Dear 5th Grade Parents!
Welcome back after a long winter unscheduled break! We are quickly getting back on track in Room #30!
Tuesday we celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day with an analysis of his speech, “I Have A Dream”, students presented abstracts of his speech in groups, so thoughtful and introspective as 10 and 11 year olds trying to understand what the 1960’s may have looked like when MLK Jr. was alive. We also had our amazing, Follow Up Kindness Assembly with the http://www.clarkroberts.org/ - if you would like more information on #BeKindSV a Kindness Campaign impacting the entire Snoqualmie Valley and Snoqualmie Valley School District.
Friday – January 24th I will send home our green folders full of great work, please be proud of all of our students.
Please also look for a homework packet, that will include a short Opinion Essay, Inference worksheet, Math Homework, and a Science worksheet to complete over the long weekend, due Tuesday, January 28th.
Our week ahead:
Camp Seymour: March 25th to 27th - Paperwork will go home on Fri in our green take home folders. Also, thank you so much to all of our parents who were interested in attending Camp with us, we truly appreciate the outpouring of support to join us!
ELA: This week we are going to work to finish My Side of the Mountain We have been working on our close reading strategies including deciphering tricky words using context clues, thinking abstractly with figurative language and making inferences based on information provided in the text. Next week will continue our ReadyGen reading and writing with our new novel study PEAK, a 5th grade favorite starting next Wednesday, 1-29. Our continued focused ELA reading and writing time will be working independently and in small groups next week working to analyze interactions between characters, making inferences using context clues, practicing fluency and reading comprehension. PEAK will help us learn about the arc of a story and how to identify the elements of great story.
Math: We worked on Lesson 7 Module 3, and today we are on Lesson 8 Module 3. We will work to finish one lesson every day. Over the weekend, I will assign application problems in a homework packet due on Tuesday January 28th, this packet will go home Friday January 24th. Module 3 objective in Eureka is to make sure students understand how to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators including mixed fractions in word problems using equivalent fractions, pictorial models, number lines, area models and tape diagrams. Students are grasping the concepts well. 5th grade decided as a cohort to give the Mid-Module Quiz in parts daily as an application problems due to the cancellation of school last week.
Our Module 3 Test is now scheduled for February 6th, which will cover Chapters 1-16 in Module 3.
Science: We are continuing our STEM Scopes discoveries of Matter is Everywhere, the Changing States of Matter and coming to understand the Properties of Matter. Students will understand that Matter is Everywhere, even though we cannot see it, that particles of matter are too small to be seen. This week we will carry out experiments in class to support this idea, as well as observe Changing States of Matter, reviewing physical versus chemical changes in Matter. This week we will also work on the vocabulary from our Matter packet with our Quiz and CER being pushed back until next WED January 29th. Next week I will assign Lee Room #30 Science Fair Projects, Due Thursday, March 19th.
Social Studies: We will finish our evidence/opinion building on the Lost Colony of Roanoke this week with presentations starting tomorrow. We are also moving forward learning more about Jamestown and the French and Indian War this week as we learn what leads up to the American Revolution!
Reading Books at home: Please have your student read 20 minutes every night, our next book report will be on a 5th grade level - book of their choice, due date, to be determined next week. Reading a page a page works well to help build fluency as well. Thank you!
I truly appreciate all of your continued support with our learning this year! We realize that we have so much content to make up this with our snow days in 2020 so far.
Thank you and have a great week!
Sara Lee
5th Grade Teacher
CVES
[email protected]
http://cves5th.weebly.com/homework
Upcoming Important Dates:
January, 27th No School Teacher in-service day
January 29th Matter Science Quiz and CER
February 6th Module 3 Test Lessons 1-16
February 17th-21st Mid Winter Break
March 19th Lee Science Fair in Room #30
March 25th-27th Camp Seymour - Leave WED at 9am- Return FRI at 12pm
April 13th-17th Spring Break
May 25th Memorial Day
June 19th - June 24th? Last Day of School TBD
Good Afternoon 5th Grade Parents!
Academic Update:
ELA:
We are starting on Chapter 4 of My Side of the Mountain on 12-12, by Jean George and we are loving this Newbery Award-winning novel! We are digging deep into analyzing text for answers to life lessons and questions with this incredible story. We are working on sequencing this week, and coming to understand how a good sequence of events impacts a novel. We are also continuing to work on citing text evidence, by ACE strategies the Answer the Question, Restate Answer – Cite – Explain (ACE). This writing strategy that designed to help students organize their writing and support their thinking to form constructed responses for informative/explanatory compositions. This strategy has an emphasis on the application of learning where students must provide textual evidence to support their answers and expand their thinking to create a well-constructed paragraph.
Math:
I am so proud of our students on their Mid-Module Test on the 3rd of December. We worked very hard in class after Thanksgiving and our perseverance and hard work paid off! Our 5th grade students scored 95% or higher on our Mid-Module Assessment which was Lesson 1 to 15. Students are working on mastering fluently multiplying multi-digit whole number, and decimals based upon the Area Models and the standard algorithm. The second half of Module 2 which we are working on right now, is mastering division with whole number and decimal quotients with up to four digit divisors creating concrete visual models and working on converting standard measurement solving multi-step real world word problems, including solving algebra problems that include Area and Perimeter.
Our Module 2 Test, which covers the entire Module 2 Lessons 1-29 will be given next Thursday December 19th before we go to Winter Break.
We are working on Lesson 23 in class again today.
https://embarc.online/
Science:
Our study of life science continues! This week we are creating our own animal drawing and writing our cards with animal adaptations, as well as building our own in-class compostable ecosystems with live worms on Thursday, fun!
Our Science quiz will be next WED 11-18, with the vocab words on page 6 of the attached Inherited Traits packet. We are learning about inherited traits and acquired traits, environmental factors, behavioral versus physical traits and why people and puppies may look different from their mom and dad, for example heredity and passing down of genes. Next week we will be working on a family tree, fun!
This week our spelling vocab words are focused on Inherited Traits and Genetics, page 6 of the green packet.
Social Studies:
We continued our study of Explorers this week working towards completion of our Explorer Reports, Due next Friday, 12-20-19, with our study of the Age of Exploration, and understanding the dominance of Spain and Portugal in the discovery of new lands. We are also working towards a more clear understanding of the Lost Colony of Roanoke and writing opinion essays on how we think the colony may have disappeared into thin air, fun!
I am honored to teach your student each and every day!
Warmest Regards,
Sara Lee
5th Grade Teacher
CVES
http://cves5th.weebly.com/homework
Dear 5th Grade Parents,
November 1st, Update:
We had a fantastic week full of academics and fun!
Academic Update:
ELA: We are on chapter 16 of Island of the Blue Dolphins, and truly enjoying this wonderful novel by Scott O’Dell. This week we focused our novel studies on analyzing character development, sentence structure and figurative language and how these literary tools affect the plot of the story. We are also practicing our ACE strategies when Answering questions from a text, citing text evidence, with a page number and quotes to support evidence. Next week, we will continue this line of study with another in-class essay assignment and continue to challenge our reading abilities. This week we are working on lesson 6 of Worldly Wise Spelling. Test on Friday 11-01-19.
Math: Students are all doing great, working very hard with the new Eureka Math Curriculum. Module 1 Test will be handed back today for signature, and due back tomorrow, 10-31-19. We are on Lesson 2 of Module 2 today. Module 2 of Eureka focuses on the sequential study of multiplication. We link prior learning and set the foundation for understanding the standard multiplication algorithm. Students start at the concrete pictorial level, evaluate, and write simple expressions using the associative, commutative and distributive properties with area models. Our Mid-Module test will be next Friday, November 8th. Here is a link to Embarc.org - a great resource for questions. https://embarc.online/
Science: We are continuing our study of biomes, variation, ecosystems interactions, energy and dynamics. We are working hard to understand the interdependent relationships in ecosystems, and how all living organisms have adapted over time. We are also learning how organisms can survive only in environments in which their particular needs are met. We are mastering the art of Claim Evidence Reasoning with the next generation Science standards for 5th grade.
Social Studies: We started our Explorers unit this week with a study and discussion of the Age of Exploration learning about European explorers and why they were searching for a new land. I passed out the requirements with due dates of our Explorer Reports, (see attached). Next week we will search for the meaning behind the Lost Colony of Roanoke, fun! I will hand the requirements out WED, October 30th for our 5th grade Explorer Report along with timelines and due dates.
Sara Lee
5th Grade Teacher
CVES
[email protected]
Looking ahead…
Important Dates to Remember:
November 11th No School – Veterans Day
November 15th 1st Trimester Ends
November 15th All Explorer Research Notes Due
November 22nd Cover and Introduction/Early Life rd
November 22, 25, 26, 27 Parent/Teacher Conferences – out at 12:05 p.m.
November 28th – 29th No School Thanksgiving Holiday
Welcome back after a long winter unscheduled break! We are quickly getting back on track in Room #30!
Tuesday we celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day with an analysis of his speech, “I Have A Dream”, students presented abstracts of his speech in groups, so thoughtful and introspective as 10 and 11 year olds trying to understand what the 1960’s may have looked like when MLK Jr. was alive. We also had our amazing, Follow Up Kindness Assembly with the http://www.clarkroberts.org/ - if you would like more information on #BeKindSV a Kindness Campaign impacting the entire Snoqualmie Valley and Snoqualmie Valley School District.
Friday – January 24th I will send home our green folders full of great work, please be proud of all of our students.
Please also look for a homework packet, that will include a short Opinion Essay, Inference worksheet, Math Homework, and a Science worksheet to complete over the long weekend, due Tuesday, January 28th.
Our week ahead:
Camp Seymour: March 25th to 27th - Paperwork will go home on Fri in our green take home folders. Also, thank you so much to all of our parents who were interested in attending Camp with us, we truly appreciate the outpouring of support to join us!
ELA: This week we are going to work to finish My Side of the Mountain We have been working on our close reading strategies including deciphering tricky words using context clues, thinking abstractly with figurative language and making inferences based on information provided in the text. Next week will continue our ReadyGen reading and writing with our new novel study PEAK, a 5th grade favorite starting next Wednesday, 1-29. Our continued focused ELA reading and writing time will be working independently and in small groups next week working to analyze interactions between characters, making inferences using context clues, practicing fluency and reading comprehension. PEAK will help us learn about the arc of a story and how to identify the elements of great story.
Math: We worked on Lesson 7 Module 3, and today we are on Lesson 8 Module 3. We will work to finish one lesson every day. Over the weekend, I will assign application problems in a homework packet due on Tuesday January 28th, this packet will go home Friday January 24th. Module 3 objective in Eureka is to make sure students understand how to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators including mixed fractions in word problems using equivalent fractions, pictorial models, number lines, area models and tape diagrams. Students are grasping the concepts well. 5th grade decided as a cohort to give the Mid-Module Quiz in parts daily as an application problems due to the cancellation of school last week.
Our Module 3 Test is now scheduled for February 6th, which will cover Chapters 1-16 in Module 3.
Science: We are continuing our STEM Scopes discoveries of Matter is Everywhere, the Changing States of Matter and coming to understand the Properties of Matter. Students will understand that Matter is Everywhere, even though we cannot see it, that particles of matter are too small to be seen. This week we will carry out experiments in class to support this idea, as well as observe Changing States of Matter, reviewing physical versus chemical changes in Matter. This week we will also work on the vocabulary from our Matter packet with our Quiz and CER being pushed back until next WED January 29th. Next week I will assign Lee Room #30 Science Fair Projects, Due Thursday, March 19th.
Social Studies: We will finish our evidence/opinion building on the Lost Colony of Roanoke this week with presentations starting tomorrow. We are also moving forward learning more about Jamestown and the French and Indian War this week as we learn what leads up to the American Revolution!
Reading Books at home: Please have your student read 20 minutes every night, our next book report will be on a 5th grade level - book of their choice, due date, to be determined next week. Reading a page a page works well to help build fluency as well. Thank you!
I truly appreciate all of your continued support with our learning this year! We realize that we have so much content to make up this with our snow days in 2020 so far.
Thank you and have a great week!
Sara Lee
5th Grade Teacher
CVES
[email protected]
http://cves5th.weebly.com/homework
Upcoming Important Dates:
January, 27th No School Teacher in-service day
January 29th Matter Science Quiz and CER
February 6th Module 3 Test Lessons 1-16
February 17th-21st Mid Winter Break
March 19th Lee Science Fair in Room #30
March 25th-27th Camp Seymour - Leave WED at 9am- Return FRI at 12pm
April 13th-17th Spring Break
May 25th Memorial Day
June 19th - June 24th? Last Day of School TBD
Good Afternoon 5th Grade Parents!
- Thank you all for meeting for conferences in November! I truly enjoyed meeting each and every one of you and talking about our amazing 5th grade students.
- What a fun productive week we have had so far, we have a lot to do before we go to Winter Break!
- Last week we were so excited about our Kindness Assembly and our visit from our Kindness Ambassador Clark Roberts and his seeing eye dog last week. He talked about how we can view set-backs as opportunities and our students were amazing at listening and asking great questions If you are interested in his website or ordering his book the website is: http://www.clarkroberts.org/
- “Our accomplishments in life are not measured by our abilities or disabilities, but rather by our willingness to try”
- Here is a darling picture of Clark Roberts in our classroom~!
Academic Update:
ELA:
We are starting on Chapter 4 of My Side of the Mountain on 12-12, by Jean George and we are loving this Newbery Award-winning novel! We are digging deep into analyzing text for answers to life lessons and questions with this incredible story. We are working on sequencing this week, and coming to understand how a good sequence of events impacts a novel. We are also continuing to work on citing text evidence, by ACE strategies the Answer the Question, Restate Answer – Cite – Explain (ACE). This writing strategy that designed to help students organize their writing and support their thinking to form constructed responses for informative/explanatory compositions. This strategy has an emphasis on the application of learning where students must provide textual evidence to support their answers and expand their thinking to create a well-constructed paragraph.
Math:
I am so proud of our students on their Mid-Module Test on the 3rd of December. We worked very hard in class after Thanksgiving and our perseverance and hard work paid off! Our 5th grade students scored 95% or higher on our Mid-Module Assessment which was Lesson 1 to 15. Students are working on mastering fluently multiplying multi-digit whole number, and decimals based upon the Area Models and the standard algorithm. The second half of Module 2 which we are working on right now, is mastering division with whole number and decimal quotients with up to four digit divisors creating concrete visual models and working on converting standard measurement solving multi-step real world word problems, including solving algebra problems that include Area and Perimeter.
Our Module 2 Test, which covers the entire Module 2 Lessons 1-29 will be given next Thursday December 19th before we go to Winter Break.
We are working on Lesson 23 in class again today.
https://embarc.online/
Science:
Our study of life science continues! This week we are creating our own animal drawing and writing our cards with animal adaptations, as well as building our own in-class compostable ecosystems with live worms on Thursday, fun!
Our Science quiz will be next WED 11-18, with the vocab words on page 6 of the attached Inherited Traits packet. We are learning about inherited traits and acquired traits, environmental factors, behavioral versus physical traits and why people and puppies may look different from their mom and dad, for example heredity and passing down of genes. Next week we will be working on a family tree, fun!
This week our spelling vocab words are focused on Inherited Traits and Genetics, page 6 of the green packet.
Social Studies:
We continued our study of Explorers this week working towards completion of our Explorer Reports, Due next Friday, 12-20-19, with our study of the Age of Exploration, and understanding the dominance of Spain and Portugal in the discovery of new lands. We are also working towards a more clear understanding of the Lost Colony of Roanoke and writing opinion essays on how we think the colony may have disappeared into thin air, fun!
I am honored to teach your student each and every day!
Warmest Regards,
Sara Lee
5th Grade Teacher
CVES
http://cves5th.weebly.com/homework
Dear 5th Grade Parents,
November 1st, Update:
We had a fantastic week full of academics and fun!
Academic Update:
ELA: We are on chapter 16 of Island of the Blue Dolphins, and truly enjoying this wonderful novel by Scott O’Dell. This week we focused our novel studies on analyzing character development, sentence structure and figurative language and how these literary tools affect the plot of the story. We are also practicing our ACE strategies when Answering questions from a text, citing text evidence, with a page number and quotes to support evidence. Next week, we will continue this line of study with another in-class essay assignment and continue to challenge our reading abilities. This week we are working on lesson 6 of Worldly Wise Spelling. Test on Friday 11-01-19.
Math: Students are all doing great, working very hard with the new Eureka Math Curriculum. Module 1 Test will be handed back today for signature, and due back tomorrow, 10-31-19. We are on Lesson 2 of Module 2 today. Module 2 of Eureka focuses on the sequential study of multiplication. We link prior learning and set the foundation for understanding the standard multiplication algorithm. Students start at the concrete pictorial level, evaluate, and write simple expressions using the associative, commutative and distributive properties with area models. Our Mid-Module test will be next Friday, November 8th. Here is a link to Embarc.org - a great resource for questions. https://embarc.online/
Science: We are continuing our study of biomes, variation, ecosystems interactions, energy and dynamics. We are working hard to understand the interdependent relationships in ecosystems, and how all living organisms have adapted over time. We are also learning how organisms can survive only in environments in which their particular needs are met. We are mastering the art of Claim Evidence Reasoning with the next generation Science standards for 5th grade.
Social Studies: We started our Explorers unit this week with a study and discussion of the Age of Exploration learning about European explorers and why they were searching for a new land. I passed out the requirements with due dates of our Explorer Reports, (see attached). Next week we will search for the meaning behind the Lost Colony of Roanoke, fun! I will hand the requirements out WED, October 30th for our 5th grade Explorer Report along with timelines and due dates.
Sara Lee
5th Grade Teacher
CVES
[email protected]
Looking ahead…
Important Dates to Remember:
November 11th No School – Veterans Day
November 15th 1st Trimester Ends
November 15th All Explorer Research Notes Due
November 22nd Cover and Introduction/Early Life rd
November 22, 25, 26, 27 Parent/Teacher Conferences – out at 12:05 p.m.
November 28th – 29th No School Thanksgiving Holiday