Ms. Szalai's 5th Grade

Hello, this is Kennedy Dion, Rawand Elmasri, and Mariam Fawaz, writing for Ms. Szalai’s blog. This week we finished the NWEA, we also finished lesson four and five on Zearn, and took a math quiz. We got a new pet! His name is Randall, and he is a Leopard Gecko. We wrote good messages with our book buddies on painted …Continue reading →

Parent Meeting 5:30 in room 6 Open House 6:00-7:30 Because of Open House the only homework is finishing Zearn #4 and Warm-Up #8

Hello Families, Today the students have a few things to finish if they did not finish in class and all have math homework in their Succeed book. I am doing my best to complete all DRA reading assessments (reading assessment that determines what I need to focus on with your child) by Friday because of this we have not begun …Continue reading →

Hello Families, I am returning your children to you way sweatier than how they came in this morning! It is very hot in our classroom – please make sure they are dressed for the heat tomorrow and have a water bottle. Tonight the students need to complete: Math Learn pages 21-22 Math Succeed pages 15-16 (page 14 is the helper …Continue reading →

Hello Families, I hope your weekend was great. Today we worked on the last NWEA test for the fall, the language test, most of the students finished. Tomorrow the students who did not will finish during a center rotation. Because of the testing we did not finish a full lesson in math so there is no homework yet. I did …Continue reading →

Hello this is Mahdi and Max from Ms. Szalai’s class. We are going to talk about this week of school. On Tuesday, we started off with math for morning work. Then we took our math NWEA. We did NWEA for 30 minutes then we went outside for recess. After recess we went for lunch. Then we went to music. After …Continue reading →

Hello Families, Today the students went to a fantastic assembly that carried a message of acceptance for self and others. The presenter had their attention from start to finish, please ask your child to tell you about it. The students all have their username and password for Zearn. I explained they need to have lessons 1-3 completed by Monday. If …Continue reading →

Hello Everyone, Today we finished the NWEA Math for fall. Tomorrow we will begin the Reading part of the test, we will probably need to finish on Friday. The students are doing a great job of adjusting. I am very happy to see such good work habits and behavior already. We did have time to reading using our mentor text. …Continue reading →

Hello Families, It was really nice to meet some of you at the picnic. I am looking forward to meeting the rest of the families on September 12 during Open House. There is no homework today except if your child needs to put the final touches in his/her notebook. Please remember to sign up for the PTA and return the …Continue reading →