Author: emachuga

5th Grade News

December 6, 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.
December 6th: Dinner and a Movie with Santa
December 7th: Yearbook Kids Night In—Parents Night Out
December 11th: Band and Chorus Concert, 7:00pm
December 12th: Jump Rope for Heart
December 13th: College Apparel Day
December 13th: Assembly at High school—more information to follow
December 15th: Breakfast with Santa—Campbell American Legion 8:00am—11:00am
December 19th: Holiday Extravaganza 12:30-2:15
December 19th: SPCA items are due
December 19th: Fifth grade holiday celebration—in classroom (AM)
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
n English Language Arts this week, students continued to work in module one, unit three. This unit continued to focus on discussing Esperanza Rising as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. While working on these two texts, students began their thinking for writing their own Reader’s Theater script. The students also took part in completing the mid unit three assessment. For this they needed to compare passages from both texts. This will be coming home on Monday, December 9th for families to see and sign to return to class.
Please be looking for the end of unit two Esperanza Rising essay assessment. This was sent home this week for families to sign, and return to class.
Next week we will continue our work with module one, unit three. Please continue to check planners as the end of the unit assessment will be approaching fast.
Spelling/Vocabulary work has also begun. This work will continue for the rest of the year. Students will be asked to complete specific pieces of Spelling/Vocabulary work each night with a test on Fridays. Please continue to check my toolboxpro website for information. I can also be reached at lwright1@cscsd.org.

Math/FOSS: Mr. McKenna jmckenna@cscsd.org
This week in Math, the students wrote expressions in both numerical and written form. We then used our knowledge of the power of ten to solve the expressions. I am proud of the work they are doing with these “Algebraic tasks”. Next week we will continue representing expressions in model form and recognizing patterns when comparing expressions.
In Science, we started a new Investigation...Concentration! The students made several solutions of Koolaid...we discovered the more solute associated with a solution...the greater concentration. Next week we will investigate the concentration of unknown solutions and determine what has a greater concentration... not knowing the actual mixture!
Please take note of the several dates upcoming in December...it is a busy month!!
As always, let me know if you have any questions or concerns!!!

Special Education-Mrs. Taft dtaft@cscsd.org
This has been a rather short week, as far as resource room goes. When we have had resource room this week, we are again working on progress monitoring of their individual goals. We will continue to work on these the rest of this week and into next week. We have also been working hard in the math modules and the ELA modules. This week they did complete a mid-unit assessment in ELA on scripts and novels.
Each student has been putting in a lot of time and effort into their ELA and math homework, keep up the good work. Remember we, the fifth grade team, are going to be having an incentive at the end of the marking period and I hope that everybody can participate.