Mrs. Nunnery's News

Weekly Update Aug 19-23

This week in math:

We will continue our work with place value. This week we will start working with decimals extending to the thousandths place. We will be comparing, ordering, rounding just as we did with whole numbers. You will notice a little difference in the homework, most nights it will be in the “Homework and Remembering” book.

This week In Reading:
Read, read, read! We are working to build up as many minutes for the Read-a-thon as we can. Because of our visiting artist our reading time is broken up throughout the day, all students will have independent reading time in the afternoon.

This week in Writing:

We are very fortunate to have visiting artist-in-residence Phillip Shabazz visiting 5^th grade this week.  Many thanks to the PTA for funding a cultural arts activity for each grade! Mr Shabaaz is working with each class for an hour each day to work on poetry. He does an amazing job of encouraging the students to be creative and showing them that they are poets!

This week in SS:

We will continue talking about Colonial America. Our next class read aloud book is the Dear America book, Standing in the Light by Mary Pope Osborne. We will use this book to compare and contrast the daily life of a 10 year old girl in Pennsylvania in 1763 to our lives today.

*Read-a-thon News*

Please turn in your pledge envelopes if you haven’t already. Make sure to record your child’s MINUTES read each night and return the reading log to their binder. This year all grades are recording minutes read, and both home and in-school minutes will be recorded on the same form.

**SCIENCE DAY**

On Monday August 26 we will have our first in-school science field trip through SCIENCE FUN FOR EVERYONE. The students will rotate through 3 different sessions. The cost for this is $21.00., please send in money by 8/26. We will host 3 scientists and each class will rotate through stations that will enhance and preview the 5^th grade science standards.

 ~DC TRIP UPDATE~

Please send in your child’s deposit of $25. Please check with me if you are unsure if you have paid yet. We hope to have a finalized price in the next few weeks, but the estimated cost per is $120.

Scholastic Book Orders

Last week your child received our first Scholastic Book Order for the year. These book orders are a wonderful, easy, and CHEAP way to build your home library (and find birthday and Christmas gifts J). Each month there are a few $1 books and lots of book sets that average out to $2-3 per book. Our class also earns bonus points that I can use to purchase books for the class. We are so excited that the September catalog has our beloved read aloud, Wonder . I am so glad I have some leftover bonus points to order several copies for our class library! If you are interested in ordering online you can go to www.scholastic.com/readingclub and order from the September “arrow” flyer. Our class code is MBKLF.

**Be on the lookout for report card conference sign up sheets to come home early next week.**

           

Important Dates:

Aug  21     early release, 11:20

        26    Science Fun day ($21)

Sept  2      Labor Day- no school
         13    end of 1^st 9 weeks