President Test Tomorrow

Thank you for your donations to Riley Children's Hospital this week. 

tonight:  math spiral/ sheet
               be ready for president test through Theodore Roosevelt tomorrow

Monday is our first applied skills portion of ISTEP.  It will be a 50 minute math test starting at 9:30. 

Turn in Reading Time Tomorrow for this Week

math spiral (yes, I printed the wrong week, but still good practice)

sent home ixl.com letter today with your child's password.  This would be GREAT review for math skills at home. 

president test Friday

Jackie & Me summary due by end of week

Hat and Crazy Hair Day

Tomorrow:  tutoring after school
                     tier 3 play practice/ need to have parts memorized
                     spelling workbook/test
                     spiral math

Thank you for donating baking objects for our 5th grade basket.  We are hoping to have the most objects so that our 5th graders will all get free carnival tickets.

Meet Our Latest Math Royalty

                                                  King Ethan, Prince Dakota, and Duke AJ

Tutoring for this week is Wednesday and Thursday after school until 4:10.

Tonight:  practice spelling test to keep your group from losing an X
                Spiral Math/ matching terms sheet
                Be sure to get your hour of reading homework in before Thursday.

2 Hour Delay Tomorrow

Hope weather let's us get our Friday in tomorrow.  Hate to make up those days when it's nice and warm.

Please review Saxon 15A at home.  We've gone through each question, but can't have too much review sometimes.  Please keep checking Fab Fours too.

We have finished our next page of presidents.  We'll be having our next test next week.

Tonight:  spiral math

We're in need of items for our baking theme basket.  If possible, please try to donate an item or two.  Thanks!

Sorry I missed you yesterday.  The internet wasn't working earlier, and then I had to leave for an appointment right after school.  Hopefully you remembered that spelling workbook pages were due, including the bubble review page.

Tomorrow is the day we check to see that everyone read their one hour of homework this week.

We have math Saxon 15A as a practice before taking the test on Friday and Spiral.

For the carnival, our class is in charge of filling a basket with the baking theme.  That would include cake mixes, measuring spoons, etc...

Enjoy Your Long Weekend

For those not getting your reading hour in this week, be sure to catch up this weekend.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Revolutionary Quiz tomorrow

finish math spiral

Valentine's Day Party Tomorrow

Anyone is welcome to bring treats, drinks, plates, napkins, and Valentines tomorrow.  If we have extra, we'll just spread the joy throughout the week.

Friday will be our Revolutionary War quiz, including famous characters.

tonight:

spiral math

reading hour in composition book needs to be checked tomorrow

We took our Acuity C for reading/language arts today.  We'll be looking at the Acuity tests now that they are over to help pinpoint our weaknesses.  I'll be able to see which questions each student missed as well.

Had a great group of kids staying for tutoring tonight.  We worked on measuring by inches and centimeters (tasty pretzels in the process..), finding median, mode, and mean, and classifying triangles.  We'll be splitting our time with reading/language arts as well. 

Tonight's homework:  math spiral/ please look over corrected 14A before taking the test 14B tomorrow.  Spelling test/workbook is due tomorrow.

Planning on a Revolutionary War quiz on Thursday that includes our famous people match-up.

Acuity C tomorrow
tutoring starts tomorrow

math 14A, spiral
practice spelling test tonight
please go over Fab Four problems (are supposed to be stapled in agenda each evening)
writing prompt today:  Convince your friend why they should help at home.

Have a Great Weekend

Let me know on Monday if anyone else is planning on staying on Tuesday and Thursday for remediation.  (Letters were sent home.)

Be watching for Fab Four in agendas.

We Enjoyed a Great Visit with Our Chinese Guest Today

Ask your child about our great guest speaker today.  She was a great follow-up to our reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson!

Try to have paragraph comparing strengths and weaknesses of British Redcoats and Patriots finished tomorrow.  If lab is free, we will type on Word.  Remember any extra practice your child can have to practice typing for our online ISTEP test would be helpful. 

Lincoln crossword and lesson 6 questions are also due tomorrow.

please look at math spiral homework tonight.  We are practicing elapsed time on the back with the clocks.  We are seeing how much time elapsed between the first clock and the second.  Then, do the same with the second and third clock, etc...
We also worked on surface area in class today.  There are great online resources to practice these complex skills, including youtube videos that demonstrate them.

Next Tuesday is our last Acuity Language Arts test to prepare for ISTEP.  I have been looking at our data to see what standards each student did not pass on Acuity B.  I'll compare that data to what we get on Tuesday.  We will be working very hard in the next 3 weeks to do as much one-on-one as possible specifically looking at those weak skills.  You can also go on acuityathome.com to look at your child's scores with their password.  There are several resources for them to practice at home as well.  (I haven't logged on using their passwords, so tell me if you try and it doesn't work for you.)

Presidents test tomorrow/ gave students questions today to know how to study

Guest speaker tomorrow afternoon from China

Need to have read for one hour by tomorrow for this past week.

spiral math

Please check over paragraph on comaring the strengths and weaknesses of Redcoats and Patriots so we can begin typing it on Word tomorrow

Also check over Fab Four sheet stapled in agenda...either give your child a pat on the back, or please help them master the skill.  Be watching for Fab Fours each evening in agenda.

Spelling workbook pages/test

prepare for social studies test on Thursday or Friday (will include important president trivia, pictures, matching historical events to description, early Revolutionry War events)

math spiral/ look over 13A to be prepared for 13B tomorrow

have read for at least one hour by Thursday

Spelling practice test
Reading for at least one hour by Thursday
Math spiral/ Saxon 13A
add Lincoln to our presidents/ test hopefully either Thursday or Friday this week (over 1st 3 pages)

Tomorrow is our Acuity C for Social Studies

Congratulations to this week's royalty:  Queen Kendra, Prince Ethan, Duchess Kelsie

Just heard that our students will be taking their Applied Skills portion of ISTEP on the computer.  I hope all of our practice in the lab this year will help our kiddos feel comfortable during the test.  If you have a computer at home, it would be helpful to give your child some kind of writing prompt (for example it could be giving some evidence to support their description of the character they are reading about...)...maybe time them so that they get some practice in finishing in a limited time.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable weekend, and we can all get our batteries recharged for Monday.