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5th Grade
Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Keefe
Upcoming Events
February 27th- Symphony permission slips are due!!!!!!
February 27th- D.A.R.E. Essay Rough Draft due
March 7th- Milwaukee Symphony Please send in the permission slips and money! Thanks
March 8th- D.A.R.E. Essay due
March 13th- Bag Lunch to School
March 13th- D.A.R.E. Graduation at PHS Auditorium at 6:00 pm
March 15th- Math MAP Testing begins
March 31- Yearbook Order Forms due
April 6th: Weather Day Field Trip to Miller Park (if your child has an allergy please consider joining us)
April 7th: March Madness Basketball Game
April 21st: PTO Hoops Night 5:00 pm -9:30 pm
Spring Conferences
Spring Conferences will be taking place March 20th & 21st. These conferences are OPTIONAL. If you would like a conference, please choose a time using Signup Genius. (This is s change from the previous newsletter.) You will sign up for a time slot with your child's homeroom teacher. This time slot will then be split between Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Keefe. If you have trouble with this process, please send your homeroom teacher an e-mail.
Mrs. Ward's signup click here.
Mrs. Keefe's signup click here.
Also, remember that these conferences are optional and that information on 6th grade placement or math placement for next year will not be available for these conferences, as we need data from later in the year to make this determination.
D.A.R.E.
The final copy must be typed, no longer than one page long, and in 12 font. Office Lenius will be collecting the students' essays on March 8th, and after reading them all, will be selecting students to read his/her essay at the D.A.R.E. graduation.
Jump Rope for Heart
Has your child signed up for Jump Rope for Heart yet? If not, please take time to do that this weekend. Here are some great incentives for your child as they begin fundraising.
Week 1-Top 3 online fundraisers this week get to eat lunch with Me and Neil
Week 2-Top 10 online fundraisers from each grade level get an extra 15 minutes of PE on a day 4 with me. 8:30-8:45
Week 3-The class that raises the most money this week will get an extra 15 minutes of PE with me on a day 4 from 8:30-8:45
Week 4-The class that raises the most money this week will get an extra 15 minutes of recess with me. This will be at teacher's request.
There are also full event incentives for different benchmarks raises
$10 raised=voucher for Bucks Ticket
$50 raised=raffle ticket for a basketball Fat Head. (every $50 =1 ticket)
$100 raised=raffle ticket to pie a PE teacher(15 winners 5 each grade)
$250 raised=raffle ticket to pie an administrator(9 winners 3 each grade)
Top 3 fundraisers in school get to attend a pre game basketball clinic with the Bucks at their practice facility in April
School wide
$2500 raised=Wigs worn by PE teachers during student staff event
$5000 raised=Ebbole duct taped to pillar in the cafeteria
$10,000 raised = Gull duct taped to pillar in the cafeteria
Language Arts
Text Structures and Text Features have been our focus. We are identifying the six structures (chronological, compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and solution, sequence and definition and description) to see how the non-fiction reading text is built. We will then be the authors of our historical, non-fiction books! Excitement is in the air - not only watching your student become researchers, but seeing them analyzing their topics to see if they can really develop a strong, teaching text.
We are also beginning our unit on persuasive writing. A balanced essay should be built and supported with evidenced, facts, and research. It should have small amounts of opinion layered throughout. Look out Hershey company!
Grammar and Spelling concepts:
- prefix/suffix
- base word
- vowel o and multi spellings
- vocabulary building
Math
On to division! We will be making the progression to long division next week. Students will build off of their long division knowledge from 4th grade. In this unit students will be dividing with two-digit divisors and dividing decimals.
Science
This week we studied how the water cycle works! Check out our water cycle posters below. (not sure why some are upside down.....)
Next week students will learn that water is a natural resource that needs to be conserved. As part of this study, students will be conducting an experiment where they will be finding ways to clean polluted water. For this experiment we will need 2-liter bottles. If you have one, please send it with your child next week.
Again here are sheets that we would like you to complete with your child next week. They will receive Brushing Teeth, and Water Use at Home next week.
Household Water System- due Monday
Brushing Teeth - due Wednesday
Water Use at Home- due Thursday