Tagged: Updates

What’s Coming up- Week of November 11th

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  • Goodies Factory camp fundraiser product pick-up is Tuesday, November 19 from 3:00-5:15.

  • Camp balance due on or before December 16.

  • Thanks for coming to parent/teacher conferences.  It was great to meet with all of you about your child.

Math:

  • We have begun unit 3 which is about multiplication and division with fractions.  Watch the blog for updates about homework and quizzes.

Science:

  • We are continuing our unit on the Solar System. The next two weeks we will cover the moon, constellations, eclipses, and the tides.  Look for a second vocabulary quiz the week of the 18th.

Social Studies:

  • We will be finishing up our discussion of the Native Americans and having a quiz on Thursday (watch for a review sheet to come home).  We will then begin our discussion about the African empires.

ELA:

  • We are finishing up our book clubs and continuing to work on our opinion essays. Our essays are  focusing on theories we have developed about our characters from our book clubs.

What’s Coming up- Week of May 20

Miscellaneous:

  • Watch for a camp information/schedule note that will be coming home on Monday, May 20th.
  • Please have any medications for camp placed in a ziplock baggie with your child’s name printed on the baggie. Thank you.
  • Just a reminder that drop off time for your camper is on Wed. morning at 8:45 by the front doors. We need to have the paper turned in letting us know who will be picking your child up on Friday. Then pick up for your tired camper will be at 1:45 on Friday afternoon by the front doors.

Whitecaps Game: Monday, May 20 the safeties are headed to the Whitecaps game that begins at 11:00.  We will be leaving school around 10:15.  Parents are welcome to join their son/daughter on the bus or drive separately to the ballpark.  There is a chance of rain on Monday so please watch the weather to determine what is the best attire to wear to the game (raincoat, sweatshirt, etc).  Safeties also need to bring some money for lunch because food can not be brought into the ballpark.  Don’t forget to bring your ball glove because you might be lucky enough to catch a foul ball.  Please email Mr. Gort (mgort@hpseagles.net) if you have any questions.

What’s Coming Up-Week of September 24

Miscellaneous:
We have many things happening this week for the 5th graders. Our rotation for our safeties will begin this Monday September 24th. Mr. Gort has worked hard on setting up the safety schedule. Look for this schedule to come home this weekend with the students. The schedule will also be found on our blogs. Hopefully the students are working on collecting pledges for the walk-a-thon which will take place on Wed. Sept. 26th!  We are raising money this year to support technology within our school. Our goal is for each student to raise at least $25 in pledges to help support this cause 🙂 The office has asked that you please date any notes that are sent to school. Lastly, Friday is blue and gold day at Georgetown! Friday is Hudsonville’s homecoming and the Hudsonville Fun Fest. The fun fest will take place in front of the football stadium from 4:30-7:00. Come join in the fun!

Math:
It has been great getting to know some new faces as students have been switching for math class this past week.  We have begun unit one and have been discussing how to solve different kinds of story problems using an equation.  Next week we will continue working on solving story problems, learning how to solve functions, using parenthesis in math problems, and will likely be given some homework and a quiz.  Please make sure to check the blog of the math teacher that your child has for math to find out when homework and quizzes/tests will be coming up.

Writing:
We have steadily been pushing along through our memoir unit.  This week we have tried to get as many entries into our writing journals as possible dealing with our “life topics”.  Beginning next week, we are going to pick our 2 favorite entries, get with a partner, then decide together which one we want to choose as our seed idea.  Our seed idea will be the memoir that we will concentrate on, nurture, and spend the rest of our memoir unit thinking about.  Some writers prefer to zoom in on a seed idea, or focus early; others prefer simply to establish a general direction and focus more gradually.  We will continue to listen to published authors and examine their memoirs as a way to take some of their ideas about action, dialogue, structure and details and incorporate those into our writing.

Reading:
Our reading this week will continue to focus on work that emphasizes the importance of text, but now will shift from narrative fiction stories to non-fiction texts.  We will continue to practice writing in response to our short texts citing examples and/or details that support our thinking. Then we will share and score each others written responses so we can continue to improve our ability to “prove” our answers. Also, this week we will introduce using the same reading strategies used in reading narrative fiction and non-fiction short text to science diagrams and questions.  Individualized daily reading (IDR) in our classrooms will be a daily priority.  Keep checking those reading logs to reach the 150 minutes a week!

Update 9/12

Homework:
  • Daily Reading: Great job with reading last night!  Remember the goal for the month of September is 150 minutes.  Keep up the good work and checking the blog for smile buck incentives! 🙂
  • Writing: We are doing a great job of building stamina for writing.  The class decided by the end of the day we should have at LEAST 5 entries total. To clarify again, entries are “snapshots” of a story.  They are a rough draft snapshot that the kids should be working on independently and not editing.  Some students have writing homework tonight to reach the 5 total entry goal.
         For a writing assignment tomorrow students are to bring in ONE photograph showing a favorite memory!!