Voyagers’
Weekly Memo - August 18-22, 2014
General Announcements:
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We have had an absolutely wonderful start to this school year!! We are very fortunate to teach such a fantastic group of
fifth graders! We are getting into our school routines, and the
students have done a wonderful job transitioning to 5th grade at Brock’s Gap!
We have spent much of our time
last week working on procedures. While this
isn’t very exciting, we know that this will be so very beneficial as we
continue this year. You should expect a team newsletter from us each
week. This newsletter is an important tool for
us to share information. We will also have a link that you can go to for
the newsletter under our signatures on each email. This link will have
all newsletters for the year in it. They will not be as long as this first
newsletter, we promise!! Please do not hesitate to contact any of us with
questions at any time!
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Your child should
be bringing their zipper binders home every day beginning today. In this binder,
they should have their agenda. This agenda will serve as a communication
tool between home and school. Please check this each day for important
information for each class. The agenda will be written in daily
regardless of homework or not. Some days, you may just see “No Homework”
written. We are trying to get all students in the habit of writing in each
subject each day. Please initial this agenda every day for the next two
weeks so that the students see the importance of this communication tool
between home and school.
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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 study hall/detention.
In addition, your child will bring home an “H slip” detailing the
missed assignment. We ask that you send back the “H slip” the following day.
If needed, lunch detention will be implemented
this week.
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Please
mark your calendars for our BGIS 5th Grade Open House/PTO Meeting on August
26th. This meeting will begin at 5:30 P.M. with a general PTO session.
Please try to attend 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.
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Please see the following link for the Brock’s Gap eNews:
Brock's Gap eNews
Coming up this week:
Math:
Topics of Study – This week, we will begin Investigations Unit 1 -Arrays;
number puzzles; prime factorization; multiplication and division; properties of
numbers; and Number Talks. In addition, we will continue work on problem
solving. A computation sheet will be given out on Monday. Students
are responsible for various sections of this nightly. We will have a quiz
on Thursday. We may adjust the day of our computation quizzes each week
to accommodate other tests in other areas. There will be homework assigned from
their Math Activity books to reinforce material taught in class. Check
their agenda for this homework.
Important Dates – Math
Computation Practice due Wednesday; Math Comp. Quiz Thursday.
Science:
Topics of Study – Greetings from the Science lab! This past week we learned
about science safety and had our first science quiz. We have set up our
interactive science journals and are learning about observation and inference.
Weekly grades will be taken from class activities (including science
journals) and homework. Students will be notified several days in advance
of quizzes and tests. Students are encouraged to use their class notes
and science journals to help them review for tests and quizzes.
Language Arts:
Topics of Study –
Reading: Next week we will read the
short story, “Charles.” As we read, we will work on the comprehension
strategies of questioning and summarizing. Within our lessons the
students will answer questions while finding evidence within the text to
support their answer. A vocabulary assignment will come home on Monday
that relates to the reading assignment for the week. The students will define
the words and write sentences with each word. We will collect this on Friday.
We will have a vocabulary test and comprehension test on Friday.
New reading logs will be handed out on Monday and will be
collected as a grade on Friday. Please make sure your child is reading and
recording each night.
Grammar: The students will work on
Nouns this week. Daily activities will lead up to a grammar test on Friday.
Important Dates – Vocabulary Test; Reading Comprehension
Test, and 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 sending a Sign-Up Genius asking for some materials for our Social
Studies classes. We will be creating the various living structures of the
groups we have discussed to reinforce the idea of adaptation among the earliest
Paleo-Indians. Please look for that Sign-Up Genius in a separate email.
Important Dates – No tests this week. Grades will be taken on
activities done in class.
Hope everyone has a great week!
