Lee, Rogers, Wiley Newsletter
Week of November 5th
What's Happening?
Due to Election Day, there will be no school on Tuesday.
Tickets will be in this week's Friday Folder. Fifth grade's Thanksgiving lunch day will be on Nov. 8th.
Lunch times:
Lee: 12:15-12:55
Rogers: 12:25-1:05
Wiley: 12:35-1:15
We will have sack lunches on Friday, Nov. 9th due to other grade levels having their Thanksgiving Lunch.
Start saving your change!! Parsons will be having a "Penny War" on Tuesday, November 13th to raise money for United Way. More details to come on other fun events for our United Way Campaign during the week of November 12th.
In the Friday Folder: Thanksgiving Lunch tickets for those who RSVP and paid.
Reading and Word Study with Mrs. Lee
Reading: Students are reading nonfiction in class and completing KWL charts about the information they are learning. We will begin studying higher level nonfiction pieces and what makes them more difficult and learning ways to better understand these higher levels of nonfiction reading.
Word Study: sid, sed, sess - work due and test on Friday
Writing with Mrs. Rogers
Grammar- We took a daily grade today for figurative language. This week, we identified Titles of Works, which needed to be underlined ,and which needed to be in quotation marks. Next week, we will take a daily grade on Titles of Works, so your child can begin reviewing these now. They examples are in their grammar notebooks.
Science and Social Studies with Ms. Wiley
The Government & Economics Retake will be on 11/5. Students have reviewed their test in class and written the retake date in their agenda. In order to retake this assessment students must complete the Summative Mastery Ticket and submit all attached work to me on Monday. Remember students are only allowed to retake 2 assessments per subject, per semester.
Next week, we will being studying WWI. We will be learning about the Lusitania and U.S. involvement in the war. Our WWI test will be on 11/16.
Science:
We completed our microorganism unit. Our next unit will be quick and focused on learned and inherited traits. We will begin this unit the Monday after Thanksgiving break and be testing on this unit that Friday, 11/30. The study guide and answer key are on eClass for students to be studying nightly.
Homeroom Specials
Lee: Art all week
Rogers: PE all week
Wiley: Music all week
Word Study
session
intersession
sedative
president
sediment
residue
reside
subside
sedentary
supersede
Dates to Remember
11/2- Microorganisms Test
11/6 - No school - Election Day
11/8 - Thanksgiving Lunch - details above
11/9 - sack lunches - no parents for lunch please
11/16- WWI Test
11/19-11/23 - Thanksgiving Break
11/30- Learned and Inherited Traits Test