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
