April 30

Math:

• NONE

Science/Social Studies:

• Our end of the year project is a book about their Adventures in 5th Grade Science and Social Studies.
• Cover page and "About the Author" page due on Thursday (we will work on these in class tomorrow and Wednesday, however, they can work on the rough drafts at home)

Reading/Language Arts:

• Scholastic News due tomorrow

REMINDERS:

• Track Meet tomorrow!  
• Please wear/bring sunscreen and a hat.  It is going to be HOT!  
• Students may bring money for the concession stand but are NOT required to do so.
• Pack a lunch.  We will eat while we support our team.
• Please remember the canned food donation.  The track organizers are asking everyone to bring a canned food to donate to the food bank.

April 27

We had a great time today celebrating the end of TCAP!!!  The students did awesome and we look forward to celebrating their scores with them.  Thank you for sending in money and drinks for our pizza party!

Monday we head to Loftis.  Please make sure your child dresses NICE.  I originally posted to wear the field trip shirt.  Scratch that!  Students need to dress appropriately with jeans or khakis and a nice shirt (preferably collard).  We will be back at Allen for lunch.


Have a GREAT weekend!

April 25

Yay!  We are 3/4 through with the TCAP!!!  It is exhausting taking these tests.  Thank you for all the encouragement you are giving your child.  It goes such a long way!  They are working soooooo hard!  You would be proud to see them in action.  It is amazing  to see them attack this test with such confidence. 

We have been so blessed with snack donations for the week.  A special thanks to those of you who were able to send in class sets of snacks!!!  The students were provided with bottled water for the the first three days of testing, however, this water has run out.  Please send a healthy drink for snack time tomorrow with your child.

Also, we are going to celebrate a job well done this week with a pizza party Friday afternoon.  THIS WILL NOT REPLACE LUNCH, BUT BE IN ADDITION TO.  If you can, please send in $2 to cover the pizza and drinks.  We will also need someone who can order and pick the pizzas up for us that afternoon.  We will also need plate, napkin, and cup donations.  If you have any of these just sitting around at home, we will gladly take these off of your hands.  Please let us know if you can help out in any way.

Please send in field trip money if you have not done so already.  We go to Loftis on Monday (free) and the track meet ($4) on Tuesday (Please wear field trip t-shirt for these events).  Students can bring money for concession snacks if they would like.  They also need to bring/wear sunscreen and a hat.  Please pack a lunch as well!  This year, the track meet organizers have asked each attendee to bring one canned food item to donate to the food bank.  Thank you in advance for helping out in this manner. 

April 19

Math:

• Study Island

Science:

• Study Island
• Mosley homeroom only:  Write an explanation about the different types of symbiosis (mutualism, commonsalism, and parasitic)

Reading/LA:

• Study Island
• Read 20 minutes

SS:

• Study Island

Reminders:

• PEPPERMINTS PLEASE!  (Thanks to those who have donated!)
• Field Trip $ and signed permission slips
• FIELD DAY T-SHIRT MONEY IS DUE TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

April 18

Math: 

• Practice on Study Island

Science:

• Practice on Study Island
• Students can do corrections for their Science TCAP practice book.  These corrections also need to have a written explanation about why the new answer is correct and why their original choice was incorrect.  These are due by FRIDAY.  

Reading/LA:

• Read 20 minutes
• Practice on Study Island

SS:

• Practice on Study Island

REMINDERS:

• Peppermints PLEASE!
• Healthy TCAP snack donations accepted!
• Field Trip $ and signed permission slips
• Field day t-shirt $ ($5) due by FRIDAY!
• Several students have still not turned in their spring pictures and/or picture money.  If you still have these out, please send them back to school.

April 17

Math:

• go to Study Island and practice!

Science:

• go to Study Island and practice!

Reading/LA:

• read 20 minutes
• go to Study Island and practice!

S.S.:

• go to Study Island and practice!

Reminders:

1. Field Trip $ and permission slips
2. Field day t-shirts on sale for $5 through April 20th
3. TCAP snack donations and peppermint donations please!!!

April 16

Math:

• none

Science:

• Howell's homeroom - none
• Mosley's homeroom - finish Science TCAP practice Part 1

Reading/Language Arts: 

• Read 20 minutes

S.S:

• none

Reminders:

• Field trip $ and signed permission slips
• Field Day T-shirts $5 if you want one...order by April 20th
• We need some donations for TCAP
• Healthy, brain food snacks.  Please let us know if you are willing to donate a class set (22 for Mosley, 21 for Howell) 
• Peppermints - research shows that students who practice while sucking on a peppermint will have better recall during the test while sucking on a peppermint.
• THANK YOU FOR ANYTHING THAT YOU DONATE!!!

April 13

***Happy Friday***

You will find a note in the Bulldog folder concerning progress reports.  There will be no printed progress reports due to continual access online through Power School.  Please call the office if you are having trouble logging on to Power School.

Have a great and relaxing weekend!

April 12

Math:

• We started the TCAP practice book review.  If you did not finish part 1 of Math, please complete this tonight!
• We did a review in class for the Topic 18 test tomorrow.
• Click HERE for a fun website to review mean, median, mode, and range

Science:

• Click HERE for another activity that we did in class about Force and Movement

Language Arts/Reading:

•  Read 20 minutes

S.S.:

• Finish review booklet

Reminders:

• Check PowerSchool
• Yellow wooden #2 pencils needed
• Field trip money and permission slips 
• Students learned about 4-H Camp today!  Click HERE for the website and for more info!

April 11

Happy Wednesday! 

Math:

• We worked on outliers today.  In the data set of  {5, 3, 5, 2, 5, 10}, 10 is the outlier.  Therefore, it is going to skew the mean.  EXTRA CREDIT OP!!!  Find the mean, median, mode, and range of this data set with AND without the outlier.  
• Topic 18 Test on Friday!  See April 9th post for more details.

Science:

• NONE!
• Be prepared to finish your magnet billboard tomorrow.

Reading/Language Arts:

• Read 20 minutes

S.S.:

• TCAP practice book p. 158-179  #36-69

Reminders:

• Check PowerSchool
• We need #2 Yellow Wooden Pencils for TCAP! 

April 10

Math: 

• Practice Book p. 278 #6,7,8,9, & 11
• Topic 18 Test on Friday (see yesterday's post for more specs)

Science:

• NONE

Reading/L.A.:

• Look up common abbreviations

S.S.:

• Complete Part 1 of Social Studies (p. 141-157) in the TCAP practice book.  The students may right in the books.  

Reminders:

1. Keep up-to-date on your student's grades on PowerSchool
2. We are sending home FOUR permission slips in the Bulldog folder today.  Please keep these in a safe place and mark your calendars.  We look forward to celebrating the end of 5th grade and the completion of TCAP with some fun trips and activities. 

April 9

We hope everyone had a most excellent spring BREAK!  It was nice to see all those tanned, smiling faces this morning.  Word on the street is that we have nine days until TCAP.  There are a few new skills still left to be taught, but we are also going to be placing emphasis on reviewing all of those concepts from waaaaay back in August.  Since this is the Super Bowl, World Series, National Championship of 5th grade education, we are going to be getting our practice on.  We have some exciting ways to review.  Thank you for your support at home!     


Math:

• PB p. 276  odds only (p. 275 for those who know that they are supposed to do that page instead)
• We will have a Topic 18 test on Friday.  Skills covered are:
• categorical and numerical data
• Graphs
• bar graphs 
• picture graphs
• line graphs
• circle graphs
• Mean (average), median (middle number in a set of data), mode (number occurring MOST often in a set of data), and range (difference between the greatest number and smallest number in a set of data)
• Measures of Central Tendency and Outliers (outliers throw off the mean and range of a set of data)

Science:

• Practice Book p. 220-227 (this was assigned the Friday before Spring Break to be completed in class.  Most should have it already completed.)
• We started discussing "Work" and simple machines today.  Ask your student what type of simple machine this is and to name its parts:

Reading: Google TCAP practice to find some good websites to prepare for the assessment.

Social Studies:  Google TCAP practice.

Reminders:

• Pictures and/or money is due TOMORROW!
• We are in desperate need of #2 YELLOW WOODEN PENCILS for TCAP.  It is hard to believe that we have gone through all of those pencils from the beginning of the year.  Thank you for any donations!
•  Please look under beds and in closets for any misplaced textbooks and blue calculators.  These things have grown legs and gone missing.  ;-)