Happy October! Thank you to everyone who collected and sent in pledges for the Husky Hustle! As a class we earned approximately $837! Way to go 5th graders and parents! The Hustle was also a blast! The kids loved it and they came back in the room with tons of energy afterward! Thanks also to those parents and students who attended the Harmony Fall Festival. It was a huge success as well! The PTA does such an amazing job putting this event together each year! My boys and I had a great time and they enjoyed getting to play with my big 5th graders!
On one last note regarding the Fall Festival, if you would still like to sign up for one of my auctions--Boys Night Out or Girls Night Out, please let me know. I realize that not everyone was able to attend the Fall Festival and the auctions are still open. Many thanks to all who did sign up...it's going to be fun!!
Coming Up This Week...
I think the kids are really ready to move on to mixed facts. I've been using the isolated tests to get a feel for which facts they need the most work on, so this week we will have 2 multiplication mad minutes, one over 8's and one over 9's. The following week we will begin mixed multiplication facts tests every Friday.
On Thursday this week the kids are going to have a really cool opportunity to listen to a real live author speak in the gym. Tyler Whitesides, the author of the novel, Janitors will be coming at 8:00am on Thursday to speak to the kids. If you want to check him out or learn more about the book, please go to http://www.tylerwhitesides.com.
Finally, we will be working hard to revise autobiographies this week. I still plan to have the students create PhotoStories from them, but we're not quite there yet.
Upcoming Tests:
Multiplication Facts Quizzes over 8's and 9's on Friday
Word Study Test over adding ed and ing on Friday
Here is what we're learning...
Social Studies: We will continue our unit over Native American culture regions. This week the kids will be designing scale models of Native American dwellings and writing real estate ads to convince other tribes to come settle in their region.
Math: We are working hard on multiplication. Several students are having trouble with 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication, so please feel free to lend a hand at home if you can.
Word Study: The focus this week will be on how to correctly spell verbs when adding ed and ing. The word study rules will be taped in your child's agenda for extra review at home.
Science/Reading: We will continue to learn about the 5 kingdoms of living things going even further into the specifics of animal classification. The kids will be doing lots of non-fiction reading this week to support their learning.
Writing: Autobiography revisions will be in full swing!
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