Halloween Week

As I was looking over our schedule for the week, I have decided that we will not be covering a Reading Selection from the text book this week. This means there will be NO Selection Test on Friday. I have gathered up several short readings that I think the kids will enjoy! These will be read/discussed in class, and each will include a follow up activity. We will still be incorporating some interesting vocabulary and working on skills such as: compare and contrast, identifying main idea, and character analysis. I really think they are going to be surprised and, hopefully, have a lot of fun with Reading this week! Be sure to look for the stories to be coming home each night. They can CERTAINLY read them to you each night and it will count towards their 20 minutes.

We will still be covering a unit in Spelling.  There will be a test on Friday. ;)

The Fifth Grade will be reading at Mass on Friday, Nov. 1. Please join us in celebrating in the gym at 9:40.

As always, thank you for helping my first year at DeSales one of the most memorable so far!

Happy Reading,
Mrs. Rosenberg

RED RIBBON WEDNESDAY

We are celebrating National Drug Free Awareness Week.
On Wednesday, Oct. 23, the students may dress down WEARING AS MUCH RED AS POSSIBLE!
In order to participate, the students must bring a canned food donation. Although it is a dress down day, please try to remember be will attending Mass that day as well.
Thank You!

Happy Reading,
Mrs. Rosenberg

MATH RAP

Good morning!
On our Math website (connectEd), there is a really great RAP for multiplication. It is a bit silly, but the kids LOVED it! It's a fantastic way to spend their time reviewing multiplication!

Happy Rapping,
Mrs. H. Rosenberg

A Busy Time in Fifth Grade...

October has already been a whirlwind for us here in fifth grade! Here's a peek at what is coming up:

• Fire Prevention Day (Tuesday) We will go outside for a short demonstration.
• Field Trip to the Buffalo Museum of Science (Thursday) Please make sure your child has a packed lunch and a disposable water bottle. The children may only dress down in their school gym uniform. :)

• We are wrapping up our second chapter in Science. We have been study life cycles, mitosis, meiosis, inherited traits and genes. We will continue through this week to review the terms, concepts, and processes. Additionally, I have a small comic strip project for the students to work on regarding the life cycle of an insect or frog (their choice). I have included a rubric and an example for everyone to follow. This will be a graded assignment! I hope to wrap this up this week and begin test review next week. I have tentatively planned our Chapter 2 test for Wednesday, Oct. 23.

• Every six weeks in Reading, I will assess the students with a formative unit test. This will cover key skills/concepts that we have worked on and developed in the 5 weeks leading up to each unit test. There will be NO NEW SPELLING list during these testing weeks, and we will not begin a new reading selection. Each day I will administer a portion of the unit test. Day One will be listening and reading comprehension. Day two will be vocabulary strategies, literary elements and grammar. Day three will be the writing portion. This unit we worked on Personal Narratives.

• ELA - We will spend this upcoming week reviewing for a unit assessment. The skills/concepts that will be covered are: types of sentences, simple subject, simple predicate, compound subject, compound predicate, sentence fragments and run-ons. Please be looking for a Study guide to be coming home!

• PLEASE continue to work on multiplication with your child. I am going to have them make their own flash cards. It will be getting increasingly difficult to continue to meet our common core standards if the students do not master the skill of multiplying. They are doing fantastic! I just want the progress to continue with your help!

• All the students have a log-in and password for their Math online. You can follow the link on the side to sign in. They DO all work now! If you have any questions, please call or e-mail me.

Thank you so much for all your support! We are doing such wonderful things, and I look forward to each new week with your children!

Happy Reading,
Mrs. Rosenberg

Picture Day

Pictures - Just a little reminder that Picture Day is Monday Oct. 7! We are first in line, so ours will be done first thing in the morning. Please make sure the students are on time Monday!

S.S. - The students have their chapter test in Social Studies on Monday. Please be reviewing with them!

Five week reports will be coming home. I have opted to send one home for everyone this time around. As we progress through the year, I am only going to be sending them home of your child has below an 80% in a given subject area.

Please remember that we have a Spelling test every Friday, as well as a Reading Selection Test. Until further notice, these selection tests will remain open book. I think that it is important for the students to develop the skill of going back into a writing piece to locate and pull out answers/details.

Thank you so much for all of your support!

Happy Reading,
Mrs. Rosenberg

Field Trip

Please remember to send in your permission slips/money for our field trip!
Thank you!

Mrs. R