Upcoming Events
- IOWA ASSESSMENTS - We will be taking Iowa Assessments each morning this week, Students may bring a healthy snack and drink.
- MISSION AWARENESS DAY - Friday October 26th. Students may dress down with a donation
- SAINTS WAX MUSEUM - November 1
Reminders
- SHORTS, CAPRI bottoms - May still be worn until November 1st.
- LATE-SLIPS - Students will receive 3 lates in each subject. On the third late in the same subject, they will serve a detention on the following Wednesday after school until 4:00.
- Extra Layers - As the weather changes, so does the temperature of our classrooms. Students must be in SFA approved sweatshirts /fleece inside the building. They may wear whatever they want out to recess.
October 22-26
Religion – We began our unit on Saints this week. This will lead us to the annual 5th grade Saint’s Wax Museum. Please save the date! The wax museum will be held on November 1st in your child’s classroom from 10:00-10:45 (after mass). For this project, the kids will choose a saint to research. They will then write an informative report about their saints and dress up as their saints for our wax museum. It is always a lot of fun to see the kids dressed up as their saints. Look for more information to come home soon regarding this special event.
Reading – All three classes are learning about comprehension strategies and how to apply them to independent reading (fiction or non-fiction). The comprehension strategies that we will focus on throughout the year include schema, questioning, monitoring and fixing up, synthesis, sensory image, determining importance, and inferring. Many students are well on their way to their 40 books by the end of 5th grade! We are advising that students be around 13 books by Thanksgiving. Keep on reading!
Math – We are finished up with Unit 2 and are going to begin Unit 3: Geometry. You will be receiving your child’s Unit 2 results next week. Please encourage continued practice of basic math facts. Thanks!
Social Studies - We have been discussing Native Americans and their Land, how they adapted to different environments, and the routes they took to North and South America. We will continue this discussion next week and also look at European Exploration.
Language Arts – We have wrapped up our unit on The Sentence. Corrected tests will be handed back next week. We will now take our sentence knowledge and begin a unit on paragraph writing in Grammar. In Writing last week, we used the mentor text Water Dance to help us brainstorm ideas to write about an object from the object’s point of view. This week we worked on a non fiction piece of writing by using the mentor text, Who Would Win? Students had to choose two animals to research and then determine who would win in a battle based on their strengths etc. We will begin the writing process for our first formal, graded paper next week-the personal narrative.
Spelling – We will NOT have a spelling test next week due to Iowa Assessments.
