Upcoming Events
- Red Ribbon Week Activities - "Real Heroes Don't Do Drugs"
- MONDAY:
- “Your Future So Bright, You Gotta Wear Shades”. Students & staff may wear sunglasses or any other fun pair of glasses.
- ALICE Training - we will be sharing these strategies with our 5th graders.
- TUESDAY:
- Be Your Own Hero” Students and staff may wear a shirt representing an activity they are involved in or a something they are passionate about. Uniform bottoms must be worn.
- WEDNESDAY:
- “Favorite Literary Hero” Students and staff may dress up as their favorite character from a book.“
- Schedule Switch - Our Wednesday and Thursday schedule will flip this week due to All Saints Day being on Thursday. We will have PE on Wednesday, reminder for tennis shoes that day.
- THURSDAY:
- “Wear Red Day” Students and staff may wear a red shirt with uniform bottoms.
- SAINTS WAX MUSEUM - Thursday November 1st 10:10-10:45 in our 5th grade classrooms
- All Saints Day Celebrations in the afternoon Thursday November 1.
- FRIDAY:
- “Even Superheroes Need to Sleep” Students and staff may wear pajamas.
Reminders
- NOVEMBER 1st NO more SHORTS or CAPRI bottoms.
- As the weather gets colder, please remember to send layers of clothing for outdoor recess.
October 29-November 2
Religion – We have been researching, writing and preparing for the Saint’s Wax Museum this week. As a reminder, the wax museum will be held on November 1st in your child’s classroom from 10:10-10:45 (after mass). We hope to see you there! Following the museum, we will begin a unit on the Liturgical Calendar in preparation for the church new year beginning the first week of Advent.
Reading/Language Arts –All three classes are continuing to learn about comprehension strategies. Lessons revolve around teaching the students about the strategy, using a mentor text to practice the strategy and then suggestions on how to use the strategies in their independent reading. These strategies will be stressed throughout the entire year. Many students are well on their way to their 40 books by the end of 5th grade! Keep on reading!
Math – We began Unit 3: Geometry this week. We are using a different study strategy to learn the concepts and all of the vocabulary that accompanies this chapter. The strategy focuses on the students not waiting to be assessed, but on the learners assessing themselves throughout a unit of study. We learned about this strategy on our last professional development day. It’s amazing how motivating using different colors of pens, highlighters, etc. and writing on anything other than lined paper. :) I am hopeful that it will also provide me the formative assessment information I need to make decisions to direct my instruction. This does not mean that we are taking a break from computation - please encourage nightly practice of math facts at home. :) Thank you!
Social Studies - We Are reading about American Indians and the Cultural regions they lived in and how they adapted to those environments. Next week we will continue and also discuss why the Europeans came to America and the routes of exploration to the New World that were taken. All three 5th grades have started lessons from parent volunteers introducing Junior Achievement. There are 6 lessons, so we will see these parents each week. This is wonderful preparation for 5th grade Biztown that will begin in January.
Language Arts – We wrapped up our non ficton quick write by writing a paragraph detailing a battle scene similar to a scene found at the end of a Who Would Win book by Jerry Palotta. We discussed how to write a paragraph and how to strenghthen our sentences. We also started our Personal Narrative Unit by using Jerry Spinelli’s autobiography, Knots in my Yo-Yo String as a mentor text for ideas for our own personal narratives. This process will continue next week. We will also begin a short grammar unit on Nouns.
Spelling – Next week’s Spelling list will consist of more plural words/rules. We will also review synonymns, antonymns, and homographs.
