News From Fifth Grade

NEWS FROM FIFTH GRADE   

WEEK OF NOV.17-21

LOOKING FORWARD TO CONFERENCES! Dismissal for the rest of the week is at noon. Please send a good snack for your student. Let the office know if your child will be staying for aftercare so they can plan for enough workers. $3.50 per hour per child is the suggested donation which will help our 7th/8th class members go to DC.

READING

Students are reading a novel of their own choosing for silent reading. Next month we will document titles read and respond to each in lieu of a calendar. Let me know if you feel your student still needs that accountability.

Homework:  READING 20 minutes per night.  Students should still have a goal of reading 20 minutes or more even if they are tracking books read or pages. Reading calendars are due two weeks from tomorrow on December 1.

We are about 1/2 way through Poppy with all its luscious vocabulary. It's definitely a language broadener and full of fun and suspense.

LANGUAGE ARTS

Spelling:  Lesson 10 due Friday, test Friday.  Lesson 11 will come home this weekend and we will have its test on the 25th. Next week  we will start to do a little research project with non-fiction text. We will have our class spelling bee after Thanksgiving.

We're moving from topic discussion at lunch to topic writing. Today's writing assignment was a paragraph about what you'd do in case of a natural disaster. I'll have students share their writing at lunch. This serves two purposes- accountability and learning to have thoughtful meal time discussions and listening. (Some of us are really growing in listening, others in sharing comfortably.)

IXL is where we're working on our grammar practice. One thing we also do this year is learn a lot of task-specific jargon-- from filling out proxy applications to reading many types of charts and graphs. Look for these from time to time as students may need specific information from you!

SCIENCE

Engineering end of unit postponed due to multiple students being out with illness- get those lungs and tummies healed! Owl pellets get ordered this week.

US HISTORY and SOCIAL STUDIES

Every student is now signed up with Studies Weekly and can extend their learning or review by logging in.  We’re on week three, so your student can test themselves on the material, earn credits, and decorate their pet rat’s space-- all online.  Encourage them to do the games. We will work on the articles together and then do the test online Friday. Students have access to articles during the test time, but it is within a time frame.

THIS WEEK’S STATES AND CAPITALS TO LEARN: Spell them correctly and locate them on a map: WA OR ID AK HI CA MT WY NV Quiz Thursday.

BIBLE

Isaiah 55:8-9 Test Wednesday, no chapel this week.

GENERAL INFORMATION

MUSIC- Fifth graders have a great part to play in this year’s Christmas program.

 Art will begin this quarter, our first class will be November 24.

PE Monday this week

Music T/Th

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD SHOEBOXES DUE THIS WEEK

PASSPORT ON THURSDAY

BOYS BASKETBALL STARTS next WEEK...gO eAgLeS!

PIZZA FRIDAYS! $2 per slice. ORDER by Wednesdays. No pizza this Friday due to early release.

Christmas Program is December 11, 2015 at 6:30 pm.

Auction is coming! Let me know how you'd like to help.

Lots of small and big jobs, one of them is bound to fit your time and talents.