Hello Parents & Students:
Just a couple of reminders for this week's events. Open House is this Wednesday evening, 1/30, from 6:30-8:30pm. Stop by to visit!
Our Robert Crown field trip is this Friday, February 1st. If you have not returned your permission form and money, please do so as soon as possible. We will be eating lunch upon our return to school at 1:15. Hot lunch will not be served this day! Please bring a bag lunch to school.
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Spelling: We are on Unit 18 this week. The words have been posted on the blog. The pretest will be on Monday and the test will be on Friday.
Language Arts: Our Time for Kids issue this week will focus on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the words he spoke and deeds he accomplished to inspire us. We will continue to work on an extended response for writing which will probably come from our current read-aloud book, Wonder.
In grammar, our focus will be on adjectives. We will also begin our inventions presentations on Monday. The inventions are looking great!
Math Accel: We will be taking the Unit 3 math test on Monday. Then, we will continue on in Unit 4 which, at the present time, is on fractions. We will then move onto decimals and percentages. If your child would like additional practice, or to view videos about what we're learning in class, please have them go to www.ixl.com or www.learnzillion.com. These are both excellent websites.
Science: For the most part, our inventions are finished. We will be having our Invention Convention on Tuesday. The students will walk from room to room and vote on their favorites. Ribbons will be awarded to classroom winners and grade level winners. We discussed both series and parallel circuits today and then did an experiment with them. Next week, we will continue to discuss conductors and insulators and static electricity.
That's it for now. Have a great weekend everyone!
Delissa Bennick
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Asheville, North Carolina
Friday, January 25, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Hill Middle School Parent Information Night
1/24/13
Parents:
Just a reminder that the Hill Middle School Parent Information Night/Registration is tonight at Hill from 7:00-8:00p.m.
Please take the yellow packet with you tonight that your child is bringing home with them today.
Delissa Bennick
Valentine's Day Party Information
MAY WATTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
800 S. WHISPERING HILLS DRIVE
NAPERVILLE, ILLINOIS 60540
PHONE: 630 428-6700
February 1, 2013
Dear
Parents,
Valentine’s
Day is not far off and prior to your shopping for this day, I am taking this
opportunity to remind you of the guidelines in our Parent Handbook regarding
Valentine’s and treats:
“Please
do not attach any treats on Valentine’s cards (i.e. candy bars, etc.), due to
the possibility of a child with a deadly peanut/nut/food allergy receiving the
items. Valentine’s with candy attached will not be permitted in any
classroom.” We want this day to
be special for all students by keeping everyone safe and we do not want to
disappoint any child who may bring items to school to give out and then is not
permitted to do so.
The
PTA will be providing the students with cupcakes and a Capri Sun during the
party. The cupcakes are from * Whole
Foods Market in Naperville. The
ingredients are as follows for the cupcakes:
CAKE: SUGAR, FLOUR, CANOLA OIL, BAKING
POWDER, TAPIOCA FOOD STARCH, DEXTROSE, SALT, SOY FLOUR, XANTHUM GUM, CELLULOSE
GUM, BETA CAROTENE, VANILA EXTRACT, EGGS, CANOLA OIL, WATER, FROSTING: POWDERED
SUGAR, BUTTER, PALM OIL, SALT, COLOR (BEET JUICE, MALTODEXTRIN, SUNFLOWER OIL).
(CONTAINS: WHEAT, EGGS, SOY, MILK). The pink buttercream
frosting consists of powdered sugar, palm oil shortening, unsalted butter,
vanilla extract, sea salt and annatto (natural plant based food color). Please be aware the cupcakes may be made in
an area where tree nuts are available.
If your child is
unable to have the treat provided because of allergies, you should have already
notified the school nurse of this situation. You are asked to provide your child with a
treat that he/she can have if they have allergies to the cupcakes being
served.
Finally,
alternative activities will be planned for children whose families choose not
to participate in this event beginning at 2:30 p.m. Please contact Mr. LeCrone through email in
order that appropriate activities can be arranged. His email is: brian_lecrone@ipsd.org.
If
you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Brian
LeCrone
Principal
* The May
Watts PTA would like to thank Whole Foods for partnering with the PTA. Whole Foods offered a tremendous price break
in order to provide our children with a healthier, more natural and delectable
party treat.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Hello Parents and Students!
This is one of the busiest times of the year for fifth grade. Please take note of this week's upcoming events.
Interim Assessments will occur this week on Tuesday through Friday. There are two English Language Arts tests and two Mathematics tests.
Dr. Platt Visit: Dr. Platt will visit 5B and 5V on Tuesday, January 22nd, to discuss science and do a
couple of activities with the students. This is to increase the student's knowledge of science and to motivate them to participate in the upcoming Science Night.
Hill Middle School Visit: Representatives from Hill MS will be visiting May Watts' fifth graders on Thursday, January 24th. The students will receive a packet on this day. The parent/students SHOULD TAKE THIS PACKET with them that same evening to Hill Middle School for their registration presentation at 7:00pm.
Going into next week's schedule, please mark your calendars for these upcoming events:
Open House: Open House will be on January 30th from 6:30-8:30pm. I hope to see you all there.
Robert Crown Fieldtrip- We will be going to the Robert Crown Center on February 1st. We will leave school early and arrive back at Watts at around 1:15. We will be eating lunch at school upon our arrival at 1:15. If you have not returned your signed permission form and money, please do so as soon as possible.
Events down the road.....
Fifth Grade Music Program-The Fifth Grade Music Program will occur on Tuesday, February 5th. There will be two assemblies, the all school assembly will take place during the day at 2:30 and the parent assembly will be that evening at 7:00pm.
Wonder/R.J. Palacio Fieldtrip- We will be visiting Metea Valley HS for an author assembly on February 6th. All fifth grade students will be meeting the author, R.J. Palacio, who is the author of our current class read-aloud book entitled, Wonder. Permission forms for this fieldtrip were sent home last Thursday. Please return them as soon as possible. There is no cost for this fieldtrip.
Science Night-And, last but not least, Science Night will be on February 7th from 6:30-8:00pm at May Watts. We are hoping to have a lot of students participate this year!
Now, here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Spelling: The Unit 17 words have been posted to the blog. The pretest will be on Tuesday and the test will be on Friday.
Language Arts: We will be tying up some loose ends this week in reading/writing/grammar. First, we will be completing an extended response writing on the story, Oceans, that we read last week. We will be discussing answer, examples and interpretation. We will also be completing a Time For Kids this week on Inventions that we did not get to last week. We will continue to do silent reading with reading conferences and we will also be doing some science during this time to continue our research on inventions. We will finish up our grammar study on pronouns this week.
Math Accel: The Unit 3 study guide will be coming home this Tuesday. The Unit 3 test will be the following Monday. We will begin Unit 4 this week which will focus on Rational Number Uses and Operations.
Science: We are doing a couple of different things in science currently. First, we are working on two different kinds of electricity which include static electricity and circuit electricity. We will be doing various activities with these. Also, we are continuing to make some progress building background knowledge on inventions which will lead to us creating our own inventions very soon.
That is it for now! As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please email me.
Delissa Bennick
This is one of the busiest times of the year for fifth grade. Please take note of this week's upcoming events.
Interim Assessments will occur this week on Tuesday through Friday. There are two English Language Arts tests and two Mathematics tests.
Dr. Platt Visit: Dr. Platt will visit 5B and 5V on Tuesday, January 22nd, to discuss science and do a
couple of activities with the students. This is to increase the student's knowledge of science and to motivate them to participate in the upcoming Science Night.
Hill Middle School Visit: Representatives from Hill MS will be visiting May Watts' fifth graders on Thursday, January 24th. The students will receive a packet on this day. The parent/students SHOULD TAKE THIS PACKET with them that same evening to Hill Middle School for their registration presentation at 7:00pm.
Going into next week's schedule, please mark your calendars for these upcoming events:
Open House: Open House will be on January 30th from 6:30-8:30pm. I hope to see you all there.
Robert Crown Fieldtrip- We will be going to the Robert Crown Center on February 1st. We will leave school early and arrive back at Watts at around 1:15. We will be eating lunch at school upon our arrival at 1:15. If you have not returned your signed permission form and money, please do so as soon as possible.
Events down the road.....
Fifth Grade Music Program-The Fifth Grade Music Program will occur on Tuesday, February 5th. There will be two assemblies, the all school assembly will take place during the day at 2:30 and the parent assembly will be that evening at 7:00pm.
Wonder/R.J. Palacio Fieldtrip- We will be visiting Metea Valley HS for an author assembly on February 6th. All fifth grade students will be meeting the author, R.J. Palacio, who is the author of our current class read-aloud book entitled, Wonder. Permission forms for this fieldtrip were sent home last Thursday. Please return them as soon as possible. There is no cost for this fieldtrip.
Science Night-And, last but not least, Science Night will be on February 7th from 6:30-8:00pm at May Watts. We are hoping to have a lot of students participate this year!
Now, here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Spelling: The Unit 17 words have been posted to the blog. The pretest will be on Tuesday and the test will be on Friday.
Language Arts: We will be tying up some loose ends this week in reading/writing/grammar. First, we will be completing an extended response writing on the story, Oceans, that we read last week. We will be discussing answer, examples and interpretation. We will also be completing a Time For Kids this week on Inventions that we did not get to last week. We will continue to do silent reading with reading conferences and we will also be doing some science during this time to continue our research on inventions. We will finish up our grammar study on pronouns this week.
Math Accel: The Unit 3 study guide will be coming home this Tuesday. The Unit 3 test will be the following Monday. We will begin Unit 4 this week which will focus on Rational Number Uses and Operations.
Science: We are doing a couple of different things in science currently. First, we are working on two different kinds of electricity which include static electricity and circuit electricity. We will be doing various activities with these. Also, we are continuing to make some progress building background knowledge on inventions which will lead to us creating our own inventions very soon.
That is it for now! As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please email me.
Delissa Bennick
Friday, January 11, 2013
5B News for the Week of January 14, 2013
Hello Parents and Students:
Just a reminder that there is no school on Monday, January 14th. It is a Teacher Work Day. Enjoy the extra day off!
Today marks the end of the Second Quarter of school. Report cards will go home next Friday, January 18th via backpack mail.
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Spelling: We are on Unit 16 this week. The pretest will be on Tuesday and the test will be on Friday. I asked the students to check the blog over the weekend to take a look at the spelling words since there will be one day less to study this week.
Language Arts: In reading this week, we will be reading a book from our anthology entitled, Oceans. We will focus on vocabulary, main idea and details. We will do a mini lesson with vocabulary prior to listening to the story on CD. We will be doing a fun following directions/main idea activity with this story as well. The test for this story will be on Friday and it will be open book. In our Time For Kid's magazine, our focus will be on inventions. This topic will be cross-curricular as we will also be creating inventions in science soon. We will be completing a couple of graphic organizers to go along with this story. In writing, we will be answering an extended response question related to the story, Oceans.
Math Accel.: Currently, we just completed a project in which the students created their own real-world ratio story. They completed a table, based on their story, and then graphed the data on a coordinate plane. We also discussed the four quadrants of a coordinate plane and ordered pairs. They then interpreted their data. We did some interactive graphing practice at the IXL website and watched a great video on graphing at LearnZillion.com. Moving forward, we will continue to summarize data on a graph and start to wrap up Unit 3. Expect a study guide to come home late in the week or possibly early the following week.
Science: Lots of exciting stuff going on in science right now! The room is a mess, but we're having fun. We have been identifying objects that are magnetic and non-magnetic. We have made predictions and then tested them. We still have one experiment to do with magnets and then we will be creating our own inventions. The guidelines for this project will be forthcoming. We talked briefly about it in class and everyone is very excited about it. When all of the inventions have been completed, we will have an Invention Convention in which the students travel from room to room to vote on their favorites.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please email me.
Thank you and enjoy the weekend!
Delissa Bennick
Just a reminder that there is no school on Monday, January 14th. It is a Teacher Work Day. Enjoy the extra day off!
Today marks the end of the Second Quarter of school. Report cards will go home next Friday, January 18th via backpack mail.
Here's what's going on in 5B this week:
Spelling: We are on Unit 16 this week. The pretest will be on Tuesday and the test will be on Friday. I asked the students to check the blog over the weekend to take a look at the spelling words since there will be one day less to study this week.
Language Arts: In reading this week, we will be reading a book from our anthology entitled, Oceans. We will focus on vocabulary, main idea and details. We will do a mini lesson with vocabulary prior to listening to the story on CD. We will be doing a fun following directions/main idea activity with this story as well. The test for this story will be on Friday and it will be open book. In our Time For Kid's magazine, our focus will be on inventions. This topic will be cross-curricular as we will also be creating inventions in science soon. We will be completing a couple of graphic organizers to go along with this story. In writing, we will be answering an extended response question related to the story, Oceans.
Math Accel.: Currently, we just completed a project in which the students created their own real-world ratio story. They completed a table, based on their story, and then graphed the data on a coordinate plane. We also discussed the four quadrants of a coordinate plane and ordered pairs. They then interpreted their data. We did some interactive graphing practice at the IXL website and watched a great video on graphing at LearnZillion.com. Moving forward, we will continue to summarize data on a graph and start to wrap up Unit 3. Expect a study guide to come home late in the week or possibly early the following week.
Science: Lots of exciting stuff going on in science right now! The room is a mess, but we're having fun. We have been identifying objects that are magnetic and non-magnetic. We have made predictions and then tested them. We still have one experiment to do with magnets and then we will be creating our own inventions. The guidelines for this project will be forthcoming. We talked briefly about it in class and everyone is very excited about it. When all of the inventions have been completed, we will have an Invention Convention in which the students travel from room to room to vote on their favorites.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please email me.
Thank you and enjoy the weekend!
Delissa Bennick
Friday, January 4, 2013
5B News for the Week of January 7th, 2013
Hello Parents and Students!
Welcome Back! Happy New Year!
I hope that you all had a wonderful Winter Break.
First of all, there's a lot going on our first week back. Friday, January 11th, is the last day of the Second Quarter. Report cards go home the following Friday, January 18th, via backpack mail.
We will be participating in Whole Group CBM Testing this week. This will take place on Tuesday, January 8th. These tests are to ensure that the students continue to make progress in reading comprehension and math.
Also, Individual R-CBM Testing will take place on Thursday for 5B. This is to check progress for reading fluency.
Late in the week, we will be viewing the movie, Night of the Twisters. This is the movie that goes along with our class read-aloud book that we just recently finished in class, which has the same title.
Here's what's going on in 5B this week per subject:
Spelling: We are on Unit 15 this week. The words have been posted on the blog. The pre-test is on Monday and the test is Friday.
Language Arts: We will be doing a variety of things during this time this week. For grammar, we will focus on pronouns. We will discuss why we need them and we will also be introduced to subject pronouns. We will be reading a Time For Kids magazine for current events and will complete a graphic organizer to go along with it. We will also integrate some science into this time period, so that we can cover everything that needs to be covered in science over the next couple of weeks.
Math Accel.: During math, we will continue to work on ratios and rates using tables and equations. We will be doing some online interactive practice and also some real-world mathematical practice. As usual, there will be group work this week involving rates and ratios.
Science: We will be very busy in science these next two weeks. Magnetism will be introduced which will lead to Electricity. We will be watching a video or two at Discovery Education about Magnetism.
Also, we will be reading a Reading A-Z book about Magnetism which will give us some background knowledge about this subject. Vocabulary will also be discussed. There will be discussion questions to complete and a short quiz to go along with the book. We will also be using our science books to learn about Magnetism. We will be doing a couple of experiments which will focus on what magnets attract and a magnetic tug of war. This should be fun!
That's it for now. Enjoy the weekend and see you soon!
Mrs. Bennick :-)
Welcome Back! Happy New Year!
I hope that you all had a wonderful Winter Break.
First of all, there's a lot going on our first week back. Friday, January 11th, is the last day of the Second Quarter. Report cards go home the following Friday, January 18th, via backpack mail.
We will be participating in Whole Group CBM Testing this week. This will take place on Tuesday, January 8th. These tests are to ensure that the students continue to make progress in reading comprehension and math.
Also, Individual R-CBM Testing will take place on Thursday for 5B. This is to check progress for reading fluency.
Late in the week, we will be viewing the movie, Night of the Twisters. This is the movie that goes along with our class read-aloud book that we just recently finished in class, which has the same title.
Here's what's going on in 5B this week per subject:
Spelling: We are on Unit 15 this week. The words have been posted on the blog. The pre-test is on Monday and the test is Friday.
Language Arts: We will be doing a variety of things during this time this week. For grammar, we will focus on pronouns. We will discuss why we need them and we will also be introduced to subject pronouns. We will be reading a Time For Kids magazine for current events and will complete a graphic organizer to go along with it. We will also integrate some science into this time period, so that we can cover everything that needs to be covered in science over the next couple of weeks.
Math Accel.: During math, we will continue to work on ratios and rates using tables and equations. We will be doing some online interactive practice and also some real-world mathematical practice. As usual, there will be group work this week involving rates and ratios.
Science: We will be very busy in science these next two weeks. Magnetism will be introduced which will lead to Electricity. We will be watching a video or two at Discovery Education about Magnetism.
Also, we will be reading a Reading A-Z book about Magnetism which will give us some background knowledge about this subject. Vocabulary will also be discussed. There will be discussion questions to complete and a short quiz to go along with the book. We will also be using our science books to learn about Magnetism. We will be doing a couple of experiments which will focus on what magnets attract and a magnetic tug of war. This should be fun!
That's it for now. Enjoy the weekend and see you soon!
Mrs. Bennick :-)
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