MS. MARTIN'S FUN FIFTH GRADERS
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Fantastic 5th
Week of October 30th10/29/2017 Important Dates: November 1, 2, 3 Noon Dismissal for Parent-Teacher Conferences It was fun seeing everyone Family Fun Night! A big thank you goes out to all the people who helped make it happen, including everyone who sent in items for our silent auction basket, and Juleianna Schilter, for organizing and putting the basket together! This coming week is a busy one at Arrowhead. We have parent-teacher conferences mid week, and don't forget about our early out days. School is done at noon on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I look forward to seeing everyone at conferences. If you're not sure of your conference time, send me an email and I can verify your date and time. As we continue through the school year I would like to ask you to help your child with their basic multiplication facts. A lot of what we do in math revolves around knowing those facts, so it's helpful if the kids have them down! You can find flashcards at most stores, online, or you can have them set up an account with https://xtramath.org. If you could help them practice just 10-15 minutes each night, that would be so helpful! Thank you very much, and let me know if you have any questions! Halloween is Tuesday! I hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween. Please know that, even though it's a holiday, we will still be learning, learning, learning in fifth grade. Have a great week! What Are We Learning This Week?
English Language Arts We are working on a unit in Wonders that explores the question "How do we investigate about nature?" The literature we are looking at this week focuses on Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution. We will be focusing on summarizing and sequencing. Writing Students are finishing up their first attempts at a personal narrative. This writing piece is evaluated for the first trimester. However, it is not expected to be mastered until the end of the third trimester. Math We are continuing to work on division this week. We are working on division with double digit divisors now. We will focus on estimating and figuring out where to put the first digit in a long division problem, and we are multiplying to check our answers. We will work later this week on interpreting our remainders as well. Social Studies Students are working on their MT Tribal Nations papers. We are using Step Up to Writing strategies to organize our writing. Science Students are working with Miss Ziegler on Infection Detection in science. Ask your student what they're up to in science! In 5th grade . . .10/23/2017 Important Dates: October 24-28 Silent Auction Bidding all week!!! October 28 Family Fun Night and Silent Basket Auction from 6pm; Auction Bidding ends at 5:30pm November 1, 2, 3 Noon Dismissal for Parent-Teacher Conferences I hope everyone had a great long weekend! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for all the wonderful donations to the pet basket! First, I'd like to remind everyone that Family Fun Night is this Saturday, October 28 from 4:00-6:00 pm. And, the silent auction baskets will be on display at the office all week. Bidding ends on Saturday at 5:30! Parent/Teacher conferences are next week! Your child brought home a green sheet with your conference time on it in last week's Tuesday folder. Please check your time and let me know if the time assigned doesn't work. What are we learning this week? English Language Arts-ELA We are reading about and discussing, "What can you do to get the information you need?" We are reviewing the genre of fairy tales, discussing events and outcomes, comparing and contrasting two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact), and using context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. Writing Students continue to work on writing a personal narrative. They started with a free write. Students wrote about anything that has happened in their life that may be interesting for another person to read. This week we start to go through all the steps of the writing process. Math We continue to work on division. We will start double digit division and we will be working with the "partial quotient" strategy for dividing large numbers. We will also continue to work on multi-digit multiplication. I encourage your child to complete Xtra Math every day. Social Studies Students continue working on their slide shows for their MT Tribal Nations project, and then we will begin writing our expository papers for this project. Science Students continue to work on PLTW "Infection Detection" with Miss Ziegler Working Hard in 5th grade!Ms. MartinThis is my 13th year teaching in Billings Public Schools. I was born and raised in Billings and attended Billings Public Schools! I love spending time with my family. My daughter graduated from U of M and I love to go and visit her and watch the Grizzly football games. Sorry Cat fans! My son graduated from Billings Public High School and is playing golf for MSU-Billings. If I am not with my family, you can usually find me walking my golden retrievers Lola and Winston.
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