Owl Team
Feb. 13-17
4th 6 weeks
Time to re-stock your child's school supplies!
These are the materials your child needs daily in order to perform their best in our core classes:
-Pens: red, black and blue
-Sharpened pencils
-erasers
-ruler
-scissors
-glue sticks
-journals (if your child's journals/notebooks are close to their end, please provide new journals in order for your child to be prepared to continue taking notes in class)
We thank you in advance for ensuring that your student is ready to learn every day!
Teacher websites
Parent-Teacher Conference Requests!
Dear 5th Grade Dual Language parents and students,
If you have any concerns regarding your child's grades, please contact us to schedule a conference.
Available times for the Owl Team:
M,T,W, F 9:30-10: a.m.
Remember that you can check your child's grades anytime through HAC!
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Events Coming Up/Important Information
Link to Oakwood's calendar of events: http://ow.csisd.org/
Remember to review the Student Handbook!
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Owl Valentine's Day Party
This week's agenda
Math
Monday: Graphing Number Patterns
Tuesday: Graphing Number Patterns
Wednesday: Stations
Thursday: Test Review
Friday: Unit Assessment on graphing, number patterns and ordered pairs.
Class Needs:
We need pencils! We have gone through all of our pencils and glue sticks. Please send a box with your child, when you are able. We are also getting real close to the end of the Math Journal. Your child will need to get a second journal to continue with our Math class. Thanks to those that have sent pencils and glue sticks, I appreciate it.
Homework daily.
-Homework:
We will have homework everyday Monday to Thursday. All homework can be turned in daily and all homework is due each Friday. Homework will be graded on Sunday and returned to student on Monday. We have no Tuesday folder.
Tutorials:
I will be taken care of during school hours. I will pull those students that need additional help with math. Tutorials hours vary based on my morning and after school duties. Some of the students will also be pulled out of electives and be tutored by our math specialist. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me an email.
Language Arts. Lenguaje y Artes.
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Expository Text/ Texto Explicatorio
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We are starting the use of this free page to read stories
and then go over a quiz for each one of them!
Every student has a username and password by now!
It also has parent activities areas
where you can help your son/daughter
to better their reading understanding!
Thanks for all the help you can give them there!!!!
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Expository Text/ Texto Explicatorio
Monday: Summarize an expository text.
Tuesday: Make connections between a fictional story and an expository text about the same topic.
Wednesday: Different types of persuasive text
Thursday: Parallelism as repeating the same grammatical structure in a sentence or paragraph for emphasis.
Friday: Several examples of persuasive text with examples
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Friday / Viernes:
Library
Homework / Tarea
Read library book / Leer el libro de la Biblioteca.
Write about your Library book in the interactive Journal /
Escribir acerca del libro de la Biblioteca en el diario interactivo.
Science
Earth Science
Ciencias de la Tierra
5.8 C & D Earth and Space
Monday: Solar system introduction and stations (10 this week)
Tuesday: stations (10 this week)
Wednesday: stations (10 this week)
Thursday: stations (10 this week)
Friday: 4th 6 weeks unit test!
NO HOMEWORK THIS WEEK BUT STUDENTS MUST STUDY THEIR VOCABULARY AND STATIONS DAILY AT HOME TO GET READY FOR FRIDAY'S TEST!!!
Social Studies
Monday: Finish Events of 19 Century
Tuesday: Mini-Project
Wednesday: Mini-Project
Thursday: Presentations (Finish Project)
Friday: Presentations/Grammar
The final product is done and it looks AMAZING!!!
Below you will find a picture of the classroom family tree that was student created. It has a picture of all the students families either through a picture or a drawing. It is very exciting to have seen your child be so enthusiastic about this project which will remain on the wall for the rest of the school year. Please feel free to stop by any day to come see it in the classroom.
Tutoring
T-W 7:45 am-8:15 am
by invitation only
Math
Tuesday-Friday during Success by Mr. Velez
by invitation only
ELA/SLA
Tuesday-Friday during Success by Mr. Cavazos
Reading buddies
by invitation only
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