The Fifth Grade Times
Your Connection to What is Happening in Fifth Grade!
Important Dates
10/4/17-Wear One Color
10/6/17-Parent/Grandparent Visitation Day
10/9/17-No School
10/13/17-Glow Run at PV
10/16/17-School Cross Country
10/24/17- 2 Hour Delay
10/26/17-End of the 1st Marking Period
10/27/17-Byrnes Health Program comes to PV
PTO Spirit Days / Nights for 2017-2018 are as follows:
9/27/17 – Golden Crust – All day – 20% to PTO
10/16/17 – Great American Saloon – 4PM to close – 10% to PTO
11/13/17 – Texas Roadhouse – 3PM to 10PM – 10% to PTO
12/2/17 through 12/17/17 – Five Below – 10% to PTO
2/12/18 (tentative) – Roma’s – 4PM to close – 20% to PTO
3/5/18 – Great American Saloon – 4PM to close – 10% to PTO
April (date TBD) - Meadows
Important Notice
Thanks for reading this month's newsletter!
A few reminders:
1 - Students should be spending a few minutes each day (including weekends) orally practice 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 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
3 - Much information can be found on my class website, including daily homework assignments (please click the link above).
4 - 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.
5 - 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!
We are having a great beginning of the year in fifth grade!
Students were taught how to...
- start a turning point
- dream the dream of the story
- let the author's words awaken your own
- tell the story from the inside
- set a goal
- flash-draft
- redraft to bring out the meaning of the story-what is it that you want everyone to know
- bring forth the story arc
- elaborate on the important parts
- add scenes from the past and present
- end a story
- put the final touches
Future Lessons:
Students will learn...
- that one way writers make writing powerful is by emulating narrative writing they admire.
- to think carefully about how to structure their stories. For example, stretching out the problem and telling it bit by bit.
- that writers think about which actions, or images happened before they felt or thought something, and then they write those exact actions or images on the page to evoke the same emotions or thoughts in readers.
- that every character has a role that connects to-and furthers-the larger meaning of their story.
- that writers learn about punctuation-commas in particular-from writing they admire, to make their writing more exact.
Topics that were taught are the following:
- Conjunctions
- Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
- Interjections
Future topics:
- Perfect Verb Tenses
- Verb Tenses
- Verb Shifts
Science: (Earth Science)
Students will learn how the planets and their moons differ in size, composition, and surface features.
Notes From Miss George
Book Orders:
Book Orders are due Friday, September 29th. You may order online from Scholastic Reading Clubs or from the flyers that were sent home two weeks ago. You will find numerous flyers with a variety of books and reading levels by simply clicking on the tabs once you have entered the classroom code. Our classroom code is DVM3R. Thank you so much for your previous orders. The students were so excited to get books that they had personally requested for our classroom library. We spent almost 1,700 bonus points to pump up our library! High interest books=more students reading…that a winning combination!
Reading:
Your child should be reading at least 20 minutes per night for homework from their self-selected book. At times, they will complete journal entries or responses that may need to be completed at home also. These assignments should all be written in their daily planners. Our book clubs will begin the first week of October and your child will be asked to read a certain number of pages to be prepared for the discussion of that particular book. Students have been very excited to start Book Clubs and it is my hope that some of that excitement will trickle into their 20 minutes of reading each night. Your child may be reading their 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.
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 two weeks 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 folder with them order to study. The current Greek and Latin root words -leg- and- lect-will be quizzed on Tuesday, October 3rd. The goal is to help your child understand, use and apply those root words to their daily oral language, reading and writing.
Social Studies:
Topics include: Chapter 11- The Young Republic, Lessons 1-5.
*Westward Expansion
*The Louisiana Purchase
*Lewis and Clark
*Sacagawea
Pleasant View Elementary School
Website: http://pv.rlasd.net/
Location: 600 Delta Road, Red Lion, PA, United States
Phone: (717) 244-5425