Hello!!
Happy 100th Day of School!! This year is flying by!! I hope everyone had a nice weekend and were able to stay dry and warm! I was able to attend the Harlem Globetrotters game to watch some of the Dolvin Chorus members perform. They did a great job!! It was a fun night!
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:
Monday, January 21 – MLK Day-Student/Teacher Holiday
Thursday, January 24 – Spelling Quiz #6
Friday, January 25 – Final Jekyll Payment Due
Friday, January 25 – Fifth Grade Panoramic Photo. Order forms went home last week. Photos are $16. Students are asked to wear blue jeans and their 5th grade Dolvin shirt. We will provide the shirt for them (they have not arrived yet). I suggest to wear a light colored t-shirt or undershirt for under the white fifth grade tee.
Wednesday, January 30 – Lunch Bunch
Thursday, January 31 – Book Log Due
Friday, February 1 – Spirit Day
Friday, February 1 -- Box Tops 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 Participles or Principal Parts of verbs. This will lead into working on the 3 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 quiz will be Thursday, January 24th.
Writing: We are continuing our unit on opinion writing. This week, we’ll work on using our pro/con charts and organizers to assist in writing our opinion essays. We will be working on supporting our opinion or stance with valid reasons to back it up! The students will practice including evidence from a piece of text to help support their opinion. We will also work on including a counter-argument to help prove your stance! 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.) Look for examples, notes and the rubric in your student’s binder.
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 folktales and fables. 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!
Happy 100th Day of School!! This year is flying by!! I hope everyone had a nice weekend and were able to stay dry and warm! I was able to attend the Harlem Globetrotters game to watch some of the Dolvin Chorus members perform. They did a great job!! It was a fun night!
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:
Monday, January 21 – MLK Day-Student/Teacher Holiday
Thursday, January 24 – Spelling Quiz #6
Friday, January 25 – Final Jekyll Payment Due
Friday, January 25 – Fifth Grade Panoramic Photo. Order forms went home last week. Photos are $16. Students are asked to wear blue jeans and their 5th grade Dolvin shirt. We will provide the shirt for them (they have not arrived yet). I suggest to wear a light colored t-shirt or undershirt for under the white fifth grade tee.
Wednesday, January 30 – Lunch Bunch
Thursday, January 31 – Book Log Due
Friday, February 1 – Spirit Day
Friday, February 1 -- Box Tops 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 Participles or Principal Parts of verbs. This will lead into working on the 3 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 quiz will be Thursday, January 24th.
Writing: We are continuing our unit on opinion writing. This week, we’ll work on using our pro/con charts and organizers to assist in writing our opinion essays. We will be working on supporting our opinion or stance with valid reasons to back it up! The students will practice including evidence from a piece of text to help support their opinion. We will also work on including a counter-argument to help prove your stance! 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.) Look for examples, notes and the rubric in your student’s binder.
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 folktales and fables. 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!