Ms. Szalai's 5th Grade

Hello Families, First I want to wish everyone a great Thanksgiving and break, I hope everyone gets to spend time with family and friends. This is my third year here at Howard and each year I am so, so grateful for the wonderful families and students I get to spend time with. Today the students were extremely busy with science, …Continue reading →

Happy Friday!! I am attaching the words for the flashcards for Social Studies just in case your child needs them – the quiz on these will be Tuesday. Please look over their Social Studies work that came home today. We combined Social Studies with informational reading strategies and answering questions with citing and restating. Some of the improvements were great …Continue reading →

Hi, this is Hashem Dakroub and Kennedy Dion. This week, on Monday we had gym and art. In art we started on our Vincent Van Gogh sunflower paintings. In gym we had a pretest on basketball. On Tuesday we had music and rehearsed for our concert. On Wednesday we rehearsed our concert with the other fifth graders. On Thursday, we …Continue reading →

Hello Families, Today the students need to study the eight Social Studies flashcards – we will have a quiz on them Friday. In the Succeed Lesson 22 books they need to choose any three problems for #1 and choose one story problem to solve for #2.

Hello Families, Tonight the students need to complete Lesson 21 in Succeed (#1 and 3) and catch up in Zearn up to and including lesson 20. Some of the students also need to work on their part of an Esperanza Rising assignment. All students need to type the writing TDA (The Legend of the Blackfish) in Google classroom.

Hello Families, Today the students all have math (lessons 19 and 20), the lessons both are “good old-fashion” division problems. Some of the students have work to complete from rotations. If your child has a lot of homework, it would be a good idea to ask them why they are not being more productive with their work time. Please let …Continue reading →

Hello Families, Today the students need to complete their rotation work. The work they need to finish is ONE of the following: Social Studies – informational reading questions on the Silk Road -OR- Main Idea/Supporting Detail redo paper on the Plains Native Americans -OR- Jumpstart #8 -OR- Read Theory – at least 20 minutes All students need to complete Math …Continue reading →

Mohamad 4:00 Damien 4:20 Juliana 4:40 Mahdi 5:00 Kennedy 5:40 Celine 6:00 Mariam F. 6:20 Mariam S. 6:40 If your conference was scheduled for Tuesday – Snowday, then it will be held Monday, November 18 at the same time. If that doesn’t work then just please email me and we will work something out.

Hello Families, Lovely weather we are having! We have not yet heard when they are going to reschedule conferences. As soon as I know I will post the date and times, if it is not good for you we will find a day and time that works. Tonight the students need to complete Succeed Lesson 16 #1-3 and Zearn Lesson …Continue reading →