Ms. Ahrens 5TH AND 6TH

9/21/26

Reading: Starting this week, your child will be bringing home their guided reading passage to practice. We read it every day in class and discuss comprehension questions, but now you can do it as well. We will still have the quiz every Friday. We will be finishing our text, Airborn, this week. Then we will start a play called "The Miracle of Spring," where each student will take on a role. 

Writing: Starting this week, your child will be bringing home a list of 10 spelling words every Monday. We will test on Friday. I encourage them to say each letter sound as they are spelling the word as it helps with the spelling process. In class, we will also be practicing our words. For writing, we will be working on creating a creature and writing about it. We will be using descriptive language so the reader can "see" our creature. Of course, capitals, punctuation, and complete sentences will also be a focus. 

Math: This week, we will be exploring unit rates and how they help us in everyday life. We will complete a project comparing grocery items to help us see the importance. Later this week, we will be completing the unit test. 

9/8/26- The beginning of the week is hard with lots of tired students. While I do understand, because many times I am tired too, we will continue working through our sleepiness with no naps. Please help your child get to bed on time every night. 

Reading/Language Arts- We will be starting our station groups this week. During stations, your child will meet with me daily to work on phonics skills needed to accuracy and fluent reading. They will also meet with a paraprofessional to work on reading a passage at their level working on accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. There will be a quiz on this passage, but I am waiting to see if we do that every week or everyother week. While working on their own they will engage in a reading or phonics based task as well as have time to practice their spelling words. At this point, I am trying to determine if we will work with our spelling words for 1 week or 2 weeks before getting new words. The spelling words link is above. 

During whole group, we are working on comprehension using the Into Reading textbook. Our first unit is What a Story, which focuses on a lot of fantasy text. We will also work on our writing skills during this time. We will engage in many different types of writing and project based writing. 

6th Math- We are continuing our work in Unit 1 with Ratios. We are relating it to working with recipes and needing to keep the ingredients at the same ratio so the recipe turns out correct. We will work on making a special treat soon making sure we keep the ratio consistent. After working on the conceptual understanding of a ratio, we will address unit rates. We will practice using a shopping comparison project to determine which is the better deal. 

8/31/26- It has been wonderful getting to know your child in class. We have done a lot of initial work to help me determine their reading level or math level. This week, we will be starting with some graded work. You can check grades in powerschool in real time. 

5th Math- We are in our first module addressing how math is everywhere and possible ways to solve problems. We will start working on place value next.

6th Math- We are working on ratios this week for our first module. Right now, we are working on the basics.

Reading/Language Arts- We will start stations/reading groups later this week. We will work on reading passages, phonics, word building, and spelling. Your child will also have spelling words, but not in the traditional sense where there will be a test every Friday. We will practice reading the words as words that are similar as well as practice spelling them in a variety of different ways during class. 

Library days will be Friday. We will go for the first time this week.