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Week of AUGUST 25, 2025
Important DATES
Important DATES
August 28: Back to School Night (See schedule below)
September 1: Labor Day (No School)
September 15-19: Book Fair
September 19: Ice Cream Social (after school hours)
October 6-14: Goal Setting Conferences
October 25: Halloween Fun Night
Click here for the yearlong school calendar
Back to School Night is THIS Thursday! The schedule for Thursday is as follows:
6:00 - 6:30 pm: Presentation of younger grades (TK-2nd grades)
6:30 - 6:45 pm: HSC Presentation (Barracuda Tank)
6:45 - 7:15 pm: Presentation of upper grades (3rd-5th grades)
Please join me from 6:45-7:15 pm in Room 5. I will share more about my teaching philosophy, information about our year-long curriculum, and what homework will look like this year. You will also hear from our resident teacher, Revathy Srinivasan. This is a night for parents only.
SOCIAL STUDIES
SOCIAL STUDIES
Last week students learned about the states in the Southwest region (only 4 states) and played a spirited Jeopardy game to review what we learned. On Monday, students will take a short quiz to see if they can identify the states, capitals, and state abbreviations in this region. This week we will learn about the Western states.
EARTH SCIENCE
EARTH SCIENCE
This week students will continue in the Earth Science unit Earth and Sun that we began last week. Students have learned that Earth's atmosphere is a mixture of gases with properties that change with distance above Earth's surface. This week students will design and conduct an experiment to investigate the effects of sunlight on different earth materials. If you would like to extend student learning at home, consider trying this home school connection activity.
Reading Workshop
Reading Workshop
Last week we started a novel study based on the book Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea. It's the story of a new fifth-grade teacher and seven of his students. Each section focuses on a different month of the school year, and each chapter is told through the voice of one of the seven students. It's a wonderful story about friendship, mentorship, overcoming adversity, and more. This week we read the September and October sections. Students will be taking a quiz on the reading from each week so that I can monitor their understanding of the story. Be sure to ask your child what he or she thinks of the book, and be on the lookout for the quizzes in upcoming Thursday envelopes!
Old, but still relevant news ...
GETTING TO KNOW YOUR CHILD
GETTING TO KNOW YOUR CHILD
Thank you to those of you who have already completed this form. If you haven't already, please complete this survey as a way to introduce me to you and your family. If you can please complete this by Friday, August 22, I would greatly appreciate it!
Unique to our class, I am asking students and families to please provide the following. Please bring the items below by Friday, August 22. Thank you to those of you who have already brought in supplies!
A set of headphones, labeled with your child’s name and placed in a ziploc bag. These headphones will be returned to you at the end of the school year.
Set of Crayola watercolor paints (If you were in my class last year, we have kept it for this year.)
Package of baby wipes
Package of disinfecting wipes (such as Seventh Generation brand)
Box of Kleenex
Hand sanitizer
Our class thrives with parent volunteers! Please complete this form to let me know if you are interested in helping out in the classroom this year.
This form also asks your preferences on format and time for the October conferences. Note that October conferences will be held October 7-15. After I have an idea of how many families prefer particular times of the day, I will create a sign up form.
We are currently in module 1, which focuses on place value to the thousandths place. Students will deepen their knowledge through a more generalized understanding of the relationships between and among adjacent places on the place value chart. Resources for Eureka Math unit 1 (including downloadable homework pages and parent tip sheets) can be found online here.
Pe, Music, ART, and LIbrary
Pe, Music, ART, and LIbrary
We have PE weekly on Tuesday mornings from 8:20 - 9:05 am with Miss Kelly (our new PE teacher). On Tuesdays, please make sure your child is wearing shoes in which they can run. I also recommend a hat and an extra water bottle for hot days.
We have Music on Friday afternoons from 1:10-1:55 pm. We have Art every other week on Tuesday mornings from 9:30 - 10:20 am beginning the week of August 18.
Our weekly visit to the school library is TBD.
Google Classroom
Google Classroom
This year, we will be managing some assignments and hand outs (such as study guides) on Google Classroom. Students will learn how to access Google Classroom this week. Please take some time to have your child login also from a home device and then please bookmark that page so that you will be to access it quickly when needed!
SCHOLASTIC BOOKS
SCHOLASTIC BOOKS
If you are looking for books for your family's library, please consider ordering from Scholastic Books. You can have books shipped directly to your home or to school. Every order earns points for our class, and points help us grow our classroom library. When using the Scholastic website, our class activation code is GKMNT. Place an order of $25 or more and you can pick a FREE $5 book (use code READS at checkout). Here is an online flyer.
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