BOOK IT! Our class is participating in the BOOK IT! Program to encourage reading at home.  You will receive a calendar starting October through March at the beginning of each month.  Each time your child reads at home they should mark it on their calendar.  At the end of each month, they can bring their calendar back to school and receive a coupon for a FREE personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut. 

Try to make it a practice to record both, the class reading log AND the Book It! reading logs at the same time! For a free personal pizza, who wouldn’t?!

TODAY WAS EAGLE SPIRIT DAY! We had a fun time at our pep rally cheering, listening to music, and participating in fun activities!  Our very own Will from our class got to participate in the pushup challenge! See the photos below!

MATH TEST We will be having our math test on Tuesday this coming week.  Your child should have their math workbook with them and can practice ANY UNIT 1 “remembering” blank pages or problems.  These problems are designed as unit review problems and help practice prior concepts.  Please encourage your child to practice these so that they will stay fresh in their minds over the weekend! Thanks!

Hello Parents!  I hope that you’ve had an excellent week!  Look below for some updates on what is coming up!  Also, look below for some photos of students working on their math skills! They are preparing for our first math test of the year!

• Miscellaneous:
  • TOMORROW (Friday, Sept. 28) is Eagle Pride Day! Wear your blue and gold or Eagle wear!
  • Walk-a-thon is coming up on Friday, Oct. 5.
    • This is our ONLY school wide fundraiser.
    • Fifth grade will walk from 10:45-11:30.
    • Parents are welcome to join us on the track after checking in at the office.
    • Click here for more information on fundraising goals and prize structure.

  Reminder….The students are expected to read 100 minutes a week. As a parent please initial the log when they read at home, showing you confirm your child has read for the minutes recorded. The log will be turned in every Monday morning.

 

Hello parents, I hope you’re having a great week! Check out some of what we’re working on below! Have an excellent weekend!

Miscellaneous:

• SMILE! School pictures will be taken on Thursday, September 27.
• Walk-a-thon is coming up on Friday, Oct. 5. Information was sent home with students this week.

Math: We are continuing Unit 1: Adding and Subtracting with Fractions

• In this unit, fluency with multiplication and division facts is key. Students should be practicing their math facts using Moby Max.

ELA: We are working on the first unit of building agency and independence as readers. In writing, we’re making progress on writing a memoir.

Social Studies: We are exploring the foundations of our government in Unit 1 which explores the structure of the federal, state and local governments.

For an upcoming science unit, we are in need of lids from whipped topping tubs – Cool Whip or similar. If you have any of the lids you’d be willing to donate, please send them into your child’s teacher. Thank you!

Hello, parents.

Now that we have had a chance to settle into the routine of the school year, students will have regular homework in both reading and math. My philosophy regarding homework is that it should, for the most part, be based on a skill that a child can practice independently.

• Reading – students are expected to read outside of the school day at least 100 minutes per week. Ideally, this would be spread out throughout several days during the week. Your child should have a reading calendar in his or her take-home folder. Each day, your child should write down the number of minutes spent reading at home and ask you to initial the calendar. I understand that families have many time commitments and that students need flexibility and choice regarding which days will work best for them to complete their reading. With that in mind, I will be checking reading logs every Monday.
• Math – students are expected to complete at least five minutes of math fact fluency practice outside of the school day Monday through Thursday.  As the concepts covered become more complex, fact fluency is key to students’ success in math.

Occasionally we will have other homework as well as quizzes or tests for which students will need to review. In his or her take-home folder, your child has a weekly agenda. We take time to fill this out together at the end of each day. Please take a few minutes each day to look over the agenda with your child. You can also view the agenda on the blog by clicking on the weekly agenda tab near the top of the page.

Miscellaneous:

Hello Parents!  This week we have continued to work on our school routines and relationships. What a wonderful group of 5th graders we have as role models for Georgetown!  As a school we practiced our safety drills this week. The kids did a great job of rehearsing the drill procedures.

• M-Step scores from last Spring were sent home on Friday with your child.
• Smile….picture day at Georgetown will be Thursday, September 27th.

A note about upcoming Reading Logs…

Our first reading unit this year is all about developing independence as readers. We have already been busy learning and reviewing things that powerful readers do. We know that reading, like any other skill, is developed through practice. This week, we will be learning that powerful readers keep and analyze reading logs. We will be logging our reading at school and home each day. I am asking students to keep track of the amount of time they spend reading at home each week. They are required to read a total of 100 minutes per week outside of school.

Reading logs will be coming home Monday in your child’s take home folder. Here are some guidelines for these reading logs:

• Students record the number of minutes read at home each day.
• Parents initial to verify the amount of time read each day.
• Each calendar month, students will get a new reading log and be responsible for recording their reading during the current week.
•  All students will have the goal of reading 100 minutes at home each week. That is 20 minutes five times per week.

Happy reading!

Hello parents!  We’re completing our second week and beginning to fall into more routines and rhythms!  As the weather continues to ebb and flow from hot to cold and back again, remember to send your child with a water bottle to help them stay hydrated.

We’ve been working on lots of team building and get-to-know-you activities lately.  Check out some photos below from a challenge where students needed to work together to “Save Sam,” a cap-sized gummy worm who needed to find his way back into his boat and put on his “life jacket,” all without being touched by his student helpers!  Students needed to think outside the box in order to help our squiggly friend back to safety!  We learned about effective communication, collaboration, and creative thinking strategies in order to be successful and made connections to learning that we’ll do this year!

Miscellaneous:

• Early release on Friday, September 14.
• Sack lunch will be available; students may order in the morning when they arrive.
• Staff book study for the 2018-19 school year is GROWTH MINDSET COACH. It is a month by month guide that helps us shift our teacher and student thinking to a GROWTH mindset approach to learning.  Each month, we’ll introduce a new GROWTH MINDSET PHRASE to our students and expand their beliefs about their own ability to learn through practice, mistakes, failures and more practice.  This months phrase is above — Everyone Can Learn.  For more info, click the link included above!

Math: We are getting started on Unit 1: Adding and Subtracting with Fractions

ELA: We are working on establishing our reader’s workshop and building agency and independence as readers. In writing, we’re starting our first unit on writing a memoir.

Social Studies: Unit 1: Our Government

Science: Our science this year will be inquiry-based. We’ll start by building routines and learning about scientific and collaborative practices.