Thursday, February 10, 2011

Dear for the first 30 minutes.
Speaking of reading, we have a book club sale going on.  If you are interested in purchasing books, your son/daughter brought home the catalog last week, please return your book order ASAP.  We would like to mail off on Tuesday.   

L.A.  
We discussed our upcoming L.A. assessment.   It does a great job of mirroring the May testing for language arts.  Therefore it will be great practice for reading comprehension, writing perspectives, grammar, and spelling.

Math:
More division with decimals.  
We worked on both the traditional style division and also the best practice method taught by the Alameda group.  
http://www.box.net/shared/8hcenbm024
Videos:
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/dividing-decimal
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/dividing-decimals

Homework change:  page 157 1-27 odds only

Buddies!!
We helped the kindergarten students create cherry blossom art.  It was fun watching the 5th graders try to help the overeager 5 or 6 year olds trying to finger paint.  

We then ended the day with rotations.  

Valentines Day

As a friendly reminder we want to respect all of our students so it is important that if your family chooses to hand out cards/candy that they bring one for every student in the class.  If there is any budding romances or “crushes” and special cards/gifts want to be given out, your son/daughter should give that out before or after class on their own time.  
Another idea that has grown in popularity over the last few years, is to have your child sign the cards with their individual name (i.e the From section)  and not put a specific name on the card (i.e. leave the To: section blank).  Then the child will randomly distribute the 25 cards to their classmates.   
Here is the link of the 25 student names if you do want to personalize the cards:




Homework for the week:
157 1-27 odds only  all due on Friday
http://www.box.net/shared/8hcenbm024

Comprehension due Friday:
Read 392-408 by Thursday
P.B. 233 and 234 due Friday
2 Materpiece Questions answered and take the AR test by Friday

Free-Write due Friday
Let me tell you about a story of LOVE

Vocabulary and Spelling Test
http://www.eduplace.com/spellinglists/lists/sl_g5t04_03.html

Famous American Report:
http://www.box.net/shared/4idhdcrbhs
Here are the high level due dates:Notes due – broken into the five topics    Friday, February 18, 2011
Rough Draft due                                                                                   Friday, March 18,  2011
Final copy due                                                                                           Friday, April 15, 2011