Friday, May 18
Next Week at a Glance:
MONDAY
Culinary Chemistry Demonstration
review
both GRAPH and SCRIB/SCRIPT - no spelling words
*Test
over degrees of adjectives, double negatives, and diagramming.
TUESDAY
Students
will diagram pattern 4 sentences with compound verbs and objects.
Students begin taking everything home
WEDNESDAY
Students
will diagram sentences with adverbs that modify other modifiers.
*Roots TEST
*Math Unit 12 Test over Percentage
THURSDAY
GRADUATION
RECEPTION
FRIDAY
PARTY - WEAR 5th grade T-SHIRTS with any Uniform bottom, GAMES AND FOOD, yearbook signing
Friday, May 18, 2018
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Here we are one week away from the last day of instruction for your fifth graders here at Archway!
I have so enjoyed your children and will miss them, but I am so excited for them as they step into a whole new world.
NOTE: Endocrine Test: Open note - On Friday, May 18, 2018
For our Science in house field trip Monday we will be having a culinary chemistry demonstration: They will be using and consuming White Chocolate, jelly, applesauce, and coconut. If your child has a food allergy to any of these please send me an e-mail or hand written note.
Here we are one week away from the last day of instruction for your fifth graders here at Archway!
I have so enjoyed your children and will miss them, but I am so excited for them as they step into a whole new world.
NOTE: Endocrine Test: Open note - On Friday, May 18, 2018
For our Science in house field trip Monday we will be having a culinary chemistry demonstration: They will be using and consuming White Chocolate, jelly, applesauce, and coconut. If your child has a food allergy to any of these please send me an e-mail or hand written note.
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2018
I hope you all had a great Mother's Day weekend. I enjoyed my family in various events all throughout the week end. They spoiled me, but the best part was just spending time with my mother, kids and grand kids.
This week at a glance.
- We are learning about percentages. It has been fairly easy for most so far but scholars who struggled with fractions to decimals as well as with equivalent fractions will need to go back and review notes about value, converting fractions to decimals and vice versa, as well as finding common denominators. There are numerous helpful resources at the Khan Academy if needed. For example: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-fifth-grade-math/cc-5th-fractions-topic#fractions-common-denominators
- For poetry/writing, we are memorizing "If" by Rudyard Kipling. It will be recited by the whole fifth grade at the graduation ceremony. This poem is a p erfect graduation poem because it highlights virtue and perseverance, something so needed by young people embarking on a new beginning. Please encourage your scholar to memorize these lines to the best of his or her ability. We suggest recording their recitation and then playing it back over and over. It would be a good family discussion to sit down and talk about such masterful lines as (If you can) "watch the things you gave your life to, broken and stoop and build 'em up again with worn out tools:" ... "you’ll be a Man, my son!" We hope it is an enjoyable endeavor to commit this poetic masterpiece to memory.
- We continue our study of the endocrine system with the test coming this Friday, May 18th. Students should spend 5-10 minutes each day reviewing their notes; this can be done in Lyceum, at home, or during morning work.
- Monday, May 21st will be our chemistry "in-school" field trip. It will be a "cooking" chemistry lab. I hope the scholars are as excited as I am!
History
- We are studying Native Americans: Cultures and Conflicts this week.
- I am encouraging scholars to write detailed answers to any questions they get in history. We have been using this time to hone their writing-for-purpose skills.
Graduation
5th Grade Graduation will be held on Thursday, March 24th in the Chandler Prep Gymnasium.
Doors open at 9:15 and the ceremony begins at 9:30. Please enter through the CPA Gym doors on the east side of the building.
Reception to follow in the Multipurpose Room.
All family members and friends are welcome. If you plan to take any siblings that will be in class, please give yourself some extra time to come to the front desk while the front office staff gets them out of class and you sign them out. Those children will need to return to class after the ceremony as the reception is for graduates and parents only. We will ask that you sign them back in before attending the reception in the MPR.
If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Baker.
Here is the link to the signup for the commencement reception. Please visit http://signup.com/go/mOnwjoV.
Also, the 5th grade shirt is available here: https://archwaychandler.configio.com/pd/1864/2018-5th-grade-graduate-shirt?cid=409&returncom=productlist&source=search
There is a pool party scheduled for after school May 24th until 3pm at La Casita pool in Dobson Ranch. Sign up here ($5): https://archwaychandler.configio.com/pd/2145/5th-grade-graduation-pool-party?cid=409&returncom=productlist&source=search
Saturday, May 12, 2018
May 12, 1.30 pm - Revised version
Thank you all so much for all of the encouragement and appreciation this week. Reading those comments on how the children have grown and been strengthened, encouraged, and feel loved by what we do makes it all so worth while. Thank you! We appreciate you and all that you do for our kidos.
Important Dates and Graduation
Graduation Info
Paragraph 1: 5/11 - It was kind of disheartening today, because many kids did not know this today! I am sending home another copy of the poem on Bright Yellow paper - please help your child memorize it.
The 5th grade graduation will take place at the Chandler Prep Gymnasium. Doors open at 9:15 and the ceremony will begin at 9:30. Reception to follow.
Please enter through the CPA doors on the east side of the building. If you are taking an Archway student to watch their older sibling graduation, you must enter through the Archway doors and sign them out. Everyone is welcome to enjoy the reception in the MPR after the graduation. However, all Archway students must return to their classes promptly after the ceremony.
If you would like to sign up for to help with the reception please go to this link:
http://signup.com/go/mOnwjoV
Please enter through the CPA doors on the east side of the building. If you are taking an Archway student to watch their older sibling graduation, you must enter through the Archway doors and sign them out. Everyone is welcome to enjoy the reception in the MPR after the graduation. However, all Archway students must return to their classes promptly after the ceremony.
If you would like to sign up for to help with the reception please go to this link:
http://signup.com/go/mOnwjoV
IMPORTANT DATES
Culinary Chemistry in school field trip: May 21st
We are memorizing a fantastic poem for the graduation ceremony that embodies all that we are hoping the students will take with them as they graduate from Archway. It is the poem "If" by Ruyard Kipling. Please discuss the virtues outlined in the poem and help your student really understand it and make the ideals a part of their character.
We are memorizing a fantastic poem for the graduation ceremony that embodies all that we are hoping the students will take with them as they graduate from Archway. It is the poem "If" by Ruyard Kipling. Please discuss the virtues outlined in the poem and help your student really understand it and make the ideals a part of their character.
The memorization timeline is as follows:
Paragraph 1: 5/11 - It was kind of disheartening today, because many kids did not know this today! I am sending home another copy of the poem on Bright Yellow paper - please help your child memorize it.
Paragraph 1&2: 5/14
Paragraph 1-3: 5/16
Paragraph 1-4: 5/18
Paragraph 1-3: 5/16
Paragraph 1-4: 5/18
On each date your scholar has the opportunity to earn 10 points toward their poetry grade in Language Arts. When they do not know it it pulls down their grade.
Next Week's Spelling Words and Roots
Roots: Scrib, Script = Write
derivatives: Students will get, on Monday, 2 sheets with the derivatives and their definitions. One of the sheets is for them to cut apart and play a matching game to prepare them for the test on Friday.
Spelling Words:
describe inscription manuscript postscription
scribble scribe script subscription
transcribe postscript
ELA
This week we will be studying degrees of adjectives and double negatives (Shurley Ch. 13) and the test on Ch 13 will be MONDAY, MAY 21
MATH
We will begin our unit on percentages, fractions, and decimals and be doing division rocket math.
SCIENCE
We will complete our study of the endocrine system this week - students should be studying nightly their notes.
HISTORY
We will begin a new unit on Native Americans.
Have a great week-end!
Monday, May 7, 2018
Hello!
Here is the link to the
signup for the commencement reception. Please visit http://signup.com/go/mOnwjoV.
Also, the 5th grade shirt is available here: https://archwaychandler.configio.com/pd/1864/2018-5th-grade-graduate-shirt?cid=409&returncom=productlist&source=search
There is a pool party scheduled for after school May 24th until 3pm at La Casita pool in Dobson Ranch. Sign up here ($5): https://archwaychandler.configio.com/pd/2145/5th-grade-graduation-pool-party?cid=409&returncom=productlist&source=search
Also, the 5th grade shirt is available here: https://archwaychandler.configio.com/pd/1864/2018-5th-grade-graduate-shirt?cid=409&returncom=productlist&source=search
There is a pool party scheduled for after school May 24th until 3pm at La Casita pool in Dobson Ranch. Sign up here ($5): https://archwaychandler.configio.com/pd/2145/5th-grade-graduation-pool-party?cid=409&returncom=productlist&source=search
Other Information:
History TEST - Westward Expansion After Civil War - Wednesday, May 9th
Grammar Unit 12 Test - Thursday, May 10
Math Unit 11 Test - Angles- Thursday, May 10
Students should read and fill out Reading Log every night this week - Due Friday, 5/11
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Hello 5A,
No school this Friday as it is a teacher grading day.
What we're up to this week AND next week:
ELA - We have wrapped up Across Five Aprils. Please let me know if you'd like to come in and lead a reading group for A
Wrinkle In Time between 8:30-9:10 am any weekday; we begin reading that novel
today. Students are not required to have a copy of the book though
they may bring one if they choose.
In grammar, we are looking at personal pronouns and their
antecedents as well as indefinite pronouns. The next grammar test will be
Thursday 5/10. Next week's vocabulary will be
"graph=writing." Lists are at the bottom of this update.
Math - we continue to cover angle properties as found on straight
lines, around points, in triangles, in quadrilaterals, and now in
parallelograms. Each day, we usually derive a new angle property (or
properties) for a special condition or shape. It is extraordinarily
important that your scholar memorize these properties, or rules. I
have given very clear and concise notes. If your scholar has misplaced
these notes, he or she may check in their textbook or copy the notes from a
classmate during Lyceum. The unit 11 test will be Thursday, 5/10, after
two full days of review.
Science - We tested on the nervous system yesterday and began the
endocrine system. Please note that the human body discussion
will take place next Thursday, 5/10, and Friday, 5/11. Please contact Ms.
Carlson at scarlson@archwaychandler.org
if you have any questions.
History - we will briefly look at westward expansion after the
Civil War with an open-note, open book test on Wednesday,
5/9. We will then take a look at Native American cultures and conflicts.
Spelling for NEXT week (test Friday, 5/11):
autobiography, autograph, bibliography, biography, cartography,
homograph, paragraph, phonograph, photography, seismograph
Have a wonderful weekend!
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