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5th Grade News

April 25, 2014

Upcoming Events
Now that the weather is a little warmer and we are able to enjoy recess outside, we are asking students to please refrain from bringing baseballs to school. Softballs are allowed, however please make sure your child has a glove to play catch with.
*Please remind your students that we do not allow flip flops in school. Below is from our code of conduct:
“….Include footwear at all times. Footwear that is a safety hazard will not be allowed.”
For the Elementary school students should not wear flip-flops and all footwear should be secured to the foot with a back strap. Students are required to wear sneakers for Physical Education Classes.”
April 30th—May 2nd: New York State Math Test (More information to follow)
May 3rd: Savona Yard Sale day
May 5th: Fifth grade incentive for MP3 (Must receive invite to attend)
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
May 12th—May 16th: Spirit week (more information to follow)
May 17th: Campbell yard sales

ELA: Mrs. Wright lwright1@cscsd.org
This week in English Language Arts the students continued to work in module 4a. The focus of this module work was natural disasters and paragraph writing. Upon the complete of this unit, students took an end of unit writing assessment. This assessment focused on describing how a hurricane is a natural disaster.
Next week students will begin a new unit. This unit will focus on reading two texts and figurative language.
This week students also worked on Earth Day spelling words as well as an Earth Day fluency piece titled, “Your Recycled House.”
Invites for the marking period three incentive will be going home next week. Please watch for those.

Math/FOSS: Mr. McKenna jmckenna@cscsd.org
This weekend the students brought home a take home quiz. This is a review of our unit on multiplying and dividing fractions. Next Monday and Tuesday we will do some review of the entire year before taking the New York State Common Core Math exam Wednesday –Friday.
I encourage you to make sure the students have a full nights sleep before each exam.
In Science we will be switching our focus from Measurement to Environments. The students will be creating a terrarium with a variety of plants and vegetables, tracking their growth, and concluding the best environment for each plant. Then we will introduce isopods and beetles to the terrarium. We will complete some experiments that will help us decide the best environments for these living things as well. The students will also categorize facts about both living things each time they complete an experiment or read an article.
Thanks for all you do to support your child and, as always, let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Special Education-Mrs. Taft dtaft@cscsd.org
This week in resource room we have been working on reteaching of the math module. Each student is doing a wonderful job of learning and practicing the new processes that are being taught. Next week is the NYS Math test and I feel that each and every student has the skills and the ability to tackle this test. Remember to keep working hard in class and on homework.