Students with numbers 11-20 have their eleventh Vlog on SeeSaw due Friday, March 6th. Students should be choosing topics from Vlog Menu 2. Students with numbers 1-10 have their eleventh reading response on Google Classroom due on Friday, March 6th.
Math Chapter 8 was another fairly short chapter. Our test will be on Monday, March 2nd. Resources to review were shared in class, posted to Edmodo, or can be found here. We will start Ch 9 later next week, which will cover multiplying and dividing decimals.
Spring assessments are just around the corner. 5th grade will have 3 sessions of the ISA (Illinois Science Assessment) and 5 sessions of the IAR (Illinois Assessment of Readiness, formerly known as the PARCC test). The tentative 5th grade testing schedule is below. If you are able to schedule absences around these times, that would be greatly appreciated.
ISA- March 5, 9:10-10:10
ISA- March 6, 2:15-3:15
ISA- March 9, 2:15-3:15
IAR-English Language Arts- March 11, 1:20-3:00
IAR- English Language Arts- March 12, 1:20-3:00
IAR- Math- March 16, 1:20-2:50
IAR- Math- March 18, 1:20-2:50
IAR- Math- March 19, 1:20-2:50
*Our class will have art at 10:10 in the morning if we are scheduled for testing during our normal art block.
*Depending on how long ISA sessions end up taking, we may try to do two in one day in order to minimize the number of days spent in testing.
In this week’s Friday folder, permission slips for the South Visit on April 15 were sent home. Please return your signed permission slip as soon as possible. There is no cost for this field trip. A permission slip for Remember the Titans was also sent home in today’s Friday folder. Please send this back as soon as possible, too.
A green letter with information about this year’s 5th grade class gift and basketball shootout fundraiser was also sent home Friday. Please look this over and send back donations by March 11.
Progress Reports will be emailed home next Friday, March 6th. These get pushed through in waves, so they may come throughout the day. If you have not received your child’s progress report by the end of the day on Monday, March 9th, please let me know.
As a reminder, the school snack policy is that students may only have a fruit or vegetable in its own skin for a morning snack. Lately I have been having many conversations with students who are bringing chips, crackers, granola bars, etc. If you could please reinforce at home that students may only bring a fruit or vegetable for snack, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you!
Please check with your student to see the status of his/her school supplies. Many students no longer have scotch tape, pencils, and scissors. If your student can no longer locate his or her math or reading notebook, please send in a replacement as soon as possible.