Voyagers’ Weekly Memo - August 25-29, 2014
General Announcements:
- We have been very busy these last few weeks. We all feel like the students are adjusting very well to our classrooms and the schedule at Brock’s Gap. We all admit that the routines are not yet established for any of us! Thank you for your support of our classrooms! We were so impressed with how quickly you all signed up for our Social Studies rotations!
- Please initial your child’s agenda every day for the next week so that the students see the importance of this communication tool between home and school. We may not check every child’s agenda, but we will spot check several a day.
- We would like to ask that any time you need to email one of us about anything that you email both of us. This helps us be sure we are on the same page about your child. While we each have our own homerooms, we think of both classes as “ours.” :) In addition, there are times when you email about transportation after a student has left our classroom for the day. We just want to make sure we get the needed messages to the students. Our emails are
- Completing homework is one of the most crucial aspects of success in 5th grade! Students who have incomplete homework will be given the opportunity to complete this homework for partial credit during lunch detention. In addition, your child will bring home an “H slip” detailing the assignment missed. We ask that you send back the “H slip” the following day. Lunch detention will be implemented for students who are missing homework assignments.
- We will send graded papers every other week, but you will be able to check grades every week through iNow. INow login information will be distributed at Open House. This will come home with your child on Wednesday if you can not make Open House.
- We hope to see each of you at our BGIS 5th Grade Open House/PTO Meeting tomorrow night . This meeting will begin at 5:30 in Mrs. Ponder’s classroom (Room 122) so that you can also attend Bumpus Middle School’s Open House if you need to. Please try to attend this as we will be discussing more about our procedures and curriculum for this school year. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.
- Deadline for “Girls on the Run” is Aug. 29. Registration is completed online at:
http://girlsontherunbham.org/ - If your child is interested in being a part of Student Council, they should bring home paperwork that includes information and deadlines. This paperwork is due on Friday, August 29.
- Please see the following link for the most recent Brock’s Gap eNews:
Coming up this week:
Math:
Topics of Study–We will continue our work on factors and multiples as well as work on even, odd, square, prime and composite number for the rest of the week. There will be a math computation quiz on Thursday. Please check your child’s agenda. There will be math practice every night.
Important Dates – Quiz on Thursday
Science:
Topics of Study – We are finishing our study of the science processing skills. We will have a quiz on these skills this Wednesday. Students can use their science journals to help them review for the quiz. We will begin our study of the overview of the spheres, specifically the biosphere and ecosystems.
Important Dates- Quiz on Wednesday on the Science Processing Skills
Language Arts:
Topics of Study –Next week we will begin our unit on Argument Writing. During this unit, the students will learn how to make a claim, gather evidence, and list reasons why they support the claim. They will learn what a “debate” is and understand that it is important to see both sides of every argument.
Homework:
Reading log –students should work on this each night. It will be collected on Friday. Please sign to let us know that you reviewed it with your child.
Spelling-the students will have spelling homework each night. Our words include a study of root words. The students will turn their spelling contract in on Thursdays.
The spelling test will be on Thursday.
Words for the week: biped, centipede, impediment, millipede, pedal, peddler, pedestrian, pedicure, quadruped, tripod.
The spelling test will be on Thursday.
Words for the week: biped, centipede, impediment, millipede, pedal, peddler, pedestrian, pedicure, quadruped, tripod.
Grammar- we will continue focusing on nouns next week. The study will be on singular/plural nouns and proper/common nouns.
There will be a test on this material Friday.
There will be a test on this material Friday.
Important Dates – Reading Log nightly, Spelling Test on Thursday, Grammar test on Friday
Social Studies:
Topics of Study – We will continue our study of the earliest Paleo-Indians that were in present day United States. This will lead into our study of the later Native Americans that were here when our country was colonized. We will be giving out a study guide in class on Monday. This study guide will be used for the test that will be taken on Thursday. The test will be VERY similar to the study guide. On Monday, we will complete and review the study guide and review materials we have covered in class. Tuesday and Wednesday, we will create replicas of homes and resources that the various Paleo-Indians would have built in the area in which they lived. Thursday will be our test on Paleo-Indians.
Important Dates – Test on Paleo-Indians Thursday.
We hope everyone has a great week!
