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Keep On Reading!

Make sure you are reading 150 minutes per week. Then make sure you are handing in your reading log by Tuesday morning the following week to get your $2 in smile bucks! 🙂 I only received 6 logs this morning from last week! Hopefully, the other 17 will be turned in tomorrow! Happy reading! 🙂

LIMO RIDE: Who Will Win?

 

 
Please read this post direct from Mrs. Reagan! 🙂 

We would like to announce the classes who are leading the race to the WALK-A-THON LIMO RIDE at the end of each day.  To do so, we will need you to enter your earnings once per day.  Only enter once per day so we can get a fairly accurate indication of the predicted amount per class.

To enter your donation amount each day, go to this link:  LIMO RIDE DONATIONS  Shortened link:  bit.ly/limo-ride

TREK for TECH Walk-A-Thon:  September 26.  Money Due September 28, 2012.

What’s Coming Up-Week of September 24


Miscellaneous:
We have many things happening this week for the 5th graders. Our rotation for our safeties will begin this Monday September 24th. Mr. Gort has worked hard on setting up the safety schedule. Look for this schedule to come home this weekend with the students. The schedule will also be found on our blogs. Hopefully the students are working on collecting pledges for the walk-a-thon which will take place on Wed. Sept. 26th!  We are raising money this year to support technology within our school. Our goal is for each student to raise at least $25 in pledges to help support this cause 🙂 The office has asked that you please date any notes that are sent to school. Lastly, Friday is blue and gold day at Georgetown! Friday is Hudsonville’s homecoming and the Hudsonville Fun Fest. The fun fest will take place in front of the football stadium from 4:30-7:00. Come join in the fun!

Math:
It has been great getting to know some new faces as students have been switching for math class this past week.  We have begun unit one and have been discussing how to solve different kinds of story problems using an equation.  Next week we will continue working on solving story problems, learning how to solve functions, using parenthesis in math problems, and will likely be given some homework and a quiz.  Please make sure to check the blog of the math teacher that your child has for math to find out when homework and quizzes/tests will be coming up.

Writing:
We have steadily been pushing along through our memoir unit.  This week we have tried to get as many entries into our writing journals as possible dealing with our “life topics”.  Beginning next week, we are going to pick our 2 favorite entries, get with a partner, then decide together which one we want to choose as our seed idea.  Our seed idea will be the memoir that we will concentrate on, nurture, and spend the rest of our memoir unit thinking about.  Some writers prefer to zoom in on a seed idea, or focus early; others prefer simply to establish a general direction and focus more gradually.  We will continue to listen to published authors and examine their memoirs as a way to take some of their ideas about action, dialogue, structure and details and incorporate those into our writing.

Reading:
Our reading this week will continue to focus on work that emphasizes the importance of text, but now will shift from narrative fiction stories to non-fiction texts.  We will continue to practice writing in response to our short texts citing examples and/or details that support our thinking. Then we will share and score each others written responses so we can continue to improve our ability to “prove” our answers. Also, this week we will introduce using the same reading strategies used in reading narrative fiction and non-fiction short text to science diagrams and questions.  Individualized daily reading (IDR) in our classrooms will be a daily priority.  Keep checking those reading logs to reach the 150 minutes a week!

Raey Guang Host Families Needed!

On October 29, our twenty students and 6 staff members will arrive at Georgetown Elementary from our sister school,Raey Guang Elementary in Taiwan.  This will be the third year that they have sent students and staff to our school to experience American education and American family life.

They are very excited to come for the very American holiday of HALLOWEEN!

I am in need of interested families to host our Taiwanese friends.  Requirements include the following:

  • Desire to learn about another culture and share our own with them.
  • Willingness to plan after school family activities for your two guests on October 29, 30 and 31.
  • Ability to pick your guests up at school on October 29 at 2:30 pm.
  • Halloween costume shopping (29th or 30th).
  • Pumpkin carving or some other family fall festival activity (29th or 30th)
  • Trick or Treating on October 31
  • Drop off at school with luggage the morning of Nov 1.

Once host families are found, I will provide specific details about guests names, ages, etc.

If you are interested in hosting two guests, complete this survey :  http://bit.ly/S3rkdn

Thank you!

Mrs. Reagan

Awesome First Day!

 

We had a wonderful  first day today! The kids were very engaged and interested to learn how our school year is going to run.  We talked about respect and since we are 5th graders we need to be positive role models for the rest of the school! Our class was very excited to meet our kindergarten bus buddies at the end of the day. We also had 5 of our students share their special talents and are looking forward to those who will share the rest of the week!

Thank you for all of the classroom donations! 🙂  We are very blessed to have our cupboard full of klennex, wipes and store goodies!

I talked to the students about not having agendas this year. We all will have to adjust to watching the blog for class and homework updates! Please sign the red paper that came home today pertaining to the blogs. Thank you! Looking forward to a wonderful Wednesday!

All About 5th Grade!

 

Dear 5th grade parents,

Welcome to the 5th grade at Georgetown Elementary! It is exciting to be starting a new school year that will be filled with a variety of learning opportunities. Since there are many new faces on the fifth grade teaching team, we would like to take this opportunity to introduce ourselves.  Mrs. Burdis has taught for 12 years in Hudsonville with the last six years in  5th grade at Georgetown.  Mr. Gort has taught middle school and upper elementary for many years.  Mr. Bialochowski has been part of the Georgetown staff in both 3rd and 4th grade. Mrs. Walenta has taught for 12 years in a variety of elementary classroom settings. We are thrilled to be working together as a team to help our students build a bridge from the elementary to the middle school.

During the school day your child will be traveling for two classroom subjects.  The students will be placed in a math class with other students who are learning at the same academic pace.  You will be notified of your child’s placement in the coming weeks.

* Mr. Gort will teach the on grade challenge math group.

* Mr. Bialochowski and Mrs. Walenta will teach the grade level math group.

* Mrs. Burdis will teach the support level math group.

 This year the students will have science and history everyday. We will be sharing the students as follows:

Mr. Gort/ Mrs. Walenta will team teach:

* Mr. Gort will teach history for both classrooms.

* Mrs. Walenta will teach science for both classrooms.

Mrs. Burdis/Mr. Bialochowski will team teach:

* Mrs. Burdis will teach history for both classrooms.

* Mr. Bialochowski  will teach science for both classrooms.

Please remember to check our classroom blogs daily to stay current on our classroom and school events. Here are our the  links to our blogs:
http://rbialoch.edublogs.org/
http://kburdis.edublogs.org/
http://mgort50.edublogs.org/
https://kwalenta.edublogs.org/

The four of us will meet often to discuss our students’ progress. If you ever have a question please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you,
The 5th grade team
Ryan Bialochowski rbialoc@hpseagles.net     797-9797  ext: 22302
Kym Burdis                kburdis@hpseagles.net     797-9797  ext:  22303
Mike Gort                    mgort@hpseagles.net         797-9797  ext: 22307
Karen Walenta         kwalenta@hpseagles.net   797-9797  ext. 22305

Share Your Talent!

 

Dear 5th Grade Student,

We all have many talents and gifts that make us unique and special.  Often these talents are not noticed and/or celebrated. These talents can range from sports, to drawing, to playing instruments ,and the list goes on and on.  Our 5th grade class is going to take the time during the first week of school to hear about a talent shared by each one of our classmates and celebrate you and your gift. Please start thinking about what talent you want to share with the class and come ready to share all about it (see list below for what day you will share). You may talk about your talent, demonstrate your talent, bring in an object or picture of your talent, or do all the above. Your teacher will also be sharing their talent. So make sure you are there! I can’t wait to see what your talent will be as well as celebrate with you!

Thanks,

Mrs. Walenta

Tuesday, September 4

Kayla   Alyssa   Caleb

Will     Annalee  

Wednesday, September 5

Annabel    Emma   Matthew

Javier   Jacob   Brayden

Thursday, September 6

Megan    Kevin    Jack   Caden  V.

Brianna     Jordan

Friday, September 7  

Caden B.   Madison   Kaitlyn

Jada       Branden   Danielle

 

 

Reminders to begin our 5th grade year!

 

I am looking forward to meeting all of you at our school open house next Wednesday, August 29th from 6:30- 7:30 PM! 🙂  That evening while checking out our 5th grade classroom, please take time to sign up to bring shared classroom supplies, help at classroom parties, and check that I have your updated e-mail!

Don’t forget to check the classroom supply list on my blog! It would be wonderful for the students to bring these supplies on the first day of school! 🙂

If you have not had a chance to fill out my parent survey, please take a few minutes on my blog to complete it before school begins. Reading parental input is always helpful for me to receive in site into my students!

Looking forward to a great year!

 

 

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