Barry 5th Grade News Team Silver
Team Silver Hayes/Robertson - Friday, September 10, 2021
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Welcome to 5th Grade Team Silver!
We are so excited to welcome our Fifth Grade students and families to Team Silver at Barry School! Ms. Robertson and Mrs. Hayes look forward to partnering with you to help your child have an amazing year of learning and growing in Fifth Grade! Ms. Robertson will teach Math and Science to both classes this year, and Mrs. Hayes will be teaching Reading, Writing, and Social Studies to both classes on Team Silver. This year will bring many exciting learning opportunities for fifth graders as we begin departmentalizing to help prepare for middle school next year. If you should have questions throughout the year, you are welcome to contact Ms. Robertson and Mrs. Hayes. The contact information and email addresses for both teachers can be found at the end of this Newsletter. Your child's Homeroom teacher will be the main point of contact for questions, but if you should have a question about a particular subject, it is helpful to contact that teacher to help with providing the information you need to help answer specific subject questions. Please note that email is one of the best ways to contact us with questions you might have throughout the year. We look forward to working with all of you to help the children have a fantastic year in Fifth Grade!
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Important Dates
Monday, September 6
- NO SCHOOL LABOR DAY
Wednesday, September 15
- PLC 2 hour Early Release for Teacher Collaboration and Meetings
Monday, October 4 - Friday, October 8 Homecoming Spirit Week (More details will be shared by the District in the next few weeks.)
Friday, October 8
Homecoming 3 hour Early Release (More details will be shared by the District in the next few weeks.)
- Parade at 4:00
Monday, October 11 District Inservice Day
- NO SCHOOL
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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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Math and ELA Morning Work on Team Silver
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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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Update on Privilege of Moving To and From Specials
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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
All About Your Teachers
Mrs. Hayes - ELA and Social Studies
This year will be my sixth year here at Barry School, and I am proud to be part of such a fantastic learning community in Platte County School District! I have 14 years of teaching experience here in Missouri at both the fourth and fifth grade level. I received a Bachelor of Science in Education from Missouri Western State University in 1996 and also received a Masters of Education in Elementary Administration from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2001. In 2005, my husband and I were transferred to London, U.K. During the course of our time there, I was very fortunate to have been able to substitute teach at the American School of London and travel to many other parts of Europe. It was truly an amazing experience to have been able to live and teach abroad!
I am also a parent of two boys. My oldest son is now in 9th grade, and my youngest son is a seventh grader. Both boys play baseball, and our family can often be spotted cheering them on from the ball field on the weekends. We love to spend time as a family and can often be found outdoors exploring new places together. We enjoy going on walks, fishing, boating, riding bikes, or playing kickball or baseball in the backyard. We also enjoy music and like to attend concerts and plays. When we’re not outside, we can sometimes be found just watching TV together or reading.
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Ms. Robertson - Math and Science
My name is Ms. Robertson. This year will be my first year at Barry School and I feel welcomed already. I have 5 years of teaching experience here in Missouri, all at the 5th grade level and in math and science. I received a Bachelor of Science in Education from Missouri Western State University in 2015 and I am hoping to further my education by starting my Masters Degree this year. I am also a parent of four children. My oldest son Clayton will be starting his senior year, Carson will be a junior, Caiden will be starting high school as a freshman and my only daughter Adilynn will be a 7th grader. My children keep me busy with their sports schedules. Between all four of them they play football, basketball, wrestling, baseball, gymnastics and track and field. I can’t wait to cheer them on this year! I am looking forward to watching your child grow this year. If you have any questions, please let me know. I will get back with you as soon as I can. GO PIRATES!
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LIve School
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Fall STAR Reading Assessment and Accelerated Reader Goals
A copy of each child's Fall STAR Reading results will be placed in each child's trapper and in each child's Data Binder to help parents, students, and teachers track reader progress throughout the year and create reading goals for Fifth Grade Reading.
In the top right corner of each copy of each child's individual STAR Reading data sheet, Mrs. Hayes will write his or her Accelerated Reader goal for the quarter. Students in 5th Grade in ELA take quizzes on the books they read upon finishing a book. The points earned from the quiz count towards each student's individual Accelerated Reader goal. I will choose 30 minutes of reading per day to be calculated in Renaissance Place with each child's STAR Reading results to determine each individual Accelerated Reading goal for the quarter.
Students are expected to read 30 minutes in ELA class and 30 minutes at home each day of the school week to help make progress in their books toward their Accelerated Reader Goals.
I will also highlight each child's Suggested Independent Reading Range and STAR Number Score which will be helpful information to have when choosing books in the Barry library, our class EPIC books account, Mid Continent Library or other library resource, and in our classrooms to help the children with choosing books that are a great fit for each of them with their reading.
I will be visiting with the children about how to work toward Accelerated Reader goals with reading books that are just right for them with their reading and stress that goals will not be able to be filled by watching videos or reading only 1 point books.
I have also encouraged the children to log into Renaissance Place and then Accelerated Reader to double check that a book has an Accelerated Reader quiz before beginning the book. Parents and students can also use the resource arbookfinder.com to look for books and check to be sure that a book their child is reading is included in Accelerated Reader.
I told the children that I would count books that were read over the summer (June-August) if they wanted to include them but that this opportunity would only be extended first quarter. I also told them that taking quizzes over books already read in fourth grade would not be a choice.
Students who meet their Accelerated Reader goals at the end of the quarter will qualify for a special quarterly Accelerated Reader celebration. If the goal is not met, LiveSchool points can be taken.
Students will have until the end of the school day on Friday, October 22 to take quizzes toward Accelerated Reader goals for 1st Quarter.
Please let Mrs. Hayes know if you or your child should have any questions about Accelerated Reader goals this quarter.
ELA - Reading & Writing
After taking the Fall STAR Reading assessment, reading progress with the assessment will be communicated to students and parents, reading goals will begin to be set, and reading check ins to help further determine reading level for locating Just Right Books and practicing reading skills will take place as well.
Our first topic of study for first quarter will be making inferences using fiction texts. We will be focusing on using specific details from the text and text evidence to help prove our thinking while answering questions about our reading. We will practice creating SMART answers 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 focus on this skill with our reading work throughout the year.
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.
We will begin the year in Writing with reviewing skills with complete sentences, parts of speech, and paragraph writing to help review writing skills for preparation with our writing units this year. Our first writing unit will focus on narrative writing.
Math
Next week we will be continuing with place value! We will work on ordering and comparing decimals. We will likely have an upcoming assessment over the first topic of place value on Friday. Students will need to have an understanding of place value to the billions, place value understanding to the thousandths place, able to write a number in standard, word and expanded forms, and compare and order numbers.
Science
In Science we are started off the year with a fun experiment and introducing the scientific method. If your child hasn't told you about it, you may ask them! We had lots of fun working with glow germs! Next week students will continue the scientific method with a couple more fun and engaging labs.
Social Studies
During the next few weeks in Social Studies class, we will continue to review some key concepts and ideas relating to maps and geography. Some of the ideas we will be exploring in the first weeks of school include cardinal and intermediate directions, compass rose, relative versus absolute location of a place on Earth, map key, title, map symbols, map scale, and oceans and continents.
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
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/