April 27th - May 1st

Wow! I can't believe that we're on Week 6 of Distance Learning! Thank you ALL for your continued support. I have been so impressed with the students who are getting on daily and working on their assignments. So glad we can get through this difficult time together!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Mandatory Monday Morning Meeting this Monday, April 27th!
        • How this will look:
            • Every Monday at 11 AM, I will be holding a morning meeting with my class via Zoom.
                • Please make sure you download Zoom, you can do that HERE. Students can also do it when they click on the link to join their first meeting. Students will need to put in a meeting ID and password that I put on Google Classroom every week by clicking the link on Google Classroom.
            • I will use this time to go over the week's assignments, answer questions, and say hi to the kids! The remaining time, I will leave for the kids to chat and catch up with each other.
            • Students need to be on time.
  • Please have students check their school email daily.
  • On Google Classroom, all assignments for the week will be under Week 5 - April 20th - 24th. There will be a weekly checklist to help you and your students to keep track of assignments for each day.
        • Students need to fill out the Class Check-In every time they login to do assignments. This will help us know who is getting on Google Classroom everyday, as well as help us see how our student's our doing! Students can access this on Google Classroom. They need to fill it out daily (Monday - Friday). I had about half the class get on this past week, and it was great! If everyone could fill it out when they log on, that would be so helpful.
  • Mrs. Chavez is doing a virtual library for 5th grade every Tuesday at 10:00! Join by clicking HERE.

WHAT WE'RE LEARNING THIS WEEK

Next week's schedule can be found HERE.

**Special Note about Grading: Participation is a HUGE part of students' grades during virtual learning. Those students who are actively participating online and completing their assignments will receive high scores. While we still want students to do their very best, we recognize the many challenges of distance learning - which is why we are putting more emphasis on participation and completion of assignments, rather than test scores.

Literacy: Students are learning how compare and contrast two main ideas of multiple texts, primarily informational.

Math: We are starting our geometry unit this week with an emphasis on volume!

Social Studies: We will be starting our Civil War Unit. We are going to keep Social Studies pretty low key so students do not get too overwhelmed. They will have 1-2 assignments a week.

Thanks again for all you are doing to help! Have a great weekend!

Love, Mrs. Cooper