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Oct. 10- Lake Meyer Field Trip
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Lake Meyer Field Trip – October 10
Fifth-grade visits Lake Meyer on Tuesday, October 10 for an all-day field trip. The students will have opportunities to learn about fishing (no equipment necessary), water quality, recycling, the food web, and ecosystems.
Lunch. Students signed up for school or home lunch this week; if unsure what your child signed up for, check with your his/her homeroom teacher.
Clothing. Layers are best as temperatures this time of year can be variable. Mornings are usually cool and afternoons can be warm. The field trip is almost entirely outside.
Future Newsletters
Now that we are well into the school year, this will be our last weekly newsletter. From here on out, we will send our newsletter on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month.
CLASSROOM NEWS
Math with Mrs. Halweg
Hybrid Math- In math this week we started our unit on multiplying and dividing whole numbers. We’ll be reviewing the standard algorithm for multiplication of multi-digit numbers. We’ll also be practicing long division.
Math 5-This week in math we learned how to use place value disks to model multiplying and dividing with decimals. We’ll review these concepts next week and your student will be assessed over their knowledge of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals on Tuesday, October 17.
Language with Mr. Amundson
In Language class this week we continued writing poems called Odes. The students have enjoyed writing odes and praising every day items. We also spent time creating a slideshow with our classroom odes, which we plan to use for a sharing day in the middle of next week.
Reading with Mrs. Nowack
We’re wrapping up our first unit (on the circumstances that people invent new things) with a response to text (these projects are due Monday). Reminder: Students are expected to read from their IR daily (it should travel from home to school each day).
Science with Mr. Peterson
This week we learned about decomposers, those critters who perform valuable “ecosystem services”: recycle energy and nutrients and clean up a mess! Here’s a complete list of the critters we captured and studied at the creek and some of the microscopic zooplankton and phytoplankton we saw today (Friday) in the biofilms we scraped off the rocks and algae in the creek. I’ll have scores from our quiz up on Power School soon. Nice work!!
What’s happening outside right now? I’ll post some videos that Larry Reis from Winneshiek County Conservation made over the last several years. Each video highlights some organisms that you might be able to see outside at this particular time of the year. This episode features white-crowned sparrows, western painted turtles and Virginia creeper.
5-P read aloud: Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaimon
Social Studies with Mr. Fromm
What we did: Quiz over Lesson 1 – Intro to Lesson 2&3 - Native Americans coming to the Western Hemisphere, Adapting to Environment
Where we are going: Quiz returned and retake procedure. Excited to dive deep into how different Native Cultures used the environment they were in to survive and thrive. Desparate need for Timeline work as well!
Questions/Prompts for your student: How did the Native/Indigenous People come to find themselves in the Western Hemisphere? When?
Additional Information
Below is a Spanish copy of this newsletter as rendered by Google Translate.
Oct. 10- Lake Meyer Field Trip
News
Lake Meyer Field Trip – October 10
Fifth-grade visits Lake Meyer on Tuesday, October 10 for an all-day field trip. The students will have opportunities to learn about fishing (no equipment necessary), water quality, recycling, the food web, and ecosystems.
Lunch. Students signed up for school or home lunch this week; if unsure what your child signed up for, check with your his/her homeroom teacher.
Clothing. Layers are best as temperatures this time of year can be variable. Mornings are usually cool and afternoons can be warm. The field trip is almost entirely outside.
- shoes to walk in (like sneakers or hiking boots) No sandals, please!
- long pants
- layers that include short and long-sleeves
- jacket appropriate for the weather
- hat for the sun
- sunscreen
Future Newsletters
Now that we are well into the school year, this will be our last weekly newsletter. From here on out, we will send our newsletter on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month.
CLASSROOM NEWS
Math with Mrs. Halweg
Hybrid Math- In math this week we started our unit on multiplying and dividing whole numbers. We’ll be reviewing the standard algorithm for multiplication of multi-digit numbers. We’ll also be practicing long division.
Math 5-This week in math we learned how to use place value disks to model multiplying and dividing with decimals. We’ll review these concepts next week and your student will be assessed over their knowledge of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals on Tuesday, October 17.
Language with Mr. Amundson
In Language class this week we continued writing poems called Odes. The students have enjoyed writing odes and praising every day items. We also spent time creating a slideshow with our classroom odes, which we plan to use for a sharing day in the middle of next week.
Reading with Mrs. Nowack
We’re wrapping up our first unit (on the circumstances that people invent new things) with a response to text (these projects are due Monday). Reminder: Students are expected to read from their IR daily (it should travel from home to school each day).
Science with Mr. Peterson
This week we learned about decomposers, those critters who perform valuable “ecosystem services”: recycle energy and nutrients and clean up a mess! Here’s a complete list of the critters we captured and studied at the creek and some of the microscopic zooplankton and phytoplankton we saw today (Friday) in the biofilms we scraped off the rocks and algae in the creek. I’ll have scores from our quiz up on Power School soon. Nice work!!
What’s happening outside right now? I’ll post some videos that Larry Reis from Winneshiek County Conservation made over the last several years. Each video highlights some organisms that you might be able to see outside at this particular time of the year. This episode features white-crowned sparrows, western painted turtles and Virginia creeper.
5-P read aloud: Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaimon
Social Studies with Mr. Fromm
What we did: Quiz over Lesson 1 – Intro to Lesson 2&3 - Native Americans coming to the Western Hemisphere, Adapting to Environment
Where we are going: Quiz returned and retake procedure. Excited to dive deep into how different Native Cultures used the environment they were in to survive and thrive. Desparate need for Timeline work as well!
Questions/Prompts for your student: How did the Native/Indigenous People come to find themselves in the Western Hemisphere? When?
Additional Information
Below is a Spanish copy of this newsletter as rendered by Google Translate.