Hello Everyone,

I hope each of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We are starting off running here with lots of new things happening this week. We are starting a coin collection in the building to benefit the Leukemia Foundation. The class that collects the most money will win a pasta party from the Olive Garden.

Spelling-When a vowel is followed by a /r/, it effects the sound of the vowel. Example b/ir/d

Pattern Words: compartment, temperature, warrior, partnership, volunteer

Content words:difference, estimate, probability, relation, equilateral

Science: Students are going to be starting the first drafts of their planet books, using their research.

Writer’s Workshop: Students are starting new narrative pieces.

Math-We are starting unit 4 with a focus on division and place value. Students will be dividing whole numbers that are a four digit by a two digit.

We are finishing our book report movie poster presentations this week.

I hope everyone has a great week!

Hello Everyone! I hope each of you has had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends. It is going by quickly! I wanted to send a quick reminder that students have brought home their new reading log work and they should be completing it each day. We also encourage the students to practice Mobymax each day over break, if possible. It works on tablets and even smart phones. The students are doing well mastering objectives that they have missed in other grades and I would like to see their progress continue!

Secondly, for those of you who have heard of or participated in the events for Lexys Lamp from DuVall Elementary, I have some news on a pancake dinner to help her family during their time of need. Lexys was a 1st grade student at DuVall who was diagnosed with DIPG. She recently passed and to help assist her family with the mounting medical bills a pancake dinner will be held at DuVall on Wednesday, December 2nd from 5:30-7:30. If you are unable to attend the dinner but would like to support this local Dearborn Public Schools family, donations can be made at https://www.gofundme.com/LexysLamp

I hope you have a wonderful weekend and we will see you on Monday!

Mr. Hawkins

Thank you to everyone who has already sent in food, donated or pledged for our Thanksgiving dinner. You allow us to keep doing these activities in our classrooms and we are very thankful for each person involved in our rooms!

Yesterday a sheet came home about a math morning and some of the information was not updated. There is a new sheet coming home today in each classroom that has the correct information. Please ignore the first sheet.

Coming home today is also a field trip sheet for the Lansing trip. Due to the high level of interest, we are going to try to add some of our students to the field trip but we require a $20 deposit to be turned on Monday, November 30th. We have to reserve the space on a bus so no late deposits will be able to be accepted. Thanks for your help.

Have a great Thanksgiving!

Hello Everyone,

I hope everyone had a great weekend and was able to enjoy the first snowfall of the year. We have a short week this week with the break so we will not have spelling this week.

For the Thanksgiving Feast, please make sure you have the food you signed up to donate, at the school before 12:45. We will be eating at 1:00 so warm food should be brought in around 12:45. We will not have kitchen access so everything must be prepared.

Math-This week we are finishing unit 3 and will have our unit test tomorrow morning.

Spelling-We are reviewing previous spelling patterns

Reading-Students are continuing to work on their reading strategies and will be presenting their book report posters to the class.

Science-Students are collaborating through Google Docs with the class on developing information which will be used to publish solar system books.

Social Studies-We are having our Pilgrim and Native American feast.

Our monthly PBIS celebration is on Tuesday and students will be encouraged to bring board games from home, with their names on them. They will have an one hour board game celebration with the 4th and 5th graders who also met the 80% positive points on Class Dojo.

Homework over break. Students will be bringing home new requirements for the nightly reading homework assignment and we highly encourage all students to practice Mobymax Reading, Math and Vocabulary daily over break.

Have a great week and a Happy Thanksgiving!

Hello Everyone,
Thank you for all of the responses so far for the Thanksgiving Feast, next week. I wanted to send an update for what we still need. We need mashed potatoes, gravy and stuffing still. If you would like to send in one of these items next week, please comment on this post with what you would like to bring so we can see what has been donated already.

Thank you and have a great weekend!

Good afternoon everyone!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful start to their week. In the next two weeks we have lots happening. Tomorrow is picture retake day. We also have Nowlin/Blue shirt day for spirit week. Tomorrow is our first chess club meeting at 8:00 in room 26. We also need Thanksgiving Feast permission slips and the $2.00 turkey fee cost turned in before the end of the week. If you plan on donating a food item, it must be brought up to the school on the day of the feast, before 1:00 and it needs to be ready to serve. We will not be able to cook/warm any food at school unfortunately.  We are holding a school wide canned food collection for Gleaner’s Food Bank so please send in any canned food or non-perishable items you can spare. Every donation goes to a family in need.

Here is our week:

Spelling- We are working on oi, oy, ow and ou chunks. Our spelling words are fountain, invoice, announcement, empower, voyage, congruent, parallel, perpendicular, intersecting, and Mayflower.

Science-We are starting our second unit-Exploring Planets, Stars and Space!

Math-Students are still working on geometry and learning how to sort polygons based upon different characteristics.

Writing-Students are writing compare and contrast pieces. They are comparing the first Thanksgiving to our current Thanksgiving.

Good Morning everyone,

I wanted to send out a reminder that tonight is the first night of Parent/ Teacher/ Student conferences. Please have your child come with you to conferences as we are following the student led format. I look forward to meeting with everyone.

Secondly, I wanted to let you know that students have a book report project that is due Next Friday. They have been working on filling out an information sheet about their book this week and the sheets will come home tonight. They are creating a movie poster to highlight the features of their books. All of the requirements are on their sheets. If you are unable to get poster board, please let me know and I will send home a large sheet of paper.

Have a great day!

Mr. Hawkins

Hello Everyone,

Today there are a few information sheets coming home on our 5th grade Thanksgiving Celebration Dinner, a Lansing field trip and Empty Bowls. Please review this information and send back the Lansing survey tomorrow so we have an idea of whether to try to run the field trip or not.

This week:

Spelling: We are looking at the vowel-consonant-vowel pattern. Our spelling words are demonstrate, vanishing, prevent, heritage, teachable, solar, system, colonization, government and migration.

Math-We have started Unit 3-Geometry and we are working on classifying shapes.

Writing-Students are working on the planning and drafting stage of an informational piece on Thanksgiving.

Reading-Students should have finished reading their book club books and will be creating movie posters for the books. They will each be creating a poster that gives enough details about the book to make someone want to read it, without giving away any spoilers.

Science-We are beginning our unit on the planets and solar system. This unit will take us through January.

Have a great week!

Good Morning!

I hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween weekend!

A few quick reminders-

Candle Sale sheets and money for camp are due Wednesday morning.

Chess club money and permission slips are due back by Thursday.

Students have no school tomorrow.

This week:

Spelling- Students will learn about homophones and our spelling words are witch, which, whether, weather, through, threw, slave, plantation, velocity, reference. Even with no school tomorrow, students are still responsible for their spelling sentence homework on Tuesday.

Math- We are beginning unit 3-Geometry.

Science-We are finishing forces and motion and will be taking our test towards the end of the week. Watch for the review sheet to come home.

Social Studies-Students are learning more about the colonies.

Writing-We are starting informational writing and students are publishing their opinion pieces.

Reading-Students are finishing their book club books this week and will be getting their next assignment.

Have a great week!