#10 This Week in 5th Grade

Hope you all had a fun Halloween, even though it's freezing! Huge shoutout to those of you who volunteered to plan/organize/run our Halloween Party - we had a great time!

Announcements/Important Dates

Cold Weather: Since it is so cold, please send your child with a coat , as well as gloves, a scarf, and/or a hat. If the temperature is at 20 degrees or above, students will be sent outside for recess (and will wait outside in the morning before entering the school). Please ensure that they are sent to school prepared for cold weather. If your child doesn't own a coat and you are unable to provide one for them right now, please email me and we can get you what your child needs through resources at the school :)

Monday November 11th: Veteran's Day Field Trip (See information below)

The 5th grade will be going on a field trip to the American Fork Tabernacle Monday November 11th. We have been invited to attend a community commemoration for Veterans Day. We will be walking from the school around 10:30 and we need to be in our seats no later than 10:50. It will be about an hour long (we will eat lunch at school when we get back). At the beginning of the school year, you all signed a universal field trip form to cover the field trips we would go on this year. If you have any issues with your child attending, please let me know via email.

**Volunteers: If there are any parents who would like to attend the commemoration and help us walk students over to the tabernacle, please fill out this Google Form. We have 2-3 available slots for parent volunteers. Please meet us at Forbes at 10:25 in my room (Room 156) to walk down with us. Thank you so much!


WHAT WE'RE LEARNING IN CLASS

Math: We are working hard on adding and subtracting decimals. We are especially focusing on how we use decimals in real life (i.e. money). This is a quick unit, and we will be taking our assessment next Tuesday which will cover rounding and adding and subtracting decimals using the standard algorithm and models.

Literacy (Reading & Comprehension): This upcoming week we will be working on theme. Theme is the overall message of a piece of literature. We will first look at common topics for theme (i.e. friendship, love, equality, hope, hard work). We will then determine the theme by asking ourselves 3 things:

1. What did the characters learn?

2. How did the character grow or change?

3. Why did the characters act this way?

Writing: This week we are focusing on writing summaries. We do what is called a "Key Word Summary." The steps for completing one look like the following:

1. Read the passage

2. Number the paragraphs

2. Read again and highlight key words and phrases

3. Write down key words and phrases on the key word notes sheet in the box that correlates with the paragraph

4. Use the key words and phrases to write a summary

Social Studies: The past couple of weeks we have been taking a close look at the different regions in the colonies. We read a fun article about Roanoke (click HERE if you would like to learn more about it). We are also learning about the climate, geography, and economy of the original 13 colonies.

CLASS NEEDS

Many of you donated to my Donor's Choose project. A HUGE thank you to all of you that did! My project was funded (yay!) and now we will have new stools, class sets of markers and skinny markers, pencils, and erasers. These are some classroom basics that we always need and are also always running out of :) Thanks again to those of you who donated to make it possible to get those supplies!

If you are wanting to make a donation to our class, we are in need of:

  • Black Expo dry erase markers
  • Tissues
  • Graph paper

Creepy Treats!

Roll a dice and follow the instructions to create a crazy pumpkin!

So many treats! The kids were in heaven.

My husband Cory came and ran one of the games at our party!