5TH GRADE RED HOUSE
MS. MITCHELL'S CLASSROOM NEWSLETTER: 2020-2021
WEEK THIRTY-TWO : APRIL 19TH - APRIL 23RD
School Board Represented, Mr. Hill visits R5 to discuss National Engineering Week.
Spring Conferences
Please contact me at lmitchell@coppellisd.com if you would like to have a conference about your child’s progress. We could schedule a phone or Zoom conference. Thank you!
LEADER OF THE WEEK: Mayan
Our Leadership Quality of the week is FRIENDSHIP
LEEdership Quality of the Week:
Caring for; trusting one another
A lesson in Leadership:
Do not save seats in the lunchroom. If someone wants to sit down, let him or her. Do not try to exclude anyone. We are a family, and we must treat one another with respect and kindness.
Lee Quote of the Week:
"The reason dogs have so many friends is because they wag their tails and not their tongues" -Anonymous
WHAT WE ARE LEARNING
READING & WRITING
Reading this week, we continued our read aloud, The One and Only Ivan. Learners are viewing the world from the eyes of a gorilla. In Writing, we worked on a creative writing activity about the formation of fossil fuels.
Math
In Math, we are representing and solving problems related to perimeter, area, and volume.
SCIENCE
In Science, we continued our Life Science Unit. This week we explored organism structures and functions that help animals and plants survive.
SOCIAL STUDIES
In Social Studies this week, we continued our unit on the 20th Century and explore important memorial facts of the Twin Towers attack.
IMPORTANT TIMES:
Schedules:
- Morning Meeting 7:50-8:10
- Specials: 8:30-9:15
- Recess: 11:30-11:00
- Lunch: 1:00-1:30
Conference Time:
- Daily: 8:30-9:15
Specials Rotation
- Day 1 - P.E.
- Day 2- Music
- Day 3 - Design
- Day 4 - P.E.
- Day 5 - Art
- Day 6 - Create