Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Parents: (Please scroll down for important field trip information and sign up!)

Please make sure your students have all the supplies they need for the rest of the year. They should have enough pencils, erasers, and expo markers with them.

Students are still using lots and lots of tissues, so we would really appreciate any and all donations!

Thank you to those of you who have brought in paper towel rolls and toilet paper rolls so far. We need more!

Important Dates:

Westward Expansion Test: Thursday, March 1st

Spelling Test: Friday, March 2nd

Math Test: Friday, March 2nd

Skeletal System Test: Wednesday, March 7th

Academic Field Day: Thursday, March 8th

Secret Garden Field Trip: Friday, March 9th (1/2 day)

For our Secret Garden field trip, we will be having a fun spring day full of games at Apache Park right by campus. Students will be playing lawn games, planting succulents and much more! 

Please sign up your students HERE.

Chaperone sign up will be available this Thursday evening at 7:00PM. 

Sign ups for snacks for the party are available here. Anything and everything is appreciated!

If you sign up to be a chaperone, you will also be assisting in running one of the many stations we will have at the party. 

Friday, February 23rd

Dear Parents:

Our classroom could use a few things:
Kleenex boxes (so sorry, flu season hit us hard!)
toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls for our Secret Garden Party (as many as you can offer)

Please make sure your students come to school with Across Five Aprils by Thursday, March 1st.


ELA:

Ago, actum (L) do, act, drive, perform
• Derivatives to use: Act, agent, agile, navigate, coagulate, prodigal

Pendo, pensum (L) hang down, weigh, consider, judge
• Derivatives to use: Pensive, suspend, suspense, expensive, expend

Hyper (G) above, overly, beyond
• Derivatives to use: Hyperbole, hyperactive, hyperglycemia, hyperventilate

Hypo (G) under, below
• Derivatives to use: Hypodermic, hypothermia, hypochondria, hypoallergenic, hypothesis

Spelling words: responsible, response, application, apply, difficulty, difficult, scene, science, descend, descent

Math: We will conclude and test students on the area unit. The area test will be on Friday, March 2nd.

History: We will conclude and test students on the the Westward Expansion unit. The test will be on Thursday, March 2

Science: We will continue our study of the skeletal system.

Spanish:  Test for Unit 3 is on Friday

Literature: We will conclude The Secret Garden. Students are not required to work on their alphabet posters over the weekend unless they would like to get a head start. I will give them a couple of days in class next week to work on it. Due date is Wednesday, February 28th.

Narrative Due Date

Dear Parents,

I told the students that their narratives were due today. They have known this due date for the past week. However, by mistake, I wrote that the narrative was due on Friday on the blog. Students will not have points taken off for turning it in tomorrow the 23rd.

Thank you for understanding!

KARATE SCHOLE (URGENT)

Dear Parents,

Tomorrow our students will be given the opportunity to learn some karate during their schole lesson. If you want your child to participate, you must sign a permission slip! Click the link to sign up.

https://archwaychandler.configio.com/pd/763/karate-exploration-with-sandoval-freestyle?returncom=productlist

Best,

Ms. Baker

Monday, February 20th

Please send in toilet paper tubes for our Secret Garden party. We will be using them to do some planting! 

Athletic Field Day is March 8th.

Secret Garden Field Trip is March 9th.

March 9th is a half day.

ELA

• Plus, pluris (L) more, many
• Derivatives to use:
• Plus, plus sign, plural, plurality, surplus, E Pluribus Unum
• Kata (G) down, against
• Derivatives to use:
• Catalog, catastrophe, catapult, catalyst, catacomb  
• Ana (G) up, back again, along, through
• Derivatives to use:
• Anatomy, anachronism, analysis, analogy, anagram
• Duco, ductum (L) draw, attract, lead
• Derivatives to use:
• Aqueduct, conduct, deduct, produce,  reduce, induce

The spelling test will be administered on Friday.

Spelling Words-  meant, earliest, early, colonies, colony, assure, sure, relief, probable, foreign

• Narrative is due Friday, 2/23

MATH

We will continue our study of Area, especially triangles this week.  Test will be the following week.

HISTORY

We will continue our study of Westward Expansion before the Civil War.  We will play the Oregon Trail game to get a better feel of all the struggles pioneers faced on the Oregon Trail.

Wednesday, February 14th

Dear Parents,

Thank you for all your contributions to a fantastic Great Hearts Day! A special thanks to Mrs. Richardson for coming up with all the fun games we played today. The kids had an absolutely fantastic day. 

The only homework assigned today was Exercise 1 for Area. If your child has lost their 5a book forever (or at least for the evening), here is a copy of tonight's homework.

There will be a plant reproduction test on Friday. 

Monday, February 12th

Updates:

Math Test Tomorrow 2/12
Great Hearts Day 2/14
Plant Reproduction Test 2/16

Sunday, February 11th

Dear Parents,

As your students prepare for the math test this week:

1) I know this is a very difficult unit, arguably the most difficult of the year. We have written the math test with this in mind and have moved the test to the Tuesday to give our students one more day of review.

2) Below are links to the answer key to the workbook review. Hopefully this helps!

Review Key

Review Word Problems


THANK YOU to all of you for signing up for Great Hearts Day this week! We're going to have a blast. We couldn't do it without parents like you. We are so absolutely blessed to have such awesome families in our class.


This Week:

ELA: We will continue to write narratives and include dialogues this week.

Nonus (L) ninth
• Derivatives to use: Nonagenarian, nonet, nonagon, noon (from latin nones, ninth hour after prime or sunrise)

Decimus (L) tenth
• Derivatives to use: Decimate, decimal system (base ten number system – relate to our math studies), decimeter, dime

Electron (G) amber
•       Derivatives to use: Electricity, electric, electron, electrician

Gradus (L) step, degree
• Derivatives to use: Grade, gradual, graduation, gradient, centigrade, egress, regress


The spelling test will be administered on Friday.

Spelling Words-  stomach, straight, television, tough, wreath, wrestling, wrestle, succeed, whistle, consideration

Math: Students will be tested on More Calculations: Decimals and will begin a new unit on area

Science: Students will continue to learn about plant reproduction and be tested on their knowledge of it.

History: Students will continue learning about Westward Expansion Before the Civil War

Literature: We will continue reading Secret Garden.

Thursday, February 8th (changes to the homework)

Dear Parents:

Student only need to do up to pg 59 in the TB Review tonight. I realize that it was quite a bit so they may work on pg 60 tomorrow in math class.

History and plant tests went home today.

Spelling test is tomorrow and the decimals test is Monday. Please make sure any of your students questions are brought to class tomorrow.

Wednesday February 7th

Hello 5C Families! Here are your updates for this week:

• Early Release Day this Friday 2/9
• Unit 8 Math Test Monday 2/12
• Great Hearts Day Wednesday 2/14
• Plant Reproduction Test 2/15
• Progress Reports 2/12

*** Parents please remember that once your students math tests are graded, they will receive a worksheet to do test corrections. Please go over it with them and make sure they do it correctly and sign it. This is a great opportunity for students to bring up their math grades so it is really important that this happens.


Once again, our PSO is hosting the annual Daddy Daughter dance, with a sit-down dinner, new DJ, professional photo booth, and carriage rides - it is a wonderful time for our students.  Wednesday is the deadline for prepurchased tickets and it helps the PSO with food and other counts for the event.  They have asked us to encourage students to get their tickets early!

What: Dinner, carriage rides, dancing, & photos
Where: Archway Classical Chandler
When: Saturday, Feburary 10th, 5:30-8pm
Cost: $20 per family via this pre-order form ($25 at the door).
Pre-order until Wednesday, February 7th at 7pm.

https://archwaychandler.configio.com/pd/769/2018-father-daughter-dance?cid=433&returncom=productlist&source=search

Thank you!

Friday, February 2nd

Next Week:

ELA: We will begin writing narratives in preparation for AZ Merit.

Literature: We will continue to read Secret Garden up through Chapter 20.

Math: We will continue our study of multiplying and dividing decimals. Please make sure to check your students math homework this weekend and answer any questions they may have. This is a tougher unit, so it is important that they get all the help they can get! :)

History: Students will take their Japan test on Wednesday. We will begin our study of the Westward Expansion on Thursday with Daniel Boone and Lewis and Clark.

Science: Students will be tested on plants and will begin the plant reproduction unit.

Spelling Words:  Quintus (L) - fifth 

Sextus (L) - Sixth

Septimus (L) - seventh

Octavus (L) - eighth

massive

medal

metal

medicine

ninety

realize

reign

severe

slipped

sneeze

Upcoming Events:

Tetra String Quartet will be on campus to present to our students on Tuesday, February 6

Great Hearts Day is February 14th.

No School on February 19th.

Thursday, February 1st

Good afternoon! This week we began our full-blown preparation for the AZ Merit test in April. We are studying fiction and poetry. We will begin writing narratives soon.

The science test has been moved to Monday. The study guide is due Friday.

Dates to remember:

Plant Study Guide due Friday 2/2

Plant Test - 2/5

Grammar Unit 8 Test  -  Thursday, 2/1

Japan Test - Wednesday 2/7

Great Hearts Day - Wednesday 2/14

Presidents Day: No School - Monday 2/19