.
Once they have read the book, they need to complete an activity and turn it in! I look forward to meeting with some students to discuss the book they read and the activity they completed.
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 have been made into a classroom book.
This week we will begin Unit 1.
At the end of the week, your child should be able to identify the 4 types of sentences: declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory.
We will be doing a creative activity at the end of the week with the 4 types of sentences.
**Project Challenge students will be given enrichment assignments during this unit.
SCIENCE: We will be discussing the tools scientists use and your child's interpretation of a scientist. The students will be learning about SEWER MAGGOTS this week during an investigation. You will hear all about their interesting discovery, I am sure.....
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.
Quiz on Wednesday will cover both of these concepts and place value which we already covered.
We will finish the week with Estimating Sums and Differences.
Word of the Week: This is a BONUS word that by spelling the word and giving the definition on Friday's test earns a bonus point!
Spelling assignment - due Thursday
Spelling test for regular list OR challenge list - Friday
READING: We continue with Tall Tales. The skills specifically targeted will be identifying story structure and distinguishing between exaggerated and realistic story elements. As a review, we will use our visualization skills and define unknown words using context clues.
SCOOPer READING: Your child should be reading a book for our classroom reading program.
Once they have read the book, they need to complete an activity and turn it in! I look forward to meeting with some students to discuss the book they read and the activity they completed.
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 have been made into a classroom book.
This week we will begin Unit 1.
At the end of the week, your child should be able to identify the 4 types of sentences: declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory.
We will be doing a creative activity at the end of the week with the 4 types of sentences.
**Project Challenge students will be given enrichment assignments during this unit.
SCIENCE: We will be discussing the tools scientists use and your child's interpretation of a scientist. The students will be learning about SEWER MAGGOTS this week during an investigation. You will hear all about their interesting discovery, I am sure.....
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.
Quiz on Wednesday will cover both of these concepts and place value which we already covered.
We will finish the week with Estimating Sums and Differences.
