Hello!!
This week’s schedule is a bit crazy. We know that with a change in routine can a change in behavior. We still have high expectations and expect students to show their best selves at all times. Please encourage your students to remember to follow the Big 3, Respect myself, respect others, be 100% accountable, at all times.
Snacks—Please remind your students to pack their snacks! A good routine may be to put it in their backpacks/lunchboxes the night before. We have had many people forget their snacks lately, and I don’t want anyone to go hungry!! While we have shown great kindness with trying to share our snacks, it is a school rule (for various reasons) we are not allowed to share snacks with our friends. If anyone would like to send in some back up snacks to stash away for those crazy days we may forget, we would appreciate it!! We need to feed our bodies good snacks for awesome Brain POWER! 😊
Important Dates:
Tuesday, January 15 – School Spelling Bee @ 9:00 am (Congratulations to Chase, our winner, and Amaury, our runner-up!)
Wednesday, January 16 – 7:50-8:50 PM Block, 8:50-1:25 AM Block (Huber/Hogan attending field trip)
Thursday, January 17 – 7:50-8:50 PM Blovk, 8:50-1:25 AM Block (Greathouse/Smith attending field trip)
Thursday, January 17--AMMS yellow forms DUE
Friday, January 18 – Author Visit, 8:15 am. The author, Deron Hicks, wrote the GA Children’s Book Award Nominee: The Van Gogh Deception.
Friday, January 18 – Ms. Pratt’s & Ms. Collins’ Homeroom field trip to Teaching Museum. 9:00-12:00 pm.
Monday, January 21 – MLK Day-Student/Teacher Holiday
Friday, January 25 – Fifth Grade Panoramic Photo. Separate email with ordering information coming soon.
Wednesday, January 30 – Lunch Bunch
Thursday, January 31 – Book Log Due
Friday, February 1 – Dolvin’s Math Night
Grammar: We will continue our unit on verbs and verb tense. We will continue to review action verbs (direct objects and singular/plural spellings), linking verbs, helping verbs, verb phrases, and subject-verb agreement. This week we will discuss the 3 Basic tenses (past, present, future). The following weeks we will work on participles, and the perfect tenses (past-perfect, present-perfect, and future-perfect). There will be a unit test in a few weeks.
Spelling-List 6 is in binders. 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. The test will be next week.
Writing: We are continuing our unit on opinion writing. This week, we’ll working on pro/con charts, organizers and working on the beginning of our opinion essay. We will be working on supporting our opinion or stance with valid reasons to back it up! You can practice this at home, by making your student give valid reasons for doing things at home! Make them convince you!! (Examples: where to eat, screen time, play dates, etc.) During the next 2 weeks, we will add an example to their Writer’s Notebooks as well as add the opinion rubric to their binders.
Reading: We will continue our Folklore (dramas, fables, folktales, fairytales, myths, and legends). Students will be reviewing what makes a folktale a folktale, attributes of all folklore, as well as the structure of dramatic literature. We will also be reviewing all of the story elements, theme, setting, characterization, conflict resolution, and tone/mood. This week we are focusing on Dramas (plays) and folktales. The January book review has been passed out. Students should have this in their binder. Students will need to read TWO 150-page books on their level and this will be due on Thursday, January 31st with parent signature. If your child is participating in Lunch Bunch, they may use this as one of their books for the month. If your student has questions on their book, please remind them to come chat with me!
This week’s schedule is a bit crazy. We know that with a change in routine can a change in behavior. We still have high expectations and expect students to show their best selves at all times. Please encourage your students to remember to follow the Big 3, Respect myself, respect others, be 100% accountable, at all times.
Snacks—Please remind your students to pack their snacks! A good routine may be to put it in their backpacks/lunchboxes the night before. We have had many people forget their snacks lately, and I don’t want anyone to go hungry!! While we have shown great kindness with trying to share our snacks, it is a school rule (for various reasons) we are not allowed to share snacks with our friends. If anyone would like to send in some back up snacks to stash away for those crazy days we may forget, we would appreciate it!! We need to feed our bodies good snacks for awesome Brain POWER! 😊
Important Dates:
Tuesday, January 15 – School Spelling Bee @ 9:00 am (Congratulations to Chase, our winner, and Amaury, our runner-up!)
Wednesday, January 16 – 7:50-8:50 PM Block, 8:50-1:25 AM Block (Huber/Hogan attending field trip)
Thursday, January 17 – 7:50-8:50 PM Blovk, 8:50-1:25 AM Block (Greathouse/Smith attending field trip)
Thursday, January 17--AMMS yellow forms DUE
Friday, January 18 – Author Visit, 8:15 am. The author, Deron Hicks, wrote the GA Children’s Book Award Nominee: The Van Gogh Deception.
Friday, January 18 – Ms. Pratt’s & Ms. Collins’ Homeroom field trip to Teaching Museum. 9:00-12:00 pm.
Monday, January 21 – MLK Day-Student/Teacher Holiday
Friday, January 25 – Fifth Grade Panoramic Photo. Separate email with ordering information coming soon.
Wednesday, January 30 – Lunch Bunch
Thursday, January 31 – Book Log Due
Friday, February 1 – Dolvin’s Math Night
Grammar: We will continue our unit on verbs and verb tense. We will continue to review action verbs (direct objects and singular/plural spellings), linking verbs, helping verbs, verb phrases, and subject-verb agreement. This week we will discuss the 3 Basic tenses (past, present, future). The following weeks we will work on participles, and the perfect tenses (past-perfect, present-perfect, and future-perfect). There will be a unit test in a few weeks.
Spelling-List 6 is in binders. 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. The test will be next week.
Writing: We are continuing our unit on opinion writing. This week, we’ll working on pro/con charts, organizers and working on the beginning of our opinion essay. We will be working on supporting our opinion or stance with valid reasons to back it up! You can practice this at home, by making your student give valid reasons for doing things at home! Make them convince you!! (Examples: where to eat, screen time, play dates, etc.) During the next 2 weeks, we will add an example to their Writer’s Notebooks as well as add the opinion rubric to their binders.
Reading: We will continue our Folklore (dramas, fables, folktales, fairytales, myths, and legends). Students will be reviewing what makes a folktale a folktale, attributes of all folklore, as well as the structure of dramatic literature. We will also be reviewing all of the story elements, theme, setting, characterization, conflict resolution, and tone/mood. This week we are focusing on Dramas (plays) and folktales. The January book review has been passed out. Students should have this in their binder. Students will need to read TWO 150-page books on their level and this will be due on Thursday, January 31st with parent signature. If your child is participating in Lunch Bunch, they may use this as one of their books for the month. If your student has questions on their book, please remind them to come chat with me!