Posts Tagged ‘updates’

What’s Coming Up – Week of March 9-13, 2020

Miscellaneous

 

  • Parent-Teacher Conferences (Monday, March 9 & Wednesday, March 11)

 

      • Please see the email sent earlier.

 

  • Scholastic Book Fair March 9-13 Our class’s preview day is  Monday and our shopping day is Wednesday.
  • Show off your 5th grade spirit! Join us in wearing our 5th grade shirts every Friday

 

March 6 – Early release

March 9 – Baldwin Street Middle School Visit 10:30-2:10 (Mrs. Walenta’s class only)

March 10 – Baldwin Street Middle School Visit 10:30-2:10 (Mrs. Wysocki’s class only)

March 11 – Baldwin Street Middle School Visit 10:30-2:10 (Mrs. Ball and Mr. Cooley’s classes only)

Math:

  • We are beginning unit 6, Operations and Word problems.
  • Students should be completing Moby Max Fact Fluency practice at home for five minutes per day unless they have mastered all math facts.

ELA:

  • We’re beginning a test prep unit, which is a review of topics covered in 5th grade.
  • Students should be reading for 20 minutes each night and filling out the reading log.

Social Studies:

  • We are continuing our fifth unit, Road to Revolution. We will be examining the events that led to the colonists declaring independence from Britain

 

 

 

What’s Coming Up – Week of May 27-31, 2019

Craigs Cruisers Details

  • Friday, May 24th.
  • Gone from Georgetown .. 10:00-2:00.
  • Students will eat lunch at Craig’s Cruisers
  • It would be fun for the 5th graders to wear their 5th grade t-shirts! 🙂

Important Dates:

The end of fifth grade is full of exciting events. For your convenience, we’ve created a list of important dates. We’ve linked it to each of our blogs; you can view it here.

What’s Coming Up – Week of May 6-10, 2019

 

 

Miscellaneous:

Camp News:

  • Parent meeting for fifth grade camp will be on Wednesday, May 8, at 6:00 PM.
  • A brief meeting for chaperones will immediately follow.
  • Students do NOT need to attend this meeting; we will meet with students separately during the day.

Important Dates:

  • The end of fifth grade is full of exciting events. For your convenience, we’ve created a list of important dates. We’ve linked it to each of our blogs; you can view it here.

Math:

  • We are wrapping up Unit 7: Algera, Patterns, and Coordinate Graphs and will be beginning Unit 8: Measurement and Geometry

ELA:

  • We are continuing to learn how to create an argument and advocacy writing piece.

Science:

  • We are launching our third unit: To Infinity and Beyond! We will explore forces and motion using a theme of a hot air balloon journey around the world!

Social Studies:

  • We are in our final social studies unit: A New Nation. We’ll learn about how the United States formed its government

What’s Coming Up – Week of October 1-5, 2018

 

 

Miscellaneous:

  • TOMORROW (Friday, Sept. 28) is Eagle Pride Day! Wear your blue and gold or Eagle wear!
  • Walk-a-thon is coming up on Friday, Oct. 5.
    • This is our ONLY school wide fundraiser.
    • Fifth grade will walk from 10:45-11:30.
    • Parents are welcome to join us on the track after checking in at the office.
    • Click here for more information on fundraising goals and and prize structure.

Reminder….The students are expected to read 100 minutes a week. As a parent please initial the log when they read at home, showing you confirm your child has read for the minutes recorded. The log will be turned in every Monday morning.

What’s Coming Up – Week of October 5

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Miscellaneous:

  • Hudsonville Fun Fest/ Homecoming October 2!.  Wear your blue & gold to support our Hudsonville Eagles!!
  • Jet’s pizza night Tuesday and Wednesday, October 6th and 7th.  

 

Math:

  • We will be finishing up our first unit on fractions. Please watch your teacher’s blog for the upcoming test date.  The second unit is called Addition and Subtraction with Decimals.

Social Studies:

  • Unit #2: Three Worlds Meet.

Reading:

  • We are working on building our reading stamina in the classroom and at home.  Our reading homework expectation for 5th graders is to read 100 minutes per week.

Writing:

  • Our first writing unit for the year is memoir.

What’s Coming up- Week of September 22th

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Miscellaneous:

  • Hudsonville Fun Fest is tonight September 19th. Mr. Gort will be in the DUNK TANK at 4:45.  Come join the fun.

  • School Walk-A-Thon will be on September 25th.  Proceeds from our school fundraiser go back to the kids to support schoolwide programs.  In addition to these programs the focus will be to support the use of technology in the classroom.

  • Keep studying those science (Unit 1) and social studies (unit 2) vocabulary words.  Links for studying words are located on classroom blogs.

  • Current Safety schedule can be found on our blogs.

  • Keep reading to reach that 100 minutes.

What’s Happening the Week of November 5

We have numerous happenings beginning next week.  

On Monday evening we will begin our Fall parent/teacher conferences.  Each year during conferences the Parents Club opens up the library and holds a Book Fair. It’s a great place to pick up a book to add to your child’s collection and/or give as a stocking stuffer!   Make sure you take a peek.  Each class has signed up for a time for their class to preview and then purchase books. Check with your child’s teacher’s blog for the date and time they are scheduled to go.

Another happening will be the kick-off to Mindful Giving.  Each class will be doing lessons about how we can be charitable both locally and globally.  Watch for details on your teacher’s blog about these two service projects Georgetown Elementary will be doing in November.

Please watch for a note that will be coming home asking for volunteers to help receive and distribute the Goodies Factory orders. Orders will be delivered on November 13th and ready for parent pick-up between 3:15-5:15.

Finally, we will be continuing with S.A.V.E. on Wednesday mornings.

Math:
We will continue working on decimals for the coming week. We will be adding and subtracting decimals and whole numbers. We will also continue to practice comparing two decimal numbers and putting them in order. During the early part of our week, we will have our first quiz of the unit. It will include writing a decimal number, comparing decimals, and adding/subtracting a pair of decimal numbers. Make sure to check your child’s math teachers blog for any updates.

ELA: 
Our week in ELA will consist of primarily reading as we begin our book clubs and study of literary essays.  Students have selected a book to read and have been partnered with some other classmates.  They will be reading their book and then meet with their group to discuss what they have read.  They will take notes on their discussion which will mainly focus on the internal(implicit) and external(explicit) characteristics of the main character.

Social Studies:  We will continue our study of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest Native Americans.  We will be studying the location and place of where they lived, what they ate, their culture and how they adapted and/or modified their environment after they migrated down from Northern North America.

Science: This week in science we will continue to overview the foundation concepts about the seasons and the Solar System. We will do this by taking notes and having discussions from a keynote. We will be having a vocabulary quiz  on Wednesday. Please have the students visit our blogs to study and practice for this vocabulary quiz.