The last school day in September!

Well, September has come to a close here but we are excited for October!  Especially for our third floor food drive challenge!  Send in non-perishable items for those in need!  The class that donates the most items, wins a FREE out of uniform day and a MOVIE! :-) 

Reminders for the weekend:

40 minutes reading logs

Sunny D Lables!

Online Moon Phases Challenge

Lunar Challenge:  3 different levels: click and move the moon phases to their correct order in the cycle!

http://sciencenetlinks.com/media/filer/2011/10/14/moon_challenge.html

Thursday, Sept. 27

Astronomy Quiz tomorrow over moon slides and phases

Reading Logs: 20 minutes

Can't find those spelling words for the test tomorrow?  Try last week's planner on the bottom of the right side. :-)  We made the lists last week.  Snap and clap to study!

Math:
Lancaster: multiplication problems 2X3 specifically assigned (look for purple pen)

Morris: check with your student

PTO treat tomorrow: 50 cents each

Wed. Sept. 26

Today we focused on the moon phases for our quiz on the moon on Friday.  Students should be able to name and recognize the phases of the moon as well as draw a picture to depict them (like the worksheet from today) AND know the few moon slides left on the Astronomy Part 1 powerpoint.

Assignments:
Study for moon quiz Friday

Snap and Clap: practice spelling words

Math:
Lancaster: finish multiplication problems (both sides)

Morris: subtraction worksheet


Remember to send in those Sunny D labels and non-perishable food for the 2nd food drive!

Tues. Sept. 25

We took our first quiz of the year today in science class: ask your student how it went!

Assignments for home:

Reading Log: 20 minutes

Writing: first 3 sections of autobiographies needed to be done today.  Finish at home if not in class.

Math:
Lancaster: 4 multiplication problems
Morris: Subtraction 1-12


BOOK ORDERS: due tomorrow please! :-) 

Reminder: Awards assembly Thursday at 2:15pm in auditorium

Monday, Sept. 24

Astronomy: We reviewed today for our first quiz tomorrow in science:  It matches the powerpoint handout with book.  We will quiz everything up to the moon slides.  We will have a seperate moon quiz later this week.

Assignment sheets (purple) need to be signed and returned tomorrow.

Reading: 20 minutes

***Ask your student about their morning routine.  What are the expectations for the morning, what do they have to do to be ready to learn.

TGIF!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Study for astronomy quiz: TUESDAY

Reading Logs: 40 minutes total over the weekend

First Day of Math Class:

WHAT IS MATH???

Devin: Math is sort of like its like multiplication, division, and plus and minus and you have a lot in the world…say I have 2 apples and my friend has 3 apples, how many do we have?  Then you’d have to add it up!

Mackenzie:  Ways to like solve your problems like on a check or something, you have to know where to put the decimal, so ways to solve things during the day.

Tyler: Math is like when you do the disco, you got to know the right combinations.

Tim: Math is a way to express and sort things out of the universe such as shapes, division and multiplication, etc.

David: Um Math is a way of figuring out problems like…blah forgot

Kaleb: Math is like all around you, everyway you look, in your house, on your dog…Its like all around you, table, centimeters, yards, foot, feet, pools

Jasmine: Uh Math is like um…division, subtraction, multiplying, space, and house (to know the size of the walls)

Nevaeh: Math is like um all math, subtraction, multiplication, division, adding, and um all sorts of math sheets.

Michael: I’ve divided, multiplied, subtract, and added.

Maddie: Math is like adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing, etc.

Alex: Math is like adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing, and graphing.

Sienna: Adding, subtracting, multiplication, um fractions and I don’t know…

Shelby: Do you write down everything they say?

Mrs. L: Maybe, depends on the answer.

Shelby: Math is like you have to know where the decimals go, and where the numbers go, and everything else like that.

Bethany: Math is numbers and shapes and multiplication, division, subtraction, and addition.

Ella:  Math is addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, etc.

Kameron: Math is addition, subtraction, multiplication, graphing…and…etc.

Megan: Um math is like multiplication, division, adding, temperatures, decimals. 

Cameron:  I say math is like multiplication, division, um you got to know how to count so the teachers know how you do it…subtraction, graphing.

Antique Farm and Garden Club

Look tomorrow for a class post of our adventure today!
Personally want to thank the amazing volunteers and chaperones for your knowledge and assistance today!

Reading for 20 minutes and record in logs
Review moon slides we discussed yesterday!

Sunny D Bookspree

Hi CCA Families!

There is a letter coming home tonight about Sunny D's book spree!  We send in 20 labels from their products, they send us 20 FREE books for our classroom library!!! 

Visit the links below for more information:

About: http://sunnyd.com/bookspree/about.php

Parent Page: http://sunnyd.com/bookspree/for-parents.php

Eligible Products: http://sunnyd.com/bookspree/eligible-products.php

Constitution Day!

*Ask your student about our Constitution simulation today! What did they learn about what the founders of our country went through to create this amazing document of national law?

*Since our field trip tomorrow is outside, we will not be able to attend in the morning if it is raining.  However, please send your student prepared for cooler weather (jeans, proper shoes, and jackets).  Students must be wearing their CCA uniform.  If you are bringing your own lunch tomorrow, don't forget it!

*Rental Meetings for instruments: tonight and tomorrow night after school in the band room until 5pm.

*Writing: We are one a roll with our autobiographies.  Students should be done with their first paragraphs today and we moved on to sharing childhood memories today.  ASK your student about what they chose to include in their autobiographies. 

At Home:

*20 minutes reading logs (new ones for the next two weeks coming home today!)

*Spelling: Test tomorrow

*Science: review moon slides we went over today (we did not get to phases)

***PURPLE ASSIGNMENT TRACKERS: please sign and return tomorrow, thanks!

The Weekend Post

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! 

40 minutes of reading for the weekend

If you haven't done your spotlight collage, make sure it is done for tomorrow.

We continue with MAP testing this week (Thursday morning).  Our astronomy unit continues as well as continuing to write our autobiographies. 

We will start writing daily in planners this week, so if your student doesn't have one, look for a planner "worksheet" in their yellow take home folders.

Looking forward to a great week!

Spotlight collages DUE TOMORROW!

Practice spelling, Test will not be tomorrow

Reading: finish 2 connectors from today's reading

Reading log: 20 minutes

PLANNERS:  Your student MUST have a CCA planner.  It is a way to communicate with parents/guardians at home as well as keep track of assignments/due dates/events, etc.

Out of Uniform tomorrow!  $1 hat, $1 shirt, $2 both

PTO Lollipop: 50 cents each

9/12/12

20 minutes read

Spelling: study with the 3 S's

Science: Review revolution and rotation

Reading: Finish Connector

Spotlight Due Friday!

9/11/12

Remember this day 11 years ago?   I know I do and I'm so THANKFUL for our brave heroes that day! I also respect and honor those who lost their lives during this terrible tragedy.  Today, we had a discussion and watched a BrainPop video on 9/11.  We also wrote an acrostic for heroes today, which will be a published book.  Ask your student what they learned.  Tell them what you remember about this day, now over a decade ago. 

In learning news:
We started our astronomy unit today.  Ask your student about rotation and revolution!
Writing: Autobiography vs. Biography?

Assigned work:
20 minutes reading (don't forget to sign those logs!)  (I'm also way over my allotted 20 minutes for the day, hence the late post!)

Spelling Study: The 3 S's

9/10/12

Reading Logs: 20 minutes

Planners in office: have by Wednesday, please!

Spotlight due on Friday!


A great first Monday to all!  We started our math common assessment and continued putting our "ducks in a row!"  Have a wonderful night!

Grandparents Day!

A BIG thank you to all our grandparents who visited today (and the ones in spirit!).  We had a wonderful afternoon with you and hope you did, too!  Here is a special song for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk6nMJAO1Uo

What is science?

What is science?

Jaylen: studying about dino bones and fossils

Demetrie: a discovering of things that happen on Earth

Isabel: explains how the world works, for example science explains how electricity is made for and how to use it (not lightening)

Josh: answers to the things that happen in the past, present, and the future.

Will: when we study

David: fun to learn about dinos, space, and chemical reactions

Mackenzie: about space, plants and many other things

Tyler: a study of the magnetism, reactions, space, and Earth

Ella: non-fiction

Jasmine: space, and MORE things! (like what other people said)

Kameron: tells us what we need to know about fossils

Kellie: I didn’t, just…this is what popped into my head, like testing experiments…hehe

(class giggles)

(still giggling)

(Isabel is REALLY giggling)

(collective “sigh”)

JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE…:oh its my turn…study of a lot of things on earth…it helps explain “things” and um and uh and helps us answer questions

D A Y M I A N…… science is about plants and animals

Alex: …like forests, plants and gravity and other things.

Ok…Bethany….about plants and magnetic things

Billy:  I’m going to guess….laughs…um, soon science will give us powers to travel out our galaxy (insert evil laugh here)

OMG I forgot JADA! 

Jada: (she’s hiding behind Billy)

SHHHHHHHHH  When you learn about plants and animals

Andrea: when you can look at fossils and animals

Is anyone wrong?

Class says, “No!”

9/6/12

Whew!  Another hot one of the third floor today!  Hopefully tomorrow will be cooler!

Students took Star Reading tests to discover their reading levels today.  They are not required to stay in them, I just would like them not to go below the lowest number.  Whatever they want to read is ok by me! 

Ask your student if they've filled a bucket today?!


Homework:
20 minutes reading log (to be filled out nightly)
Grandparent Day: Monday!  See pink sheet in Take Home Folders
Any paperwork left?  Information packet sheet due tomorrow!

Keep working on those spotlight collages!

Sept. 5, 2012

Wow!  Fantastic second day! 

We reviewed procedures and expectations.  We also planned out the walls of our classroom and started decorating!  Ask you student about what they decided!

Students also filled out reading and writing surveys to let me know a little bit more about them as students in these areas.

Homework:
20 minutes (reading logs)
Student Info Sheets (from Open House night)
Parent's Sign back sheet of Information Packet
Spotlight on Me: due next Friday, Sept. 14

First Day of School!

GREAT first day 5th graders!  This is going to be a wonderful year!

Tonight:
Parent Packet: give to parents and have them sign the back form and return.
Read: 20 minutes (See blue reading log in take home folder)
Spotlight on Me: due next Friday, the 14th (1/2 sheet, pink, in take home folder)