Author: emachuga

5th Grade News

April 4, 2013

Upcoming Events
April: Marking Period Three Incentive—Date (TBD)
April 5th: Spring Craft Fair
April 6th: PTO Easter Egg Hunt 1:00pm
April 11th: Marking Period Three reports sent home
April 11th: Book Order Due
April 11th: Family roller Skating (6:00—8:00pm)
April 11th: College Apparel Day
April 14th—April 18th: Spring Break
April 23rd: Board of Ed. Visit—1:30
April 25th: Cursive Packet #2 due
April 25th: Kid’s Movie Night: High School
April 30th—May 2nd: New York State Math Test (More information to follow)
May 3rd: Savona Yard Sale day
May 5th: Elementary PTO BOGO Book fair begins. BOGO book fair ends 5/9
May 8th: Elementary Arts and Science Night 5:30—7:00pm

ELA: Mrs. Wright lwright1@cscsd.org
This week in English Language Arts, students prepared for the NYS ELA assessment on Monday.
On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday students took the NYS ELA assessment. Results will be in over summer, 2014. Please know that I am very proud of how hard the students worked on the assessment for three days.
Next week, students will begin a new module, focusing on natural disasters. Students will also be picking spelling back up for the week as well as a weekly fluency piece.
Please note that our second cursive packet will be due after vacation 4-25-14.
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Math/FOSS: Mr. McKenna jmckenna@cscsd.org
With the ELA state exams happening this week...our main focus has been in Math. The students have been finding “fractions of a set”. The students are using bar models or tape diagrams to show their thinking. They have been using these skills in order to convert measurements. They have also seen that finding a fraction of a set is related to multiplying fractions (ex. 3/4 of 16 is equal to 3/4 x 16).
Next week in Science the students will return to a study of measurement. They will discover more about volume, surface area, angles, and solid figures. These skills will come in handy as they create a terrarium after April break.
As always, if your child gets frustrated with math HW...please stop and jot me a note...we will work on the skill more the next day. I do not want the students to feel overwhelmed.
I cannot be more proud of the effort I have been getting from the students on a daily basis!!

Special Education-Mrs. Taft dtaft@cscsd.org
This week the students have been working on their NYS ELA Exams. I am proud of how hard students worked on these exams. Starting next week we will be working on progress monitoring of individual goals. Progress notes will be going home next week with the report cards. Students need to keep working hard on their classwork and on their homework.