Author: emachuga

5th Grade News

September 27, 2013

Upcoming Events
Swimming has started (Wright and McKenna class). Please bring suit and towel on A days
October 2nd: 1/2 day for students
October 3rd: School Picture Day
October 7th: Spirit week
Monday, October 7: Sporty Day
Tuesday, October 8: Cartoon Character Day
Wednesday, October 9: Comfy Cozy Day
Thursday, October 10: “Who Dreams of Going to College?” Dress as your favorite college or dream job
Friday, October 11: Panther Pride Day. Wear Red, White, and Blue

ELA: Mrs. Wright lwright1@cscsd.org
I was very happy to see all of you who were able to make it to open house. We had a wonderful turnout.
In English Language Arts this week, the students continued to work on the first module dealing with “Human Rights.” They looked at the complex Universal of Declaration for Human Rights document as well as a plain language version. While looking at these documents, they discussed what document is better and why. They also read an story titled “Teaching Nepalis to Read, Plant and Vote.” With this text, they practice the Closer Readers strategy to help annotate what the main idea of the passage is. Students also completed a second fluency passage, “The Bill of Rights: The Backstory.” With this fluency passage, they worked at improving their ability to make their reading voice sound like talk. This also work on improving inflection as a reader, by paying attention to punctuation.
Next week to come in the first module, students will be given the end of the unit module one assessment. Please watch for this to be in their planner as they will be studying to help prepare for this.
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Math/FOSS: Mr. McKenna jmckenna@cscsd.org
Today we took an assessment of all the math skills we have learned this year. Look for the results next week!
Next week the students will be writing numbers with decimals in expanded form and comparing them using greater than, less than, and equal to signs. The students will then transition into rounding these numbers.
In FOSS the students are experimenting with different mixtures. We will learn through experiments that all mixtures can be separated.
It was great to see so many people at Open House. I will send out a link to EngageNY to those I got e-mails from so you can access our curriculum online.
As always, if you ever have any questions or concerns...please let me know.

Special Education-Mrs. Taft dtaft@cscsd.org
This week in the resource room the students have been working very hard on their goals and on being retaught lessons from the new math modules. Some of the students have been completing their homework and getting it handed in on time. Some students need to still work on making sure their homework is completed on time.