September News Letter

Learning is the discovery that something is possible. ~Fritz Perls

Extraordinary News

The first few weeks of school have flown by. Things in our classroom are going wonderfully. Everyone is getting along, staying on task, and working hard.

Stuck on Good Behavior

With good behaviors demonstrated in the classroom and completing assignment notebooks, students will have the opportunity to collect tape to fill up a poster. When the poster is filled the class will be allowed to stick me to a wall. “Stuck on Good Behavior”

What’s Going On

Everyday we start out doing daily oral language and working on our language and writing skills. In reading we are looking at Nature’s Fury and comprehension strategies. We started doing centers for reading,were we get to slit up into groups and work on practicing skills in reading comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, and fluency.
Every Monday will be taking a practice test for spelling and testing again Fridays. Lists are sent home for the next week on Friday.
In math we start off doing a word problem and then on some mental math skills that we may use daily in our lives.

AR Reading

Your child has the opportunity to gain points. Each book is worth a certain amount of points that a student reads. In order to get those points they must answer a few questions about the book on a computer program. Points will be tallied at the end of each month. The goal for our class is to individually read a minimum of 6points for the month of September.

FROG Folders

Fifth Grade
Remarkable
Organization
Goal

Our goal is to keep organized and to build on communication from home and school. These folders will have one pocket to write notes home and and another for you to write to me any notes or comments back. Any important papers or homework will also be kept in these folders. They are to be brought home every night. On Fridays they will need to be signed by a parent or guardian before being brought to school on Monday so I know that it is being looked at on occation. I hope that this folder will help on communication, also with students’ organizational skills, and problems with missing assignments and homework.

At Home

Homework isn’t given out every day. I try to have less than a half hour a night. Things I give them for homework are things that should be review or extra practice. Spelling is given out every Friday so they have a whole week to study. Some students have books to take home from the class library or the school library to read. I recommend that student who do not have homework parctice with a parent or friend multiplication facts, read for 15-20mins, practice their spelling, or even write a story.