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November 5, 2012
What We’ve Been Up To
We had a lot of turn-ins last
week. Our second polished writing piece,
our Social Studies Core Democratic Values Flip Book, and a math packet from
Math workshops. We learned, and will
continue to learn, about the voting process in the U.S. Friday we had an Anderson School
Election. Barrack Obama won by a short
margin. We also voted to have Mr. Mentzer
read to classes and for every Friday to be Spirit Day. Thanks to the Poll Workers and the Election
Day Committee for giving us an authentic voting experience. Please talk with your child more about the
voting/election process. Share your
experiences…
This Week
READING We will be looking more at story
elements and will use the technique of questioning to closely look at those
elements. This week we will begin Book
Clubs. About half of our students will
join a club this time. The other half
will be in small groups with me to work on specific reading skills. All reading 1st quarter requirements are due this week—2 realistic
fiction, one mystery, one non-fiction, and 2 choice. I am so proud of all the avid readers in our
classroom—our Reading Logs are amazing!!
WRITING We will be choosing another seed
this week and will be focusing on using smooth transitions in writing and
adding sensory details in order to improve during the revision process.
MATH We begin our 3rd
unit—MULTIPLICATION for the 4ths and DECIMALS for the 5ths. Our volunteers have been giving
Multiplication Facts quizzes to students.
There are so many good websites and apps to drill facts for speed and
accuracy. Might be a good idea to let
your child practice facts often. We will
get into double digit and triple digit multiplication in this unit. 5th graders will be extending
basic knowledge of decimals into more complex understandings.
SCIENCE We will be wrapping up our first life science
unit this week. Test will be next
Tuesday. Watch for Study Guide on
Friday. Please reply to this email if
you’d like any of our classroom animals.
SS This week we will
continue our Government Unit—learning about the 3 branches of government. Students are making a “Democracy Book”.
Animals Up For Adoption
These are the animals looking for
good home: hermit crabs, pond snails,
guppies, dwarf African frogs, and tree frogs.
You need a heated tank or container for any of these (can buy a portable
cheap heater from Pet Smart, etc.) Frogs
eat bloodworms/mealworms or crickets.
You can buy fish food and crab food inexpensively. If there is much response, we will do a
drawing. Animals will come home this
Friday. Reply to this newsletter if interested
and I will let you know by Wednesday.
Thanks!
End of the Quarter
As you know, this is our last week. I will send Report Cards home a few days
before conferences so you can look them over and ask me questions when we
meet. If you need me to send your
conference time again, let me know.
Conferences are on Thursday November 15 from 1:00-8:00. Late start the 16th
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