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
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* 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 for the
Bammys. I am a finalist for Elementary
Teacher of the Year, which I will not win, but I am looking forward to going
out there and meeting some of the big names in education. The students will have a sub that Friday
afternoon and I will be back Monday morning with pictures.
*
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 land regions. We will be studying the best possible places
in our land region to survive a zombie invasion. Students will have to look at available
resources, elevation, major highways etc to decide where they should go. More information will come. We are also trying to set up our first
Mystery Skype of the year; I am excited to see how they work on this as a
group.
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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