This Week in Room 33! Aug. 26-30

 

Parents, 

Please sign up for your parent-teacher “intake” conference using THIS LINK! Please read the following from Dr. Moehlmann’s Principal News e-Note. To prepare for this parent-led conference, please click HERE for a survey (answers are only shared with me). We can use these questions to guide our discussion. I truly appreciate all of the information you give, so we can work together to better meet your child’s needs this school year! 

The first six weeks of the year are crucial as we build relationships and develop communities in our classrooms and school. Parents and family members are highly important to this process, and we are excited to invite you in to participate in our INTAKE parent/teacher conference format on Thursday, September 10th and 12th from 4:00-7:00 p.m. These intake conferences are our opportunity to learn from YOU, as the experts, about your child. The conversations will support our home-school partnership and further develop the two-way communication that is so important to our collective efforts with Lindbergh students.

What is an intake conference?

An opportunity to- gain useful information about students from parents, establish partnerships, set goals for the school year, allow one-to-one communication

How do you prepare for this conference?

Think about your students- strengths, opportunities for growth, interests, motivators, how do these areas impact your child’s learning and interactions with peers?

What to expect this week in 5th grade...

STEAM: We are so excited to begin our first science unit, “From Sun to Food”, AND continue our first unit on place value this week. Students will work on creating Seesaw videos showing their learning, participate in small group instruction, and will be work in ALEKS (our individualized online program that will roll out starting in September) within our math workshop. We will be... 

• Representing fractions as decimals and decimals as fractions 
• Writing both fractions and decimals in word form 
• Comparing decimals using greater than, less, than, or equal to symbols 

Our overall goal in math this week will be becoming comfortable with place value from the millions, down to the thousandths.

ELA: This week we will really focus on WRITING about our reading! We will use our ELA notebooks to help us push the level of our reading and thinking. We will try to snap our work every so often in Seesaw! We are kicking off our first writing unit (literary essays) by watching a short video clip about a football (soccer) team and the hardships they overcame during their journey to success.  As we watch the video clip, we will be practicing our research skills by pulling out important information and writing it down as we watch. We will be emphasizing the difference between scribbling down notes after reading (or viewing VS. BEGINNING our research with the goal of writing something down in mind.  Our class will learn how to recognize great evidence when we see it and use it to prove our point!

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