Welcome to our first official blog post of the year!

We’ve had a great start to the year!  Last week, we enjoyed getting to know each other, learning class expectations, and working on some team building exercises.  We are looking forward to this week for getting into more of a routine and begin our academic schedule.

Important Reminders:

Birthdays are wonderful opportunities to celebrate each child in our classroom. If a child has a summer birthday, we’ll celebrate on his or her half birthday. Some families also like to celebrate birthdays by sending in a treat for the class, while others opt not to send anything. In the interest of health and safety of all students, fifth grade teachers are asking that families do not send in food or toys as birthday treats. We will have a classroom ice cream party near the end of the school year to celebrate all of our birthdays! 🙂

Instead of bringing in a classroom treat to share, please consider sending something for the class to enjoy such as:

• A game for the classroom
• A classroom book (A nice touch would be to your child pick it out, sign it, and date it.)

The items listed above will still make your child feel special and they will last a lot longer than a food item.

You can find a wish list including books and other items for our classroom following this link to Amazon or you can  find a link to our wishlist on our classroom blog.

• We are starting our first math unit, Addition & Subtraction with Fractions! We’ll do some fraction review and then begin building our skillset.

ELA:

• We’re working on establishing procedures for our readers’ and writers’ workshop time.

Science:

• We’ll begin discussing collaborative work practices and scientific understanding prior to our first unit.

Social Studies:

• We’ll begin the year with a review of our government.