Sunday, October 25, 2015

Reading - We watched Stuart Little. We created a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the book to the movie. This covered one of our Language Arts standards. We will start reading Patty Reeds Doll this week.

5th Grade Writing- We started creating scary stories to share with Mrs. Bloomfield's class. We will finish those this week and share with our 2nd grade friends on Wednesday.

 4th Grade Writing- We finished our first opinion papers. This week we will write Halloween stories that we will donate to our 1st graders.

Projects- We started learning about Economic standards and had a guest speaker come and talk about profit and non- profit businesses. I heard it was awesome, I am sorry I missed it! This week we will take a test on what we learned last week and then we will continue to learn about more Economics. We will wrap up the Economics standards this week and move on to Science next week.

Halloween - Students will be allowed to dress up on Thursday. We will have a party on Thursday afternoon. No masks during class or super scary, bloody masks.

Parent/Teacher Conferences- Just a reminder, conferences are this week. Signup genius should have sent you or will send you a reminder. I am looking forward to meeting with all of you all!

Friday, October 16, 2015

First Quarter is OvEr.. Moving on to the 2nd!

Reading-We will finally finish Stuart Little on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday, we will watch the movie. Students will be asked to take notes on comparing and contrasting the book to the movie. This covers one of our standards. They will then be asked to develop a venn diagram on Wednesday and Thursday.

5th Grade Writing:We have been reviewing and learning new language standards such as conjunctions and prepositions. Next week, we finish this on Monday. Starting on Tuesday, we will begin writing Scary Story narratives. We will begin writing these this week and will share these with our 2nd grade friends in Mrs. Bloomfield's class the following week.

4th Grade Writing: We started writing our first opinion paper. We will continue to work on this next week and finish this on Wednesday and share to the class on Thursday.

Projects: As you all know, we finished up our map presentations. All students worked very hard on this, I was very pleased with them all. Thank you all who were able to come in and see our projects. This week, we will start a very short project where we will learn about Economics. Students will learn how to take lecture notes and have a quiz or test at the end of each week on the information we learn. This will be a short two week project.

Auctions-We were not able to get to these this week with all the craziness of projects, so we will hold auctions all this coming up week.

Reminder to students....Thursday is wear your hair like a monster day. :)

Parent/Teacher Conferences: Most of you have signed up, just a reminder for those few to not forget to sign up for conferences starting on 10/26-10/29. You should have all gotten an email from signupgenius.com. Please let me know if you need help with this.

I hope everyone has a FaBuLoUs weekend! :) 

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Reading: We worked more on Stuart Little and will finish up the book this week. The following week, we will watch the Movie. This will cover a standard where the students have to compare and contrast a book to a movie. 

Writing: 5th Graders finished up their first narrative and will work on Language Standards next week. 4th grade will finish up language standards they have been working on and will start writing an opinion paper next week.

Projects: Students finished up writing all of their paragraphs and have been working on their maps. We will finish up the maps on Monday and part of Tuesday. Students will also practice their presentations on Tuesday afternoon. On Wednesday, we look forward to seeing all parents for their presentations from 2:15-3:00. Students will also present their maps to the different grades on Thursday.

Auctions: We will conduct auctions this week because it is the last week of the first quarter! I can't believe how fast the first quarter has flown by. If you have any auction items that you would like to donate feel free to send them in, we still have a lot of items left from the last one. 

Scholastic Orders: The last day for the October orders will be this Thursday, October 15. 

Parent/Teacher Conferences: You should have all gotten an email for signups. Please let me know if you did not receive this. Looking forward to meeting with you all!


I hope you all are having a great weekend!

Sunday, October 4, 2015

Working Hard and Doing Great!

I have seen a lot of improvement in the class as a whole this last week!  All students are working hard at all assignments assigned...keep up the AWESOME work 5th grade!

Reading: We continued to read Stuart Little and answer questions, we will continue to do that this week and will finish the book on Thursday.

Writing: We will continue to work on our first personal narrative in 5th grade. In 4th grade, we will continue to work on Language standards and start to write our very first paragraph towards the end of the week. 

Projects: Students started researching their Nevada map they will be making. They also traced their maps. Last week they started their paragraph research and will work  on finishing those up this week. Once they are done with that, they will start to work on their maps. They should have all come home with very short supply lists last week. 

PICTURE DAY -THIS THURSDAY OCTOBER 8TH-PLEASE DONT FORGET!

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend!