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Today, I just want to drop a few friendly reminders for you all! Next week is fall break, so that means there will not be any school! I hope this break is a relaxing time for you and your family. Our school is participating in a peanut butter drive sponsored by the Cheesecake Factory. This food drive benefits the local Feeding America chapter. Our class is part of a competition to see which class can bring the most peanut butter jars. The size and brand of the jar does not matter, so please consider donating a couple of jars to this wonderful cause! The top three classes will receive a prize and get a cheesecake party! My class won last year, so I'd love to have another great turn out this year. Also, we are about to begin our reading competition, Buzzer Readers (formerly Jacket to Jacket). In this competition, students record the number of pages they read each day. Please help your student document their progress with the reading logs that will be sent home when we return to school. The program runs from Oct 1-Oct 31. Our goal in our class is for each student to have 5,000 pages read during the month of October. Please support this goal by having students read at home for 20 minutes each evening. Students will also be allowed time at school to read independently. You can also count books you read together! Check out these helpful hints for parents to support their student's reading ability at home. Finally, students have been assigned their long term project for Esperanza Rising. It will be due October 11th. I meant to give students their graphic organizers to get started with their project over break, but time ran out before I could distribute them. Since this is the case, I will post them here for your reference, and they will be available to students when they arrive after break. If you have any questions, please feel free to send me a message on class dojo or comment below. I will be available throughout the break to answer your questions and offer guidance. -Miss Dobbins
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It's our last week before fall break! Remember, next week there will be no school! In Math, we will be wrapping up unit one. Students will review, practice and extend concepts we've already covered this year in preparation for our unit test. Test will be Wednesday. After that, we will begin our work with reading, writing, and expressing decimals. In Reading, we are finishing up our novel study. Students should begin thinking about their novel study projects. Fall break is a great time to get started on these, and parents can help as much as they'd like. In Writing, students are still working on Narrative Writing. Also, students will focus this week on summary writing as well. In Social Studies, students are learning about Industrialization. Students may also make corrections this week to any quizzes they did not perform well on. In Science, we are finishing Constructive and Destructive forces this week. Students will be tested on Friday. Our spelling words for this week are: Sight words, suffix -able, and academic vocabulary 1. constant 2. Africa 3. killed 4. melody 5. bottom 6. Florida 7. secret 8. tumble 9. afterwards 10. cathedral 11. desirable 12. excitable 13. breakable 14. notable 15. tolerable 16. questionable 17. hundredth 18. thousandth 19. tenth 20. millionth Have a great week! -Miss Dobbins Good Evening!
This week has been a busy one. With the four day week, I feel like I hardly blinked and here we are at the weekend again. This week we explored the life of a cowboy on the cattle trails, talked about how character's change in response to the challenges they face, and worked on multiplication and division in math. Next week we will be completing the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS). This test is used to help determine class placement and provide a grade level equivalent for your student's progress in their educational career. During this time, we ask that students arrive at school early in between 7:15-7:30. This allows students to eat breakfast, go to the restroom, and prepare for testing in the classroom. Students will not be able to enter the classroom after testing has begun. Students that arrive after testing has begun will make up the tests during the next make up window. In Math, we will continue to work on multiplication and division problem solving. Students will review decimal place value, rounding, and comparing numbers with decimals. In Reading, students will examine the next two chapters of Esperanza Rising. Students will learn how character's responses to challenges can help us identify the theme of the story. In Social Studies, student will take a quiz Monday over the Cattle Trails and the Transcontinental Railroad. Accurately complete the Think and Review Questions from Trails and Rails and turn it in by Tuesday for an extra 5 points on your test. In Science, students will continue studying landforms, constructive and destructive forces, and human interventions and their impact on the environment. Many students did not perform well on our science quiz this week, please make sure students spend 10-15 minutes studying every night. Progress Reports Today, we distributed progress reports. Please sign and return them by Wednesday, September 11. I'll send a progress update in about two weeks. Spelling List #2 Sight words, suffix -ent, and academic vocabulary 1. ashamed 2. indeed 3. Tennessee 4. someone 5. sweater 6. mansion 7. instant 8. wonder 9. smile 10. irritate 11. plunge 12. absent 13. excellent 14. reverent 15. impatient 16. stringent 17. hydrogen 18. molecule 19. dioxide 20. element Have a great weekend! -Miss Dobbins |
Mrs. Barbosa5th Grade AC Teacher Archives
November 2019
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