I hope everyone enjoyed Field Day! Only 1 more week until Spring Break! We need to stay strong and focused this week! Please help reinforce the school expectations with your students. Please encourage them to do their best all the way to the end!
Important Dates
Wednesday, March 27—Class Pictures
Tuesday, March 26 – Thursday, March 28 – No lunch visitors
Thursday, March 28 – Kindergarten Musical
Thursday, March 28 – Poetry Test
Thursday, March 28 – Spelling Quiz
Friday, March 29 – Out of the Dust Novel Test
March 30 – April 7 – Spring Break!!
Friday, April 12— Kids’ Night Out to support Relay for Life
Monday, April 15 – Milestones Begins
iReady- Students should be completing at least 45 minutes of iReady-per subject each week. This can be a combination of at home and at school. If we assign it for homework, please help by encouraging your student to complete their iReady lessons.
Coach Digital- The Coach Digital Platform can be used for Milestones test Prep and review of all the standards. A letter went home with login information a few weeks ago. Coach Book lessons have been assigned to the students. They cannot complete those assignments digitally, (answering questions with a click of a button or typing on the PDF). They can print these assignments, or view them online and answer the questions on paper. I have assigned some practice assignments that they CAN complete online as well. You can also search the bookshelf tab, and many other resources will pop up. Various workbooks are available to pull up review assignments. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding Coach Digital. To access coach digital visit the website:coachdigital.com/org/02042377 and login with: username: lunch number password: 123456
Research: This week we will be starting a unit on Research which will conclude May 16 with the 5th Grade Living Museum (we’ll send parent time later as it nears). For this unit, we’ll learn how to use reference materials (dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, almanac, encyclopedia, and online/internet) and then learn the steps of the research process including how to write a proper bibliography. Then the students will choose topics to research (based on their SS standards) and follow the research steps in creating their Living Museum projects. All of their work for the Living Museum will be mostly done at school except getting their costume together, a little extra research if needed, and practicing their speech. They will have a test at the end of the unit.
Grammar: We will begin to review all the grammar units from the year. Conjunctions, prepositions, interjections, synonyms/antonyms, homophones/homographs, context clues, multiple meaning words, prefix/suffix, verb tense, commas/quotes. We will split this up into 3 units, with a classwork and quiz along the way. We will have a culminating test after milestones testing is completed. Our first review unit this week will be conjunctions, interjections, and prepositions. During this unit, students will learn 3 types of conjunctions (coordinating, correlative, and subordinating), review the types of sentences (simple, compound, and complex), and apply the different conjunction to the appropriate uses within those sentences. We will also review coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) and correlative conjunctions (Bestie Pairs). We will also review how to identify and use prepositions within prepositional phrases (start with a preposition and end with an object). They will also need to be able to identify what questions prepositional phrases answer, as well as expand sentences by adding prepositional phrases. Students will have notes in their binders, their grammar notebooks, and on Google Classroom.
Writing: We have finished learning about the three genres needed for 5th grade (narrative, informational, and opinion). So, we are now starting to review each genre by spending approximately two to three weeks on each genre, starting with narrative. We’ll review Opinion Writing this week.
Reading: We will wrap up our unit on poetry. Students will learn the structural elements (stanzas, lines, rhyme scheme, and figurative language) and how to identify the story elements (POV, theme, and tone) in a poem. We’ll also be comparing and contrasting two poems and their topics/themes. There will be a class novel for this unit (Out of the Dust). The novel is written in free verse poetry, and it takes place during the dust bowl/Great Depression. We will review story elements and figurative language with this novel, as well as tie it into our Poetry unit. Students should be creating 2 HOTS questions for each section we read in the book. They will use those HOTS questions during book club discussions. For their March Book Logs, this class book can count for one of their two books. These will be due at the end of March with a parent signature. Students will have this in their binder. Students will need to read TWO 150-page books on their level.
Spelling: List 9 will be passed out this week. The quiz will be Thursday, March 28th. Their lists should stay in their binders through the school year. On this quiz, we will begin including 5 review words from past lists. Students will have 15 words from the current pattern, and 5 review words from a previous pattern. Remember to study both the spelling and the definitions. If you would like for your child to have extra practice with their spelling words, they may use Spelling City website: https://www.spellingcity.com/pratta.
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Camp Invention® is returning to Fulton County School District!
In partnership with the National Inventors Hall of Fame® (NIHF), Ocee Elementary School is pleased to offer the nationally acclaimed Camp Invention® program to children entering kindergarten through sixth grade. It’s an exciting, weeklong summer adventure with lessons that explore connections between science, technology, engineering and innovation. Children work together to create solutions to real-world problems and build critical 21st-century skills while rotating through several high-energy, hands-on modules. The week begins on June 17, 2019 with Sarah Harkins serving as Director of the ALL-NEW 2019 program, Supercharged!
Here are how young innovators will be spending their time:
• Exploring the electrifying relationship between frequency, circuitry, motors and gears through reverse-engineering and rebuilding their very own remote-controlled robot.
• Unearthing hidden fossils then building ships and innovative equipment to embark on a research expedition to uncover more exciting information about their discovery.
• Coding and programming robot, Bot-ANN-E, to take on duties and help turn a polluted wasteland into a fruitful farm and successful business.
• Collaborating with the Innovation Force®, a team of NIHF Inventors turned action-packed superheroes, to design superhero gadgets and disguises, explore the fields of engineering and fabrication and take on the sinister villain, the Plagiarizer.
Activities give participants the opportunity to explore, discover and achieve while having fun! Local educators facilitate program modules and enthusiastic high-school students serve as Leadership Interns, ensuring that one staff member is in place for every eight children. Register using promo code INNOVATE25L to save $25 (expires 3/22) or PLAY15LISTING to save $15 (expires 5/10) OFF $245. Every registration includes a complimentary Camp Invention tshirt. Availability is limited, so visit www.invent.org/camp or call 800-968-4332 to secure your child’s spot today.