Barry 5th Grade News Team Silver
Team Silver Hayes/Robertson - Friday, September 24, 2021
Important Dates
Friday, September 24
- STAR READING AND STAR MATH REPORTS GO HOME (ACCELERATED READER GOALS ON STAR READING REPORT-SEE INFORMATION BELOW)
Thursday, September 30
- MAP SKILLS PROJECT DESIGN YOUR OWN AMUSEMENT PARK MAP DUE
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
Fall STAR Reading and Math Reports
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.
Mentos Science Lab Experiment Team Silver
Ask your student which example had the most Diet Coke displaced.
Return Barry Handbook Signature Form
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Math and ELA Morning Work on Team Silver
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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, Accelerated Reader Goals, and Reading Checks
Students on Team Silver recently took the Fall STAR Reading Assessment through Renaissance Place on Tuesday, September 7, 2021. Students were reminded of the expectation of best effort toward the assessment as STAR Reading helps give valuable information to students, parents, and teachers about individual reading levels to help with locating books for Independent Reading as well as focusing opportunities throughout the year for practicing key reading and comprehension skills.
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 have been working on meeting with each student for a Reading Running Record Check over the past week. The Reading Running Record check will also give information about your child's current reading level for choosing books and for work with reading in the classroom. If I have completed the Reading Check, the current reading level for your child will also be written on the STAR Reading Report. I am still working on Reading Running Records with the children, so if the Reading Level is not on the STAR Report, I will communicate that to your child early next week.
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. Since we are halfway through the quarter, I am only going to ask the students to complete half their AR Goal to qualify for the Accelerated Reader celebration at the end of the quarter.
Please let Mrs. Hayes know if you or your child should have any questions about Accelerated Reader goals this quarter.
ELA - Reading & Writing
We have continued to work toward increasing our reading focus and stamina during Independent Reading time over the past week. We have also had the opportunity to increase our listening comprehension as we listened to the audio book, I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 by Lauren Tarshis. After listening to chapters from the book each day, the children worked toward using details and evidence from the text to answer questions about the story. We also explored some nonfiction articles about hurricanes in order to learn more about these storms and the damage that can be left behind.
I have continued to meet with students individually to complete Reading Running Record Checks to further gather information about each child's reading level for the beginning of the year. This reading level can be another way for the children to find books that are right for each of them with Independent Reading and to help design classroom activities to help meet each student at his or her level for reading practice in the classroom.
I have had some issues with getting reports printed for the students to keep in trappers for goal setting and locating just right books and for parents to have at home. I have now been able to print the STAR Reading reports for each student and plan to send these home today.
We are finishing up our unit on Launching Our Reader's Workshop and will begin our first topic of study for first quarter on making inferences using fiction texts very soon. 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 have continued to review skills with punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar with our morning grammar work each day and with our spelling practice activities.
Math
Students are going to continue to work on the addition and subtraction of decimals in relation to modeling, order of operations, word problems and basic problem solving. The next topic test will be on or around Oct 5. If you would like your child to practice at home, we have been using Freckle Math and Moby Max. Students should have logins to both. I can assign extra practice if you would like. Just let me know by emailing me.
Science
In science, we will be starting a new unit on engineering design. Students will be able to identify what an engineer is and be able to use their knowledge on STEM challenges. I am really looking forward to this!
Social Studies
The children have been working hard on their end of unit project for our review unit on Map Skills and Geography this week. For this project, they are designing a map of their own Amusement Park. The map includes many of the ideas we studied in our unit such as a compass rose, map key/legend, symbols, and map title. Amusement Park Maps will be due on Thursday, September 30.
Our next unit of study will begin next week with Economics. 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/