Author: emachuga

5th Grade News

February 28, 2014

Upcoming Events
March 3rd Elementary PTO meeting
March 5th: Half Day Conference Day
March 7th: Cursive Packet Due in ELA
March 6th: Regional Spelling Bee
March 14th: Elementary Jumper Night (6-8pm)
March 17th: Hike 4 Mike go Green Day
March 19th: Board of Ed—Budget Workshop 5:30
March 20th: UPK information night
March 24th: Board of Ed Meeting
March 26th: Board of Ed—budget Workshop 5:30
March 28th: College Apparel Day
April 1st—April 3rd: New York State English Language Arts Test (More information to follow)
April: Marking Period Three Incentive—Date (TBD)
April 14th—April 18th: Spring Break
April 30th: New York State Math Test (More information to follow)

ELA: Mrs. Wright lwright1@cscsd.org
In English Language Arts this week, students continued to work on Module 2A, Unit 2. They were working on learning all about Researcher, Meg Lowman and her work in the Blue Creek Rainforest. They completed several CLOSE Reader’s lessons with this unit that consisted of, determining the main idea and pulling out vocabulary.
They will be completing a mid unit 2 assessment on Monday. Please have them look over their rainforest binder this weekend.
Students also worked on a fluency piece, titled, “Hoppin’ John.” This fluency work, helps the class to become more fluent as a reader as well as how to pull important information from a text.
Please check my toolboxpro website for information. Let’s hope that March will warm up and spring will finally arrive.

Math/FOSS: Mr. McKenna jmckenna@cscsd.org
What a busy week! After the 2 hour delay cut into our test time before break, we took the division test this week. I will have them corrected over the weekend. After first glance...many struggled. I will add bonus points to student tests if corrections are made at home and returned to school. (Look for these Monday night!)
We began a unit on fractions this week. Students not only found equivalent fractions but also were required to draw them as well. Next week the students will be adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. Again this will be done with equations and drawings!
Next week the students will be writing an essay in Science, They will write three claims with evidence describing the relationship of the load and effort on a lever.
The students have been bringing sprints home for HW. They should be completely filled in each day. (no time limit!) If your student is having a hard time...please jot me a note letting me know they have tried their best! Again...let me know if you ever have questions.

Special Education-Mrs. Taft dtaft@cscsd.org
Hope everybody had a great week’s vacation last week. Now were onto the stretch to the NYS Exams. We are spending time in the resource room working on the reteaching of the math modules and the preteaching of the ELA modules. We are going to continue to work on the current modules in the resource room. In the next week or so, we will be starting the progress monitoring on each student’s individual goals.