5V News

We had a great day at Stratham Hill Park today!  I was impressed with the teamwork, positive attitudes and overall cooperation of all of the students in 5V!

Blogging:
This week students wrote their first blog posts (other than hopes and dreams) and they worked hard on using creative titles and adding details to engage their readers.  Thank you for all of your comments and please keep them coming!
www.kidblog.org/5Vclassroom 

NECAP schedule:
NECAPs begin next week and as of right now our schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, October 1st: Reading
Wednesday, October 2nd: Reading
Thursday, October 3rd: Reading and Math
Friday, October 4th: Math
Monday, October 7th: Math
Tuesday, October 8th: Writing
Wednesday, October 9th: Writing

Friday folders:
This week you will find your child's first math test, some math work and some of the poetry he or she has written.

Have a great weekend!

5V News

It was great to see so many of you last night at our Curriculum Night.  I hope you have a better idea of how things work in 5V and I will keep you updated on a parent technology night soon!

Some activities we did this week:

• Classified prime and composite numbers
• Created factor trees to find the prime factorization of numbers
• Took our first math test
• Celebrated Dot Day as a whole school
• Learned about the power of "I" in poetry
• Experimented with different line breaks in our poems
• Met with our reading partners to retell our books
• Practiced summarizing and choosing the most important parts of a story 
• Wrote our first blog posts on our hopes and dreams

Notes and reminders:

• Please comment on our hopes and dreams posts: www.kidblog.org/5Vclassroom 
• The entire fifth grade will be going to Stratham Hill Park on Friday, September 27th for a team building day

Enjoy the weekend and please let me know if you have any questions!

Curriculum Night

I hope to see you tonight in our classroom at 6:30.  We will spend a half an hour in the classroom and then head to the library from 7:00 to 7:30 with the other fifth grade teachers to discuss the 5th grade curriculum.

5V News

Curriculum Night:
I hope to see you this Thursday, September 19th at 6:30.  We will discuss classroom routines, expectations and the 5th grade curriculum.

Some activities we did this week:

• Practiced finding factors of numbers
• Played "Factor Captor"
• Learned divisibility rules for 2,3,4,6 and 9
• Mapped our hearts during writing workshop
• Listed our writing territories 
• Wrote about a pebble (a specific topic) rather a general topic
• Logged our reading using a paper log or Biblionasium
• Discussed the importance of choosing "just right" books 
• Voted on our classroom rules
• Worked in groups to decide what our rules will look like and sound like in our classroom
• Continued listening to There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom 

Have a great weekend and I hope to see you Thursday!  

5V News

We had a great second week in 5V!  We began reading and writing workshop, decided on our hopes and dreams for the year and we are working on creating our class rules together.  We continue to discuss and practice working as a team and building our classroom community so that we can have a successful year together!  

Families can expect our homework routine to pick up next week with some reading and math practice.  We will slowly build up to our regular homework routine which will be about 60 minutes Monday-Thursday and includes 20-30 minutes of reading.

Students have homework binders that should be brought back and forth to school each day.  Inside the homework binder is an assignment book and homework folder.  Students are expected to share the contents of their binder with their families each night.  

I look forward to sharing more with you at Curriculum Night on Thursday, September 19th at 6:30.  We are off to a great start! I am impressed with our class and our kind, thoughtful, creative and hardworking students!