Friday, September 27, 2013
Weekly Update 9/23 - 9/27
Thank you to all the parents who came out for our Grade 5 Open House on Tuesday. It was great to see some familiar faces and to meet some new ones! If you weren't able to make it, I understand. Thanks for checking in. :)
This week in Math we reviewed Unit One and completed the assessment. Progress Reports and the corrected tests went home today. Students are evaluated using the beginning, developing and secure measurements on each goal for the unit. Each Progress Report is broken into three sections: Oral/State Assessment, Written Part A and Written Part B. The goals we are looking at to be "Secure" are only the goals listed under part A.
We also began Unit 2, Estimation and Calculation. Family Letters for Unit 2 were sent home today as well. However, don't forget that you can access them anytime online! Simply log-in to everdaymathonline.com with the information that was sent home earlier this month.
Today, students from our class, Mrs. McPherson's class and Mrs. Lindgren's class participated in the first "Friday Math" session of the year! Students were broken up in three groups and worked on a skill from Unit One. In Mrs. McPherson's class, students were introduced to SumDog! In Mrs. Lindgren's class, students created posters, song and raps to help remember divisibility rules and in my class we practiced Place Value with a flip chart on the Promethean Board.
This week in writing, students chose their piece of writing that they will take to final draft! On Monday, students wrote a Flash Draft. A Flash Draft is a first draft that they write as quickly as they can. Later in the week, we went back to our drafts and thought, "What is our story really about?" For example, is it a story about getting ice cream? or is it a story about spending time with someone special and you just happen to be getting ice cream with that person. After thinking about that, students wrote a second draft of their story. A great revision strategy!
We continued working on our Classmate Interviews and students are almost done creating their Google Presentations on their partner. I had hoped to be done this week, but we will need a few more days to complete this project.
Conference Confirmation Slips came home today. If you did not complete the survey online, I signed you up for an open slot. I have a lot more slots available, so if the time assigned to you is not convenient, please call the office at 384-4010 to reschedule. I also sent home a Pre-Conference work sheet that will help our conference run smoothly. Please fill out the pre-conference sheet and return it by October 11th.
Thank you!
-Mrs. Starkey :)
Important Dates to Remember:
PICTURE DAY is MONDAY September 30th
Our Classroom Wish List:
Snacks/Juice boxes for students who forget their snack
iTunes Gift Cards for iPad apps for Education
Pillows for reading on the floor
Tissues
Paper Towels
This week in Math we reviewed Unit One and completed the assessment. Progress Reports and the corrected tests went home today. Students are evaluated using the beginning, developing and secure measurements on each goal for the unit. Each Progress Report is broken into three sections: Oral/State Assessment, Written Part A and Written Part B. The goals we are looking at to be "Secure" are only the goals listed under part A.
We also began Unit 2, Estimation and Calculation. Family Letters for Unit 2 were sent home today as well. However, don't forget that you can access them anytime online! Simply log-in to everdaymathonline.com with the information that was sent home earlier this month.
Today, students from our class, Mrs. McPherson's class and Mrs. Lindgren's class participated in the first "Friday Math" session of the year! Students were broken up in three groups and worked on a skill from Unit One. In Mrs. McPherson's class, students were introduced to SumDog! In Mrs. Lindgren's class, students created posters, song and raps to help remember divisibility rules and in my class we practiced Place Value with a flip chart on the Promethean Board.
This week in writing, students chose their piece of writing that they will take to final draft! On Monday, students wrote a Flash Draft. A Flash Draft is a first draft that they write as quickly as they can. Later in the week, we went back to our drafts and thought, "What is our story really about?" For example, is it a story about getting ice cream? or is it a story about spending time with someone special and you just happen to be getting ice cream with that person. After thinking about that, students wrote a second draft of their story. A great revision strategy!
We continued working on our Classmate Interviews and students are almost done creating their Google Presentations on their partner. I had hoped to be done this week, but we will need a few more days to complete this project.
Conference Confirmation Slips came home today. If you did not complete the survey online, I signed you up for an open slot. I have a lot more slots available, so if the time assigned to you is not convenient, please call the office at 384-4010 to reschedule. I also sent home a Pre-Conference work sheet that will help our conference run smoothly. Please fill out the pre-conference sheet and return it by October 11th.
Thank you!
-Mrs. Starkey :)
Important Dates to Remember:
PICTURE DAY is MONDAY September 30th
Our Classroom Wish List:
Snacks/Juice boxes for students who forget their snack
iTunes Gift Cards for iPad apps for Education
Pillows for reading on the floor
Tissues
Paper Towels
Friday, September 20, 2013
Weekly Update 9/16 - 9/20
Good Afternoon!
This week flew by in Room 10.
In Everyday Math, we continued our work with factors and prime numbers; taking both skills to the next level with prime factorization. For this skill, we used a strategy called Factor Trees. This is the end of Unit 1. On Monday we will review the unit and Tuesday will be the Unit 1 Assessment.
In Reading we worked on responding to literature. Last week we read "No Guitar Blues" by Gary Soto. This week, students had to find evidence to answer a question given to the class about the story. Students practiced restating the question, quoting the text and showing evidence to "prove" their answer.
We took a short break from our Explorer's Unit to begin learning how to use the students' new district gmail accounts. Students will have access to Google Drive with their accounts. They can access this account from any computer and will be doing the majority of their computer work with this log-in. Students also learned how to create SAFE and STRONG passwords with Mrs. Moloney in the library. Log-in information is firstname.lastinitial@rsu35.org. Our first project using Google Drive will be a Google Presentation on a classmate. Students are in the process of interviewing a classmate and will complete a presentation on them next week. Presentations will be shared with parents! :)
Our work with Mrs. Bogard and Personal Narrative Essays continues throughout September. This week we learned the Snapshot Strategy, Point of View and the Inspired by Strategy. We also took a look at the Writing Rubric for Personal Narrative and set goals based on our writing so far.
If you have not yet completed the survey for Parent/Teacher Conferences, please do so by clicking here: Parent/Teacher Conference Survey
Our Classroom Wish List:
Snacks/Juice boxes for students who forget their snack
iTunes Gift Cards for iPad apps for Education
Pillows for reading on the floor
Tissues
Paper Towels
Check out MGWS in the news! Pumpkinman Tri
Thank you!
Mrs. Starkey :)
Important Upcoming Dates:
5th Grade Open House - September 24th, 2013 from 6:30-8:00pm
Walk to School Day - September 26th
Picture Day - September 30th
This week flew by in Room 10.
In Everyday Math, we continued our work with factors and prime numbers; taking both skills to the next level with prime factorization. For this skill, we used a strategy called Factor Trees. This is the end of Unit 1. On Monday we will review the unit and Tuesday will be the Unit 1 Assessment.
In Reading we worked on responding to literature. Last week we read "No Guitar Blues" by Gary Soto. This week, students had to find evidence to answer a question given to the class about the story. Students practiced restating the question, quoting the text and showing evidence to "prove" their answer.
We took a short break from our Explorer's Unit to begin learning how to use the students' new district gmail accounts. Students will have access to Google Drive with their accounts. They can access this account from any computer and will be doing the majority of their computer work with this log-in. Students also learned how to create SAFE and STRONG passwords with Mrs. Moloney in the library. Log-in information is firstname.lastinitial@rsu35.org. Our first project using Google Drive will be a Google Presentation on a classmate. Students are in the process of interviewing a classmate and will complete a presentation on them next week. Presentations will be shared with parents! :)
Our work with Mrs. Bogard and Personal Narrative Essays continues throughout September. This week we learned the Snapshot Strategy, Point of View and the Inspired by Strategy. We also took a look at the Writing Rubric for Personal Narrative and set goals based on our writing so far.
If you have not yet completed the survey for Parent/Teacher Conferences, please do so by clicking here: Parent/Teacher Conference Survey
Our Classroom Wish List:
Snacks/Juice boxes for students who forget their snack
iTunes Gift Cards for iPad apps for Education
Pillows for reading on the floor
Tissues
Paper Towels
Check out MGWS in the news! Pumpkinman Tri
Thank you!
Mrs. Starkey :)
Important Upcoming Dates:
5th Grade Open House - September 24th, 2013 from 6:30-8:00pm
Walk to School Day - September 26th
Picture Day - September 30th
Monday, September 16, 2013
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