Friday, October 9th, 2015

Hello Parents,

We've been busy learning and working on projects in all of the subject areas.  Please read below to see what our students have been tirelessly working on:

Literacy
We are finishing up Unit 1 in our new reading series. All of the novels we've read have shared the theme of "Depending on Each Other.  At this point, we are synthesizing the texts by comparing and contrasting their overall content and structure.  In Unit  2, we will focus on the theme of "Finding Courage".  We will look at how characters respond to challenges and events.

Writing
We are finishing up our natural disasters brochure projects and presenting them to the class.  Next week, we will begin opinion writing.  We will focus on organizing ideas, gathering evidence to support these ideas, and developing a strong conclusion. 

Math
We are continuing to work on multiplying larger numbers. We will start division at the end of next week and then move on to decimals.

At your convenience, please take a moment to read the parent letter for Unit 2.  Click on the entry below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gs3mqBamC6wZ0HgHDtDFxtyB18XzfGPkvDQxH
MK1dmE/edit?usp=sharing

Social Studies
We are wrapping up our Supply and Demand target.  We will begin discussing trade within the next couple of weeks.

Science
We are concluding our discussions and studies of natural disasters.  Our weather unit will continue with observing weather systems and causes of weather patterns.  This is a good topic to discuss with your child at home.  

Friendly Reminders

** Please remember to send your child with a healthy snack.  Nothing feeds the brain like a healthy snack!  

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

Room Parent News

Please take a moment to read a message from our room parents, Kim Iannuzzi and Lisa Dluger:

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

Enzie Pangilinan

Have a great weekend!

Friday, September 25th, 2015

Happy Friday Families!

We've been busy with learning and completing projects in all of the subject areas!  Please read about all of our hard work in each of the subject areas below:

Literacy
* Our students are reading a short novel called Washed Up.  The story is about three families competing in a "survivor" scenario on a television show.  We are focusing on our "close reading" skills, which involves looking back in the text for information and providing textual "evidence" for our responses.

Writing
* Our students are working on informative essays about a habitat/environment they selected to research.  They are closely looking at the plants and animals that are found within their chosen habitat.  Our students are utilizing a thinking map, which they developed with research information, in order to compose their essay.  This is currently being typed on a Google Doc with their iPads.  Eventually, students will add text features such as photos and maps to their essay in order to support and enhance their topic.

Math
* We are finishing up the last target within Unit 1 which focuses on the exponents and the powers of 10.  The CFA connected the target will be administered next week, as well as the post test for Unit 1.  Be on the lookout for a unit review!

Social Studies
* Our students took their CFA on locating countries on a map using relative locations.  Next week, we will start our economics unit, starting with goods and services and supply and demand.  We have several fun projects planned in the weeks ahead!

Science
* We have started our weather unit and our first focus will be on natural disasters.  We will also take the information we're learning in the unit and compose an informative essay.

Keyboarding
* Students will begin using our new keyboarding program in the computer lab next week.  They will bring home an informational sheet which contains the passwords they will need to log into the program at home.  Starting next week, students will be expected to spend a minimum of 30 minutes PER WEEK on keyboarding at home.  This should be recorded on their reading logs. 

Buddies
* Our class is buddied-up with Mrs. Levin's first grade class!  We had such a fun time helping our first grade buddies understand how to properly walk in the hallway.  We are extremely fortunate to have such great role-models in our classroom! :)

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Friendly Reminders

** Please remember to send your child with a healthy snack.  Nothing feeds the brain like a healthy snack!  

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

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

Enzie Pangilinan

Friday, August 28th, 2015

Good Afternoon 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!

We have not started the official typing program as of yet, so please disregard the section on the reading log for practice. We will start a new typing program at the end of the month and I will forward any details as they become available.

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

Literacy

* Our students are wrapping up finding the 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. Over the next couple of weeks we will start looking at how to quote accurately from an info/explanatory text.

Writing

* We will be begin conducting research for an info/explanatory paper. The students will learn to use a variety of resources to find their information.

Math

* Our students will continue to understand that a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left using whole numbers and decimals. We will also start talking about exponents.

Social Studies

* We plan on starting geography in the coming days.  We will start working on relative locations with states and countries.

Science

* We plan on starting our weather unit in the coming days and look forward to fun explorations!

Upcoming Events

** Monday, September 14th  - No school

** Wednesday, September 23rd - No School 

Friendly Reminders

** Please remember to send your child with a healthy snack.  Nothing feeds the brain like a healthy snack!  

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

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

Friday, August 28th, 2015

Good Afternoon Families!

It was an absolute pleasure seeing you last night!  I hope you found curriculum night to be informative.  Your involvement and support are greatly appreciated!  

The link you clicked on is our classroom Blogger page, which will have bi-monthly classroom updates.  Included in the updates will be our current target concepts in all academic areas, classroom events, and important upcoming dates.  An email with a link to our classroom Blogger page will be pushed out every two weeks when our Blogger page is updated.

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

Literacy

* Our students are currently working on finding the 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.

Writing

* Our students are off to a great start writing narrative pieces. We are currently working on orienting the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters.

Math

* Our students are currently working on writing and comparing decimals to the thousandths using base ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.

Social Studies

* We plan on starting geography in the coming days.  We will start with locating, on a map, the major river systems of the world.

Science

* We plan on starting our weather unit in the coming days and look forward to fun explorations!

Upcoming Events

** Tuesday, September 1st - Early Release

** Monday September 7th - No School (Labor Day)

Friendly Reminders

** Please remember to send your child with a healthy snack.  Nothing feeds the brain like a healthy snack!  

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

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

Enzie Pangilinan

05.29.2014

Happy Friday Parents,

This will be our last blog of the school year. It has been such a wonderful year with all of your children. It is hard to believe that the year is coming to an end. Thank you for all of your support throughout the year. We will miss seeing your children in the fall, but we know they will love Twin Groves and they will all enjoy many successes there! Have a wonderful summer filled with family, friends, and sunshine!

Literacy

* We will continue looking at the themes of poems and compare/contrast different poems. We will be giving the last benchmark test on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

Writing

* We are writing 5th grade opinion papers. The theme is what makes Ivy Hall a great place to be. We are enjoying hearing all of their great ideas.

Math

* We are working on a fun Tessellation activity next week. Be on the lookout for some great final pictures!

Science

* We are currently working on light and sound.

Important Dates

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* 5/29: PTO Wildcat Allstars Family Picnic @ 6-8pm

* 6/1: 5th grade field trip to Camp Duncan

* 6/5: Field Day (9:00-11:00)

* 6/8 Last Day of School (Dismissal at 2:00)

Friendly Reminders

** Please remember to send your child on Monday with long pants, long sleeved shirts, shoes, socks, and insect spray. They also need to bring their own lunches. We will be at Camp Duncan all day.

** 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.

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

Here is a message from our PTO about The Family Picnic.

1.Wildcat All Stars Annual Family Picnic

2. Friday, May 29th - 6-8 PM

3. Bring all your family and family

4. See if you can dunk a teacher

5. Most Important - Family, Friends and Fun!!!!

6th Grade Placement Info

http://www.kcsd96.org/curriculum/documents/Grade6PlacementInfo_2015_16.pdf

Attachments area

Preview attachment 5th Grade - Unit 6 Family Letter

5th Grade - Unit 6 Family Letter

Classroom Update - 05.08.2015

Happy Friday Parents!

Hopefully April showers will bring May flowers! We have a very exciting Spring coming up with many fun and interesting activities for 5th Grade!

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

Literacy

* We will continue to work with poetry as we analyze poems and understand the themes.  We are also writing poems of our own to practice using figurative language. We have all enjoyed using song lyrics to look into figurative language and themes used in popular music.

Writing

* We are working on writing informative pieces. We are also working describing information verbally by completing short films and adding those to our informative Google Presentations.

Math

* We are moving on to our last unit on geometry - Unit 6.  Targets will cover coordinate planes, polygon classification, and line plot data. To practice these targets we have worked on a comic project that used scale drawing.

Information to help your child :  Unit 6 Math Family Letter is attached as a link because it has online resource links.

https://docs.google.com/a/kcsd96.org/document/d/1uc_kiq8sRJygNHAYK6kbf87eqqw5hqu2_uYnUeUw03c/edit

Social Studies

* We are working on describing how indentured servitude affected the growth of the colonies.  This will lead into our discussion about slavery and how it affected the growth of the colonies. The kids will have a neat culminating iPad video to share! The students were also involved in an indentured servitude simulation which provided some hands on learning.

Science

* We are currently working on light and sound.

Dates to Remember

5/13: Ivy Hall Celebrates Learning

5/14: Orchestra Extravaganza at Twin Groves @ 7:00pm

5/15: 5th Grade Spring Fling 6:30-8:00pm

5/19: Early Release @ 2:00pm

5/21: Fifth grade day. Visit to Twin Groves.

5/22: Half-day Dismissal @ 11:45am

5/25: Memorial Day- No School

5/29: PTO Wildcat Allstars Family Picnic @ 6-8pm

6/01: 5th grade field trip to Camp Duncan  **Permission form and money due May 20th

5th Grade Transition Day

This is a special 5th grade day! We will visit Twin Groves in the morning. Students will meet Mrs. Barnes (Principal), along with a few of the Twin Groves staff. Students will also receive a tour of the building and have their questions answered by student tour guides. 

Upon our return, we will have a pizza lunch with the 5th grade classes. We will send out a permission slip for a pizza lunch in next week's Friday Update. After lunch, we will go outside to participate in team building games and activities. We plan on being outside from 12:00 to 1:30.  All parents are welcome to bring their chairs to see the kids in action! In the case of inclement weather, games will be inside the classrooms. Unfortunately, parents will not be able to attend due to lack of space.

Family Picnic

1.Wildcat All Stars Annual Family Picnic

2. Friday, May 29th - 6-8 PM

3. Bring your whole family!

4. See if you can dunk a teacher!

5. Most Important - Family, Friends and Fun!!!!

Friendly Reminders

** Please remember to turn in the field trip form for Camp Duncan.

** 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.

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

Enzie Pangilinan

Classroom Update - 04.24.2015

Good Afternoon Families!

The students have been hard at work on their placement tests.  They put forth their best effort and focused hard during these past few weeks.  Thank you for your support at home in helping our children eat healthy and get enough sleep.

 

We have finished most placement tests, with just the literacy comprehension test to remain.  The test will be administered next Thursday, April 30th.  

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

Literacy

* We are working on new targets. The first will be to determine themes of story, drama, or a poem using details from the text.

Writing

* We finished Cycle 5 and will be switching our writing to informative texts. The students are going to be providing support from the text, as well as, writing effective introductions and conclusions. Look forward to incorporating media into their next piece!

Math

* With Unit 5 and the performance task done, we are done with placement tests for math.  We are moving on to our last unit on geometry- Unit 6. Targets will cover coordinate planes, polygon classification, and line plot data.

Information to help your child :  Unit 6 Math Family Letter is attached as a link because it has online resource links.

https://docs.google.com/a/kcsd96.org/document/d/1uc_kiq8sRJygNHAYK6kbf87eqqw5hqu2_uYnUeUw03c/edit

Social Studies

* We are continuing to work on describing how indentured servitude affected the growth of the colonies.  This will lead into our discussion about slavery and how it affected the growth of the colonies. The kids will have a neat ipad video to share! We will do a simulation in class for some hands on learning.

Science

* We are currently working on light and sound.

**A message from the PTO:

The Variety Show committee is inviting all 5th graders to be a part of the finale production number. There will be practices during several recesses in April. Fifth graders participating in the final production must be present for the dress rehearsal on April 28th at from 6:15 – 7:00 pm. The variety show is April 30th @ 6:30. For more information contact co-chairs Andy Hite or Sasha Vargas.

Also, the following dates will be when students should stay in for recess to practice if they would like to be part of the finale: April 16, 23, 28, 30

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.

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

Enzie Pangilinan

6th Grade Placement Info

http://www.kcsd96.org/curriculum/documents/Grade6PlacementInfo_2015_16.pdf