In the weekly posts, you will find information about the academic content and special events for the upcoming week.
We had a great week in 5A! We made new friends, set goals for the year, learned our classroom procedures and expectations, and have had a lot of fun! This will the best year year. Please let me know if you have any concerns about anything. I am here to help. If you haven’t signed up for Class Dojo, please do ASAP! This is the main form of communication, and I use it each day in our classroom.
Next Friday I will announce our first Wonderful Wildcat! Keep working hard, earning dojo and super improvers and you will be well on your way to Wonderful Wildcat Status!
Parents have homework! Please see the note sent home today! I’d love to hear from all of you to better support your child. Thank you!
Want to learn a bit about 5A from students who were in 5A last year? Check out this Youtube video the 5A students created from former 5A Wildcats year!
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=jpoU51qtEgg
Project Impact Information:
Our 5th graders will participate in Project Impact this year! Project Impact is a service and leadership program that all fifth graders get to take part in this year. We will be walking in the homecoming parade this year to kick things off. Please look for more information to come about this topic!
T-shirts need to be ordered. The form is coming home today and needs to be returned ASAP with the money to ensure that we have them for the parade.
** No one is required to walk in the parade. It’s just a fun after school activity!
Important Dates:
Monday, August 21- Parent and Student Open House- please come meet me and check out our classroom!
Friday, August 31- NO SCHOOL- Teacher’s Institute
Monday, September 3- NO SCHOOL- Labor Day
Field Trip Dates:
Lincoln Museum in Springfield- we will need parent volunteers– Friday, October 5
Challenger Learning Center: Wednesday, November 7
Reading/Lang. Arts:
- We will begin the year by talking, listening, and reading with your student.
- Each student should now have a book that they want to read. Reading logs were given out yesterday. This is a weekly assignment. Each week students are required to read 100 minutes. Our first reading log is due on Friday, Aug. 24!
- We will take our STAR Reading test on Tuesday, August 21. This tests helps determine what the students know now and what they need to learn.
- Journals will also be introduced this week. Ask your student which day of the week his/her journal is due! Also ask what the first writing prompt for your student is! If students use their time wisely, this can be completed in class!
Math:
- We will begin our first math unit: multiplication and division. There are several components to the way students will learn math in 5A!
- Ask them about math muscle bingo board! This is morning work that is done each day and then on Friday we play BINGO! If their answers are correct, they have a better chance of winning!
- Ask them about their weekly seat work! This is a set of 20-30 problems that are all practice problems of concepts that they have learned in the past or will learn this year. This is an assignment that should be completed in class if they use their time wisely. It’s always due on Friday.
- We will take a STAR Math test on Monday. This test helps determine what the students know and what they still need to learn.
Science:
- We will begin our science unit by studying the sun, earth, and comets to help better prepare us for our trip to the Challenger Center.
- Social Studies
- We will begin by studying geography of the United States and learning important vocabulary that will help guide us as we learn about the world around us
If you read this entire post, way to go! You are wonderful! Respond with the answer to this would you rather question in the responses..
Would you rather be able to do back flips or break dance?
I would want to know how to break dance! I can already do back flips!
I kind of want to do backflips. I am almost am able to do a back hand spring. So have a good weekend. See you Monday!
Sincerely,
Melaina Humbles
I would rather be able to do back flips. I picked back flips because when I see people do back flips I think wow that was amazing.
I would rather learn how to do backflips because it seems more fun than break dancing.
I would rather do backflips because break dancing isn’t as cool as backflips in my opinion. Also, if you wanted to show your friends a backflip it doesn’t take too much space to do.
Sincerely,
Lucas Wetzel
Good reason Lucas you’ be great at wrighting i can tell👍.
I would rather learn how to do backflips, because it seems more fun and cool
I would rather do break danceing than do a back flips. I have tried to do a back flip on a trampoline and I have failed.
I would rather learn how to do a backflip because when I score a touchdown in football it will look cool to people in the crowd.
I would want to do breakdance because if you can breakdance you have an idea of how to do backflips
I would rather learn how to do back-flips because I am not that good at back-flips
I would like to do break dancing. I already know how to do backflips!
I would rather do break dancing because it looks fun to learn.
I would rather be able to do break dancing because it seems more awesome than backflips.
I would like to do back flips over and over! That is so cool to watch!
Oh oh back flips!
I would want to break dance because I’ve learnt how to do it. It is cool because you feel like a robot
I want to learn how to break dance because I don’t want to fall flat on my face while learning how to do a back flip.
I would what to be able to do a backflip.
Hi Mrs. Arnott i hope schools good.
Hi 5A i am Matthew i was one of Mrs. Arnotts students last year!
Backflips because then I could be seen and not invisable. 😊