5th Grade Reading Buddies are lots of fun!

INFO- March 16-20

*Encouragement is our virtue for March.

*Agendas and Take-Home Folders need to go home and back each day. Also, please sign your child's agenda each day.

*Weekly homework packets go home on Monday and need to be completed and returned by Friday morning.
*If there is a behavior concern, a THINK Sheet and/or discipline report will be going home with your child.
*Log your reading minutes for March Book-IT. Calendars are due at the end of the month. There are also weekly March school-wide calendars. Feel free to log the same minutes on both. March is reading month. If you'd like to be a guest reader in the classroom, please let me know!

*Upcoming Events:
Monday, March 16: Elementary Music Program in the evening
Monday, March 23-Friday, March 27: Reading Month- details to follow
Friday, April 3-10: Spring Break, No School

MATH (March 16-20)
CH 6 objectives this week: Introducing Comparison Bars, Comparison Bars & Comparing Language, Solving Compare Problems, Mathematical Practices  **We will have a data assessment coming up the following week.   
**Quarter 3 EB Groups are focusing on Measurement and Data Objectives.**

READING (March 16-20)
Amazing Words: hibernate, temperature, freeze, weary, migrate, autumn, bitterly

**Spelling Words (March 16-20)
faster, fastest, taller, tallest, shorter, shortest, sadder, saddest, bigger, biggest
 

Characters, Setting, Plot, Main Ideas & Details, Draw Conclusions - Where Are My Animal Friends?

*Verbs* & Contractions with NOT

EBLI Lessons

Science

We continue to focus on LIVING things and ECOSYSTEMS

March 9-13 INFO

*Encouragement is our virtue for March.

*Agendas and Take-Home Folders need to go home and back each day. Also, please sign your child's agenda each day.

*Weekly homework packets go home on Monday and need to be completed and returned by Friday morning.
*If there is a behavior concern, a THINK Sheet and/or discipline report will be going home with your child.
*Log your reading minutes for March Book-IT. Calendars are due at the end of the month.  There are also weekly March school-wide calendars.  Feel free to log the same minutes on both.  March is reading month.  If you'd like to be a guest reader in the classroom, please let me know! 

*Upcoming Events:
Monday, March 2- Friday, March 13: Swim Lessons at Aquatic Center 9:45-10:30
Monday, March 16: Elementary Music Program in the evening
Monday, March 23-Friday, March 27: Reading Month- details to follow
Friday, April 3-10: Spring Break, No School

MATH (March 9-13)
CH 6 objectives this week: Organize Categorical Data, Use Stair Steps to Represent Data, Data Sets with Three Categories & Introduce Comparison Bars. 
**Quarter 3 EB Groups are focusing on Measurement and Data Objectives.**

READING (March 9-13)
Amazing Words: cycle, insect, flurries, fragile, develop, rearrange, emerge, vessel

**Spelling Words (March 9-13)
her, first, bird, girl, burn, were, shirt, fur, hurt, sir
 

Characters, Setting, Plot, Main Ideas & Details, Fact/Opinion - I'm a Caterpillar

*Verbs*: am, is was, were, is

EBLI Lessons

Science

We continue to focus on LIVING things and ECOSYSTEMS.

INFO March 2-6

*Encouragement is our virtue for March.

*Agendas and Take-Home Folders need to go home and back each day. Also, please sign your child's agenda each day.

*Weekly homework packets go home on Monday and need to be completed and returned by Friday morning.
*If there is a behavior concern, a THINK Sheet and/or discipline report will be going home with your child.
*Log your reading minutes for March Book-IT. Calendars are due at the end of the month.

*Upcoming Events: 
Monday, March 2- Friday, March 13: Swim Lessons at Aquatic Center 9:45-10:30
Monday, March 16: Elementary Music Program in the evening 
Friday, April 3-10: Spring Break, No School 

MATH (March 2-6)
We will be wrapping up Chapter 5 with a quiz on Monday, review on Tuesday, and our chapter assessment on Wednesday.  The end of the week will be CH 6: Explore Representing Data & Organize Categorical Data. 
**Quarter 3 EB Groups are focusing on Measurement and Data Objectives.**

READING (March 2-6)
Amazing Words: gardener, sprout, shade, destroy, nature, dim, sprinkling, humongous

**Spelling Words (March 2-6)
plan, planned, help, helped, drop, dropped, call, called, ask, asked
 

Characters, Setting, Plot, Main Ideas & Details - Frog and Toad Together

*Verbs*

EBLI Lessons

Science

We continue to focus on LIVING things and ECOSYSTEMS. 

INFO Feb. 23-27

*COURAGE is our virtue for February.

*Agendas and Take-Home Folders need to go home and back each day. Also, please sign your child's agenda each day.

*Weekly homework packets go home on Monday and need to be completed and returned by Friday morning.
*If there is a behavior concern, a parent note/e-mail, THINK Sheet and/or discipline report will be going home with your child.
*Log your reading minutes for February Book-IT. Calendars are due at the end of the month.

*Upcoming Events:
Monday, March 2- Friday, March 13: Swim Lessons at Aquatic Center 9:45-10:30
Monday, March 16: Elementary Music Program in the evening 
Friday, April 3-10: No School, Spring Break 

MATH (Feb. 23-27)
Chapter 5: Numbers Through 120, Add & Subtract Tens, Add & Subtract Multiples of 10, Mathematical Practices. Chapter Test is coming up early the following week. 
**Quarter 3 EB Groups are focusing on Measurement and Data Objectives.**

READING (Feb. 23-27)
Amazing Words: features, natural, tumble, nibble, wriggle, mature, swoop, crumple, nudges

**Spelling Words (+es): fix, fixes, class, classes, wish, wishes, kiss, kisses, bus, buses

Characters, Setting, Plot, Main Ideas & Details - Class Pet

*Verbs*

EBLI Lessons

Science

 Our focus is ECOSYSTEMS.

INFO for Feb. 17-20

*COURAGE is our virtue for February. 

*Agendas and Take-Home Folders need to go home and back each day. Also, please sign your child's agenda each day.

*Weekly homework packets go home on Monday and need to be completed and returned by Friday morning. 
*If there is a behavior concern, a THINK Sheet and/or discipline report will be going home with your child.
*Log your reading minutes for February Book-IT. Calendars are due at the end of the month.

*Upcoming Events:
Friday, Feb. 13: No School, Staff PD Day
Monday, Feb. 16: No School, President's Day 
Monday, March 2- Friday, March 13: Swim Lessons at Aquatic Center 9:45-10:30
Monday, March 16: Elementary Music Program in the evening 

MATH (Feb. 17-20)
Chapter 5:  Problems with Three Addends, Count with Groups of 10, Numbers Through 120. 
**Quarter 3 EB Groups are focusing on Measurement and Data Objectives.**

READING (Feb. 17-20)
Amazing Words: attempt, time line, flatter, lovely, event, famous, correct, common

**Spelling Words (nk/ng): bank, rink, sunk, trunk, blank, pink, bring, sang, wing, rang

Characters, Setting, Plot, Main Ideas & Details - Ruby In Her Own Time

*Verbs*

EBLI Lessons

Science

This week we will wrap a unit on the 3 States of Matter: Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Then we will begin to discuss ECOSYSTEMS.

Outdoor Discovery Center