5th Grade Newsletter- January 11th

Upcoming Dates

Jan 11 - Camp Pendalouan Chaperone Forms go home

Jan 18 - Camp Pendalouan Chaperone Form Due 

Jan 25 - Popcorn Day

Jan 26 - Mother/Son Bowling

Feb 1 - 5th Grade Health Video/Early Release 

Feb 4-5 - Winter Break-No School

Feb 12 - Symphony Field Trip + Pizza Ranch Lunch

Feb 16 - Father/Daughter Bowling

Mar 1 - Read-a-thon

Mar 4-8 - School-Wide Change Wars (save your change!)

Science Donations

Thank you to everyone that signed up to bring in items for science class next week!!! Please send them in on Monday morning if you haven’t already.  Thanks Again!!! 

Background Checks

Please do a background check if you will be visiting or volunteering in your child's classroom.  Starting in 2019 we will request a reservation prior to class parties in order to check background entries.   Thank you for your compliance.  Here is the  link to fill out now if you haven’t already.

Camp Pendalouan Can Drive

Thank you for another great response to our 5th grade can drive.  We will be accepting money from can returns on Monday, but no cans.  We will communicate totals when we know them.  Thank you to all the parents that have helped with the undesirable job of returning cans!  We could not do this without you!

Valentine Cards

We will be passing out Valentine cards on Thursday, Feb. 14th. It is optional; however, we ask that your child hands one out to everyone in the class if he/she participates. Then for the party, the 5th graders will be planning it. Along with the snacks they plan, they will pick a movie to watch. We will give them some movie choices that are either G or PG rating. Please let us know if you have ideas of some good movies or any concerns.

Be. Kind. Service Project 

Our 5th graders will have the opportunity to use their time/talents to venture out and shovel some driveways in our school’s neighborhood later on this winter. More details will come soon!

Assessments

If your child receives a 1 on any type of assessment, please do one of the following: sign the assessment and send it back to school the next day OR write a note in your child’s agenda stating you saw the assessment.  Thank you for helping us in this matter.  

Math Help?

We encourage students to take their math notebook and textbook home to help with their homework. That way they can use them as a resource if they forgot how to do their homework.   If they forgot their materials or need additional help, the following links can be used:

5th Grade Homework Help OR http://elemmath.jordandistrict.org/5th-math-expressionslearnzillion-by-lesson/

4th Grade Homework Help (might be helpful for review) OR

http://elemmath.jordandistrict.org/4th-grade-math-expressions-learnzillion-corellation/

What’s happening in… 

Reading:  Students are continuing their focus on Informational texts, their structures, and the special features they contain.

Soc. St.: Students are studying Colonization and Settlement.  

Writing: Next week, we will circle back and revisit narrative writing for our next unit.   

Math: Students will be finishing unit 4, Multiplication: whole numbers, decimals, and powers of ten, next week and then will be taking the unit assessment.  

Science: Students will be starting our next unit, CH-CH-CHanges, it’s about physical and chemical properties.