HELLO FROM 5TH GRADE

Academics:
Reading/Writing:
Students were assessed in reading and writing this week. Their writing assessment this week was to write a persuasive letter to the principal in favor of a longer lunch break.
Students did some AIMs practice reading as well.

In grammar, students are learning about prepositions and prepositional phrases, conjunctions, possessive nouns and good word choice.

Spelling: This week’s words focused on onomatopoeia... words that imitate sounds.

Vocabulary: Math terminology was the focus this week. The test will be next Tuesday, March 15. The words are geometric solid, vertex, edge, face, net, sphere, cylinder, rectangular prism, cube, triangular pyramid and rectangular pyramid

Math:
Saxon Math concepts this week: Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions, and probability.
We continue to review prime numbers, graphing, fractions and percents. We are still reviewing math concepts in preparation for the AIMS test in April.

S.S.- Students worked on identifying information from an informational article.
With so much time devoted to science fair projects last quarter and AIMS testing preparation, we will be focusing much more on social studies in the 4th quarter. We will be studying American History beginning with exploration and colonization.

Counseling: Mrs. Russell worked with the students on their personality traits.

Notes to Parents:
Report Cards:
Report cards will come home on Wednesday. Please praise your child for a job well done in his/her areas of strength, and then ask your child what he/she could do to improve deficient subject areas.

Attendance: Please remember that class time is a valuable time for all students. You never know what a discussion might hold or what questions a fellow classmate might ask to make a lesson clearer. By missing part of a day, or a whole day, students miss valuable lesson concepts which they may need for a follow-up lesson or for a testing situation. Missing class time often makes the student feel lost and disorganized as it creates gaps in their learning. While I understand there are often extenuating circumstances, I am hoping students are on time and in their seats the entire day 

Reminder: Grade books closed on Friday in order to prepare grades for the 3rd quarter report cards. If your child has late work, those assignments must still be completed, and the missing assignment will be reflected in the 3rd quarter grades.

Can you help? We are still in desperate need of Kleenex, markers and colored pencils.

Important Dates:
March:
11-End of 3rd Quarter. All work must be in.

14- Dentist

16- Report Card Day. ½ day with no lunch or after school

17-20- Spring Break

22- Cookie Dough Delivered

22- Skate Night

25- Mother/Son Dance

29- Spring pictures. These will only be taken for those who want to order pictures.