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5th Grade News

January 30 2014

Upcoming Events
January 31st—No School, Teacher Conference Day
February 3rd—PTO Meeting
February 6th—PTO candy sale begins
February 12th—Local Spelling Bee (3:25pm)
February 12th—Spring Portrait Day
February 13th—Mrs. Wright’s classroom Valentine Celebration (class only please)
February 13th—Talent Show
February 14th: Marking period Two, fifth grade incentive (Invites will be sent soon)
February 14th: Report Cards go home
February 17th—February 21st: Winter Break
February 24th: Board of Education Meeting 6:00pm
February 28th: College Apparel Day

ELA: Mrs. Wright lwright1@cscsd.org
This week in English Language Arts, students worked on finishing the first unit for module two. They took an end of the unit assessment as well. Next week, students will begin working on unit two for module two.
This week, students also completed a new fluency piece. This piece was called “Tropical Rainforest” and fit nicely with out current rainforest module.
Please note that after school detention has begun. If your child misses three nights of RAH and summary completion, they will be staying after school for homework detention with Mrs. Makowiec. A sheet will be sent home so that you are aware as to what night detention will fall on.
Our classroom Valentine’s party will be on Thursday, February 13th. We only have a short window of time for our celebration as students will be attending their special after, so this is going to be for our homeroom only. Please remember to send sundae ingredients and classroom Valentine’s in by Monday, February 10th.
Please continue to check my toolboxpro website for updates.

Math/FOSS: Mr. McKenna jmckenna@cscsd.org
Last Friday the students took the Multiplication Mid-Module test. We had many students absent, so make-ups are still being held. After doing some in depth data analysis of the results, I will send the test home. The students began a unit on multi-digit division this week. Please take the time to check their work...the many steps to solve these can easily confuse the students. The students have been bringing home problem sets to help with their HW...if you don’t see them coming home...let me know.
In Science we are continuing our study of Levers. The students created levers and studied the change in effort as we moved the force away from the fulcrum and kept the load at a permanent place. Ask them about the results! Next week we will keep the position of our force steady while changing the placement of load. Students were introduced to the spring scale this week. This will help them collect and graph data as they measure the force during these changing variables.
As always, let me know if you have any questions and concerns.

Special Education-Mrs. Taft dtaft@cscsd.org
In resource room this week students have been working on long division for the math modules. Over the next week or so the students will be tested for their achievements towards their individual goals. We are getting ready to send home report cards soon. Students need to ensure that they are completing homework each night in all subjects.