Welcome to our first weekly
newsletter! This should give you an idea
of where we have been and where we are going in our classroom. What a journey we are on!
Special Notes
–
* We have had an amazing first week together and I cannot tell you
how thrilled I am over being this class’ teacher. They are working hard as a group and are
already creating a welcoming and exciting learning environment. We have spent some time on procedures and
getting to know each other, and I am confident that this is going to be an
incredible year filled with growth for all of these students.
* Check out our website for
great pictures from the classroom as well as other information. From now on the newsletter will be posted
there every Friday.
* If you have not received
an email from me, something is not working.
I have sent group emails a few times so please contact me if you are not
getting the emails.
* Please let me know if you
would like to receive this newsletter as a paper copy rather than an
email.
* The classroom calendar is
continually updated; please view it on our website to see when there is a sub,
parties, orchestra, band or anything else going on. Also, if your child has a cool event you
would like to invite others to, let me know and I will put it on the classroom
calendar. I try to go to these things as
well whenever my children allow it.
* Many of you know this,
but Brandon and I are thrilled to be expecting our 4th child at the
end of February. I will be on a short
maternity leave then until April 14th.
*Orchestra will be on day 5 of our 6 day rotation and band will be
on day 1. I will try to get the dates
posted on our classroom calendar when I have them.
* I am headed to Washington DC on Friday,
September 20th where I get to walk the red carpet with Brandon
*
I have some dates for you to put on your calendars: Picture day is September 20th
this year, Sub for afternoon Friday,
September 20th. .
Math – We
will start math this coming Monday. All
of my 5th grade math students will stay with me for unit 1 so that I
may to get to know them as problem solvers.
Advanced math kids will start with Ms. Weber on Monday as well.
Science – Science starts on Monday
with some liquid experiments and then we start variables, which is a great unit
that allows us a peak into controlling experiments as well as how to write a
research paper.
Social Studies – Social studies start
next week with our first unit on US
Writing – We have started paper blogs
this week to get us ready to start blogging.
We had our first discussion on internet safety – the results can be seen
on our website. We have also started dabbling
with our writer’s workshop and I asked the students what color is 5th
grade. The Global Read Aloud starts on the 30th, and we have more
than 90,000 kids signed up.
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