Ms. Szalai's 5th Grade

Hello Families,

Today the “Student Learning Goals” sheet with the NWEA scores are coming home. Please look them over with your child and help them set a goal that could be attainable by January (example: improve in math by learning the steps of traditional division, improve language by learning new things in the mentor sentences, improve informational reading by reading nonfiction material three times a week…). Please sign them and return them to school, please help me make this a positive goal setting experience for your child and not a huge pressure building task – they are children and sometimes all this testing… .

Book orders also went home today. They are due back on Friday, please send cash only. The larger the order I get from the class the more books the classroom will earn.

I have had a few parents ask if our classroom needs anything. We really could use colored copy paper and colored cardstock paper. We use it all the time for class assignments and foldables.

Today the following things needed to be completed (a few of the students went to violins so I will list everything).

1. Mentor Sentence Notebook (Monday only)
2. Mentor Sentence quiz from last week’s sentence
3. Write the new spelling words on page 29 in planners
4. Science Worksheet – graduated cylinders
5. Compound Sentences ( 5 science related and 5 fall theme)
6. Look over math review for tomorrow’s test