Week of October 14-18

We had another great week in 5th grade! We are looking forward to having conferences with you and your family over the next few weeks. 

Please see updates below:

October 11th: Parent Conferences/No School 

October 14th: No School 

October 16th: Picture Retake Day 

Parent Conferences

We will be having Parent Conferences all day on Friday, October 11th. Please sign up for a Parent Conference if you haven't already. You can find the link that was e-mailed to you from your learner's teacher. (Please e-mail them again if you can't find it!)

TCE Pumpkin Patch

Your learner came home with a letter that explains Sky Ranch Payment for the year. You can view the letter here. Our Sky Ranch trip will be April 22-April 24. The first payment will be due October 4th and it will be $50. If you would like to pay online, you may visit this link. Please contact your homeroom teacher or Mrs. Ford, the assistant principal, if you would like to discuss payment plans. 

In math next week, we will be practicing word problems for dividing and multiplying decimals. We will also show what we know on decimal operations with a post-unit assessment. Click here for some optional decimal at-home practice.

In science next week, we will begin exploring the various forms of energy such as mechanical, electrical, light, thermal, and sound energy. We will utilize the Numbers app to create a workflow in which learners move through learning experiences and demonstrations at their own pace.

In reading, we will be starting our new unit: Moving Up Levels of Nonfiction. We are really excited to introduce the fifth graders to some high interest nonfiction texts! In this unit, we'll be focusing on identifying main ideas and supporting details in the text, analyzing author's craft, making inferences, comparing and contrasting, and analyzing the effect of text structure on the author's purpose.

We'd love for you to talk to your son/daughter about nonfiction texts. What topics does your son/daughter enjoy reading and learning about? 


In writing, we will also be starting an informational unit! The 5th graders will be writing informational books about topics of interest! We are looking forward to all of the things we'll learn from them.

Do any of you write informational texts or blurbs for your job? Have you ever written to provide information? If so, we'd love for you to talk to your son/daughter about it!

We will continue to study the effects of the tensions between Great Britain and the colonists. We'll focus on the Loyalists & Patriots and the Declaration of Independence before we dive into the American Revolution.

School Board Member, Anthony Hill, stopped by Mrs. Foroodi's class to play Fact or Fib with the kids!

In Science Class, the students went around the building looking for examples of different types of energy!