Author: emachuga

5th Grade News

February 7, 2014

Upcoming Events
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
March 3rd Elementary PTO meeting
March 5th: Half Day Conference Day

ELA: Mrs. Wright lwright1@cscsd.org
In English Language Arts this week, students worked on Module two A, Unit one. This unit is going to be all about scientist, Meg Lowman and her work with the Rainforest. For this week, students began reading a new information text titled, “The Most Beautiful Roof in the World.” This text is all about Meg and her work with the rainforest. Students also worked on becoming familiar with more scientific as well as academic vocabulary. They also worked on writing two gist's or main ideas based on passaged about Meg Lowman.
Homework detention has started. Please be watching for a homework detention assignment paper. This will provide you with the dates of homework your child has missed as well as their upcoming assigned detention night.
Please send in your class Valentine’s by Monday. February 10th. Pleas also send in your ingredient that you selected for our classroom celebration. Please continue to check toolboxpro.

Math/FOSS: Mr. McKenna jmckenna@cscsd.org
This week in Math we continued our study of division. The students need lots of practice with long division. This skill really requires a lot of steps and knowledge of all of our operations. They also started dividing decimals. We used our knowledge of multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, and 1,000 to make the task easier.
Next week you will see the students solving application problems related to long division. Again, converting measurements will be an important aspect of this learning.
In Science the students continued to collect data related to the placement of the load and effort on a lever. This week they displayed the data on a 2 coordinate graph….ask them about it! So far we have been keeping the load steady on the lever while changing the placement of effort...next week we will collect data while moving the load and keeping effort in same place.
I have the names of the students on the back of this letter. Students are not required to exchange Valentines...but if they do...all must be included. Party is on the 14th!

Special Education-Mrs. Taft dtaft@cscsd.org
This week the students have been working on progress monitoring for their individual goals. Each student has been working hard to show their progress for the year. With the report cards coming home this week, their progress notes will be attached to their report cards.
Also, students need to remember that doing their homework is really important. Each time their homework is completed, this helps to improve their skills in school.