Dear Fifth Grade Parents/Guardians,

Welcome back to Windber Elementary School! We are so excited to be working with you and your child this year! We wanted to introduce ourselves, and offer some information that will be helpful to you and your child about what the 5th grade experience is going to look like. 

Your Teachers/Classes

Although there are four teachers in 5th grade. Your child will work with just two. Ms. Fogle will teach ELA (English Language Arts) and Social Studies.  Mrs. Geiser will be your child’s Math and Science teacher. Students will be switching classrooms and will be expected to transport all of their classroom materials and Chromebooks in a bookbag from room to room.

Chromebooks

Each student will be provided a Chromebook and charger that they will be responsible for transporting to and from school each day. This will be an important learning tool used in each of the classrooms this year. Please make sure your child(ren)’s Chromebook is charged each evening for the following school day. Chromebooks must come to school each day and will go home each evening. The district does not have extra Chromebooks for students that may have forgotten them at home. If you would like to supply your child with headphones, earbuds, or a mouse, these would be permitted.

Materials

Along with Chromebooks and chargers, each student will be provided with the following classroom materials. These materials will stay in the student’s bookbag and must come to school with them each day. As stated above, we are having students keep all materials in their book bags that will be transported from class to class by them. Nothing will be kept in desks. We need your assistance in making sure these materials stay in your child(ren)’s bookbags and are not removed/left at home. Think of the backpack as a locker this year. Students will receive:

• 4 notebooks (ELA, Social Studies, Math, and Science)

• 3 folders (blue for ELA, yellow for Social Studies, and red for Math/Science)

• EM4 math journal

Students DO NOTneed to bring extra pencils boxes, notebooks, folders, binders, or anything else that may weigh their bookbags down unnecessarily.

Schedule

8:30 - 8:45 Opening/SEL

8:45 - 10:40  Rotation 1

10:40 - 11:20  ENCORE

11:20 - 1:15 Rotation 2

1:15 - 1:45 LUNCH

1:45 - 2:25  Rambler Time

2:25- 2:50  VARIOUS PLAY ACTIVITIES

2:50 - 3:10 Closing/Dismissal

3:10 - 3:50 Teacher Prep 

Snack  Due to having a later lunch time in our schedule, students are encouraged to bring an individually wrapped/packaged snack every day. They will be permitted to eat their snack in the morning during a time designated by their teacher. Any donations of extra snacks for students who may forget are welcome!

Commmnication

Communication is key to a successful school year. Please do not hesitate to contact us through the elementary office at (814) 467-5596 or our emails.

• blfogle@windberschools.org 

• lgeiser@windberschools.org 

To stay up to date on your child’s assignments and quizzes/tests, please actively and regularly check your child’s folders, Google classrooms, and classroom websites. Please note they have a separate Google classroom and website for each teacher.

Last, but not least, we know that your child’s safety and education is of the utmost importance. This will require us more than ever to pull together collaboratively as a collective team. Thank you in advance for all of your support and everything that you do to assist in their educational journey. We promise to do our very best in helping them to grow, to learn, and to have some fun along the way!

Ms. Fogle & Mrs. Geiser