Dear Parents,
Student Picture Re-Takes are Wednesday, Dec. 2. If you wish to have your student's picture taken again, you must return the original picture packet. Please attach a note letting the photographer know the problem with the original picture. Everything in the original packet must be returned! If your student was absent on Oct. 21, please pick up an order packet in the office.
Robo Lab volunteers needed!! Our class will be working with the robo lab materials and facilitators, Lavonna Gonzalez & Del Sukarto, during the week of December 7-11th from 1:25-2:25. We are in need of volunteers for each day. The optimum would be two volunteers per day. Please let me know if you are available to assist in this wonderful opportunity! No experience required!
Our lesson plans for this week are as follows:
Spelling:
Spelling pre-tests are given each Monday. The students are to
create their lists from words that they missed on their pretest and words of their own choosing. Lists are to be reviewed and the Super Speller sheet signed each Monday night. This ensures that their words are spelled correctly and that you feel their individualized lists are challenging.
Their Spelling Jobs (homework) for the week should be on that sheet as
well. All jobs are due on Friday when students take their Spelling Tests.
Language Arts:
We will finish our first novel study with The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare. It is a historical frontier novel about the developing relationship between a young boy named Matt and an Indian youth named Atean. In the novel, the signs come to symbolize the different communication systems of the two boys, and these communication systems, in turn, reveal the boys' contrasting cultural values.
Students are completing reading skills associated with the story, a journal summarizing each chapter from Matt's point of view, and sharing reading response journals with their literature circle groups.
Our next Book Bingo due date is December 14th.
Students have received information to complete a Book Bingo. These instructions are in their book bingo folder. Each student will read and complete two book bingos per nine weeks. The goal is to encourage students to pick challenging books, utilize the skills they will learn during the literary elements unit, and produce a quality product! Remember to follow instructions carefully from the folders. A few areas that often need attention are writing about the main characters, including a thorough summary of the plot, and including a theme statement. Please check your child's planner to ensure the book bingo due dates were recorded as they were instructed to do.
Students are expected to read 15-20 minutes each night and complete their reading log. Reading logs should be brought home each night in their binders. Their reading logs not only improve comprehension skills, but show which book they are currently reading for their Book Bingo! Each student has a Book Bingo folder with SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS for successfully completing this project!
Math: Topic 7- Fractions and Decimals will be our focus for next week.
Science: We will begin Cycles in Nature next week.
Students will identify the significance of the carbon dioxide-oxygen and nitrogen cycles.
Science is a fast 45min. daily. I strongly suggest students study vocabulary for each science unit nightly. We start each unit with vocabulary to allow for this. They should have it in their binders.
Social Studies: Please visit Mrs. Terry's teacher web by going to the 5th
grade page on the Canyon Creek web site and clicking on her name. You can
add your email address to her list from her teacher web page.
Planners - The students each have a planner in their binder and they are to fill out their homework during the day. Homework is posted in the classroom and available for the student to copy daily. **Always check your child's planner for testing dates. The students will know at least 4-5 days prior to testing.
Please check out the Canyon Creek PTA newsletter at:
www.canyoncreekpta.com/newsletter_oct07.pdf
Please contact me by email or phone if you have any questions or concerns.
I plan to be out of the classroom on Nov. 20th, 23rd. and 24th. Virgina Blascke (former Canyon Creek Teacher) will be taking care of my class.
I wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving.
Carol Montgomery
carol_montgomery@roundrockisd.org
428-2855