Ms. Szalai's 5th Grade

Hello Families, I hope your weekend was relaxing. Today the majority of students need to complete some informational reading for science. There are two different strategies that were introduced and practiced. Your child should be able to explain to you what is expected. Both strategies are designed to help understand new subject matter. Please ask your child to show you …Continue reading →

Hello Families, Today we reviewed and practiced the new lessons in math involving the addition and subtraction of decimal numbers so there is no math homework except ZEARN lesson 11. I asked the students to take home our mentor book, Esperanza Rising, and to reread chapter 4. I told them they could reread by themself or a parent can read …Continue reading →

Hello Families, The first mid-module assessment is coming home today for you to look at. The standards-based rubric that we are to use is stapled to the front. Each questions has to be checked and scored. If the problem is completed 100% correctly then the students earned 4 points and that is circled on the rubric. If you read the …Continue reading →

Hello Families, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend with your children. Mondays are a bit hectic, we have gym in the morning and art in the afternoon. We did manage to finish a new math lesson, begin reading groups (very early stages), and work on informational reading within science. Tonight the students need to complete: Math – Succeed …Continue reading →

Hello families! This is Jay, Mariam F, and Hannah. We had a great week. On Monday, we gym and we practiced for the 1 mile run. It was so tiring! On Tuesday we had music and we got to play are recorders. Wednesday, we had art,and we did a test on colors. Thursday we reveiwed for the math test and …Continue reading →

Hello Families, Please remember that tomorrow is an 11:45 dismissal for all elementary students. Students get to go home – teachers need to stay for meetings 🙁 ! Tomorrow will be our first “mid-module” assessment. We spent the entire morning going over what is to be expected. We did more whole group, partner work, and individual work with assistance. All …Continue reading →

Hello Everyone, I understand that yesterday’s math was difficult for many of the students. Unfortunately with the “newness” of the new math program some of the topics were not thoroughly covered last year. This was to be expected, this is an issue now though because the kids are struggling. I took today and slowly retaught the lesson and we practiced …Continue reading →

Hello Families, I am so sorry I forgot to post yesterday. I had a training meeting at Henry Ford Elementary 4:15 – 7:00 (I know …no excuse). Yesterday the majority of the students took home the first topic quiz. A few students need to “fix up” a couple things with me then I will send it home. Everyone should have …Continue reading →