September 21-25

Dates to Remember

September 23^rd ~ Hands-On Science

September 25^th ~ Husky Hustle during Related Arts

Message from Our Room Mom

Our room mom this year is Jona Cox and she would love to gather parent contact info. so that she can communicate with the families of each student in our class.  Her communication with you will be related to our 5^th grade classroom such as information about classroom celebrations, etc.  If you would like to share your contact information with her (phone and email address), please send that to her at jonacox20@yahoo.com.  I am not permitted to simply share my contact list with her.  Jona is awesome and she will make a fabulous room mom this year!

Husky Hustle

Please encourage your children to collect donations from family and friends for the Husky Hustle.  For each $50 donation your child collects, he/she will be entered into a drawing to win either a bicycle or a $25 Target gift card!  Donations are due by Friday, September 25^th.

This Week’s Learning Plan

7 Habits:  We will begin making use of our data notebooks this week.  These notebooks will allow the kids to track their educational progress and set personal and academic goals.  Thank you to the PTA for donating pronged folders to the entire 5^th grade for this purpose!!

Science:  This week kicks off our first science unit, Building a Scientific Community.  We will explore what it means to have a hands on vs. minds on approach to science, investigate the scientific method, and learn about what it means to do science through inquiry.

Social Studies:  In a fun, new twist on social studies, the kids will do a one week unit on the Zombie Apocalypse!  They will work in pairs to make decisions about where to settle during a hypothetical Zombie Apocalypse and they will have to support those decisions based on what they know about the different U.S. regions.

Math:  We will begin our student of decimal place value this week with a focus on how to write decimals through the thousandths.

ELA:  Our focus for ELA will be to wrap up our Playing with Words as we learn to apply figurative language to our own writing.  We will also learn about what it means to be a fluent reader and practice our reading fluency through group readings of poems and reader’s theater scripts.