This week is a busy one in 5th grade!
Monday – Book Tasting – ask your child about this fun activity we did. They had a great time!! I’ll post pictures soon.
Tuesday/Wednesday – Common Assessment
Thursday – Greek and Latin Roots – We are learning “bio” and “graph”
Friday – Library Day
Tomorrow is Library day, so please be sure to send your child’s library books to school with them.
Book Orders are due tomorrow. You can either send the order in to me, or do it online. Our class code is: VYHV4
There is no school Monday due to Labor Day. Enjoy your 3 day weekend!
This Week:
Book: Thirty Minutes Over Oregon – Nonfiction Narrative
Skills:
-Retell, paraphrase, summarize with logical order
-Identify author’s purpose/message
-Discussion of Theme
-Syllables with stable endings (-le)
-Vocabulary : memorialized, samurai, catapult, retaliate, puttering, extinguished, crater, improbable, detonated, stealth
FYI:
-Book Orders due Friday, September 3 – can be done online or sent in to me.
-Library Day Friday, September 3
-If you haven’t sent in any forms from the beginning of the year, please do so as soon as possible.
Dear Family,
It’s book order time!!
With a $25 order, you can pick a FREE $5 Book (use code: READS).
Class Order Due Date: 09/03/21
Shop Our Class Page: https://orders.scholastic.com/VYHV4
Shop Digital Flyers for Our Grade with Your Child: https://clubs.scholastic.com/grade5
Please share the Class Page link to extended family and friends. All orders also earn FREE Books for our class.
You can choose to have your books shipped to your home or delivered to me with our class order.
Thank you for your support!
Ms. Toal
This week:
Book: The Poet’s Dog – Fiction/Fantasy
Skills:
-Analyze relationships and conflicts between characters.
-Identify and understand Point of View
-Identify the Genre of a book and its qualifying characteristics
-VCe multi-syllable words
-Vocabulary: plastered, shelter, beacon, grizzled, derivative, disposition, rummaging, poignant, plowed, curmudgeon
-Writing – We will begin the writing process with a brainstorming activity.
If your child will be going to the Pep Rally on Friday, please be sure to fill out the dismissal form and return it to their homeroom teacher Friday morning. Thanks!
Also, if you have not returned any of the “start of the year” forms, please do so as soon as possible.
Thanks and have a fantastic week!
What a fantastic start to this year! We are going to dig right in this week and start focusing on our standards. I will be posting the objectives each week on this blog so you will know what we are working on in class. If you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to email me.
This week:
**Books: Mrs. Katz and Tush. The Crane Girl
-Analyze relationships and conflicts between characters.
-Identify and understand Point of View
-Identify the Genre of a book and its qualifying characteristics
-Open and Closed multi-syllable words
-Vocabulary: empathy, inscription, canopy, trunk, scrawny, descendents, record player, speckled, pluck, merchant, marshes, loom, stubble, weave
-What is Poetry?
If your student hasn’t returned the blue card, discipline/PG form, or $10 for the planner, please be sure to do so ASAP.
Thanks and have a Fantastic Week!
C. Toal
Welcome to the Night Before 5th Grade! I’m so excited for this year to finally begin.
Tomorrow, Thursday, August 12th, we are going to spend the day getting to know our home room, understand CHAMPS expectations, and preparing our supplies for the year.
Friday, August 13th, we are going to start rotating between all of the 5th grade teachers. In each class, you will learn what is expected of you and about some of the amazing things you’ll be doing throughout the upcoming year.
I’ll see you bright and early tomorrow!
Miss Toal
Tomorrow night, Tuesday, August 10th is White Oak Intermediate Meet the Teacher Night!
Our time is from 5:00 – 6:00.
Come meet all of your teachers and see your new rooms.