Author: emachuga

5th Grade News

October 11, 2013

Upcoming Events
Swimming has started (Wright and McKenna class). Please bring suit and towel on A days
October 11th: Five week Reports sent home. Please sign and return.
October 12th: Homecoming parade
October 14th: Columbus Day, No School
October 18th: Boo Bask
October 25: County Wide Emergency Go Home Drill

ELA: Mrs. Wright lwright1@cscsd.org
In English Language Arts this week, students continued to work on module one, unit two. This unit focuses on the reading of Esperanza Rising. After completing the reading for chapters three through seven this week, they then worked on many supporting learning targets. These supporting learning targets ranged from answering literal and comprehension questions based on the text, to working on metaphors and figurative language.
Next week in English Language Arts we will continue our study with Esperanza Rising.
At this time, all module one, unit one assessments have been passed back to students. Please send them back in signed at your earliest convenience.
As always, please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions, or concerns. Please make sure to check out my website at toolboxpro.

Math/FOSS: Mr. McKenna jmckenna@cscsd.org
The students brought home their 5 week reports today. Please sign and return by Tuesday. Also, letters for conferences were sent home today…please let us know when you are available and I will contact you to confirm.
This Tuesday the students are taking the mid module assessment #1. They brought home a wealth of information to study...none of it needs to be returned. Next week we start to use our knowledge of place value to start adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals.
The students continue to do a fantastic job in our mixtures and solutions unit. I am impressed with the science skills they brought from 4th grade. Next week we put all of our materials together and experiment separating them.
Again, if you ever have any questions or concerns, let me know.

Special Education-Mrs. Taft dtaft@cscsd.org
This week we have been working on NWEA testing in both Reading and in Math. We are hoping to finish these test up this week. These test will give us a good idea of your child’s areas of strength and areas that we need to continue to work on.
We have also been spending time working on individual goal testing. These test we will be doing about every two to three weeks.
Each child needs to make sure that they are working hard in the classroom and on their homework.
In ELA, we are reading “Esperanza Rising” which is part of the new ELA Modules. We know that this book is difficult to read. If your child is having a difficult time reading this at home for homework, please read the book to your child or have your child read the book aloud to you. This is a very acceptable way for your child to be exposed to the ELA Module reading. A letter was sent home concerning this book and it’s reading level difficulty.