Parent Helper Opportunity
The fifth grade teachers would like help in organizing their classroom libraries in a different way. We would like to label each book with its lexile score so that students can make better choices for independent reading. Selecting books at appropriate lexile levels will help students increase fluency and comprehension while reading books that are of high-interest to them. Please contact me if you are interested!
Subject Update:
- Spelling - The Lesson 6 pretest will be given on Tuesday. The students will be assigned homework during the week to practice their words, and a final test will be given Friday.
- English - Students will continue to work on their pyramid poems. We will also begin Unit 5 which focuses on capitalization and punctuation.
- Reading - We will continue to focus on the organization of non-fiction text and asking good questions before, during, and after reading to help us understand the text better. Students will also do some "word work" with homonyms and homographs. Reminder...1st Quarter "Memory Bag" Project is due Tuesday, October 16th - your student should be finishing his/her realistic fiction book, and beginning to work on the project.
- Science - The students are learning how energy is passed through an ecosystem. Next week, we will look at the "Pyramid of Energy" to understand how only a small portion of energy is actually passed on to the next organism in a food chain.
- Social Studies - We are learning about Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Ask your child how the Virginia Company of London helped get the Jamestown colony started.
- Mrs. Strong's Math Class -The students will continue working on multiplication of whole numbers and decimals. We will be working specifically with exponents and the use of exponents to write numbers in scientific notation.
Mark Your Calendar:
Oct. 8 - No School (Columbus Day)
Oct. 25 - Early Dismissal (11:00 a.m.)
Oct. 26 - End of 1st Quarter
