Parent-Teacher Conferences are this week. You should receive an email from the Sign Up Genius website to remind you of your conference time on either Monday, October 24th or Wednesday, October 26th. I look forward to meeting with you soon!
This week is Red Ribbon Week. Please click here for the schedule. Monday will be in support of Backstoppers and Officer Snyder.
The Book Fair continues through Thursday! Thank you very much for the change that was donated through the All for Books Fundraiser! Take a look at the books I was able to purchase for our classroom with the money that was donated:
Our field trip to Cahokia Mounds is on Thursday. Please make sure your child arrives to school on time, as we are leaving first thing in the morning. Children should also dress for the weather and wear comfortable walking shoes. We will return to school for lunch.
Our Halloween Parade will take place on Monday, October 31st. This year, 5th grade students will also have a special guest presentation following the parade. Please click this link for costume guidelines. HALLOWEEN COSTUME GUIDELINES.doc Also note that clown costumes are prohibited this year. Thank you for your cooperation!
School will be closed on November 7th and 8th for teacher conference compensation day and for Election Day.
Class Updates:
We have had a busy couple of weeks at Long! 5th Grade students participated in Ability Awareness Day. Students rotated to five presentations by Easter Seals, Access for All, and Life Bridge, among others. The kids had lots of fun learning about and interacting with support and therapy dogs from CHAMP Dogs.
In both reading and writing, we will be beginning new units in non-fiction. Students will be reading a variety of non-fiction texts and study how they are organized to teach information using text structures and text features. The children will be learning about research methods and note taking in order to write informational reports. We wrapped up our personal narrative unit with a pajama day celebration on Friday. Students were able to read each other's writing in the dark with flashlights and leave feedback for their peers on compliment sheets.
In math, we are currently in our unit covering division with whole numbers. We have been exploring the relationships between multiplication and division with fact families, practicing mental math strategies, and reviewing the steps to long division problems. We will be having a quiz this week on Wednesday on the first five lessons of Chapter 3. A study guide will be given out on Monday to help students prepare.
Students have been learning all about the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, Plains, Southwest, and Eastern Woodlands regions of the United States in social studies. We are now reviewing for a Chapter 2 Test on Wednesday. Students received a study guide on Friday. Chapter 2 Packets will also be due on Wednesday. To further explore our Native American Unit, the children are working in groups to engineer a variety of homes, including tepees, pueblos, and wigwams. Thank you for all of the donations of materials for students to use on their STEM projects. We spent last week planning and sketching designs and the groups have just started to build their homes. We will continue to work on them this week. It is fun to see their creativity and teamwork!
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