Miss Fender's 5th Grade Class

I hope that this email finds you doing well. I just wanted to remind all of you to be looking out for the forms that are coming home to help out with Fall Festival. It is on October 6th. It is a great event that the PTA puts on every year. This week we have been learning: Math: We are learning all about Decimals Reading: We are still moving our way through Esparanza Rising and Responding to Literature Writing: We just started Opinion Writing- In fact we are writing a paper on Fidget Spinners in the Classroom Social Studies: Because it is constitution week we are learning about the constitution and the amendments to the constitution Science: Landforms Over the break the kids know that they have 50 minutes of IXL that they need to complete. They also have a poster over the Bill of Rights that was assigned Thursday and is due next Tuesday. I suggested to the students that if they have time working on it would be a great ideaa.

9/4 Happy September! I hope that your families had a wonderful and restful Labor Day weekend! The long weekend flew by for me! This week is a 4 day week for us, so it will be a quick one. Here are some things to look forward to this week :) Math: We are finishing up some work on multiplication and starting division this week. The students took a mid unit assessment last week that will come home on Wednesday. Reading We are reading a book called Esparanza Rising. We are having a lot of fun learning the characters, trying to fidn the figurative language and working hard responding to literature in our reading journals. We are working on kicking off our Daily 3 stations: Read to Self, Word Work, and Writing about Reading. This week I am going to focus on responding to the independent books that they get from the library- hopefully providing some accountability for what they are reading during our Read to Self time. Spelling Onto Unit 3 this week. I used the first 2 weeks as practi...

2nd Week Here We Come!!! Please remember that our Open House is this week on Tuesday Night. We will be starting at 6:00 and will be about 2 hours long. Thanks so much in advance to those of you that are able to come out and get information about our school and classroom. We are continuing to work on routines, procedures, and classroom community. It is really important to me that your students feel safe and confident in my room. I really want this to be a space where kids want to be curious and learn together. In the next few weeks we will be starting to get into our 5th grade groove, but it will take us a little while to learn the little things that help us get there. Math: Place Value Reading: Who are we as readers? Writing: Who are we as writers? Science: Scientific Method Health: Healthy Self Image

My expectation is for students to do 50 minutes of IXL every week. On Monday, I tell them what standard we are working with and they have until the Sunday of that week to complete their 50 minutes. www.ixl.com IXL Usernames and Passwords Aikens, skye username: saikens@sedaliapark password: grand72 Basile, Madeline R. username: mbasile@sedaliapark password: mb Berry, Sidney A. username: sberry@sedaliapark password: seat61 Carstens, Chloe H. username: ccarstens@sedaliapark password: 18bread Cash, A'Rizon C. username: acash@sedaliapark password: north87 Edmondson, Mackenzie username: medmondson1@sedaliapark password: 78please Escandon, Jose V. username: jescandon@sedaliapark password: 71train Johnson, Christopher username: cjohnson@sedaliapark password: cj Kemp, jaylen username: jkemp@sedaliapark password: jk Momaya, vivek username: vmomaya1@sedaliapark password: fresh52 Nicolas, Saul E. username:...

WOW! I have the best students and room mom in the world! The kids knew that Sunday was my birthday and they did the sweetest thing! They all signed a birthday card for me and surprised me when we came in from recess with a birthday song and cupcakes. Thank you Lena Carstens, you are the best room mom and we are so grateful to have you. I felt SO so special. Thank you for letting me be a part of your student's lives. I feel so lucky to get to do this job. *I am currently working on getting my FAQ's and  pages for each subject up and live on my blog. They should be ready to go by later today. Thanks so much for your patience

Open House PowerPoint Some parents have asked that I post the PowerPoint from Open House. You will find it on SlideShare via this link  here

Another great week under our belts! Thank you to those of you that came out to school for open house! I know it can be a lot on a school  night to mix up your routines. Please keep in mind that next Monday August 21st we will have an extended school day because of the solar eclipse. The students dismissal will start at 3:00. Math: Order of Operations Reading: Story Elements Writing: Blowing up Small Moments Grammar:Types of Sentences Social Studies: Causes of the Civil War