The Fifth Grade Times
You're Connection to What is Happening in Fifth Grade!
Important Dates
- 10/5/16-Wear All One Color Day
- 10/10/16-No School
- 10/11/16-PTO Meeting
- 10/13/16 Red Lion Homecoming Parade
- 10/17/16-Cross Country Meet
- 10/17/16-Parent Portal Opens for Conferences
- 10/21/16 Parent Visitation Day-More Information to Come
- 10/22/16-Elementary Cross Country Meet at PV From 8:00-12:00
- 10/24/16 Halloween Parade
- 10/25/16-Two Hour Delay
- 10/26/16-Marking Period Ends
A few reminders:
1 - Students should be spending a few minutes each day (including weekends) orally practicing their basic facts. See their fact fluency tests for basic facts they struggled with, so you know which ones to "quiz" them on, with regularity.
2 - Students should be "chipping away" at the Study Island Unit 2 Test Review assignment online. Student user names and passwords have been written on the inside covers of their Home Links Journals and specific directions for the task are available on the exercise, once it is accessed.
3 - Students should be spending a few minutes each night practicing their Unit 2 Vocabulary. Study Guides were provided to commence the unit (to students requesting). Some declined, insisting they would access the terms online at my class webpage:
http://pv.rlasd.net/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=610295&type=u&pREC_ID=1007757
4 - Much information can be found on my class website, including daily homework assignments (please click the link above).
5 - Please check over your child's homework assignments (Home Links pages, in particular) for quality of effort and overall understanding, not just that they have made an attempt to complete. Ask your child to verbally explain his/her thinking and mathematical reasoning as to how he/she is arriving at the answers he/she is getting. Furthermore, ask him/her why they are performing the mathematical computations he/she is in given problems. Doing so will enhance the acquisition of the skills being practiced.
6 - Accompanying each Home Links page is the requirement for students to select one question from the Home Link page and write an explanation on the back of the preceding Home Link. Students are to indicate the question number (by writing the number in the upper left hand corner of the page and circling). Expectations for the writing may be found at the link above (#3) under "Math Open Response Writing Rubric." Students will be familiar with this if you reference it as the "pink sheet" in the student desks. These are used on a daily basis during instructional time.
Thank you for your continued support of your child's education and the instruction we are providing in the classroom! Please feel free to email me as needed. The more closely we work together, the more we can ensure your child reaches his/her mathematical potential!
Word Work: We will continue to add information to our interactive notebooks. After one more lesson, I will be collecting the notebooks for evaluations. Next week, a graded rubric will be sent home in the Wednesday Folder.
Topics we will learn about include:
- four types of sentences
- simple subjects and simple predicates
- compound subjects and compound predicates
- independent and dependent clauses
- run-on and fragment sentences
Science: The students have been researching planets and creating slide shows. Presentations will start Wednesday, and I can't wait to see what they've accomplished. Ask them to share their presentations with you. We are almost finished with the solar system unit and then we will begin geology.
Some topics include:
- Earth's common physical features
- a variety of mapping representations of Earth's features
- landforms
- erosion
- weather and climate
- the atmosphere
A few notes from Miss George:
Reading
Students have been very excited to start Book Clubs and hopefully some of that excitement has trickled into their twenty minutes of reading each night. Your child may be reading his/her book club book, a self - selected “Right Fit” book or a good book from home. Either way, they should be using all their good reading strategies, analyzing characters and able to respond to reading in an analytical way. We have been doing lots of this with our read aloud, Home of the Brave. The next Bend/Unit is all about raising the level of writing and talking when it comes to literature. Starting later this week, students will be asked to complete a writing response to reading as part of their homework. Please continue to make sure the students are reading at least 20 minutes each night with a thoughtful, well written response.
Word Study
Approximately every two weeks your child is given a vocabulary word list which includes Greek/Latin root words. We pronounce the words on the first day and discuss definitions, root words, sort them and add other words that fit the same pattern. They will have a quiz on these words at the end of that two-week time period. They usually know a week ahead and are to be writing it down on the planner sheet or in their notebook. You should have seen two of these come home so far. The students must have their Reading Interactive Notebook with them order to study.
Social Studies/Chapter 3 Age of Exploration
Students are learniing about:
*Navigational tools,
*Spanish Explorations,
*Points of view about Christopher Columbus
*Map and Globe Skills
*The Exploration of Other Nations
Pleasant View Elementary School
Website: http://pv.rlasd.net/
Location: 700 Delta Road, Red Lion, PA, United States
Phone: 717-244-5424
Twitter: @pvelemschool