Technology Day!

Dear 5C Family-
At long last the students of 5C have finally filled the postive choices jar of marbles. As the wish was pulled out of the jar a silent cry went out and the reward.... Technology Day! Tomorrow, students will be given most of my class time with them to use technology the students bring themselves. The can bring only what they can carry themselves. No special equipment will be requested but the class does have access for watching movies. Students' technology will not be allowed outside the classroom at recess or lunch and the room will be locked with technology inside during specials. Students are responsible for the technology that they bring. No inappropriate music, movies, or video games should be brought, they will not be allowed. Students will not be allowed to use cell phones to call, text, or chat with people outside the classroom. They will still have Estudios and their 2 specials classes in the afternoon. If students would like to bring a treat or snack to share with the class during the day they need to bring enough for the whole class. I am very proud of their hard work through these first to quarters and they have made a concentrated effort at the end. Please congratulate our 5C members and encourage them to keep doing their very best!

News for December 13th - 17th

*This is a shortened week because of Christmas break. Families planning on traveling early and having students miss days should get permission from the office BEFORE you leave so that the absence can be determined excused or not. IF NOT YOUR STUDENT WILL BE UNEXCUSED AND WILL RECEIVE B'S FOR ANY PROJECT OR TEST MISSED!!!!

Literacy:
- Finish learning parts of plot: theme
- Practice identifying plot using picture books
- Continue with Trait #4 - Word Choice
- Continue working on Christmas narratives, published draft due Friday, December 17th!

Math:
- Finish Chapter 9 on Fractions
- Review and Test, Wedneday, December 15th! Use blog pictures to help you study along with the book and the notebook.

Social Studies:
- Continue working on Explorers Projects, due Wednesday, December 15th
- Explorers Presentations on projects/timelines will be Wednesday and Thursday
- For a copy of the Rubric and Guidelines click on the links.


**Friday, December 17th: Free Colors' Day, 9:00 a.m. Christmas Assembly, Christmas party, Early Dismissal at 11:15

**Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy bringing in of the New Year, See you on the 5th of January!

News for December 6 - 10

Literacy:
- Elements of Plot
- Exposition: character, setting, conflict
- Rising Action/Climax/Falling Action


Math:
- Continue with Fractions, Chapter 9 Lessons 3, 4, 5, and 9
- Check out the fun websites on Fraction Games and play one at least twice a week!
- Fraction Bars

Social Studies:
- "Life on an Explorer's Ship"
-Start Explorers Projects - research will be done at home and some time will be given at school as well
- Continue with timelines (using our explorers)

*Empty Bowls and Christmas Concert - Thursday, December 8th - Color's Day with Empty Bowls t-shirts! Don't forget to come by your bowl, hear great Christmas music, eat tortilla soup, and support a great cause!

**Colors' Day - Friday, December 10th - Lps 5

***5th grade Posadas 10:30 - 11:50 in Multipurpose Room

News for November 29th - December 3rd

*Students recieved a very important note on Friday that needs to be read and signed. If it is not returned by Tuesday the student will receive an automatic infraction!

Literacy:

- Finish features of Non-fiction text, Test will be Tuesday, November 30th

- Begin discussing parts of Plot

- Virtue of the Month: Generosity

Math:

- Continue Fractions in Chapter 8

Social Studies: We will pick up science again in the New Year during 3rd quarter!
- Review Map Skills

- Introduce explorers and timelines


*Order an Empty Bowl t-shirt by Friday, December 1st and you can were it on December 9th!

** Bring in a box of cereal for the Christmas baskets for our workers (Bright bucks for each box donated)!

***Last week to send in items for Navidad Sin Frio - Thanks Arianne, Sergio, Tethey, Francisco, Carlos, Ivanna, and Jose Armando for donating items! There is still time left!

****Photos with Santa will be taken on Friday, December 3rd at 1:15.

*****Parent Presentation on Internet Safety has been moved to Wednesday, December 1st!

News for November 22nd - 26th

*This is a short week because of Thanksgiving break and we have Thursday, Nov. 25 and Friday, Nov. 26th off of school. Families planning on traveling early and having students miss days should get permission from the office BEFORE you leave so that the absence can be excused. IF NOT YOUR STUDENT WILL BE UNEXCUSED AND WILL RECEIVE B'S FOR ANY PROJECT OR TEST MISSED!!!!

Literacy:
- Finish up features of non-fiction text (captions/labels)
- Healthy Habits summary
- Begin structures of non-fiction text
- Thanksgiving writing

Math:
- Monday there will be a short mini - quiz on Factors, divisibility, prime and composite numbers (refer the the "Need to Study" IAW link to study)
- Begin fractions - numerators/denominators, mixed and improper fractions, and representing decimals with factions

Science:
- All Science Body System worksheets should be completely finished on M0nday, Nov. 22nd
- Continue working on Body System Booklets: due Wednesday, Nov. 24th (use checklist and rubric)
- Human Body Power Point Slide Project presentations - Tuesday, Nov. 23rd
- Body System Test will be on Wednesday, November 24th - use booklet, "study" link, and power point presentation

**Don't forget to send your items in for Navidad Sin Frio, thanks to Tethey, Sergio, and Arianne for helping out!

***Wednesday, November 24th is our Thanksgiving lunch at 12:30. Students will not be allowed to leave early with their parents that day!

****Have a great Thanksgiving Break!

News for November 15th - 19th

It is very important that parents continuing signing their student's assignment book daily! Students who do not have signatures will be counted as a missing assignment towards an infraction!

Literacy:
- Finish Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
- Work on parts of non-fiction texts

Math:
- Review Division - Quiz on Division (whole numbers and decimals) on Tuesday, November 16th
- Divisibility, factors, GCF, prime and composite numbers

Science:
- Since we didn't have time for our Digestive Food lab we will do it on Monday (Make sure you have your brown paper bag)!
- Endocrine, Excretory, Urinary, and Integumentary Systems
- Healthy Habits
- Organ System projects
- Body System worksheets should be finished by Monday, November 22nd!

* First quarter award assembly will be Tuesday, November 16th
** Early Dismissal on Wednesday, November 17th - Students will leave at 1:00pm
*** Tie Dye activity for 3rd - 5th - Cost Lps 100 (shirts will be provided) activity postponed until 3rd quaarter!
**** Friday, November 19th - Colors' Day Lps 5
***** Don't forget about Navidad Sin Frio - Thanks to Tethey and Sergio who has already brought in items!

News for November 8th - 12th

Come to Family Literacy Night: Please print out the invitation and send it back in by Thursday morning. Students are encouraged to come so both can be a part of the process!

Literacy:
- Practicing Demonstration speeches using note cards
- Tuesday/Wednesday - Demonstration Speech Presentations (date/time slots will be chosen on Monday)
- Discuss value of the month: Gratitude
- Thankful Turkeys
- Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences


Math:
- Review division of whole numbers
- Dividing decimals
- Division with elimating remainders
- Decimal patterns in division
*Please make sure the new Math book has been covered by Monday, Nov. 8th - Students will be held responsible for these books so please discuss the importance of taking care of the new books with your student!


Science:
- Please send a sport cap type (medium sized) water bottle and two balloons to school on Monday for a experiment on breathing
- Finish Respiratory System
- Nervous System and brain lab
- Digestive System - please bring a brown paper lunch bag for Wednesday, Nov. 10th

*Thursday, November 11th - Family Literacy 2:45 - 4:00pm
**Saturday, November 13th - Earth Hour - turn off your lights from 8:30 - 9:30!
***Start sending in your things for Navidad Sin Frio

News for November 1st - 5th

*Don't forget students are dismissed today for parent teacher conferences at 11:15!

Literacy:
- Demonstration Speeches
- Choosing a Topic: link

Math:
- Continue Chapter 3 with decimals lessons 14 and 15
- Menu Math Day and Review
- Quiz Chapter 3 (section C) will be Friday, November 5th

Science:
- Finish Skeletal System
- Muscular System
- Circulatory System
- Respiratory System

** MS/HS Fall Carnival - Friday, Novemberr 5th 7:00-9:00pm

News for October 25th - 29th

*Remember no school on Monday, October 25th!

Literacy:
- Review punctuation, Punctuation Test, Wednesday, Oct. 27th
- Continue proofing and publishing personal essays on Respect - due Friday, Oct. 29th

Math: - Continue Chapter 3 lessons 8, 9, 10, and 13
- Day to review multiplying with decimals
- If your student recieved below a 90% on their mulitplication timed test, he/she will be given one on Tuesday during lunch and every week following until he/she passes. It is very important that you be studying the times tables at least 5 minutes daily to review!

Science:
We will be leaving Social Studies to go back to Unit A in Science to study the Human Body, we will start with the organization of cells from cells to organisms and cover the muscular and skeletal systems.

**5th Grade Parent Presentation: Thursday, Oct0ber 28th from 11:30 - 1:30 in the multipurpose room - RSVP by Wednesday 10/27 - Please come and join us for a very important topic!
***Friday, October 29th will be our Halloween parade and party. Students are welcomed to come dressed in costumes that are appropriate for school (costume props will only be allowed during the parade and party). The parade will begin around 1:10 after lunch and be followed by the party in our classroom. If students would like to voluntarily bring a treat or something small to share, please make sure there are enough for everyone in class! Students who do not celebrate Halloween are encouraged to come to school until lunch and then can go to the Library during the parade and party!
****Since this is Halloween week we will not have a student of the week. Every student is invited to bring in a picture of them dressed up for Halloween or a harvest party to put on our bulletin board!

Movement of Social Studies Dates

It was decided that instead of testing students over mapping skills in a formal assessment, they would be given more influential grades on their "Create Your Own Country" Map Project. This project should be finished at home by the student without help from the parent/tutor/guardian etc... Requirements along with the rubric has been glued to the back of the project so the students know exactly what they need to do and how they will be graded. We will have a review exam next week that will include both previous mapping skills and content covered that week. Thanks, Miss Bayes

News for October 18th - 22nd

Welcome to 2nd Quarter, the perfect time to start afresh on the right foot! Remember RESPECT even when someone is not looking.

Literacy:

- Continue writing Personal Essays on Respect

- Develop our writing using the trait of voice - click for article website on voice

- Types of Punctuation

Math:

- Finish Chapter 3 Section A with lesson 6 and a day to review and practice

- Math Quiz Ch. 3A will be Thursday, October 21st - Review Multiplication properties and know how to use them to solve for products: (click to study)

- Continue with Chapter 3, lesson 8 - decimal patterns

Social Studies:

- Finish Relief Maps and painting them - bring in a small bristle paint brush if you have one at home for Monday!

- Learning about landforms and reviewing coordinates with latitude and longitude

- Geography Assessment will be Friday, October 22nd

*Remember on Tuesday, October 19th we have a late start - Students should be to school by 9:30 that day!

**Students should bring in the 5th grade behavior letter signed by a parent on Monday!

***Colors' Day is Friday, October 22nd - Bring 5 lps.

****Due to a fight involving 4th and 5th graders last Friday afternoon, students will be called in for questioning and there will be a ban on the soccer field for 2 weeks. NO SOCCER FIELD USE FOR ANY 4TH OR 5TH GRADER UNTIL NOVEMBER 2ND!!!

News for October 11th - 15th

*No school Monday, October 11th (Columbus Day observed)*

Literacy:
- Begin Trait #3 of the 6+1 Writing Traits: Voice
- Discussion of the Virtue of the Month: Respect
- Begin Personal Essays on Respect
- Types of Puncuation

Math:
- Begin Chapter 3 lessons 1, 2, 4, and 5
- Multiplication Properties
- Be sure to be practicing your mulitplication tables daily if you recieved a letter last week!

Social Studies:
- Relief Map Projects: Please bring in an empty pizza box or other 16x11 piece of cardboard for Tuesday
- Create Your Own Country Project - due Friday, October 15th
- Map Skills Test - Friday, October 15th

**Friday, October 15th is the last day of 1st quarter
***Please respond to the parent email so Miss Bayes knows whether you recieved it, if you didn't please send her an email at pbayes@amschool.org with your correct email address, name, and name of student!

News for October 4th - 8th

Literacy:
- Finish Author's Purpose, Main Idea, and Supporting Details - Quiz will be Tuesday, October 5th
- Work on Parts of Phonics: Antonyms, Synonyms, Homographs, Homophones, Homonyms

Math:
- Chapter 2 lessons 14, 17 - 19: Adding and Subtracting Decimals and problem solving review
- Chapter 2 section C - Quiz will be Friday, October 8th

Social Studies:
Map Skills -
- Map Scales
- Map Keys/Legends
- Types of Maps: political, physical, thematic (click for website)

*By 5th grade students should be able to answer any multiplication table (0-12) in 3 seconds or less. According to Friday's Multiplication timed test, students who scored less than a 90% will receive a letter home. If your child gets this letter it is your equal resp0nsibility to practice the times tables nightly until the student improves. This is a very important foundation in order to accurately complete many other types of math in a timely manner. Thanks in advance for your support.

News for Sept. 27th - Oct. 1st

Literacy:
- Continue with 4 types of sentences
- Author's Purpose
- Main Idea and supporting details
- Personal Narrative due Monday, Sept. 27th
- Discuss Trait #2 - Organization (using graphic organizers to write narratives)

Math:
- Finish Chapter 2 sections A and B
- Review and Test, Thursday, Sept. 30th (click link for helpful pictures to study)

Social Studies:
- Start Map Skills:
- cardinal directions
- continents
- longitude and latitude
- hemispheres

*Fiesta Catracha is Friday, October 1st during lunch - students may wear typical clothes all day if they wish.
**Wednesday, Sept. 29th we will be doing our 6+1 Writing Assessment in class

**All Afterschool Activities and Saturday Activities Cancelled!**

Today, Friday, September 24th and Saturday, September 25th there will be no extracurricular activities because of the impending tropical storm. Please make sure students are picked up promptly at 2:30!

News for Sept. 20th - 24th

Literacy:
- Continuing and finishing personal narratives - Go through the 5 steps of the writing process
- Proofreading and Revising techniques
- Published (in cursive, black pen) copy of Personal Narrative due Monday, Sept. 27th (click on date for copy of rubric)
- Four Types of Sentences

Math:
- Continue Chapter 2: lessons 7- 12 (pgs. 66 -77 in book)
- Work on decimals - equivalent, rounding, comparing, and ordering

Science:
We have finished our time in science and will now be spending the rest of the quarter on social studies. We will pick back up the human body during 2nd quarter!

Social Studies:
- Continue to work on poster projects for our department: Comayagua - please send in any pictures, souvenirs, artifacts, etc... that have to do with Comayagua for our display by Thursday, Sept. 23rd

*Early Dismissal - Monday, Sept. 20th @ 1:oopm students leave!
**Peace Day - Tuesday, Sept. 21st - Assembly @ 10:10am
***Colors' Day - Friday, Sept. 24th - Lps. 5

News for September 13th and 14th

Literacy:
- Beginning, Middle and End of Personal Narratives
- Virtue of the Month: Loyalty

Math:
- Continue Place Value: Ch. 2 lesson 7 - Tenths and Hundredths

Instead of Science this week we will be studying the department of Comayagua for Fiesta Catracha. We will be doing projects and research and each student will be assigned to a group to create a poster for our department display.
**If you have anything (artifacts, pictures, maps, etc...) of Comayagua that our class could borrow, please start sending those in starting tomorrow and next week!***

* Independence Holiday: No school Wednesday Sept. 15th - Friday, Sept. 17th (teacher's day) - There will be NO early dismissal tomorrow - Enjoy your 5 day weekend!
** We are still missing party money, please send in cash or bank deposit slips!
***Those parents that volunteered items from our wish list, please remember to send them. We are in desperate need of the gallon size ziploc bags. Thank you to those parents that have sent what they offered!

News for Sept. 6th - 10th

Literacy:
- Continue learning and using the steps of the writing process
- Personal Narrative - prewrite and drafts
- graphic organizers
- Discuss and assess characters and setting
- Story genre (non-fiction vs. realistic fiction)

Math:
- Reinforce, review, and assess (quiz thursday): addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
- Exploring Place Value Through Millions
***Those who do not know their Multiplication tables should be practicing them daily!

Science:
- Continue classifying living things
- Power point on the 6 Kingdoms of organisms
- Bring old magazine to cut out pictures
- 6 Kingdoms of Organisms posters - group project and presentations
- Quiz on Six Kingdoms - Friday, Sept. 10th (study power point)

*Day of the Child - Friday, Sept. 10th - Free Colors Day and Popsicles at lunch
**Friday is last day for Plato Test for those who are not finished
***We still do not Party Money from everyone please continue sending in reciepts or money!

**** Character Education Presentation on "Purposeful Families" - Wednesday, Sept. 8th from 5pm - 6:30pm in the Multipurpose Room in the Elementary. Please some join us with special speaker: Mrs. Maria de los Angeles Quesada!

News for August 30th - September 3rd

Literacy:
- Summer Reading Project Presentations Monday morning
- Work on Ideas that we've already funneled (soccer event)
- Start discussing Personal Narrative

Math:
- Problem Solving using the U.P.S.L.S. guide and choose an operation method (pgs. 18 -21)
- Input and Output Tables and Variables (pgs. 22 -23)
- Problem Solving and Variables Quiz will be Friday, Sept. 3rd; see link

Science:
- Review material on cells and microscopes
- Two types of Cells Booklet due Tuesday, Aug. 31st
- Cells Test will be on Tuesday, Aug. 31st - use cell booklet and pictures on the link
- Begin classifying Living things into the 6 kingdoms

*PLATO Test for 5C will be Thursday and Friday during Computer class
**Please start sending in the Lps 700 for Party money or a copy of the deposit slip!

News for August 23 - 27th

Literacy:
- Work on Summer Reading Projects - **now due Monday, August 30th, see link for rubric http://www.scribd.com/doc/36302983/Summer-Reading-Project-Rubric
- Non-fiction vs. Realistic Fiction

Math:
- Continue Range, Median, and Mode and add Mean
- Graphing Project (done in class, rubric will be given Tuesday)
- Review and Test on Graphing, Range, Mean, Median and Mode Friday, August 27th; CLICK for studying materials

Science:
- How to use a microscope and learning its parts
- Onion skill cell activity in the Science Lab
- Cell Booklet project
- Jello Cells : Each student was assigned to bring a specific item by Thursday, August 26th! Click on the link to open a page and see what you (your student) is responsible for:

* Colors' Day Lps. 5 on Friday, August 27th

** It was great to see so many parents at Open House last Thursday, in case you weren't able to make it that night or had to leave early/come late. The 5th grade presenation power point is available for you to access at the following link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/36274054/Presentation-Open-House-2010

*** If your student is interested in Eagle League, please contact Mrs. Zavala the P.E. teacher; inscription for this season has already began.

**** Students who do not have books (science, math, and social studies) covered by Friday, August 27th will receive an infraction!

Reminders!

Today's Math Homework requires information from on of these two this sites: http://www.scribd.com/doc/36121678/FIFA-2010-World-Cup-South-Africa-Stats or http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/statistics/matches/goals.html. Be sure to make a line plot using at least 8 countries and some kind of data from the sites. Don't forget to give it a title!

Yesterday's Math Homework requires the information from this site (sorry about before this one should work; I won't count the homework against you if you don't get a chance to do it!):
http://www.scribd.com/doc/36094645/La-Ceiba

***Don't Forget that tomorrow, Thursday the 19th is the 5th grade meeting/Open House in the Multipurpose Room at 5:00pm. We will have a meeting with all 5th grade sections first (along with Spanish, Estudios, and the counselor), then go back to our individual classes to deal with parties, wish lists, etc... Refreshments will be provided in room 5C at that time. Specials teachers will be located in the art room from 5 -7pm so make sure you stop in to talk with them as well. We have several new teachers on our staff. We hope that each parent or guardian will be able to make it tomorrow night and we looking forward to seeing you then.

**As a reminder to students who are not bus riders. Parents, drivers, nannies, older and younger siblings, etc.. are to wait in the grassy area in front of the Middle School building to pick up/meet students. This reduces the traffic and the loss of students on the way. Students are required to walk with the teacher or assistant to the designated area and will NOT be permitted to accompany anyone not in the designated area. Please help us keep your student safe and accounted for!

News for August 16 - 20

Welcome to the first full week of the school year! We will be continuing to practice routines and procedures and of course following the rules and expectations. We are also going to start learning new 5th grade subject matter. Each week on this blog I will give you the units and chapters we will be studying in each subject. The homework will change daily so you need to be sure to check daily for any changes and if you have any questions you can comment on the blog or email me.

Literacy:
- Using literacy to incorporate science topics along with routines and procedures
- Summer Reading Assessment

Math:
- Chapter 1 Graphs and Data: pictographs, bar graphs, line plots, line graphs
mean, median, mode, and range

Science:
- Unit A Chapter 1 lesson 1 on Cells and their structures

* Thursday, August 19th @ 5:00pm - 5th Grade Open House and Parent Meeting in the Multipurpose room

Welcome Back

Welcome to 5C, this year 2010 - 2011 is going to be a great year. I hope that you have all had a relaxing vacation and are ready to start the new school year right. This blog will be very helpful for all members of 5C. Here you will find news for the week, daily homwork assignments, fun educational wesbites, and more. Be sure to check the blog daily for any important information! I am looking forward to getting to know everyone as we take on 5th grade!