October 15th

Ice Cream Social

 tonight from 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

The doors will open at 6:00 p.m. for ice cream.  The media center will also be open for the book fair during this time.

It has been another week filled with learning and fun in room 14.  We spent a lot of time this week using our Chromebooks to complete our i-Ready assessments. 

We also completed our first math benchmark assessment this week.  We could tell that the students spent a lot of time preparing for this assessment.  They did great!  We began unit 2 in math today.  We will be focusing on whole number place value and operations in unit 2.

In writing this week, we have been focusing on editing.  We have been going back over the memiors that we have written and thinking about our transitions, precise language, shifts, and beginnings.  Today we worked together to write strong beginnings for an event that happened in our classroom.  We focused on the following beginnings: action, sound, dialogue, question or thought, and description.  It is amazing what we can come up with when we put our heads together.

 The students have really enjoyed Social Studies this week.  We have been learning a lot about Christopher Columbus and his encounters with Native Americans.  We looked at the encounters through Christopher Columbus' eyes using his journal entries.  We also looked through the eyes of the Taino.  We noticed two very different perspectives.  Ask your fifth grader to explain what he or she learned this week.

Reminders:

1. Last day for the book fair is tomorrow

2. Read at least 30 minutes every night

3. Halloween parade will begin at 2:00 p.m. on October 30th

4. Please make sure that you check and sign your child's planner each night