Barry 5th Grade News Team Silver
Team Silver Hayes/Robertson - Friday, October 22, 2021
Important Dates
Friday, October 22
- End of 1st Quarter
- Last Day to Take Accelerated Reader Quizzes Toward 1st Quarter Accelerated Reader Goal in ELA
- 5th Grade Fall Parent Teacher Conference Sign Up Information Emailed Home to Parents Today
Friday, October 29
- Report Cards Emailed Home to Parents
- 5th Grade Fall Parties in Homeroom Classrooms (See information below)
Monday, November 1 - Thursday, November 4 Scholastic Book Fair
(Book Fair will be open during Fall Parent Conferences - see information below for more details about this year 's Scholastic Book Fair)
Wednesday, November 3
- Fall Parent Teacher Conferences 3:30-7:30 pm
Thursday, November 4
- Fall Parent Teacher Conferences 3:30-7:00 pm
Friday, November 5
- NO SCHOOL
Parent Teacher Fall Conferences
Fall Parent Teacher Conferences on Team Silver will be taking place on Wednesday, November 3 from 3:30 pm - 7:30 pm and Thursday, November 4 from 3:30 - 7:00 pm. Conference sign up links for each Homeroom Teacher can be found below. Click on the link for your child´s Homeroom teacher to sign up for a conference time to visit about your child ´s progress in 5th Grade so far this year. You will only meet with your child's Homeroom teacher during Fall Conferences. Information from both teachers will be shared through the Homeroom teacher about your child's progress. Let Mrs. Hayes or Ms. Robertson know if you should have any questions. We look forward to visiting with you about your child´s progress in 5th Grade this year!
Team Silver Fall Party
Mrs. Hayes and Ms. Robertson will be hosting the Team Silver Fall Parties on Friday, October 29 from 1:30 - 2:30 pm. The children will be able to bring their own snack and drink to enjoy during the party that day. Just a reminder to students and families that any snack brought into the classroom will need to be peanut and nut free. Mrs. Hayes and Ms. Robertson will have extra snacks and drinks in the classroom that day in case a student forgets his or her snack or needs one. We will will have some games and activities to enjoy as a team as well to help us celebrate our Fall Parties. Please let Mrs. Hayes or Ms. Robertson know if you should have any questions about the Fall Parties on Team Silver this year.
NJHS Barry School Veteranś Day Assembly
The 7th and 8th Grade National Junior Honor Society is hosting a Veteranś Day Ceremony here at Barry School this year. We would be honored if a veteran you know can attend this ceremony. This function is dedicated to appreciating the sacrifices that veterans have made for our country. We will have a ceremony with NJHS student members, performances from our Barry Honor Choir and band, and also a veteran speaker.
If a veteran you know is able to attend in person, we would also appreciate it if we could still honor them by recognizing them with a photo and some information in our slideshow presentation.
Click on the link below for a digital copy of the flyer that was sent home on Tuesday, October 19 with your child to find out more information about our upcoming Veterans Day Assembly at Barry on Thursday, November 11. If a veteran you know can attend, you can fill out the information in the flyer and send it to school with your child to share with our NJHS teachers Ms. Cook and Mrs. Klingele.
Barry School Spooktacular Event
Academic Lab Opportunity for Fifth Graders
From Dr. Haniger's Weekly Barry News Newsletter:
Academic Lab
Academic Lab starts on Tuesday, September 7th. This program is free and runs from 3-4 pm after school on the remaining Tuesdays and Thursdays of first quarter. It is a great opportunity for you to sign your student up to get extra help on academics before they come home. If bus transportation is needed, we have a bus that dismisses at 4 pm.
We will pay students 2 points in Live School to stay and work on improving by completing homework, missing assignments, retaking assessments, etc. We are also recruiting students to stay and serve as mentors as well. Those students can either earn community service hours or also get paid in Live School.
Please use the Google Form below to sign up your child to get extra help via Academic Lab each time you want them to stay. We also suggest bookmarking this link directly to the form.
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Reminders
- Please send your student a refillable water bottle each day!
- Check your child's trapper every night for important information
- Please go through your child's trapper WITH them as there are important papers that need to return to school. Make sure you don't throw anything away without checking with your student first.
- Students should be reading for 30 minutes every night.
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Mask Reminders for Class Time Inside the Building
We will reach out to individual families of students that are struggling to wear their mask appropriately so that you are aware and can assist.
Team Silver Daily Schedules 2021/2022
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5th Grade Handbook Team Silver
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LIve School
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ELA - Reading & Writing
We recently finished our work on our Reading unit on Inferencing with our first Reading Unit assessment of the year last Friday. The Inferencing assessment will be in student Data Notebooks along with the mid unit Inferencing Quick Check so that students can observe their growth with their inferencing skills over the course of the unit. During this unit, we focused on using a strategy called RACE (Restate, Answer, Cite, and Explain) to help provide evidence from the text to support our thinking in our answers. We will continue to work on this skill with our reading work throughout the year as we continue to work on answering questions about reading with evidence from the text to help explain and support our thinking. In our next Reading unit, we will focus on using context clues in our reading to help figure out the meaning of similes, metaphors, idioms, and other forms of figurative language in reading and writing.
Students will be expected to read for 30 minutes a day each day of the school week at home as a weekly Homework assignment. Having time to read and practice reading skills both at home and at school can help students continue to grow in their reading this year. In order to help with meeting the AR goal each quarter, your child will need to read consistently both at home and at school.
In Writing, we have been working on reviewing skills with adjectives and descriptive language as we worked toward writing a Descriptive Writing short story titled ¨My Monster.¨ For this writing project, the children created a drawing of their own monster creation and then wrote a short descriptive paragraph describing the features and characteristics of their monsters. Next week, students will have the opportunity to read their writing pieces to a classmate and then have the classmate try to draw their monsters based on their descriptions. We discussed that the more details and descriptive words are used to describe their monsters, then the easier it will be for a classmate to sketch their monsters based on their writing description. The children have been having a lot of fun this week creating their monster creations and are looking forward to being able to read their writing pieces to classmates next week.
Our next writing piece will be Narrative Writing second quarter.
We will continue to review skills with punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar with our morning grammar work each day and with our spelling practice activities.
Math
Next week in math we will have a topic 3 test review on Monday, followed by the Topic 3 Test on Tuesday. This test will be over multiplying whole numbers. Students have been practicing various ways to solve a multiplication problem. I will add examples for reference if you would like to help your child study for it.
Next Wednesday we will begin our next topic of study. The next topic will be over multiplying decimals. This should be a concept that will be fresh on the mind since we just finished multiplying whole numbers. Any and all work that your child works on can be found in their Google Classroom.
Math Multiplication Strategies
Science
Next week in Science we are going to dive into our Matter unit. We will start with the 3 states of matter and talk about testable and observable properties.
Mrs. Hayes´s Class Zip Line Science Lab
Social Studies
The children have been working on group projects that they will present to the class to help review and learn more facts and details about Native Americans who inhabited certain regions of the country as the United States became a New Nation and who still inhabit many of these parts of the country today. The children will have the opportunity to teach the class about Native American groups from different regions as they present their presentations to the class next week. In our next unit that will start at the beginning of second quarter, we will focus on exploration and early colonies in North American and the United States. We will also continue to learn more about events going on in the world around us as we read nonfiction weekly articles in Time For Kids.
I am including some of the other concepts we will be studying in 5th Grade Social Studies as we move through the year below:
😊 5th Grade Social Studies Units of Study 😊
CNN 10/Current Events - Time For Kids
Maps Skills and Geography
Economics
Government and the United States as a New Nation
American Revolution (Native Americans, Colonies, Causes of the Revolution, and Battles of the Revolution)
Westward Expansion
Civil War and Reconstruction
Twentieth Century History (1900 - 2000)
Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening skills will also be practiced with nonfiction Social Studies text.
Electoral Process
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Google Classroom Information
Technology Help Center
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Mrs. Hayes
5th Grade - ELA and Social Studies
Team Silver
(816)-436-9623 Ext. 3145
Email: hayesa@platteco.k12.mo.us
Website: http://www.plattecountyschooldistrict.com/
Location: 2001 NW 87th Terrace, Kansas City, Missouri
Phone: 816-436-9623
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlatteCountyR3/
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Ms. Robertson
5th Grade - Math and Science
Team Silver
(816)-436-9623 Ext. 3144
Email: robertas@platteco.k12.mo.us
Website: http://www.plattecountyschooldistrict.com/
Location: 2001 NW 87th Terrace, Kansas City, Missouri
Phone: 816-436-9623
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlatteCountyR3/