General Announcements:
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Thank you for the kindness you have shown to us not only last week through teacher appreciation, but throughout this entire school year! We are grateful for your support! We have loved having your children and truly hope we can keep up with them through the years!
This week is still a full week of learning :-)
Next week's schedule:
- Monday (5/23): Full day- Afternoon Ice Cream Party
- Wednesday (5/25): Dismissal at 12:45
- Thursday (5/26): Dismissal at 11:00
- Friday (5/27): First day of SUMMER vacation !!!!!!
- Our end of the year ice cream party is May 23rd. Please click here to sign up if you want to send in an item!
- All Library books are due this week. Please be sure your child has turned in their books. This week, we will also be turning in textbooks. Please be sure your child has their Sciencesaurus textbook and their 2 hardcover math books at school and ready to turn in this week.
- Medications are NOT held in the Health Room from one school year to the next. Students are not allowed to carry their own medications as policy states by the State Department of Education. Therefore, an adult will need to pick up your child’s medication by noon on May 26. Any medication that is left in the Health Room will be discarded after noon on May 26, 2016
BGIS First Priority
will be collecting items to help stock a local food bank that helps Hoover students and families.
The food bank needs the following items:
Jelly
peanut butter
canned meat: tuna, chicken, spam, ...
Peanut butter crackers
Donations may be dropped off in the boxes
each morning in the front lobby
or in Room 324
Thanks for your support!
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Language Arts:
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- The students need to read "Why do we collect parasites" on Tween Tribune this week. Please make sure your child has a chapter book to be reading at home.
- We are finishing up writing narratives this week! The kids will be editing their stories on their chromebooks. The kids will have their last Greek and Latin Roots quiz on Unit 9 words Thursday, May 19th. The Greek and Latin Roots homework is due on Wednesday, May 18th if it is not finished in class.
- We have a Grammar IXL contract this week that covers skills B.1, B.2, E.2, JJJ.1, and JJJ.3 (Level G). It is due Friday, May 20th.
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Social Studies:
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- We are completing our unit on the Civil War. We are finishing up a booklet with all the Civil War information.
- We will have a Civil War Test on Tuesday, May 17th. A study guide will came home today for students to start to look over last Tuesday and I have posted a review game in google classroom. The Civil War book will be taken up for a test grade on Tuesday, May 17th.
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Math:
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- This week students will take our final unit test on Multiplying and Dividing Decimals. Students may take this Test....Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday this week. We reviewed in class and prepared last week for this test. We played a couple of review games in class today as extra practice. Thirty students actually took the test today.
- We will continue problem solving practice and Number Talks as time allows between now and our last day of school (next Thursday)! . Let me say that your child's math toolbox should be overflowing with Math knowledge. I am so pleased at how hard they have each worked this school year!
- NO Cumulative Review as homework this week. We will complete a Cumulative Review in class. There are NO NEW IXL skills this week.
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Science:
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- STUDY GUIDE came home today for our Unit Test on Earth's Place in the Universe. There is also a copy of the study guide information on the Science page of this blog: http://mcnielponder.blogspot.com/p/science.html
- We reviewed in class today and will review again tomorrow for our Earth Science TEST THIS WEDNESDAY. The test will be taken online and will be multiple choice, true/false, matching, or word bank. The test is knowledge and application of the activities we have been doing in class for the past couple of weeks. THIS IS OUR LAST SCIENCE TEST for 5th grade :-)
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