Dear Parents,
We are looking forward to our fieldtrip this week at Driftwood. As of right now, the weather looks like it is going to cooperate for us. Those students staying back will have the wonderful opportunity of working with Mrs. Brindley for 3 days.
Lee has surrendered at Appomattox Court House and the Civil War is now over. The assessment is Tuesday. Students have a study guide which covers all of the standards for this time period.
Student grammar workbooks have finally arrived. Our current area of study is subjects and predicates, nouns - common,proper,singular,plural, and possessive. We are planning a grammar assessment for Monday, October 10th. Our vocabulary assessments are every other Friday. Students can study from home on the Wordly Wise website: http://wordlywise3000.com/games/book05.cfm
We are currently on lesson 3. Due to the field trip, students get an extra week of practice. The next vocabulary assessment is scheduled for Friday, October 7th.
The last edmodo assignment for all chapter books is to be completed by Tuesday, September 27th. At this time, all students should have finished their chapter book. Students will be creating a "newspaper" about their book with their group members. Students will be choosing their assignment this week. Some examples include: feature news article, advertisement for the book, editorial, entertainment article, and more.
Please continue to encourage your child to read nightly at home. In order to make progress towards our 40 book goal, they should have read approximately 5 books to date.
Math - check Mrs. Hazlett's blog for information on Skills Tutor and how to utilize this website for practice. Mrs. Hazlett also includes the standards for this 9 weeks. It is imperative that students know their math facts and how to mulitply and divide two digit numbers. These skills are not part of the fifth grade standards. The expectation is that they left previous grade levels with these skills intact. The fifth grade standard is multiplication and division of decimals.
If you know your child is struggling with these skills, please review and practice at home nightly. There simply is not enough time to re-teach these basic skills. Mrs. Hazlett must move forward and teach the standards and expectations for fifth grade.
Have a great week.
Mrs. DeLass
