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WEEK OF MAY 11

Word of the Week: Character

Important Dates:

Monday, May 11 - Stevi B's Pizza Night

Thursday, May 14 - Will's birthday 

Thursday, May 14 - Field Day  and Crazy Hair Day (rain date - Friday, May 15)

Wednesday, May 20th - 5th Grade reception

Thursday, May 21st - Laughing Matters and 5th Grade BBQ

Friday, May 22nd - 5th Grade Walk (2:00)

 FIELD DAY

If you want to help with Field Day, please let Mr. Dougherty know. All help will be appreciated.

 

FIELD DAY

If you would like to help with Field Day, please send a note to Mr. Dougherty. You could help all day or just part of a day. Field Day is Thursday, May 14. 

WEEK OF MAY 4

Word of the week: Wisdom

Important Dates This Week:

Monday, May 4 and Tuesday, May 5 - Healthwise

Wednesday, May 6 - Walk to McCleskey (9:30 - 11:00)

Wednesday, May 6 - stargazing for new Kindergarten students

Wednesday, May 6 and Thursday, May 7 - Scholastic Half-Price Book Fair in the Media Center  

Saturday, May 9 - Paige's birthday 

MATH

This week we will review how to find the circumference and the area of circles. We will have a quiz on Friday.  

SOCIAL STUDIES

World War II tests will come home Monday for your signature. This week we will work on an Atlas lesson focusing on equal rights and the changing population of the United States.

LANGUAGE ARTS

Reports, reports, and more reports. We will finsih our outlines this week and hopefully finish our rough drafts. We will not do a Sitton lesson this week.

SCIENCE 

On Friday we will have a test on Constructive and Destructive forces.  A study guide will come home on Monday and be due on Wednesday. Download Student study guide Science Interactive notebooks will also be due on Friday. Download Constructive - Destructive checklist

We will also do a mini-unit on nutrition this week. We will focus on how to read a food label. Be sure to ask your child how much sugar is in a can of coke.

WEEK OF APRIL 27

Word of the Week:

Important Dates This Week:

Monday, April 27th - Last day of CRCT testing (Social Studies)

Tuesday, April 28th - Terrific Kid Celebration - Way to go Paige!!!!!  

 April 30 - Marisa's birthday 

I can't believe we only have 20 school days left this year. This year has just flown by. But we still have lots to accomplish this year, so please remember to check your child's agenda nightly and to encourage your child to read at least 20 minutes each night.

Math 

This week we will discover why the formula for the area of a circle is what it is.  On Friday, we will have a quiz on circumference, diameter, radius, and area of a circle

 

Social Studies

We have finished our unit on WWII and The Cold War.  A study guide should come home with your child this Monday.  It is due on Wednesday when we will go over it. On Thursday we will review with a Jeopardy Game, and then on Friday we will take the test.  Interactive Notebooks are also due on Friday, May 1.

LANGUAGE ARTS

In Reading and Writing Workshop we are working on our animal research. This week we will finish taking notes and learn how to turn our notes into an outline.

SCIENCE 

We will finish up our unit on Constructive and Destructive Forces this week. Look for a study guide next Monday, due on Wednesday, May 6th. The test will be on Friday, May 8th - the same day the Interactive Notebook will be due. 

WEEK OF APRIL 20

Congratulations to: 

Paige for being our Terrific Kid for April

William, Ameer, and Nate for being selected to be Safety Patrol members

CRCT this week!!!!

As you know, we began our CRCT on Tuesday. Please make sure your child gets a good night's rest and a healthy breakfast in the morning. The remaining schedule is:

Thursday - Math

Friday - Science

Monday - Social Studies

RAIN BARRELS

Did your child tell you about making a rain barrel on Tuesday?  We will be decorating them in the days to come, and then selling them for $50.00. Let me know if you might be interested in purchasing one of them.

FORMS, FORMS, FORMS!!!!!

Please don't forget to return the following:

• 6th grade registration form

• Healthwise permission form

• Walk to McCleskey form

• Barbecue form - don't forget to mark hot dog or hamburger - the price is the price of a regular lunch

41/2 Week Progress Report

Can you believe we only have 4 full weeks left in this school year? I can't. This year has just flown by. The last progress report  will be coming home on Thursday, April 23. Please sign and return it on Friday.

VOLUNTEER BRUNCH

Oops! I made a mistake. The volunteer brunch is Friday, not Thursday. Hope to see you there!!!

CALLAWAY GARDENS

WEEK OF APRIL 13

Word of the week: Perseverance

Happy Belated Birthday to: 

Ansley - Friday, April 10 and Denise - Saturday, April 11

Happy Birthday to Maggie on Tuesday, April 14

Important Dates:

Monday, April 13 - Stevi B's Night 

Thursday, April 16 - 5th grade Panoramic Picture (1:30)

Saturday, April 18 - The Great Nicholson Clean Up (9:00 - 12:00)

CRCT 

Don't forget that the CRCT begins next Tuesday, April 21 and will continue through Monday, April 27. Please make sure your child has a good night's sleep, a healthy breakfast, and is at school on time. Thank you!

VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION 

Yes, the Volunteer Appreciation Brunch is this Friday in the Media Center from 8:00 - 10:00. I will send home the invitations this Monday. I'm sorry for the lateness of the invitation. I just overlooked this deadline. Please know how grateful I am to all of you that help in and out of the classroom by volunteering to be Room Mothers, Art Masters, tutors, Copy Mom, helping with the 5th Grade Dance, and chaperones for the Callaway Field Trip. I'm sure I've forgotten some of the many things you have helped with this year. But please be on the lookout for your invitation this Monday and come by this Thursday for the recognition you so richly deserve. You have really made this year so special for the class and for me. Thank you!!!

SOCIAL STUDIES    

This week we will finish up World War II and begin the Cold War. We will not test until the CRCT is over.

MATH

We will be reviewing circumference, diameter, pi and the relationship between all three this week, as well as reviewing for CRCT. Download Math homework.

LANGUAGE ARTS

In Sitton this week we will talk about the following suffixes - s or es, ed, ing, ment, less, ness, able, and en - and how to correctly add them to root words.

In Reading Workshop we will be reviewing for the CRCT. Don't forget to have your child practice online for this very important test.  We will also begin to take notes for our research project on an animal. Be sure to ask your child what animal they picked.

The eight different parts of speech - noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, pronoun, conjunction, and interjection -  will be our focus for Writing Workshop this week.

SCIENCE 

This week we will discuss plate tectonics and what some scientists believe the earth use to look like.

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What is the word of the week? What does it mean? Give an example of a time you had this quality.

WEEK OF MARCH 23

Word of the Week: Motivation

CONGRATULATIONS to Maggie. Download Maggie's poem . Now her poem will be sent to the county level. Way to go Maggie!

Important Dates this week:

Wednesday's Special will be a Tuesday

Thursday, March 26 - Anna and Jack's birthday  

Friday, March 27 - Spirit Day -Chick Fil A biscuits on sale to benefit St. Jude's Hospital

Friday, March 27 - Family Dance - 80's theme - 6:00 - 8:00 PM - $8.00 per family or $2.00 per person - money raised will help pay for 5th grade end of the year activities - please don't forget to send in your canned drinks

THANK YOU to Chaz and Will's moms who provided the class with a St. Patrick's celebration, as well as a birthday party for me on Tuesday. I hope you had a chance to look at the pictures which are posted on the blog. Thanks again!!!

INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS

I have just finished grading Social Studies as well as Science Interactives. Both of these notebooks will come home Monday for your signatures. Many students take great pride in their notebooks and they are a pleasure to grade. Unfortunately, a few notebooks are half finished, with papers falling out or missing. To make it easier for you to know what is expected, I am going to update each week what should be finished in the notebook. Please let me know if this is helpful, or how I can improve the communication. Thank you.

MATH 

Last week we reviewed addition and subraction of fractions. Some had trouble with this, so we will have a retest this Thursday. We will review multiplication and division of decimals on Monday and Tuesday and then begin to explore the world of PI and the area of circles.

SOCIAL STUDIES 

This week we will fight World War II, focusing on the unsung heroes of World War II. We will also talk about the Navajo Code Talkers and the atomic bomb.

LANGUAGE ARTS

In Sitton this week, we will focus on the most misspelled words in the English language - their, there, and they're.

World War II novels are being read  and discussed in Reading Workshop. Ask your child which book they are reading - Number The Stars, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Behind the Bedroom Wall, When Hitler Stole the Pink Rabbit, or Snow Treasure. All of these novels provide great background knowledge which will supplement our Social Studies unit on World War II.

We will begin our unit on informational writing this week. Our final product will be a report on an animal.

SCIENCE 

What are constructive and destructive forces and how do they impact landforms? This is our focus this week. A landform booklet will be assigned on tuesday and due on Thursday. More information is included under Science Interactive.

  

SOCIAL STUDIES INTERACTIVE

Here is what should be finished by Friday, March 27.

Title Page - World War II and The Cold War- words and or pictures

Standards - Is there a border?

Table of Contents

RAP 1 - What are some early warning signs of a storm?

VIP 1 - Leaders and Dictators of World War II

WOW 1 - Workbook page 60

RAP 2 - Look at graph page 371. What does it show? Explain.

VIP 2 - Life on the Homefront spidermap

WOW 2 - Workbook page 62

RAP 3 - Look up unsung in the dictionary. Who do you think the unsung heroes of WWII were? Why?

Unsung means ... I think the unsung heroes of WWII were . . . because . . .

VIP 3 - Tree Map

WOW 3 - Download Download Doc1