Author: emachuga

5th Grade News

September 13, 2013

Upcoming Events
September 23rd: Swimming starts (Wright and McKenna class). Please bring suit and towel.
September 27th: Book Orders Due to Mrs. Wright
September 24th: Book Fair begins—Classes will visit the book fair on Tuesday
September 26th: Elementary Open House 6:00-7:30 pm
September 27th: College apparel Day
October 2nd: 1/2 day for students
October 3rd: School Picture Day

ELA: Mrs. Wright lwright1@cscsd.org
n English Language Arts this week, students continued working on the first Reading and Writing module. Students also completed a short human rights vocabulary quiz. This quiz consisted of six multiple choice questions and one short-answer response. Please make sure to check with your student to see the results of their quiz. Kindly sign and return this to school as soon as possible.
While working with this module, students were able to dig deeper into the Universal Declaration of Independence (UDHR). They learned fourteen new human rights.
Next week they will continue their thinking with the UDHR and prepare of an end of the unit assessment. Please watch in planners for the date of this assessment,
We will be going to the book fair in ELA on Tuesday, September 24th. Please send in any money for the book fair in a labeled envelop. Continue to check my website at toolboxpro.org.

Math/FOSS: Mr. McKenna jmckenna@cscsd.org
This week in math the students began the first module of the Story of Units. Our learning focused around multiplying and dividing by the power of 10. Next week we take this learning and connect it to converting measurements in the metric system. We will then be naming , writing, and comparing these numbers (with decimals).
You will find many of the homework assignments in these modules are challenging. Please make sure your child puts forth the best effort they can. By all means, help them in any way you can. If your child is stumped...don’t spend the entire evening frustrated...just jot me a note and we will work on it the next day.
In science, we spent the week prepping for our first investigation. We completed an exercise where the students realize collaborative work is much more productive than independent. We also wrote about the essential characteristics of a scientist and set the rules for our lab. Next week we start working with mixtures and solutions.

Special Education-Mrs. Taft dtaft@cscsd.org
Wow, this week has really gone by quickly. The students have been very busy learning about Human Rights in ELA and about place values in Math. In the resource room this week, we have been spending some time on place values and working with decimals. Next week we will be testing each students goals and see where they are this week. We will also be starting the NWEA Testing as we did last year.
I would like to emphasize how important it is for the students to be completing their homework every night. Please encourage them to do their homework and to get a good nights rest.