Week of August 26-30

Parent Orientation
Please attend if you can so you can learn all about homework policies, curriculum, grades, and special 5th grade events. Confidentiality Training begins at 6:30pm in the gym tomorrow night for anyone interested in volunteering in our classroom and orientation will be held in my classroom at 7:00pm. I've only gotten 5 responses on my blog poll, so please take the poll to let me know how many to expect tomorrow evening.

Agendas
Please encourage your child to record their nightly reading and pages read each day when you sign his/her agenda. Some kids have been forgetting to record what they read. It is important that they select appropriate reading material and stick with a book until they finish.

Early Release
This Wednesday will be our first Early Release Day. Students will be dismissed at 12:20pm. Please send in a note Wednesday morning if your child's transportation will change due to early dismissal.


Here's what's coming up this week!

Math: We will explore square numbers, square roots, and prime factorization. Knowing basic math facts is so crucial! I highly encourage you to have your child practice math facts for at least 10 minutes each night if he/she does not already know them. I'll be sending home the baseline mad minute I gave last week in this week's Wednesday folder, so please check to see how your child did. If your child got less than 1/2 of the facts correct on the mad minute, please work with him/her at home.

Social Studies: We will continue our study of geography this week as we explore geographic forms of land and water, physical features of the U.S., as well as climate and time zones.

Word Study: We will review the words added to our word wall in various ways from playing games to drawing pictures!

Writing: Students will be given a daily invitation to continue collecting ideas in their writer's notebooks as they build their writing stamina.

Reading: We will build reading stamina as we set goals, learn to discuss what we read, and read and respond to silent reading in class.