Welcome Back and Happy NEW YEAR!

Hope you all had a restful break and spent time with family.  I spent most of my time hanging with family at home. I really enjoyed spending the time with my 6 month old niece!

NWEA testing will begin this week!  Make sure your child is resting and getting a good breakfast before school.

Students started the NWEA Language Usage yesterday (1/8/19) and will be continuing to finish that this week. We will start a new test every week on Tuesday.

Here is what is happening this week:

ELA

  • Spelling words this week: forgetting, expelling, transferring, equipping, regretting, flipping, wrapping, planning, beginning, compelling, dropping, referring, shopping, omitting, snapping, quizzing, upsetting, begging, swimming.
  • We will be focusing on comprehension to be ready for NWEA.
  • Writing we will be making New Year’s resolutions and writing narrative text about roller coasters.
  • Students should be reading every night at least 30 minutes!

Math

  • We will begin Module 2 Lesson 13 on using whole number multiplication to express equivalent measurements.
  • We will also review coordinate planes in preparation for NWEA.

Science

  • We will begin focusing on the moon phases and the lunar cycle.
  • We will do an experiment to see the moon phases on a globe because it is hard to track the moon phases each night in the winter.

Social Studies

  • We will begin our third unit on colonization of the 13 colonies.
  • We will focus on the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.

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Upcoming Events!

Wednesday, November 14th – Honor Roll Assembly

  • Congrats to Zahrah Abdullah, Edriece Ahmed, Abdulgalil Hussein , Khater Omar, and Mihyar Qasem for making the first card marking honor roll.

    Honor Roll Students

Friday, November 16th – PBIS Celebration

  • Students will be participating in PBIS.
  • Girls will swim in the morning and boys will swim in the afternoon.
  • Please make sure the girls are wearing their suits to school and bring clothes to change in to, including an extra pair of underwear. Boys will bring their bathing suits to school and bring an extra pair of clothes to change into after.  Don’t forget to bring a TOWEL!!
  • Boys will watch a movie in the morning and the girls will watch a movie in the afternoon.

Wednesday, November 21st – Friday, November 23rd

  • No school Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday next week due to Thanksgiving break.

Monday, November 26th – Classes Resume

Wednesday, November 29th – Field Trip

  • We will be attending a field trip to the Henry Ford IMAX and Ford Rouge Factory Tour.
  • Please bring a bagged lunch – no glass bottles please.
  • Permission slips are due back next week.  Thank you to those that have already turned them in.

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IXL is here! (great resource for mastering skills)

Dear Parent,

I am pleased to tell you that we will be using a website called IXL in our classroom this year. IXL is a comprehensive learning program offering unlimited math and language arts practice across thousands of skills—all of which are aligned to the Common Core. One of the best things about IXL is that your child can access it from home, so you have a chance to see your child’s progress!

To get your child started on your home computer, please follow these easy steps:

  1. Go to https://www.ixl.com/signin/salinais
  2. Enter your child’s username and password and click “Sign in.”
  3. Click on any skill to start learning!

IXL is designed to help your child learn at his or her own pace. The program is adaptive and will adjust based on your child’s demonstrated understanding of the material. All of your child’s results will be saved, so you can monitor his or her progress anytime by clicking on Analytics. For on-the-go practice, you can download IXL’s free tablet apps for iPad, Android, or Kindle and sign in with your child’s username and password.

I hope you’ll encourage your son or daughter to use IXL regularly. Here’s to a year of working together to make learning fun for your child!

Sincerely,

Berlynn Beaver


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Cross Cultural Interaction Event


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LAST WEEK OF THE QUARTER!

Parent teacher conference notes went home yesterday!  Please pick a time and day that works best for you and I will set a schedule and post it.  I look forward to meeting with all of you.

 

Here is what is happening this week:

ELA

  • Here are the spelling words: advancement, intersection, excessive, obvious, distance, argument, understanding, reproduce, disgusting, determination, subject, address, absent, progress, contest, suggest, fantastic, cosmic, excess, and sluggish
  • We are continuing to work on comparing and contrasting two texts.
  • We are going to work on writing another TDA to prepare for M-Step.
  • Remind students to read 30 minutes every night.

Math

  • We began working on adding and subtracting decimals last week.
  • We will continue to work with decimals including, multiplication and division.
  • Remind students to use their place value chart when completing homework.  This tool is very helpful to determine the answer.

Science

  • We are going to continue discussing properties of matter: solid, liquid, and gas.
  • Students will be able to see how different properties of matter create slime.  (Something all students are good at now).

Social Studies

  • We are going to begin unit 2 on Meet the People.
  • We will explore the Native Americans and how America was discovered.
  • We will also touch on three countries in Africa that were significant in American History.

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Class Schedule

                                                                                                                  

Monday 

7:50-8:10

Morning Work

Tuesday

7:50-8:10

Morning Work

Wednesday 

7:50-8:10

Morning Work

Thursday

7:50-8:10

Morning Work

Friday

7:50-8:10

Morning Work

Daily 5

8:15-9:40

C-Lab

8:35-9:20

Daily 5

8:15-9:40

Daily 5

8:15-9:40

Assessment’s

8:10-9:30

(spelling/math quiz/reading quiz)

Art

9:40-10:25

Daily 5

9:20-10:40

Social Studies

9:40-10:20

Art

9:40-10:25

Brain Break

9:30-9:45

Social Studies

10:30-11:00

Brain Break

10:45-11:00

Library

11:00-11:25

Math Lesson

10:25-11:00

Social Studies

10:30-11:00

Writer’s Workshop

9:45-10:40

Math Lesson

11:00-11:30

Brain Break

11:30-11:45

Read Aloud/ Reading groups

11:25-11:45

Math workshop

11:00-11:45

 

Math Lesson

11:00-11:30

Brain Break

11:30-11:45

Gym

10:40-11:25

Lunch  

11:45-12:23

Lunch  

11:45-12:23

Lunch  

11:45-12:23

Lunch  

11:45-12:23

Lunch  

11:45-12:23

Math Workshop

12:25-1:00

 

Math Lesson

12:25-1:00

Brain Break

12:25- 12:50

Gym

12:50-1:35

Math Workshop

12:25-1:00

 

Music

12:25-1:10

Science

1:00-2:00

Math Workshop

1:00-2:00

 

Writer’s Workshop

1:35-2:10

Science

1:00-2:00

Math Workshop

1:00-2:00

 

CNN 10

2:00-2:30

CNN 10

2:00-2:30

CNN 10

2:10-2:30

CNN 10

2:00-2:30

CNN 10

2:00-2:30


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Open House

 

Please come visit the classroom and greet the teacher this Wednesday September 12th 2018 from 6-7:30

Our classroom is located on the third floor! Room 307- Hope to see you there!


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Welcome to 5th Grade!

Hello 5th grade families! I am excited to be back with most of your students for the second year in a row! This has allowed us to get started right away on work and class expectation. I am looking forward to an amazing year with you all again!

 

Ms. Beaver!


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