This week in Room 33! Oct. 28-Nov. 1

This Week in Room 33! Oct. 28- Nov. 1

Important Reminders:

• Please turn in pumpkin run permission slips. We will run from 11:40-12:00 on 10/31
• The Fall Festival Party, 10/31,  begins at 1:40 with our parade, followed by the party.
• Please return the BizTown permission slip. 
• No school this Friday 11/1

What to expect this week...

ELA: We are still working on our memoirs and revising focusing on the structure,  internal and external timeline, and the theory behind our memoir. 

Students are encouraged to continue reading choice books but can also spend their time reading nonfiction texts! There are so many awesome websites to explore and r ead from--- curiosity.com, wonderopolis.org, newsela.com, readworks.org, tweentribune.com, and dogonews.com! Students can also access Myon and Brainpop from their Clever account.

STEAM: 

We will continue to work on adding and subtracting decimals this week and using models and base-ten blocks. 

We will continue our “Biz Town” lessons, exploring and discussing our community and economy and work and careers. We will with a focus on taxes, private and public goods, interest and skills, and applying for a job! 

Fall Festival 2019-Action Needed!

With our new district name badge system, we would like to pre-print name badges for all visitors who plan to attend the Fall Festival. Please fill out the form below if you plan on attending the Fall Festival so that we can have you checked in and ready to go when you arrive. If you have not scanned your driver's license yet this school year in the front office, you will need to come in anytime prior to October 30th so we can pre-scan your ID. We have the capability to scan that day but lines may be long.

Please fill out this form for EACH guest attending regardless if they have been scanned yet.

Attending Fall Festival? Click Here!

Fall Festival Costume Guidelines

As you are preparing your child for their school party, please follow these guidelines when choosing a costume.

• We discourage colored hair spray, but if you feel it is in keeping with the character, please spray hair before coming to school. No aerosol cans are allowed on the bus or at school.

• Costumes should not be graphically violent such a bloody masks, stab wounds, or other injuries.

• Costumes should not be offensive to any religion, race, or culture.

• Face masks that cover the entire face are prohibited for safety reasons.

• Costumes should not make any reference to substances that are prohibited for sale to minors.

• Costumes should not depict any activity that would otherwise be considered a crime or illegal act.

• Absolutely no weapons--real or pretend--or props that could cause injury. This includes, but it not limited to, knives, spears, hatchets, guns, and swords.

This week in Room 33! Oct. 21-24

This Week in Room 33! Oct. 21-24

We will be heading to Biz Town on November 13th. The permission slip was sent home last week.
Please return by November 6th. 

Today we will be having our hearing checked! 

There is no school this Friday, October 25th.

Unity Day-WEAR ORANGE on Wednesday!

Lindbergh Schools is proud to participate in Unity Day, which focuses on building community through
kindness, promoting acceptance and encouraging inclusion. This Wednesday, Oct. 23, we are asking
Lindbergh students, parents, staff and community to unite in support of a community without bullying.
Wear orange, spread kindness, and help build our Lindbergh community. Use the hashtag #FlyKind, and
you might see your photos shared on Lindbergh social media pages!

This week in 5th grade…

ELA: We are drafting our memoirs this week, and adding depth to our writing by
asking ourselves, “What is the deeper theme or message we want to convey?” We are
studying a variety of structures and using figurative language to help create depth.
We are learning that memoirs are a hybrid type of writing with narrative AND
expository portions.  Students are continuing their book club discussions, I am so proud
of their in depth conversations, they are really growing as learners.   

Now that we are starting the 2nd quarter, students will be reflecting on their reading
lives, and setting new goals. Has your student showed you their “40 Book Challenge”
Google slides??? Check out THIS article we will be discussing this week to boost our
reasons “why” we read! We also spend time meeting with a teacher to read and discuss
a variety of texts. We are using sites like NewsELA and ReadWorks.

We will continue our “Biz Town” lessons, exploring and discussing financial literacy.
Students are learning about the role of a bank, and what it means to hold a checking
account, and keep a transaction register! 

STEAM:   We will begin our study of adding and subtracting decimals (chapter 5).
We will be rounding decimals to estimate sums and will also show how to add decimals
with and without models. We will be blending this chapter with Biz Town, for balancing
a checkbook is all about adding and subtracting decimals. 

This Week in Room 33! Oct. 14-17

This Week in Room 33! Oct. 14-17

Important Reminders

P.E. Skating Permission Slips are due this week

Parent Volunteer Form for JA Biztown Field Trip (DUE 10/17) : Click HERE!

The JA Biztown form is only for those parents who wish to volunteer! We only

have a few volunteers as of now and are in need of many more.  Please consider

volunteering if you are able. Thank you! 

No school on Friday!!

The following is a BIG question we are exploring, discussing, and trying to answer

in 5th grade. Encourage your student to continue the discussion with YOU at

home!

How can we celebrate diversity and welcome everyone into our
community?

Over the past month we have studied the stories of diverse cultures and had many
conversations about how to celebrate and how to welcome and include others not
only into our classroom, but into our country. This focus has been weaved into
almost every aspect of our day and will continue to be for the remainder of first
quarter.
If you have a chance to talk to your child about this question, having empathy,
spreading kindness, and how to make our community a better place, I hope you do.
Your kids have incredible ideas and they are showing us each and every day how
KIND they can to be to their peers regardless of ability, whether it be academic,
social, emotional, or physical. 

This week in 5th grade…

ELA: It is time for students to celebrate their narratives at home with families!
Students are responsible for completing a self-evaluation checklist (we will be
working on this Monday), add it to their Google site writing portfolio, and share
their glows and grows with YOU (by THURSDAY)! Students will be setting goals as we
embark on our 2nd piece this week.
We will challenge ourselves to reflect on our lives and the world around us as we write
our very own MEMOIR!  A memoir is a hybrid kind of writing, including elements of both
personal narrative and personal essay. We will be raising the level of our craft by adding
in more reflection, opinions, and thoughts. We will then be supporting our thoughts with
evidence in the form of personal stories!

We are excited to also begin our “Biz Town” lessons as we explore and discuss Financial
Literacy. 

STEAM:   We are wrapping up our unit on division. We will be working on a performance
event to showcase their understanding on this topic tomorrow.  I cannot wait for
students to showcase our final project, within our  Food to Sun unit  this Thursday!
The “4 C’s” (Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, Communication) are booming
within this project.

This Week in Room 33! Oct. 7-11

This Week in Room 33! Oct. 7-11

P.E. Skating Permission Slip will be out this week

Parent Volunteer Form for JA Biztown Field Trip (DUE 10/17) : Click HERE!

The JA Biztown form is only for those parents who wish to volunteer! We only have a few volunteers as of now and are in need of many more.  Please consider volunteering if you are able. Thank you! 

The following is a BIG question we are exploring, discussing, and trying to answer in 5th grade. Encourage your student to continue the discussion with YOU at home!

How can we celebrate diversity and welcome everyone into our community?

Over the past month we have studied the stories of diverse cultures and had many conversations about how to celebrate and how to welcome and include others not only into our classroom, but into our country. This focus has been weaved into almost every aspect of our day and will continue to be for the remainder of first quarter. If you have a chance to talk to your child about this question, having empathy, spreading kindness, and how to make our community a better place, I hope you do. Your kids have incredible ideas and they are showing us each and every day how KIND they can to be to their peers regardless of ability, whether it be academic, social, emotional, or physical. 

This week in 5th grade…

ELA: This week, we will continue to look at our reading with a writer’s eye as we continue our narrative pieces from last week. We will be noticing and discussing dialogue, figurative language, and commas in our reading AND in our writing. We will continue to ensure the heart of our story (message or lesson) is being revealed to our reader through our storytelling. We will finish the week by spending time revising/editing for organization, craft, and mechanics in our piece.  On Friday, we will celebrate all of our hard work! 

STEAM: This week we are problem solving, estimating quotients with 2 digit divisors, and dividing by 2 digit divisors. We are also in the middle of our final project from our science unit, Food to Sun. The students had to write a 3 paragraph informational piece explaining the main components of our unit, and how it relates to their pizza farm. Then, they get to make a prototype of their pizza farm. Thank you for all the recycled donations, the students are very excited to begin this part of their project.