This Week in Room 33! Aug. 24-28

Happy 1st full week of school! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend and had wonderful things to say about their first 2 days of school last week. I cannot wait to continue getting to know everyone- we have such a fantastic class of 5th grade leaders!

*Parents- If you have not already done so, please fill out THIS SURVEY. I am LOVING the responses so far and am so thankful that you took the time to complete this for me! 

This week we will continue to build our classroom community and learn how our classroom runs. Students will apply and be "hired" for their new classroom leader job. All students are responsible for being the LEADER in their job area as well as LEADERS in our school! 

As a reminder, at Lindbergh students are allowed to bring in their own devices to school (i.e.- kindles, iPods, tablets, etc.) and use for educational purposes during the school day. We love using technology in our classroom and the more devices, the better! Make sure your student knows how to download apps- the apps we use most in our classroom are listed under the parents tab (or click HERE).

Here's what else to expect this week in 5th grade:

Science- We will begin the set up of our science notebooks and learn important terms and tools that we will be using in science investigations and activities this year!

Writing- We will introduce our writer's workshop this week and begin using our writer's notebooks! We will be doing a lot of writing this year and this week's focus will be on beginning to build our writing stamina.

Reading- We will be discussing how our reading workshop runs and begin our "Read to Self" training! We will explore what read to self looks like and will begin building our stamina so we can read for long periods of time. The absolute BEST way to become a better reader and to learn to enjoy reading is to dive in and READ! We will be discussing how to choose good fit books as well as the importance of REAL reading (THINKING while reading) vs. FAKE reading (reading the words without thinking of the text's meaning).

Math- We will be learning how our math workshop is run and begin to explore our math stations.  

Social Studies- We will begin Social Studies next week!

Homework- I will be posting homework under the Daily Homework page on this blog (top tab). This 1st week we will build our homework stamina just like we will be building our stamina in school. It is important to help your child find a good time and place to complete homework each night. Thank you for all of your support at HOME! :)

I cannot wait to talk more with you about our classroom on Curriculum Night! Please mark your calendars and plan to attend on Thurs., Sept. 3rd from 7-7:30 in our room.

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Have a WONDERFUL week!!!