Good morning,

 

This week is a short week, parent/teacher conferences are Wednesday and Thursday, and there's no school Friday or next Monday. Wednesday and Thursday are minimum days, school gets out at 12:45. Please sign up if you have not already.

 

This week we are working on a class research project on Puerto Rico for Multicultural Day. The student's hard work will be displayed on a hallway bulletin board next week. There is no new spelling or vocabulary this week. In Math, students are working on Chapter 9, which is about graphing data and finding numerical patterns. We are also going to be learning concepts from the end of our Math book in preparation for the Math CAASPP test. I am hopeful that doing some extra Math for the next several weeks will help get the students as prepared as possible before CAASPP testing. 

 

Students are finishing up the lesson in Science Earth Systems Produce Weather and Climate. They will be taking the Science test later this week.

 

Multicultural Day is coming up on April 28th. Parents are welcome to come and join in the festivities. We will also have a potluck in class where students are welcome to brig dishes from their culture to share. I do ask that any dishes that are brought are labeled with all of their ingredients so students with food allergies or students that don't eat certain things can make an informed decision.

 

Here are some important dates coming up:

 

Parent/teacher conferences- April 19-20

School holiday- April 21-24 No School

Multicultural Day- April 28th

 

Have a great week and please let me know if you have any questions.

 

Mrs. Jessica

Good morning!

 

I hope everybody enjoyed the Spring Break last week! This week the students are starting Chapter 9 in Math; Chapter 9 is a new unit about algebra patterns and graphing. In Language Arts, students are working on homophones and identifying theme in a story. In Science, students are learning about Weather and Climate.

 

Next week Wednesday and Thursday are parent/teacher conferences. Please sign up for a conference either in person at the classroom, or send me an email.

 

If that doesn't work for you, please let me know and I will share it to you in a different way. I will also have copies on my classroom door, and you can sign up in person or let me know a time that works for you, and I will let you know if it's available. Please also let me know if you need a different day or time and I will do my best to accommodate you. Our student teacher Giselle will likely also be present for the conferences. We would love the opportunity to meet with every parent to discuss all students.

 

Important Dates:

April 19-20: Parent/Teacher Conferences.

April 21-24: School Holiday, No School

April 28th- Multicultural Day

 

Please let me know if you have any questions and have a great week!

 

 

Good morning,

 

This week we are busy getting ready for CAASPP testing and wrapping up some units in Language Arts and Math before the Spring Break next week. We are doing our Math review a little different for this chapter so we can make sure to fit the Chapter 8 test in before we go on break. We are going to do the review test together throughout the week to get students prepared for their test. We will take the Chapter 8 Math Test on Thursday, March 30th. 

 

Please remind your students that if they are absent, it is their responsibility to get makeup work from me when they return. I've been having some trouble with students coming to me on the day of a test and telling me they don't understand because they weren't here, but they didn't come get any work from me. If you could help me with that reminder I would really appreciate it.

 

We are taking the ELA CAASPP multiple choice test on Wednesday at 10:30. Please remind students to take their time, and take the test seriously.

 

I will be allowing work time Tuesday and Wednesday for students to work on their book report projects in class. Book Reports are due Thursday, March 30th. Please make sure your student is working on their book report at home. Friday, March 31^st is the book parade where students will show off their book projects. I will also give an extra credit point on their project if they dress up like a character from their book.

 

Important Dates:

March 28th- PTO Meeting @9:10.

March 30th- Book Reports are due.

March 31st- Book Parade.

March 31st- Quarter 3 Ends.

April 1-9- Spring Break

April 19^th & 20^th - Parent/teacher conferences. Sign up sheet will be shared with you after Spring Break.

 

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns and have a great week!

 

Mrs. Jessica

Good morning!

 

This week we are busy with preparing for the CAASPP test as well as our own testing in the classroom. Thursday students will be taking the CAASPP Language Arts Performance Task from 10:30-12:30. I had previously stated we would be testing starting at 8:30 but we have switched it to 10:30 to disrupt the students schedule as little as possible. It's important that students get a good night's sleep and eat a healthy breakfast on the morning of the test. We will also have a snack time before testing, so it would be a good idea for students to bring a snack to have snack before taking their test. Please let me know if you have any questions about CAASPP testing. 

 

Because we are testing this week and there was no school today, we are doing test review this week and students will not have spelling or vocabulary, spelling and vocabulary will resume next week. This week students will also take their Chapter 7 Math test. Chapter 7 was about multiplying fractions. Students will have a review test for homework tomorrow and will take the test Wednesday. 

 

Tomorrow night, March 21st, is Literacy Night from 5:00-6:30. Join us in our classroom for reading related activities. I will have different things that you can take home to help your child practice reading and vocabulary strategies. 

 

Quarter 3 ends March 31st; any missing or late work should be turned in this week so I can grade it to put in in the gradebook for report cards. Progress reports were sent home last week. If your student hasn't shown you their progress report, please ask them for it. They are to be signed by you and turned back in to me. Parent teacher conferences will take place April 19^th and 20th, sign up for that will be after the Spring Break.

 

Book reports are due Thursday, March 30th. If your student needs help, please have them let me know and I'm happy to help.

 

Important Dates:

March 23^rd and 29^th - ELA CAASPP Testing @10:30.

March 28th- PTO Meeting @9:10.

March 30th- Book Reports are due. 

March 31st- Quarter 3 ends. 

April 1-9- Spring Break.

 

Please let me know if you have any questions. Have a great week!

 

 

Good morning,

 

This week we are working in making inferences, using quotations and interjections, prefixes in-, un-, dis-, and mis-, and identifying homophones in Language Arts.

 

In Math we are still working on multiplying fractions; today we are taking the mid-chapter quiz.

 

Today students are taking a Social Studies test, and tomorrow we will be starting a new unit in Science about Earth Systems. 

 

Today I am giving a book report assignment to the students. They will come home with several options for how they would like to complete this project. Tomorrow at school they will be picking the book report option that they would like to complete and be given a grading rubric for how their report will be graded. The guidelines for their book report are they are required to read a chapter book, and it cannot be a graphic novel. It can be a book that they are already reading. We are going to the mobile library tomorrow so if your student doesn't have a book to use for this report, they can get one tomorrow. The book report is due Thursday, March 30th. 

 

We are CAASPP testing this month, March 23^rd and March 29th. I will try to have snacks for them to eat in the morning, but it is very important than students eat breakfast, get plenty of sleep the night before, and come to school on time. We will take the Math and Science CAASPP tests later on in the year.

 

Important dates:

March 21st- Literacy Night 5:00-6:30.

March 23rd- CAASPP ELA Testing @8:30AM.

March 29th- CAASPP ELA Testing @8:30 AM.

March 28th- PTO Meeting @9:10.

March 30th- Book reports are due.

March 31st- Quarter 3 ends.

April 1-8- Spring Break

 

Please let me know if you have any questions and have a great week!

 

Mrs. Jessica

Good morning,

 

This week in Language Arts we are working on asking and answering questions, unstressed syllables, transitions, central idea, and author's craft. In Math we are finishing Chapter 6, students are taking the chapter 6 test today. We are starting Chapter 7 tomorrow; Chapter 7 is about Multiplying and Dividing fractions.

 

In Social Studies we are beginning a lesson on the first English Settlements in the New World.

 

World's Finest Chocolate sales are over, all money is due tomorrow, February 28th. Permission slips for the 5^th grade field trip went out last week. We have a lot of volunteers for parent chaperones, and I am very grateful about that. I will let chaperones know by the end of this week- I have to confer with the other 5^th grade teachers to see how many parent volunteers we have, and how many we can take. If you are waiting to hear from me, thank you so much for your patience.

 

I will be absent from school next week, Monday-Wednesday, but the class will be in very capable hands with Ms. Giselle. They will still be learning as normal.

 

Parent volunteers are requested tomorrow after school (February 28th) for help decorating hallways for Literacy Month. 

 

March is Literacy Month! We will be having some fun school events throughout the month to promote reading. Please promote reading and the importance of reading at home as well.

 

Important Dates:

 

February 28th- PTO Meeting 9:10

March 1-31- Literacy Month

March 1- Spring Pictures

March 9- Parent coffee

March 9- 5^th grade field trip

March 14- Mobile Library

Good morning!

 

This week we are continuing the ELA lesson from last week. Students will take the tests for this lesson on Friday.

 

We are finishing up Chapter 6 in Math. Chapter 6 is about Adding and Subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. If your student is struggling with finding a common denominator, making equivalent fractions, or with multiplying please let me know and I am happy to give them some extra practice on IXL. The Chapter test will likely be next week on Monday or Tuesday.

 

Today permission slips are going home for our class field trip. We are going to the Lawrence Hall of Science on Thursday, March 9th. We will need parent chaperones- chaperones will be on a first come first served basis so if you are interested, please indicate that on the permission slip and something will be given to your student if you are selected to chaperone. If more parents than I can accommodate volunteer to chaperone, I will do a random drawing for chaperones. We are asking for a $14 donation to help cover cost of admission and the cost of the 3D film we will be watching.

 

The last day for the World's Finest Chocolate sales is February 24th. 

 

The next PTO Meeting will be on February 28^th at 9:10 am.

 

Important Dates:

 

February 24th- World's Finest Chocolate sale ends.

February 28th- PTO Meeting at 9:10 am.

March 3rd- Permission slips due for field trip.

March 9th- Lawrence Hall of Science Field Trip.

 

If you have any questions, please let me know. Have a great week!

 

Mrs. Jessica

Good morning,

 

This Week in Language Arts we are taking it slow because we have a short week this week and next week. Students will have the same spelling and vocabulary words for both this week and next week, and we will take the Language Arts test. Spelling test, and Vocabulary quiz all next week. Students should still complete spelling homework every night. We are working this week and next week on words that end with the sounds /ij/, /iv/, and /is/, conjunctions, stressed and unstressed syllables, and central idea.

 

In Math, we are continuing to work on adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators. This concept can be very tricky for some students. If your student needs extra practice, please let me know and I'm happy to give them IXL to practice. Students are taking the Chapter 6 quiz today, so homework will be a review paper.

 

This week in Science we are taking the lesson 7 test today. Starting Wednesday, we will go back one lesson to Lesson 6, and Ms. Giselle will be teaching that lesson with support and guidance from me. Ms. Giselle will also be teaching the last 3 Math lessons on Chapter 6. It's very important that students return the permission form that was sent out last week for consent to be recorded so that we will know who can and who cannot be in Ms. Giselle's videos for her classes. Please let me know if you have any questions about that. 

 

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Students are welcome to bring Valentines for their classmates, but please make sure if students are going to pass out Valentines during class time, they bring one for each student. We have some students in our class with severe nut allergies. Please do not bring anything that contains nuts. We also have students in our class that do not eat any pork products or geletin. Please be aware of that when you send your students with things to share.

 

We have a lot of birthdays coming up in our class. It is fine if your student wants to bring something to share with the class for that, but please make sure if you are bringing something like pizza or cupcakes, it does not arrive to the school at lunch time. When students have food to share in the cafeteria, it leads to arguments and hurt feeling when there is not enough to share with everybody. If you bring somegthing to share for a birthday, please check in with the school office and then bring it to the classroom. I also always appreciate when you let me know in advance.

 

 

February 14th- Valentines Day and Mobile Library

February 17th- No School for President's Day

February 20th- No School for President's Day

 

Please let me know if you have any questions. Have a great week!

 

Mrs. Jessica

 

Good morning,

 

This week in Language Arts we are working on decoding words from other languages, comparative and superlative adjectives, identifying theme in a text, and using roots and suffixes to create new words. We are reading a chapter in Social Studies this week about European Exploration, and the reasons that explorers went to new places. We will be examining different explorer's motives and the impacts they had on the lands they settled.

 

In Math, we are taking the Chapter 5 Math test on Tuesday. Today we will take a review test in class, and the students will have the same review test for homework as well. Chapter 5 was all about dividing decimals. If your student struggled with a certain lesson or skill in Chapter 5, please let me know and I can give them some IXL to practice at home. Please encourage your student to take their time on their test tomorrow and do they best that they can.

 

The office should be mailing report cards home by the end of this week or early next week. There are no conferences this quarter, but if you have any questions about your child's report card after it arrives, please let me know.

 

The school will be selling Valentine Grams starting next week. Students can purchase 2 lollipops to send to their friends for $1, or 5 lollipops for $2. Students are also welcome to bring Valentines to share with the class, I will send out a class list early next week with student names.

 

We will start our World's Finest Chocolate sale later this week. I will send out more information when I have it.

 

Important Dates:

 

January 31st- Parent University #3- Topic is Cyber Safety-8:15

January 31st- PTO Meeting- 9:15

February 14th- Valentine's Day

February 17th- No School

February 20th- No School

 

Please let me know if you have any questions and have a great week!

 

Mrs. Jessica

Good morning,

 

This week is a short week, we will be focusing on finishing up some testing and doing some fun activities too. Thank you to the families who signed up to bring something for our hot chocolate party on Wednesday, I think we will have everything we need. If you signed up to bring something, please make sure to either send it with your student tomorrow or bring it by the school so that I will know what I still need to buy.

 

There's no hot lunch this week, so please make sure your student brings a lunch to school.

 

December 21st- Last Day before break. School gets out at 12:45.

December 22-January9- Winter Break, School resumes January 10th.

 

Please let me know if you have any questions, have a great week!

 

Mrs. Jessica

 

December 13th- PTO Meeting at 9:10 in the Cafeteria.

December 21- Minimum Day.

December 22nd-January 8th- Winter Break

 

Please let me know if you have any questions. Have a great week!

 

Mrs. Jessica

Good morning,

 

This week, we will be working on recognizing the central theme, final stable -al, -el, -le, and -il. We will be working on asking and answering questions, identifying the claim in a persuasive text, and identifying the purpose of hyperbole, stereotyping, and anecdote. This week in math we are continuing to work on multiplying decimal, including multiplying money. Students will take the mid-chapter quiz tomorrow in class. If students need extra help, all of the skills for this week are starred on IXL.

 

We are finishing up Chapter 4 of Social Studies, students are taking the test today. The test is in Google Classroom, so if your student is absent today, that is where they can find it when they come back to school.

 

We will be working this week on our Let's Go Learn tests. It's important for students to try as hard as they can on these tests so we can see their progress.

 

The day before students go on Winter Break I was planning on having a hot chocolate party with them. Students absolutely do not have to bring anything, but if you would like to donate items for the hot chocolate party, I have a sign up sheet in a Google doc. Please let me know if you would like me to share that with you so that you can sign up. I do need all donations by December 20^th so I can purchase anything else that we still need. We have many food allergies in class, so please make sure if you are going to bring something it is on the list or checked with me forst to make sure all of our students are safe.

 

Important Dates:

December 6- Mobile Book Library.

December 8th- Parent University at around 8:15 in the Cafeteria. I believe the topic is conflic resolution.

December 16th- World Arabic Day and Art Show.

December 21st- Last day before Winter Break.

December 22nd-January 8th- Winter Break.

 

Please let me know if you have any questions.

 

Have a great week!

 

Mrs. Jessica

 

I hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. This week we are starting Chapter 4 in Math. Chapter 4 is about Multiplying Decimals. It's important that students are confident with their multiplication for this lesson to be successful for them. We will finish this chapter and take the test before the Winter Break.

 

Yesterday we started a chapter in Social Studies about European Exploration. We are learning how and why explorers came to the New World, and what they brought with them.

 

In Language Arts this week we are continuing the unit on Westward Expansion. Students will be working on summarizing texts, identifying literary elements in a text, the VV syllable pattern, multiple meaning words, the prefixes mis- mal- and suffixes -ible, -able, and point of view.