Author: emachuga

5th Grade News

November 15, 2013

Upcoming Events
Swimming has started (Wright and McKenna class). Please bring suit and towel on A days
At this time all families should have received a form requesting a parent-teacher conference.
Week of November 18th: Parent—Teacher Conferences.
November 20th: PTO Open swim
Nov. 21, 22: ½ days, dismissal at 11:05, Parent/Teacher Conferences
November 22nd, 23rd, 24th: Musical Annie
November 25th: Board of Education Meeting at 6:00pm
Nov. 27-29: NO SCHOOL, Thanksgiving Break
December 2nd: PTO meeting at 5:30pm
December 4th: Half Day 11:05 Dismissal. Teacher Conference Day
December 7th: Yearbook Kids Night In—Parents Night Out
December 11th: Band and Chorus Concert, 7:00pm
December 13th: College Apparel Da
December 19th: Holiday Extravaganza 12:30-2:15
December 20th: Half day, 11:05 dismissal, Ugly sweater contest day
December 23rd—January 4trh: Holiday Recess, No School
February 14th: Marking period Two, fifth grade incentive (more information to follow)

ELA: Mrs. Wright lwright1@cscsd.org
This week in English Language Arts students finished Module One, Unit Two. With this, they completed a writing assessment. This assessment consisted of completing three accordion, graphic organizers for three separate paragraphs. They then took each accordion, graphic organizer and wrote three paragraphs. The topic for this assessment was how Esperanza changed from the course of the beginning to the ending of the novel. We also celebrated the completion of our second unit.
Next week, students will begin Module One, Unit Three. This unit is a writing unit and will be a culmination of the UDHR unit as well as the Esperanza Rising unit. Students will be working on evaluating the differences between a novel and a script as well as writing a reader’s theatre piece.
Please check my toolboxpro for updates. All families should have received a confirmation for report card conferences. At this time, please let me know if you did not received a confirmation.

Math/FOSS: Mr. McKenna jmckenna@cscsd.org
This week we spent a lot of time solving word problems. The students learned to use bar models to pictorial represent problems before solving them. We also reviewed the many lessons taught in module 1/ The students will be taking an end of module test on Monday. They worked on a review packet today and could benefit working on it again this weekend before the test on Monday.
The students determined the saturation level of citric acid and 25 ml of water this week. This gave the students the opportunity to use a traditional balance to weigh solutions and compare to other solutions they have created. The also read 2 articles related to the investigations: Decompression Sickness and Sour Power. The students will be meeting a retired Scientist from Corning Inc. on November 25th...more details to follow!
I look forward to meeting with many of you next week. Parents who are meeting with myself and Mrs. Wright will receive their child’s report card during our conference. All other report cards will go home on Friday November 22nd.

Special Education-Mrs. Taft dtaft@cscsd.org
This week in the resource room we have been working on progress monitoring of each students individual goals. This helps to show the students and myself where there are and how they are progressing towards their individual goals.
Progress notes for their individual goals will be coming home with their report cards.