Author: emachuga

5th Grade News

October 18, 2013

Upcoming Events
Swimming has started (Wright and McKenna class). Please bring suit and towel on A days
October 18th: Boo Bask
October 25: County Wide Emergency Go Home Drill
October 31st: Fall Celebration
November 1: No Swimming due to assembly
November 6th: PE Fun Night 5:30—7:00pm
November 11th: No School—Veteran’s Day
Nov. 21, 22: ½ days, dismissal at 11:05, Parent/Teacher Conferences
Nov. 27-29: NO SCHOOL, Thanksgiving Break

ELA: Mrs. Wright lwright1@cscsd.org
In English Language Arts this week we have continued our reading in Esperanza Rising. We have also completed a mid unit assessment based on this text. While reading this text, we have been working on the following skills as a reader; making inferences, looking at figurative language such as metaphors, answering literal as well as inferential questions about each chapter we have read.
We will continue our reading in this text next week. Please continue to encourage your student to be completing their reading log at home.
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Math/FOSS: Mr. McKenna jmckenna@cscsd.org
This week in math the students took the mid module assessment. We are going to analyze the data collected from the test and decide what type of remediation we need to provide going forward. Also, the students are going to correct the mistakes made before bringing it home. Look for the results early next week.
Next week the students will be adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals. You will notice a deep understanding of these processes. For example, when adding they may see 54 thousandths plus 6 thousandths and have to give their answer in thousandths before doing the following:
.054
+.006
_____
.060
The answer is 60 thousandths or 6 hundredths or .06
You will also see them using place value mats to help the m see the regrouping.

Special Education-Mrs. Taft dtaft@cscsd.org
This week we have been finishing NWEA testing in both Reading and in Math. These tests 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 continued spending time on individual goal testing.
Each child needs to continue to make sure that they are working hard in the classroom and on their homework.
In ELA, we have continued 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.