Homework for October 4

Reading read 20 minutes, Extra Credit Book Report due on Oct. 14,

Spelling - Contract & Test due tomorrow

5P Math - Test tomorrow, Study Link 2.10 practice problems only

5B Math - Quiz tomorrow Review 2.3, 2.4, & 2.5, SMJ 2.7

5V Math - Pages 62 & 63, Mathboxes page 64 #s 1, 2, 3, & 4

Picture Day Thursday

Fundraiser due on Oct. 11

Homework for Oct. 3

Reading - Read 20 minutes

Spelling - Contract & Test for Wednesday

5P Math - Study Link 2.8, 2.9, Study Guide due tomorrow, Test on Wednesday

5B Math - Study Link 2.6

5V Math - Page 59 & 60, 61 # 1 & 4

Social Studies - Worksheet

Newsletter for the week of October 3

Reading: This week in reading, we will finish the story Sees Behind Trees and read articles from Time for Kids.  On Monday, we will work on vocabulary and open ended responses from Sees Behind Trees.  With the TFK issue that focuses on Hurricane Irene, we will be making connections to our science unit.  Our focus skills for this week are making connections to real world situations before and during reading, making inferences while reading nonfiction texts, and using a combination of word analysis skills when attacking new words. With another TFK, which focuses on monarch butterflies, we will focus on the author's purpose for writing this article, and the students will have to find evidence to support their answer. 

Book Report:

Math: In math we are working on unit 2. The first lesson for unit 2 looked at developing strategies for estimating.  The second and third lessons focused on addition and subtraction.  We learned about open number sentences, and the students worked on interpreting data.  Last week the students learned about probability and estimating products.  They also worked on multiplying using partial product, lattice, and the traditional method.  This week we will finish this unit working on place value and reviewing multiplication.  The test is on Wednesday.

Writing: This week in writing, we will continue learning about memoirs.  The students will finish looking at different author's memoirs and analyzing the components that make up a memoir. After looking at these components, we will define what a memoir is and look at the structure of a memoir.  The memoir will be introduced to the students by making a special memory map and placing a X on the map marking an important image.  From there the students will give an oral telling of their special place to different students in the class.  After the oral telling, we will start planning out our memoir, and the students will start writing a rough draft.  There will also be a short lesson on using transitions in our writing.  On Friday, we will do another debate on using social-network sites.  One of our issues of Time for Kids poses the following question: Should kids use social-networking sites? 

Science: We will go back to science after finishing our social studies chapters for this quarter.

Social Studies: We started social studies last Thursday.  Chapter 4 will be our first chapter in social studies, and this chapter focuses on the Spanish building an empire in the Western hemisphere.  The first lesson will focus on Columbus's expeditions.  The second lesson will focus on longitude and latitude.  The next lesson will focus on the Spanish meeting the Aztec.  This lesson will also discuss on the Spanish defeated the Aztec empire.  The last lesson for this chapter will focus on how the Spanish built their new life in the Western hemisphere.

Spelling Unit 5:
percent     absence     years     refused     ancient     pressure     machine     notice     scene
station     social     special     parachute     specialty     detention      constitution    
advertisement     advise     cities     chalet     sincere     tissue     resident     magician     medicine
appreciate     atrocious     innocence     intercept     asymmetrical     symmetry     cemetery
ceremony     scenic     permission     Sachem     tentative     servant     cash crop     multiplication

HEALTHY SNACK LIST:
Due to life-threatening peanut/nuts/sesame allergies at every grade level and the fact that we change classes for math and flex groups, we are asking that no peanut/nut/sesame products be sent in for a nutritional snack.  Also a list was sent home that stated the food items that will be allowed for snacks.  The following items can be brought in: fruit, vegetable sticks, pretzels, cheese slices or cubes, raisins, cereal mix (i.e. Chex Mix), rice cakes, and crackers. 

FAMILY READING NIGHT FOR GRADES 2-5:
Family Reading Night will take place on Tuesday, October 11 from 6:15 - 7:45 with the theme of Readingis for Meaning.  The purpose of this evening is to be introduced to the different stages of reading and to understand that reading goes beyond word recognition.  The primary focus will be on  Newly Fluent and Truly Fluent readers through exploring text complexity in the various genres of literature.  Matching readers to text that supports interactive and engaged reading is an important part of building student comprehension.  Plan to come and attend 3 different breakout sessions.  The registration form is due on Friday, October 7.  You must register to attend.

NEW READING INCENTIVE PROGRAM:
There is a new reading incentive program that Mrs. May is doing.  To earn the prize, the fifth graders will need to read 400 minutes in a month.  That is 20 minutes a night.  To learn more about the program go to Mrs. May's blog at mwlmc.blogspot.com.

FAMILY SELF DEFENSE NIGHT (from Mrs. Andrews):
The safety of our children is of great importance to all of us.  We can do our best to keep them safe at home and school, but situations may arise that we cannot control.  These incidents can happen anywhere, at any time, and with anyone.  It is not just an issue in the big cities or always a "stranger danger" attack.  Parents are often unsure of what to say to their young children and how much information they should provide to them.  Mrs. Andrews will provide an age appropriate, hands om self-defense workshop in which you may participate with your family.  When parents are in attendance, they can see first hand what she plans to cover.  Your child can practice these techniques on their parents or adult family members.  Competence and confidence in self-defense techniques can relieve anxiety and is a good resource for your child.  The majority of self-defense is avoidance of dangerous situations and good information.   That will be her focus. They will be practicing physical defense, so please wear comfortable clothing and gym shoes.  Older siblings and all family members are encouraged to participate.  Permission slips were sent home, but Mrs. Keene has them in the office.  Mrs. Andrews also has extra permission slips.  The number of participates will be limited due to safety and space needs, so be sure to return the permission slip.  This event will be held on Wednesday, October 5 from 6:30 - 8:30 for K-5 students and parents.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Mrs. Andrews at terri_andrews@ipsd.org or 428-6709.

PTA REFLECTIONS:  The Project turn in deadline for May Watts' students is October 7.  For more information, please go to http://www.wattspta.org/.  Also, information, rules, and entry forms can be downloaded at www.ptareflections.org/cs/rules and documents or contact the Reflections Chair, Amy Toepper, at amytoepper@hotmail.com
This years theme is "Diversity Means..."

Important Dates:
Track & Field Monday, October 3
Math Test Wednesday, October 5
Spelling Test Wednesday, October 5
Self-Defense Night Wednesday, October 5 from 6:30 - 8:30
Picture Day Thursday, October 6
Paw Print Redemption Day Thursday, October 6
No School Monday, October 10
Family Reading Night Tuesday, October 11 from 6:00 - 8:00
Early Dismissal 12:00 on Wednesday, October 12

Homework for Sept. 30

Reading - Read 20 minutes

Spelling - Test & Contract for Wednesday

5P Math - Study Guide due Tuesday, Test on Wednesday

5V Math - Need a compostion notebook

Picture Day on Thursday

Fundraiser Oct. 11

Homework for Sept. 29

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due tomorrow

Spelling - Contract & Test for Wednesday

5P Math - Journal page 49 #s 1, 3, 4, & 5, Study Guide due on Tuesday, Test on Wednesday

5B Math - Mathboxes page 58

5V Math - Study Link 2.4, Mathboxes 2.4 #s 1 & 2

Book Order due tomorrow

Picture Day next Thursday

Fundraiser due on Oct. 11

Homework for Sept. 28

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due on Friday

5P Math - Study Link 2.7

5B Math - Study Link 2.3

5V Math - Journal page 58 # 4, Study Link 2.2

Book Order due on Friday

Fundraiser due on October 11

Homework for Sept. 27

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due Friday

Spelling - Test & Contract for Wednesday

5P Math - Journal pages 42 & 46 selected numbers

5V Math - SL 2.1, Journal pages 54 & 58 # 5 only

Science - Test & Crossword for tomorrow

Book Order due on Friday

Fundraiser due October 11

Homework for Sept. 26

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due on Friday

Spelling - Contract & Test for Wednesday

5P Math - Study Link 2.5, 2.6

5B Math - Mathboxes page 51, Test Tuesday & Study Guide due on Tuesday

Science - Crossword puzzle due on Wednesday, Test Wednesday

Book Order due on Friday 

Newsletter for the week of Sept. 26

Reading: This week in reading, we will be reading the story Sees Behind Trees.  This story is about a Native American boy, Walnut, who overcomes his poor eyesight to show his community his unusual skill and earns his adult name.  The skills we will focus on are asking and answering open ended questions using evidence from the text to support their answer, and identifying main plot elements, conflicts, and themes in a variety of texts.  We will also focus on the vocabulary for the story to work on using context clues to define words.  The words for this sotry are: quiver, tread, moss, sternly, exaggerate, and compose.

Book Report:  Their first book report will be due on Friday, September 30.  The students need to read any award winning book.  Their assignment is to write an A to Z book report.  They will present this report to the class. 

Math: In math we are working on unit 2. The first lesson for unit 2 looked at developing strategies for estimating.  The second and third lessons focused on addition and subtraction.  We learned about open number sentences, and the students worked on interpreting data.  This week the students will learn about probability and estimating products.  They will also work on multiplying using partial product, lattice, and the traditional method.  We will finish this week working on place value.

Writing: This week in writing, we will finish up our argument about Sponge Bob.  We will be taking a district writing assessent to get a baseline on the students' abilities.  This will be a timed expository prompt.  We will also begin our unit on memoirs with immersion this week.  The students will start looking at different author's memoirs and analyzing the components that make up a memoir.

Science: We have been working on our weather unit. The students watched videos on storms, weather instruments, and hurricanes at the beginning of the unit. Then they learned about the layers of the atmosphere. The layers are troposphere, stratosphere, ozone layer, mesosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere.  The students have learned about three of the weather instruments. The wind vane tells the direction in which the wind is blowing, and the anemometer tells the speed of the wind.  The barometer measures the atmospheric pressure.  The students also learned about the three states of matter.  They are gases, solids, and liquids.  Through experiments, we looked at some of the properties of air.  The students learned that air takes up space and is lighter than water.  They also saw what happens when air molecules are heated and cooled.  Another experiment showed that hot air rises.  Last week the students learned about humidity and relative humidity.  We also did experiments showing how a cloud is made, the water cycle , and one that shows air pressure.  The students went to the computer lab and did research on the clouds.  This week, the students will learn about the four types of precipitation.  We will review for the test on Tuesday, and the test is on Wednesday.

Social Studies: We will start social studies on Thursday.  Chapter 4 will be our first chapter in social studies, and this chapter focuses on the Spanish building an empire in the Western hemisphere.  The first lesson will focus on Columbus's expeditions.  The second lesson will focus on longitude and latitude.

Spelling Unit 4:
parts     history     warning     declare     despair     shirt     learning     backward     border
prepared     harsh     research     carnival     particular     squirrel     harmful     charms
disorder     favored     remark     correspondence     discouraged     generations
constitution     literature     assurance     pressure     charisma     aerobic     archery    
boundary     architecture     familiar     pleasure     gesture     opinion     armada     quavered
barometer     Mayflower Compact

PTA REFLECTIONS:  The Project turn in deadline for May Watts' students is October 7.  For more information, please go to http://www.wattspta.org/.  Also, information, rules, and entry forms can be downloaded at www.ptareflections.org/cs/rules and documents or contact the Reflections Chair, Amy Toepper, at amytoepper@hotmail.com
This years theme is "Diversity Means..."

Band/Orchestra: Before school band/orchestra begins this week.

Important Dates:
Track & Field Monday, September 26 & if it rains it will be on Wednesday
Author Visit Tuesday, September 27
Spelling Test Wednesday, September 28
Science Test Wednesday, September 28
CogAT Testing Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday
Book Report due on Friday, September 30
Math Test Tuesday, October 4

Homework for Sept. 23

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due Sept. 30

Spelling - Test & Contract due Wednesday

Science - Test Wednesday

5B Math - Test & Study Guide for Tuesday

Homework for Sept. 22

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due on Sept. 30

Language Arts - Fortunately Book due tomorrow

Spelling - Contract & Test due Wednesday

5P Math - Study Link 2.4

5B Math - Study Link 2.1, Test and study guide Tuesday

Homework for Sept. 21

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due on Sept. 30

Language Arts - Fortunately book due on Friday

5P Math - Study Link 2.3, Journal page 36

5B Math - Study Link 1.12, Study guide due Tuesday, Test on Tuesday

5V Math - Test Thursday, Mock Test for Thursday

Science - Test on Wednesday

Homework for Sept. 20

Reading _ Read 20 minutes, Book Report due on Sept. 30

Language Arts - Fortunately Book due on Friday

Spelling - Test & Contract due tomorrow

5P Math - Study Link 2.2

5B Math - Journal page 39, Study guide, Test on Tues.

5V Math - Study Link 1.12, Test on Thursday

Homework for Sept. 19

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due on Sept. 30

Spelling - Contract & Test due Wednesday

5P Math - Journal page 31 all problems

Newsletter for the week of Sept. 19

Reading: This week in reading, we will be working on the mini research project. This week they will be planning for their presentation.  The following are the questions they will be required to answer:  1.  What did the person develop/invent, and how was it used?  2.  What impact did this innovation have on society?  3. What was the legacy of this innovation?  Then during their presentation, they will need the following information: 1.  They will need an opening argument.  2.  They will need to prove/defend their person as the most innovative/influential.  This will be done through both an oral/visual presentation.  3. They will need a closing argument.  The focus skills being worked on this week are ask and respond to open ended questions, making connections to real world situations or related topics before and during reading, making inferences and drawing conclusions.  I will be using the following picture books to practice these skills: Ben's Dream and The Garden of Gasazi.  The students will also work on these skills with their independent reading book, and I will be conferencing with them.

Book Report:  Their first book report will be due on Friday, September 30.  The students need to read any award winning book.  Their assignment is to write an A to Z book report. 

Math: In math we are starting unit 2. The first lesson for unit 2 looks at developing strategies for estimating.  The second and third lessons will focus on addition and subtraction.  We will also learn about open number sentences.  On Friday, the students will work on interpreting data.

Writing: This week in writing, we will be doing a variety of activities.  During writer's workshop, the students will finish their own Fortunately book.  We will also be working on our mini research project during writing.  The students will have to prove that their person was the most influential/innovative person.  We will also be doing two quick write arguments.  One will focus on wearing school uniforms, and the other one will focus on the new research about the T.V. show Sponge Bob.  Researchers are saying that children under the age of 4 should not watch this show.

Science: We have been working on our weather unit. The students watched videos on storms, weather instruments, and hurricanes at the beginning of the unit. Then they learned about the layers of the atmosphere. The layers are troposphere, stratosphere, ozone layer, mesosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere.  The students have learned about three of the weather instruments. The wind vane tells the direction in which the wind is blowing, and the anemometer tells the speed of the wind.  The barometer measures the atmospheric pressure.  Last week the students learned about the three states of matter.  They are gases, solids, and liquids.  Through experiments, we looked at some of the properties of air.  The students learned that air takes up space and is lighter than water.  They also saw what happens when air molecules are heated and cooled.  Another experiment showed that hot air rises.  This week the students will learn about humidity and relative humidity.  We will also do experiments showing how a cloud is made, the water cycle , and one that shows air pressure.  The students will also go to the computer lab and do research on the clouds.

Social Studies: We will start social studies after we finish our science unit.

Spelling Unit 3:
soul     smoke     move     clue     fruits     lose     chose     stole     prove     produce     juice
drove     Tuesday     rescue     continue     issue     ego     argue     cruise     toll     forehead
include     rehearsal     fourth     course     conducive     ensue     turbulent     tombstone   
suitable     peculiar     acoustic     illusion     camouflage     surgeon     colony     encomienda
missionary     conquistador     atom

PTA REFLECTIONS:  The Project turn in deadline for May Watts' students is October 7.  For more information, please go to http://www.wattspta.org/.  Also, information, rules, and entry forms can be downloaded at www.ptareflections.org/cs/rules and documents or contact the Reflections Chair, Amy Toepper, at amytoepper@hotmail.com
This years theme is "Diversity Means..."

Band/Orchestra: The lessons for this week are only during the school day.  Before school band/orchestra begins the week of September 26th.

Important Dates:
PTA General Meeting at 7:00 p.m.
Spelling Test Wednesday, September 21
Paw Print Redemption Thursday, September 22
Book Report due on Friday, September 30

Homework for Sept. 16

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due on Sept. 30

Spelling - Test & Contract due on Wednesday

Homework for Sept. 15

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due on Sept. 30

Spelling - Test & Contract for Wednesday, Sept. 21

5B Math - Study Link 1.11, Page 38 optional

Chorus & Eco Club forms due tomorrow

Homework for Sept. 14

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due on Sept. 30

5B Math - Study Link 1.9

5V Math - Study Link 1.9 only page 1

Homework for Sept. 13

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due on Sept. 30

Spelling - Sentences & Test for tomorrow

5P Math - Test tomorrow

5B Math - Study Link 1.8

5V Math - Study Link 1.8 & Mathboxes 1.9 #s 1, 2, 3

Homework for Monday, Sept. 12

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due on Sept. 30

Spelling - Sentences & Test for Wednesday

5P Math - Study Link 1.9, Study Guide due tomorrow, Test on Wednesday

5B Math - Study Link 1.7