Homework 9-10

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

Spelling - Contract and test due Wednesday, Sept. 15

5P Math - Study Link 1.8, Study Guide due Tuesday, Sept. 14, Test Wednesday, Sept. 15

5G Math - Pages 27 & 28 in journal

Homework 9-9

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

Spelling- Contract and Test for Wednesday, Sept. 15

5P Math - Study Link 1.7, Study Guide due Tuesday, Sept. 14, Test Wednesday, Sept. 15

5G Math -

Homework 9-8

Reading- Read 20 minutes, Book Report due September 30

5P Math - Study Link 1.6, study guide due Monday, Sept. 13, Test Tuesday, Sept. 14

5G Math - Study Link 1.5, 1.6

Newsletter: Week of September 6

Reading: This week we will continue focusing on the story "The Hot and Cold Summer". This story is about two boys, Rory and Derek, who refuse to speak with Bolivia who is new. When Bolivia's pet escapes, the boys realize that Bolivia may be interesting after all.  The skills that we will focus on this week are ask and respond to open ended questions using TTQA, evidence, and interpretation.  TTQA stands for turn the question around.  The students will also work on narrative elements.  I will be looking for characters, setting, plot, conflict, solution.  The students will continue working on vocabulary strategies.

Math: In math the students have learned about arays, factors, and divisibilty rules. This week we will continue to work on factors and divisibilty rules. The students will learn about prime and composite numbers. Prime numbers have exactly 2 factors and composite numbers have more than two numbers. The number 1 is not prime or composite. They will also learn about square numbers and prime factorization.

Writing: There will be a variety of activities for this week. We will continue working on "storying" which helps students come up with ideas. The students will also create their own fortunately/unfortunately book after listening to the book entitled Fortunately, Unfortunately.

Science: Last week we finished learning about the layers of the atmosphere.  The students also learned about the three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. This week the students will learn about the wind vane and the anemometer. The wind vane shows the direction the wind is blowing, and the anemometer shows the speed of the wind. The students will also learn how air occupies space, and how air's space changes with temperatures.

Social Studies: We will go into social studies when we finish the weather unit.

Spelling: Unit 1 words
master         ahead         build         front         meant         bread         ready         busy         quit
mother        above         does         advantage         business         sweater         plastic         balance
limit         among         dozen         activity         building         heavy         biscuit         purpose
astonish         symmetric         cyclical         abandon         subsequent         expository         abundant
accomplish         mishap         extraordinary         atmosphere         exploration         weather
territory         troposphere

Important Dates:
No School Monday, September 6: Labor Day
No School Tuesday, September 7: Building Articulation Day 8/29/10
Spelling test Wednesday, September 8
5P math test Tuesday, September 14
Book Report due Thursday, September 30

Homework 9-3

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due September 30

5P Math - Study guide due September 13, Test September 14

5G Math - Journal page

Spelling - Sentences and test for Wednesday, September 8

Homework 9-2

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book report due on September 30

5P Math - Jounral page 14

5G Math - Study link 1.4, journal page 16

Spelling - Test and sentences for Wednesday, September 8

Science - Quiz over the layers of the atmosphere tomorrow

Book Order due tomorrow

Homework 9-1

Reading - Read 20 minutes, Book Report due September 30
5P Math - Study Link 1.4
Science - Quiz over the layers of the atmosphere Friday, Sept. 3
Book Order due Friday, Sept. 3

Homework 9-1

Reading - Read 20 minutes
Math -
Science - Quiz over the layers of the atmosphere Friday, Sept. 3
Book Order due Friday, Sept. 3

Newsletter: Week of August 30

Reading: The story we will be focusing on this week is entitled "The Hot and Cold Summer".  This story is about two boys, Rory and Derek, who refuse to speak with Bolivia who is new.  When Bolivia's pet escapes, the boys realize that Bolivia may be interesting after all.  While reading the story, we will focus on using predictions to help us understand/comprehend the story.  After reading the story, the students will work on making connections.  There are three ways they can make connections: text to self, text to text, and text to world.  The students will also work on defining and using new vocabulary words.  The vocabulary words for this week are commotion, authority, exhausted, incredible, vow, and souvenir.

Math: In math we started learning about arrays.  This week we will continue to work on arrays and factors.  The students will learn about divisibilty rules and how to use them.  They will also learn about prime and composite numbers.  Prime numbers have exactly 2 factors and composite numbers have more than two numbers.  The number 1 is not prime or composite.  Throughout this week, they will also play the game factor captor to reinforce the lesson on factors. 

Writing: There will be a variety of activities for this week.  We will review the writing process and talk about why writing is so important.  For the next two weeks, we will be working on "storying" which helps students come up with ideas.  There will also be a timed writing prompt given this week to get baseline data on the students.  This will help me see where all the students are at with their writing.

Science:  Last week we started to learn about the layers of the atmosphere.  This week the students will make a diagram of these layers and take a quiz over them.  The students will also learn about the wind vane and the anemometer.  The wind vane shows the direction the wind is blowing and the anemometer shows the speed of the wind.  The students will also learn about air, the states of matter, and how air occupies space.

Social Studies:  We will go into social studies when we finish the weather unit.

Spelling:  There will be a pretest on Thursday of this week.  The words for the week will be posted after the pretest.

Important Dates:

• Band/Orchestra Parent Night: Tuesday, August 31
• Curriculum Night: Wednesday, September 1 - First Session 7:05 - 7:35, Math Session 7:40-7:50, Second Session 7:55-8:25  
• Science quiz over the layers of the atmosphere: Thursday, September 2
• No School Monday, September 6: Labor Day
• No School Tuesday, September 7: Building Articulation Day  

Welcome Back to School!

Welcome to 5P.  This BLOG serves as the 5P newsletter, updated each week.  Here you will find information about what we have done, will be doing in the coming week, spelling lists, and even links to websites that will come in handy.  I am looking forward to meeting everyone at the "Meet and Greet" on August 19th from 1:15-2:00.  This is a time to say hello and drop off all of your supplies.  If you need the supply list go to the following link:http://watts.ipsd.org/uploads/About/SupplyLists2010-2011.pdf   There will be a lot more information posted here as the year gets started.  I am looking foward to working with your son or daughter and I intend to make their fifth grade experience educational, challenging, and FUN!