This Week in Room 33! Nov. 18-22

This Week in Room 33! Nov. 18-22

Reminders for the week

• Fine Arts Night and PTG Meeting: We would like to invite all families to join us on Tuesday, November 19th at 6:00 p.m. for our 1st ever Fine Arts Night and PTG meeting.

• Keep sending in Helping Hands items! This week is cleaning products!

• There are still lots of items on the Giving Tree that are needing to be purchased. Please check out this link to see if you can help some of Concord's families.

• This Friday, November 22 is Wacky Day!  Wear your wacky clothes, hair, socks, or anything you can think of!  Bring in some change or a couple dollars to raise money for helping hands.

Chain of Thankfulness 

Dear Families,

It is a great time of year to reflect on how lucky we are and think about what we are thankful for. On Tuesday, your child will bring home strips of construction paper for members of your family to fill out. We are creating a chain of thankfulness for our classroom and we would love for you to join us! 

Please write one thing you are thankful for on the strip of paper with your name on the back. This is not a required assignment, but more so a fun way to involve you in our classroom.
Thank you for your time and I hope to see some links come back soon!

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

ELA: This week we will be  studying the causes of the Civil War for our next writing unit. Students will spend each day on a different topic within the Civil War. We will use articles, videos, and books to cover each topic. The students will stop each day to reflect on the topic and write about it’s impact.  We are focusing on overcoming challenges of reading complex texts such as using context and morphology to figure out tricky vocabulary, determining main ideas/summarizing, noticing text structures, and monitoring our own reading. 

STEAM:  We are excited to begin multiplying decimals!  We will focus on multiplying decimals with models, multiplying decimals by whole numbers and decimals, as well as by the powers of 10.  In science, we will study the Earth’s systems and how they interact with each other. 

This week in Room 33! Nov. 11-15

This Week in Room 33! Nov. 11-15

Reminders this week: 

This week is paper products for Helping Hands.

Wednesday is our site visit to BizTown, each student will need to bring their lunch.

The students may dress up according to their job, if they wish.

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

ELA: Students will begin researching causes of the Civil War for our next writing unit. We will be spending the beginning of our unit  learning about the people and events that impacted the Civil War. We are learning how nonfiction texts are getting more complex as we are moving up in reading levels- the main ideas are implicit and the vocabulary is more difficult. We are learning strategies to overcome these challenges! 

STEAM:  We are about ready for the big site visit to BizTown! The students our focusing on filling out their checkbooks, figuring out the payroll tax on their paychecks at BizTown, and making sure their business are ready to open up! On Friday, we will start chapter 6,  multiplying and dividing decimals! We will first be multiplying decimals by whole numbers and then by  decimals by decimals.

In science, In this unit, students will learn about Earth’s systems and natural resources, ways that humans use natural resources, human impacts on Earth systems, and how humans can change behaviors to reduce impacts on the environment. We are testing our wind turbines, and redesigning our prototypes to establish a wind turbine that raises our weighted buckets  the fastest. 

This week in Room 33! Nov. 4-8

This Week in Room 33! Nov. 4-8

Thank you to everyone that helped to make our Halloween/Fall Party so special, the kids had a blast

Reminders this week: 

***Jingles for Jammies is Tuesday 11/5!!

***Helping Hands kicks off this week! Bring in those food items:)

***Veterans' Day Assembly is next Monday!!.

Biztown Permission Slip: CLICK HERE!  

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

ELA: Students are revising and editing their memoirs. They are due this Friday. The students are looking at adding more figurative language into their pieces and using the checklist to guide them as they revise.  Students are wrapping up their third round of book clubs (optional) and will be making a kahoot for their book club members to recap their discussions. 

STEAM:  Please ask your student to show you their math “Check My Progress” assessment from Wednesday  by logging into their Gmail. They did a great job with adding and subtracting decimals! We are ready to start chapter 6 next week- multiplying and dividing decimals! In the meantime we are getting ready for our site visit to BizTown. Students will be assigned their job and will begin working with their cohorts to get ready for the day.