Week of May 12th

Week of May 12

Happy Monday!

I hope that everyone enjoyed the beautiful weather this past weekend. Hopefully we have seen the end of the cold :)

Reading: Our weekly reading story this week is King Midas and the Golden Touch. Throughout the week we will be focusing on the various text structures we find in the texts we read. The class finished Shiloh last week and will be making a "theme" collage over the book during this week. We began working on these today in class, and students will have time throughout the week to complete these. In stations this week students will continue to work on fluency, word choice, identifying features in nonfiction texts, and comparing and contrasting various ideas in the texts we read. In guided reading, students will read Train Your Dog and answer comprehension questions using text based evidence.

Math: Students will have their Unit 7 Math Test this Friday. Students will receive their study guides Wednesday and will be expected to have these complete on Thursday so that we can review them as a class. I am finding that the trickiest concept for students seems to be adding and subtracting with negative numbers. I am more than happy to send home extra work if you feel this could benefit your child. Also, I am finding that during this time of year students begin to RUSH through their work :) I have noticed, especially when working with order of operations, that students seem to do this. These steps are very "straight forward", but I am emphasizing to students that when they do not show all of their work they are more inclined to skip steps and make silly mistakes.

 

Writing: This week we will continue our compare/contrast writing unit. Students have begun to brainstorm topics for their own compare and contrast writing piece. Throughout this week I will model for students how to turn our four square model into effective and detailed paragraphs. It is my goal for students to complete their compare and contrast writing by this Friday. I will also be introducing the Character Essay this week for all students. These will be due by May 28th, as Mrs. Larkey will be picking a winner on May 29th.

 

Science: *** Students will have a Science test this Friday, May 16th.

Other Notes:

**I sent home slips for the fifth grade party with students this afternoon. The party will be held on Wednesday, June 4th. Please feel free to fill these slips out and return them if you are planning on helping out or providing anything for the party. Any donations are greatly appreciated!

 

** Please feel free to send your child with any extra change this week to donate to penny wars. We will be counting Mr. Koning and Mr. Kelley's jars at the end of the week. The teacher with the most money will be shaving his head! If we raise a total of over $2,000 BOTH teachers will have to shave their heads! I know the kids would really enjoy this, so please feel free to donate.

 

**We will be having our fifth grade ISTEP celebrate this week from 1:55-2:55. It will be a great way to celebrate the students' hard work throughout the year!
Thanks!

Miss Hetzner