Week of 3/23

Dear Families~

Coming Up This Week:
Mon. 3/23: Book Fair begins
Tues. 3/24: Report Cards go home
Wed. 3/25: Return Report Cards; our class visits the Book Fair at 1:00
Thurs. 3/26: Music/step performance 8:20 and at 9:20


Coming Soon:
Mon. 3/30: Spring Pictures

Thank you to everyone that turned in the field trip permission slips and $15 deposit by Friday. We were able to turn our final numbers in to the charter bus company and I know it is going to be a GREAT trip. Please expect the remainder money $15 to be due very soon. A letter will be coming home soon about it. 

Science
This week we will continue science class with Ms. Creel. They will be working on a variety of science topics.

Math
This week we will continue our study of  the metric system. Students will be working on a variety of activities in the classroom. Please make sure your child spends time at home on IXL. Students will be working on W.1-W.12. We will also revisit the customary system (American). We will test on Friday. Students will have a review sheet for homework each night to complete. Also for homework, I expect students to spend as much time as possible on IXL. We really want to win that pizza party that I told you about last week. Here is the information in case you missed it. 

Spring Learning Showdown IXL Competition
I have entered our class into this IXL competition. How many new problems can we as a class work on beginning on March 23-April 24? If our class wins. . . .we will win a PIZZA PARTY! If you do not currently encourage your child to spend time on IXL at home. . .please do so! It will help build their confidence in math and if we win---it will fill our bellies! Students can practice any skill that they notice they should be more confident in. The purpose of IXL is to build math confidence. We want students to be confident when we get ready to take the GA Milestones Test in just a few short weeks from now. 

Reading

This week in reading we will begin something new. What was Harriett Tubman's Greatest Achievement? We will be reading several different articles as well as looking at several maps and photographs to help us answer that very question. 

Week of 3/16

Dear Families~
I really think that spring has finally sprung here in North Georgia. I want to encourage EVERYONE to get outside as much as possible and play! I know that may sound silly, but research shows that children who get outside and play do better in school compared to the children who stay inside and play video game day after day. Please take some time to enjoy the beautiful weather yourself.

A special THANK YOU goes to everyone that came out last Friday and supported our Bruster's Scooper Night. We were able to raise over $400 to go towards our 5th grade field trip to Atlanta. As soon as I have more specific information for you about the field trip, I'll pass it along as soon as possible. Thank you!

Book Fair HELP NEEDED
If you are able to help, please sign up. Thank you so very much.
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Our class is scheduled to attend the Book Fair on Wednesday, March 25th at 1:00. 

Coming up this week
Mon. 3/16: No School for students. Teachers are in training
Tues. 3/17: St. Patrick's Day; Tuesday folders go home
Wed. 3/18: Return Tuesday folders; class visit the library
Thurs. 3/19:
Fri. 3/20: First day of SPRING

Coming Soon
Mon. 3/23: Book Fair begins
Tues. 3/24: Report Cards go home
Wed. 3/25: Return Report Cards; our class visits the Book Fair at 1:00
Thurs. 3/26: Music/step performance 8:20 and at 9:20
Mon. 3/30: Spring Pictures

Science
For the next 2 weeks our homeroom will be with Ms. Creel for science class. They will be working on a variety of science topics. They will also have the chance to watch a civil rights movie that goes along with our social studies unit we just finished.

Math
For the next 2 weeks, we will be learning customary units of measurement as well as the metric system. Students will be working on a variety of activities in the classroom. Please make sure your child spends time at home on IXL. Students will be working on W.1-W.10.

Spring Learning Showdown IXL Competition
I have entered our class into this IXL competition. How many new problems can we as a class work on beginning on March 23-April 24? If our class wins. . . .we will win a PIZZA PARTY! If you do not currently encourage your child to spend time on IXL at home. . .please do so! It will help build their confidence in math and if we win---it will fill our bellies!

Reading
This week we will continue our literature circle books as well as working on comparing and contrasting two text.

Please make sure to keep your child at home if they are sick. Thank you for your help and support with this.

If you have read this blog post and discussed it with your child, please have your child write the following in their agenda . . . . . .SPRING is HERE! It will be your child's responsibility to show their agenda to me for a special prize.

Week of 3/9

Dear Families~

It was brought to my attention last week by students that you have been missing my weekly blog posts. Since I had not had anyone mention this to me until now, I honestly thought no one had found the information useful, so I quit posting. I will continue to update the blog as long as it is useful to you. 

Coming up this week
Mon. 3/9:
Tues. 3/10: Tuesday Folders go home
Wed. 3/11: Class visits the library 1:15
Thurs. 3/12: Skate Country
Fri. 3/13: Bruster's Scooper Night 3:30-6:30-Come and support our 5th grade field trip. Have a 5th grade teacher scoop your ice cream!

Coming up Soon
Mon. 3/16: No school for students
Wed. 3/25: Scholastic Book Fair visit 1:00-1:30--come and join us

Social Studies
SS5H8 The student will describe the importance of key people, events, and developments between 1950-1975. 

1. Discuss the importance of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. 
2. Explain the key events and people of the Civil Rights movement; include Brown
   v. Board of Education (1954), the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and civil rights activities of Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr. 
3. Describe the impact on American society of the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. 
4. Discuss the significance of the technologies of television and space exploration. 

SS5H9 The student will trace important developments in America since 1975. 

1. Describe U. S. involvement in world events; include efforts to bring peace to the Middle East, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Persian Gulf War, and the War on Terrorism in response to September 11, 2001. 
2. Explain the impact the development of the personal computer and the Internet has had on American life. 

This week we will have a short quiz over the information on the Civil Rights movement--most likely on Wednesday. We will also have a quiz covering the Modern American portion of our unit on Friday. 

Math

We are studying 3D figures and how to measure their volume this week! (We will test this Friday.) We started off by understanding what volume means and measuring it by counting units that fill up a shape last week. We will finish off the week learning the formula to find volume. Students will also be reviewing geometry skills we learned several weeks ago. 

Reading 

Last week we finished reading Number the Stars. Students really enjoyed this book. We read it as a read aloud. For our next book, students will be required to do some reading outside of the classroom. I'm hoping that this will help to prepare them for reading at the middle school level. Please help me make sure your child is reading the required material. Each student will be reading something different, based on interest and or reading level. We will spend the majority of our class time diving into the text rather than simply reading the text. A way that you can help me is to make sure your child sits down and has a quiet place to read. They should also be taking notes on sticky notes as they are reading. This will help guide their discussions with their classmates. Thank you for your help with this matter. 

This week we will also finish up writing about our paired text  "The Mermaid of Kona, Hawaii" and "From City to Farm." Students will be analyzing each story based on all 19 literature and informational text standards. This will be a great practice for the Milestones coming up in April. We will begin 2 new texts this week as well. 

If you have read this blog post with your child, please have them show me the SUPER SECRET CODE: SPRING---that you have written in their agenda. I will accept this code until Tuesday, 3/10.