Hello!!
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful winter break. I flew home to California, and I had a fabulous time with my friends and family! The trips home never last long enough! I hope you are enjoying the momentary break from the rain, and the few days of warmer weather!! We are looking forward to a great 2nd semester!
Important Dates:
Friday, January 11 – Spirit Day
Tuesday, January 15 – School Spelling Bee @ 9:00 am (Congratulations to Chase, our winner, and Amaury, our runner-up!)
Friday, January 18 – Author Visit, 8:15 am. Forms went home today to purchase books to be autographed by the author.
The author, Deron Hicks, wrote the GA Children’s Book Award Nominee: The Van Gogh Deception.
Friday, January 18 – Ms. Pratt’s Homeroom field trip to Teaching Museum. 9:00-12:00 pm. Separate email to come.
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 have started a large unit on verbs and verb tense. This unit will cover action verbs (direct objects and singular/plural spellings), linking verbs, helping verbs, verb phrases, subject-verb agreement, participles, and the 6 tenses (past, present, future, past-perfect, present-perfect, and future-perfect). There will be a unit test in a few weeks.
Spelling-List 6 was added to your child’s binder today. 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 in about 2 weeks.
Writing: We have started our next unit on opinion writing. This week, we’ll start working through the structure from beginning to end and will add an example to their Writer’s Notebooks as well as add the opinion rubric to their binders.
Reading: We will begin a unit on 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. 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!
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful winter break. I flew home to California, and I had a fabulous time with my friends and family! The trips home never last long enough! I hope you are enjoying the momentary break from the rain, and the few days of warmer weather!! We are looking forward to a great 2nd semester!
Important Dates:
Friday, January 11 – Spirit Day
Tuesday, January 15 – School Spelling Bee @ 9:00 am (Congratulations to Chase, our winner, and Amaury, our runner-up!)
Friday, January 18 – Author Visit, 8:15 am. Forms went home today to purchase books to be autographed by the author.
The author, Deron Hicks, wrote the GA Children’s Book Award Nominee: The Van Gogh Deception.
Friday, January 18 – Ms. Pratt’s Homeroom field trip to Teaching Museum. 9:00-12:00 pm. Separate email to come.
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 have started a large unit on verbs and verb tense. This unit will cover action verbs (direct objects and singular/plural spellings), linking verbs, helping verbs, verb phrases, subject-verb agreement, participles, and the 6 tenses (past, present, future, past-perfect, present-perfect, and future-perfect). There will be a unit test in a few weeks.
Spelling-List 6 was added to your child’s binder today. 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 in about 2 weeks.
Writing: We have started our next unit on opinion writing. This week, we’ll start working through the structure from beginning to end and will add an example to their Writer’s Notebooks as well as add the opinion rubric to their binders.
Reading: We will begin a unit on 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. 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!