Ms. O'Leary, Language Arts, 5th

Hi all!

I have had such a great week 2 with your students! They have been working so hard and we are still practicing our routines and procedures every day. 

 

MATH

This week we started Chapter 1: Place value concepts

Weekly affrimation: I can try new things

We learned how to compare numbers, write them out in different forms (standard, expanded and written) and even started using exponents!

Exponents really give students a chance to level up their math thinking. We will continue to work on this next week. If your students ask questions this weekend we are focused on the idea that exponents are NOT repeated addition but rather repeated multiplication.

 

Next week we will continue to practice exponents and look at other place value concepts. Our math affirmation next week is: I can challenge myself.

 

ELA

This week in ELA we continued to examine authors purpose and central idea. We ended the week practicing our test taking skills. These being, reading the questions before listening to the story, picking out key words to listen for and going back to check our answers.

 

Next week in ELA we will continue to work on these skills. Author's purpose being a central focus. We will also continue to work on our super six vocab words! They've been learning some fun ones. :)

 

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. We are all on the same team and want your students to thrive. 

Hi all!

I had a fantastic first week with your students! It was a very busy but productive week and I am so proud of all of them for working hard all week. There are so many good things to look forward to this year! I have the same group of students for ELA and Math so this year I have decided to combine my Edlio post so that way you receive one less email (yay!)

 

This week in ELA:

- We completed a narrative writing pre- assessment. I will be conferencing with students in the next few weeks to talk through areas of improvement

- We started our first unit! We have read a few different readings on inventors. Students are working on finding the central idea as well as summarizing these texts. 

 

Next week in ELA:

- Students will have time to write about their inventions they are thinking about!

- They will continue reading with a purpose (summarizing, central idea etc.) 

- On Thursday, students will complete their first reading MAPS test for the year. 

 

This week in math:

- We started of STRONG in math this year! Students began classifying triangles and quadrilaterals. We discovered things like acute, obtuse, and right angles along with how to identify each shape!

 

Next Week:

- On Monday we will continue to review this chapter before having our first assessment on Tuesday. Students will have the ability to use any notes or work they have completed on this. Along with that they will have plenty of support from me!

 

Thank you for your continued support! Please let me know if you have any questions. Again, I am so proud of all of them, and I can't wait to connect more as the weeks continue!