Classroom Update - 9.26.2014

Happy Friday Families!

We are officially into Fall and believe it or not, wrapping up our first cycle of fifth grade!  Thank you for the continued support you give your child at home.   

Here are the targets we are currently / planning on working to master over the next couple of weeks:

Literacy

* Our test is on the following targets:

1. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic.
2. Summarize a text (story, poem, or drama).

* Our next target is quoting accurately when making inferences from a NON-FICTION text.

Writing

* We are wrapping up our Narrative unit. Our students have been writing great stories with strong beginnings and endings. They did a phenomenal job on SHOWING, not telling, with word choice and using figurative language! We will start Informative writing in a few weeks!

Math

They will have the division portion of the Unit 1 practice test (#'s 7 and 8) to complete over the weekend to prepare for the test.

Please continue to encourage your child to utilize the math visuals link posted on our site to help them through the practice test.  There are also a few links below your child can use while practicing the last target of Unit 1.

* We are wrapping up Unit 1. Our test is broken up into two days:

1. Thursday (Place value, multiplication, and division) 
2. Friday (Order of operations and writing expressions)

Games / Websites for the last target of Unit 1 (Writing Expressions - OA.2)

* http://quizlet.com/37282937/scatter

* http://mrnussbaum.com/grade5standards/54-2/

* http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol7/expressions.html

* http://worksheets.tutorvista.com/numerical-expressions-worksheet.html

Social Studies

* Explain why liberty is an important right.

* Explain the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Science

* Weather Unit

Friendly Reminders

** Please remember to send your child with a healthy snack.  Nothing feeds the brain like a healthy snack!  Also, because allergies, please make sure your child's snack complies with our district's safe snack list.

** Please continue to have your child practice his / her multiplication facts up to 12.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.  Thank you and have a wonderful weekend!

Enzie Pangilinan

Classroom Update - 9.12.2014

Happy Friday Families!

We've settled into our classroom routines and are currently wrapping up targets in literacy and math.  Needless to say, our students have been hard at work!

Here are the targets we are currently / planning on working to master over the next couple of weeks:

Literacy

* Summarize a text (story, poem, or drama).

Writing

* Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters.

* Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

Math

* Find whole-number quotients with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division.  Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models. 

Social Studies

* Locate, on a map, the major river systems of the world.

* Describe the location of countries relative to the locations of other countries. 

Science

* Weather

Upcoming Events

** Math Night (for parents of students in Grades 4 and 5)

     - Monday, September 15th

     - Mat Room @ Ivy Hall Elementary School

** PTO Special Lunch (Papa John's Pizza)

     - Tuesday, September 23rd

Friendly Reminders

** Please remember to send your child with a healthy snack.  Nothing feeds the brain like a healthy snack!  Also, because allergies, please make sure your child's snack complies with our district's safe snack list.

** Please continue to have your child practice their multiplication facts up to 12.

An email with a link to our classroom Blogger page will be pushed out every two weeks when our Blogger page is updated.  Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.  Thank you and have a fantastic weekend!

Enzie Pangilinan