Important Dates

October 14-15

Islamic New Year/NO SCHOOL

October 28

Grade 5 Assembly

October 29

Dress Down Day

Star of the Week

None/ Short Week

Each week we will celebrate a student in the

classroom for who they are. This has nothing
to do with behavior, we are just celebrating
the fact that they are important to our
classroom community.

Dear Families,
Happy Islamic New Year! I hope all of your families have wonderful New Year
celebrations and a great time with family and friends. As per our important dates,
we will not be having school on Wednesday or Thursday next week. Please be sure
that your children are here Sunday through Tuesday however because we are coming
to the end of a unit and will be doing some assessments of their knowledge. Thanks!

Literacy

Ask who, what, when, where, how, and why questions while
reading a story (Suggested questions on the blog under
Helpful Questions for Reading tab)
Write a story about an event such as a vacation
Form and use past tense of verbs (ie:sat, hid, told)

Ways to help at home: Have your child read nightly and then tell
you who is in the story and what did they do, where did they do it
and most importantly why did they do it. Please have your child
write 2-3 sentences per night using proper capitalization and
punctuation.

Math

Place Value
Skip Counting by 5s, 10s, and 100s up to 1000
Data Collection and Graphing

Ways to help at home: Have your child count a collection of

something (beans, legos, etc.) in groups of 5s, 10s, and 100s and
then graph the different sizes or colors.

Unit

Communities
Citizens

Ways to help at home: Have your child write down and name all of
the communities that they are part of and then graph the number
of people in those communities (ie: family, classroom, school,
neighborhood)

Our class is in the process of building our community here at school.

Every student is an important part of our community. Please discuss at
home their responsibilities within our classroom and school community.
Thank you!