9/30/22

We wrapped up the week and the month of September by taking our second math assessment of the school year. This 5 questions quiz will be used to gauge the kid's progress with multiplication work. Over the next two weeks, we are going to be spending some time working with division problems.

Please return any safety patrol permission slips by early next week.

I hope everyone has a nice weekend.

9/29/22

Fifth graders continued their work with another short story as part of our literary writing unit. Today, the kids read Spaghetti by Cynthia Rylant. The last two days have been top shelf writing lessons. I was impressed with the responses that the kids were giving to some inference questions.

As a reminder, please return safety patrol permission slips as soon as possible.

9/28/22

The fifth graders finished their exploration of the short story Eleven during our ELA time. Each of the kids annotated and marked up their story and then pulled out some possible writing ideas that we will explore further over the next two weeks. Later this week, the fifth graders will look at a few more short stories and then look to make connections between them.

All of the kids are taking home a permission slip for Fifth Grade Safety Patrols. This is optional. Students are welcome to have this signed and returned as soon as possible. 

9/27/22

The fifth graders are going to continue their work with literary essay writing this week. We completed annotating out first short story together this morning. Over the next few days, the fifth graders are going to be responsible for working in pairs to explore three other stories. 

Our work with various multiplication strategies will also continue throughout the course of this week. We had an excellent lesson today that built on some of the work we were doing last week.

9/23/22

We concluded a productive week by exploring a short story during our literary essay writing lesson. The fifth graders practiced using their annotation skills and answered some focus questions about this piece of writing. Next week the fifth graders will be exposed to a variety of short stories and will ultimately choose one to begin crafting a literary essay about.

Science time saw the kids putting the finishing touches on a model of the solar system. They were also able to share some of the interesting details that they have learned about the planets with each other.

I hope everyone has a nice long weekend. 

9/22/22

This Thursday saw the fifth graders continuing to work on their models of the solar system. The kids have also been using their Chromebooks to gather interesting details about each of the planets. They are going to add this to their finished models. We will look to have all of the students done with this tomorrow afternoon.

It was nice to meet with so many of you last night. Thank you for taking the time to attend the curriculum night.

9/21/22

We transitioned to the second section of unit one during math class today. This portion will see the kids working to master various multiplication strategies. Today was a quality first lesson and the kids continue to impress with their ability to explain their logic. 

I look forward to meeting with parents and families during Back to School night, which is tonight. Parents whose last name begin with letters A through L are invited into my classroom from 6 to 640. While those whose last name falls within M through Z are welcome to come in from 720 to 8. In between, there will be a presentation in the gym be the specialist teachers.