Thanksgiving Week

This week, I am THANKFUL for an awesome group of students!!!

Our Fall Party: Thank you so much to our room volunteers who gave our class an excellent party! Thank you to everyone that donated money or supplies. A special thank you goes to Mr. Angeles, Mrs. Ingersoll, Mrs. Mangano, Mrs. Nichols, and Mrs. Larkey for coming in for the party!

Reading: I am so excited that we were able to finish reading Three Cups of Tea last week. I have been so impressed by how each student has been engaged in such a difficult text and has completed all of the work that has accompanied the book. This week, we will be working on some difficult culminating activities, but I am confident that the students will enjoy the challenge and the chance to work in groups. We will be making posters for the themes of the stories, studying articles to compare schools in Pakistan versus schools in the United States, role playing interviews with characters from the book, and reviewing the plot of the book. Students will also take the test over the book and have the opportunity to earn 10 Reading Counts points!

Math: This unit focuses on data collection and fractions. Students will wrap up the data collection part this week and will begin to work on adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators next week!

Writing: You will soon see grades for our Organization Week prompts. Students had a chance to practice the skills learned that week with the various teachers (impactful beginnings and endings, transitions, sequence, etc.) in a prompt. Students will not look at their writing and improve it. I will average the grades together for a new grade.

Spelling: We will not have a spelling test this week since we do not have a basal reading story. After break, we will resume spelling with the list for Leonardo’s Horse.

Social Studies: Please contact your child’s Social Studies teacher for an update in this subject.

Science: Please contact Mrs. Pfister for an update in this subject!

Reading Counts: As a reminder, all students need to earn at least 30 Reading Counts points this 9 weeks. Several students have reached this goal and most students have earned more than half of the points. They can take quizzes at the beginning or end of the school day, during reading stations, and at recess when I do not have recess duty. Thanksgiving break would be an excellent time for students to do some extra reading!

Changes to Schedule this week

·         MATH Acuity B testing: Monday morning. They did an amazing job!!!

·         Thursday, November 28- Thanksgiving. No school. Enjoy the time with your family!

·         Friday, November 29- No School

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns!
Mrs. Pfahler

November 19-22

Reading: We are in between our reading selections this week. That means that we will not have a vocabulary or spelling page for this week. We will also not have a spelling test.  We will be focusing on a book called Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. This book focuses on one man’s mission to help build schools in remote parts of Pakistan. The students and teachers will be exploring the book and learning about life in Pakistan and how Greg Mortenson has helped make an impact. This novel will be read by every fifth grader this year in the whole BCSC. There will not be too much reading of the book outside of class. However, the students still need to read 20 minutes a night. 

Writing: We are finishing up our Personal Narratives this week. The students will have their first piece of published work on Friday. We will begin the peer editing process on Tuesday.   

Math: We have started Unit 6. This unit focuses on different types of graphs, finding personal measurements and finding landmarks such as mean, median, mode, maximum and minimum.  

Physical Science: We have switched science classes. Please contact Mrs. Pfister for an update on this subject.

Social Studies: Please contact your child's Social Studies teacher for an update on this subject.

Bully Lesson: There will not be a bully lesson this week. Instead, we are using that time to focus on our novel Three Cups of Tea.  

Special Announcements:

Slips were sent home on Monday for the number of points that your child has in Reading Counts. Each student must have 30 points by December 16. The students are assigned 20 minutes of reading each day. Please encourage them in making sure that they get this done.  

 

As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us!
We hope you have a great week.
Mrs. Pfahler and Miss Scott

November 4-8

Reading: This week we will be reading about Paul Revere and how he aided the Patriots in the fight for freedom.  As usual, Students will have both spelling and reading worksheets.  Our spelling test will be on Thursday and our reading test will be on Friday. Students will continue with stations and book clubs. This will be the last week for the book clubs that the students are currently in. We will be switching into new book clubs next week.  Our skill and strategy this week are author’s purpose and background knowledge.

Writing: The whole 5^th grade will be participating in a writing themed week. The 5^th grade teachers will rotate to the different classes and teach a lesson to the students. We are having a big kickoff event on Monday to get the students excited for the week. We will be focusing on different writing traits.

Math: We have been working on fractions throughout Unit 5. We will be continuing fractions this week. The students will be working on taking fractions and converting them into decimals, renaming fractions as decimals, rounding decimals, and prime factorization. Remember that the Everyday Math website also has helpful information and more practice.

Physical Science: We have switched science classes. Please contact Mrs. Pfister for an update on this subject.

Social Studies: Please contact your child's Social Studies teacher for an update on this subject.

Bully Lesson: This week we will be doing a teambuilding activity. The students really enjoy getting to work together and build skills that will help them in years to come. After the activity, the class will have a debrief session where we will discuss the importance of teamwork.

Special Announcements: We have several events happening over the next few weeks. Please look below for a list of the events.

Our 5^th grade Music Program will be this THURSDAY. The students must report to our classroom at 6:45 pm. The show will start at 7 pm. There will be a reception in the Cafeteria after the show. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday!

Craftapolooza-Forms for Craftapolozza were passed out last week. Do not forget that if your child signed up, they will be participating on November 13. This will be set up similar to the “Time with a Teacher” activities where parents will pay a small amount for students to do crafts with a parent.

Our class will be participating in the Book Fair this year. On Monday, November 11, we will have a chance to preview what books will be sold. On Tuesday, November 12, we will have a chance to go and purchase books.

As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us!
We hope you have a great week.
Mrs. Pfahler and Miss Scott