Students in the Community

Several fifth grade students are on part of our Honors Chorus at CAA.  They will be having several performances this coming Sunday and Monday.  Please consider going to support this individuals! Hope to see you there! :)

Sunday, December 2nd: Christmas on Green Street. We will be performing at the Jackson-Walters house, which is the white house right next door to Mellow Mushroom. The students will perform at 6:15 pm on the porch outside.

 

Monday, December 3rd: Lovelight Program at Northeast Georgia Medical Center. The students will perform in the Lovelight garden, which is located in front of the North Patient Tower. The program begins at 7:00 pm and won't last more than 30 minutes.

Week of November 26th

Hello Everyone! I hope that you each had a wonderful Thanksgiving Break and spent plenty of time relaxing with family (and a little extra sleep too!).  We are in FULL SWING in Room 103!

We are on Week 9 of spelling this week.  Below you will find the list of words for this week.  Remember: your student may not have any words this week or he/she may have all 20 words...it all depends on their Pre-test that they take on Monday morning at 7:35.  Their words should be written in their agendas.

1. gave          2. girl          3. get         4. going         5. give
6. go             7. glass        8. gone      9. gold         10. great
11. good      12. got         13. ground   14. green     15. grow
16. group     17. half        18. had      19. happened   20. hand


In my math classes, we are finishing our unit on the coordinate plane.  The summative assessment will be Tuesday.  Students will need to be able to create their own coordinate plane, plot ordered pairs, determine distances between points, and predict where the next point(s) should be located.

Monday Homework: COACH Book page 188-189 all
Tuesday: Summative Assessment: Coordinate Plane
Wednesday: Begin unit on Operations & Algebraic Thinking: Creating Patterns
Wednesday Homework: Decimal Number Lines & Number Lines Worksheet
Thursday: Continue working with patterns in algebra.
Thursday Homework: COACH Book page 18 #1-5
Friday: Formative assessment over OA.3

Remember: Students can ALWAYS look through their COACH Books for additional help.  I am also available for after-school tutoring during 2nd load 2:25-2:50 every afternoon.  Please let me know if your student needs additional help in any subject.  



This week we are finishing up our HUGE Careers essay.  Your student has been working on this paper the whole month of November.  If they are not on the rough draft stage by Wednesday, they will be bringing this home to finish so that they can do peer edits and revisions on Thursday.  The final, publishing essay is due Friday.  

SCIENCE (sorry, don't have a cute header!)
This week I have my homeroom for science.  We are building on our previous unit of matter and will talk in-depth about changing matter.  We will discuss how matter can be changed and whether that change is chemical or physical.  This week we will be doing mostly "book learning" and "video learning"; we will not have any interactive demonstrations.  Next week, we will do nothing but demonstrations and hands-on activities.  With that being said, there are a few items that we REALLY need in order to help with our "experiments".  Students have a half sheet of paper that they have brought home that lists some of the supplies that we will need.  If you are able to provide any of the items, it would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you in advance for your help with this! 

Fundraiser for CAA

While you are Holiday shopping, why not help your child's school earn some CASH!!! The link below takes you to a flyer that is tied to the SchoolMall fundraiser we did earlier in the school year.

If you shop at certain online stores and type in the schoolmall code for CAA our school gets a percentage of the purchase. (For example...the Toms website gives CAA 7% of every purchase).

http://www.cfe.com/dp/images/2012SMLColor.pdf?utm_source=Dawn&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign="SML2012HolidayFlyer"

HAPPY SHOPPING!!! 

Week of November 5th

Events This Week: 

Thursday:  Careers Guest Speaker: Cedric Spain, technology from Centennial

Friday: Spelling Test #7-begins at 7:35am immediately following announcements 

Careers Guest Speakers: Vet technicians from Murrayville Vet Clinic

This week in Spelling, we are still working on our "Words that Every Fifth Grader Should Know How to Spell".  We are in week 7 of our words.  Remember: your child may have 1 word this week, 5 words this week, or 0 words this week depending on which words they missed on their pre-test.  Check your child's agenda for their spelling list.  

This week in math we are continuing to work with decimals.  We are particularly working on dividing decimals.  Students will have a Summative Assessment on Friday that covers multiplying and dividing decimals.  Students will not have much homework this week.  

Continue working on Math Facts!! 

This week Mrs. Kennedy's homeroom is in my science class.  My homeroom is with Mrs. Kennedy learning some social studies! :) 

In science, we will be talking about Matter and Atoms.  We will talk about the different states of matter along with learning about what matter is.  

We aren't doing Shurley English again until after Thanksgiving Break. We'll be working on our big writing project that all 5th graders are doing:

2020: What's Your Vision?

This 5th grade class will graduate from high school in the year 2020! That number makes me think of perfect vision and being able to see clearly. We want our students to have a clear sense of their vision so they can start setting goals now to succeed later in life. While their vision may change, they'll have some experience with looking into their future with some serious thinking and will know how to set small goals in order to meet bigger ones. I'm getting excited just typing about it!

Students will be researching a career they might like to have when they grow up. Students will be required to take a skills aptitude test, research a specific career, write a 7-paragraph informational essay, and make a presentation. We will start this on Wednesday, and all projects will be due November 30th - no exceptions. This week, we'll start with some talking and thinking time with classmates to discuss a variety of careers that are available. I want the students to talk with each other, find out about some career options their peers might be interested in. Perhaps your child will hear of a career that he or she hadn't thought of before! Please take time this week to talk about careers with your fifth grader. This is going to be quite a big project, and your thoughts and input will be valuable into your child's decisions for the project! 

On Thursday, students will take a career aptitude test, asking them how they feel about certain skills, subjects, and hobbies. At the end of the aptitude test, students will be given a list of career fields that might use their talents well. Students will be able to click on the suggested career fields and start exploring those options.

More information will be coming home about this as the week progresses. Stay tuned! :)