Important Dates
Oct. 3- MAP Math in the morning
Oct. 6- Lake Meyer Field Trip
News
Lake Meyer Field Trip – October 6
Fifth-grade visits Lake Meyer on Friday, October 6 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.
MAP Testing
Please help your child in remembering to charge his/her computer Monday night so it is ready for MAP testing on Tuesday morning.
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- This week in math we wrapped up our unit on using the order of operations to solve problems. Your student was assessed over this skill today and will share these assessments with you next week. Our next unit of study will be multiplying and dividing whole numbers.
Math 5- In math this week we continued our work with decimals. We practiced adding, subtracting, and multiplying with decimal values. We used models to help us do this. We’ll continue this unit next week.
Language with Mr. Amundson
In Language class this week we started writing poems called Odes. Odes are an old poetic form that has been around for a long time, but in recent times people started writing Odes to modern, everyday objects. That is exactly what we have started and the students have been enjoying looking at mentor examples, brainstorming their ideas, and getting started writing their own Odes.
Reading with Mrs. Nowack
This week we read a story called Wheelchair Sports; our skills of the week were on central idea, monitoring & clarifying, and text structure. We wrapped up the week with two REAL LIFE inventors- Vince Schad (McNeilus) and Bill Soesbe (Gator Eyes Lights). Each student was given one of the Gator Eyes lights to keep. Reminder: Students are expected to read from their IR daily (it should travel from home to school each day).
Science with Mr. Peterson
At the end of the week, we went out to the creek to sample the critter that live there. We found A LOT of critters under the rocks and along the banks of the creek. I’ll put together a full list, but some highlights were a giant water bug, some crayfish, planaria, caddis fly larvae, brook sticklebacks, and dragonfly larvae.
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 Nashville warblers, white-faced meadowhawks and black meadowhawks.
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. 3- MAP Math in the morning
Oct. 6- Lake Meyer Field Trip
News
Lake Meyer Field Trip – October 6
Fifth-grade visits Lake Meyer on Friday, October 6 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
MAP Testing
Please help your child in remembering to charge his/her computer Monday night so it is ready for MAP testing on Tuesday morning.
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- This week in math we wrapped up our unit on using the order of operations to solve problems. Your student was assessed over this skill today and will share these assessments with you next week. Our next unit of study will be multiplying and dividing whole numbers.
Math 5- In math this week we continued our work with decimals. We practiced adding, subtracting, and multiplying with decimal values. We used models to help us do this. We’ll continue this unit next week.
Language with Mr. Amundson
In Language class this week we started writing poems called Odes. Odes are an old poetic form that has been around for a long time, but in recent times people started writing Odes to modern, everyday objects. That is exactly what we have started and the students have been enjoying looking at mentor examples, brainstorming their ideas, and getting started writing their own Odes.
Reading with Mrs. Nowack
This week we read a story called Wheelchair Sports; our skills of the week were on central idea, monitoring & clarifying, and text structure. We wrapped up the week with two REAL LIFE inventors- Vince Schad (McNeilus) and Bill Soesbe (Gator Eyes Lights). Each student was given one of the Gator Eyes lights to keep. Reminder: Students are expected to read from their IR daily (it should travel from home to school each day).
Science with Mr. Peterson
At the end of the week, we went out to the creek to sample the critter that live there. We found A LOT of critters under the rocks and along the banks of the creek. I’ll put together a full list, but some highlights were a giant water bug, some crayfish, planaria, caddis fly larvae, brook sticklebacks, and dragonfly larvae.
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 Nashville warblers, white-faced meadowhawks and black meadowhawks.
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.