RIO RECORDER 1st NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR!

Week of January 26-30th

CLASS UPDATE

Reading-5th Grade continues to read Fighting Ground (p.80-120) and our reading skill is Comparing and Contrasting. There will be vocabulary again this week that comes straight from the book where students read the sentence and use context clues to learn the meanings.

Writing-5th Grade is continuing the common core writing lesson on "How To Projects"

In Math 5th Grade will be learning about: Division and multiplication of fractions

History-5th- L4 "The Road to War" Ch. 8 + L5 "Declaring Independence" Chapter 8 test:
Thursday, February 5th.

Heritage Projects are due on February 17th (I gave an extra week because I am sweet)
while Powerpoints using Google Docs are due on February 24th! Let me know if you have ANY questions. I encourage all students to upload photos to their google doc ppt. sooner rather than later.  I demonstrated how to insert graphs using Google "Sheets"(Spreadsheets)into slide shows. They will need to do this with their Ethnicity graph in written AND power point formats. Furthermore, they will do this later in the year when we do our Science Projects.

Valentine's Breakfast-If you would like to help out, please e-mail Gabby Mackle as the big breakfast is Thursday, February 12th. An email will be going home soon with the exciting details! Each child will hopefully donate $5 to cover the costs for a lot of food!

On Valentine's Day you may do treats/cards etc. I will upload the list of names soon.

Our quote of the week is:
"Be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi

HOMEWORK MONDAY
Reading-AR 20 minutes
Vocab-Write the sentence from the book, your guess in parentheses, look up and write the definition
Due Friday-(Words 1-15)
Heritage Project
Finish Homework L5 math

HOMEWORK TUESDAY
Reading 20 min.
Vocab. Continue-Due Friday
Math L6
Correct and Return Work for better grade
BRING BOOKS FOR BELIZE! See flier above
Talent Show Tomorrow at 12:30 in cafeteria
Read Valentines Flier with Parents

HOMEWORK WEDNESDAY
Reading 20 min.
Vocab. Continue-Due Friday
Math L8
Correct and Return Work for better grade
BRING BOOKS FOR BELIZE! See flier above
Read Valentines Flier with Parents
Spirit Day USA tomorrow
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HOMEWORK THURSDAY

PARTY TOMORROW! Sports Day~Dress up in your favorite sport uniform

Reading-Need Fighting Ground Books-Study p. 80-120 in book

Math – L9 Homework

Writing-Finish 15 vocab words/sentences

Social Studies-p. 86+87 Review/Begin Study Guide
Set up "Pixton" account at: http://www.pixton.com/
Class Code: 4GYH-YM - COMIC DUE: Monday, February 9th
4GYH-YM
Type first and last name plus create your own screen name/password
AFTER SCHOOL NEWSPAPER LINK!
http://rio-pajaro-ca.schoolloop.com/file/1285481875305/1345278690040/1774149486409167011.pdf

See school website at http://www.riodelmar.pvusd.net

January 20-23rd

CLASS UPDATE-
5th Grade RTI-We continue reading The Fighting Ground by Avi, which is about a boy's experience in the Revolution after joining the militia. Our reading skills are still Sequence/Summarizing. We will read through p. 80 this week and their will be accompanying vocabulary.
Math-Common Core Math Module 4 begins-Multiplying and dividing fractions
History-5th Grade-Boston Massacre/Tea Party/battles of Lexington and Concord. We are learning to use Cornell Notes to comprehend the material with more depth.
Computers- We are doing an American Revolution digital newspaper. Click on the link to the right.
In addition, 5th graders are starting their Heritage Power Point Projects on Google Docs. They can continue them at home too.
Writing-We will begin our "How To Project"
MR. SWEET

HOMEWORK TUESDAY
Math L1-Homework
MLK Brainpop + Take/Return Quiz
Heritage Project
Study Spelling + Vocab.

HOMEWORK WEDNESDAY
Read 25 min.
Math L2-Homework
Typing Web-15 min.
Heritage Project
Study Spelling + Vocab.

THURSDAY HOMEWORK

Read 25 minutes

Do Math L3 Homework

Study for Vocab/Spelling/Reading quiz (Students should have read to p. 80 in book) Do so at home

Work on Heritage Project

Week of January 12th-16th

MONDAY HOMEWORK
Reading-NewsEla Article+Quiz
PRO/CON: Are federal school meal standards fit for consumption
Sign Planner with new AR Goal

Spelling-Study words/mistakes

Heritage Project

HOMEWORK TUESDAY
Reading-AR-25 minutes
Vocab-Learn words+Write a sentence
using them correctly-Due Friday 
Writing-Do Growth Mindset Handout
Heritage Project-
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3a0axpzoVtDbFpIdnM3RjlISFk/view
RETURN FIELD TRIP FORM WITH $7

HOMEWORK WEDNESDAY
Read 25 minutes-AR
Vocab.
History-p. 77  in wkbk -Sequence of Events
Heritage Project
RETURN FIELD TRIP FORM WITH $7

HOMEWORK THURSDAY
Read 25- Minutes
Study Fighting Ground(Through p. 40)
Study/Finish Vocab+Spelling
FIELD TRIP FORMS + $7
History-Finish p.78-80 in wkbk


CLASS UPDATE

Welcome back everybody! I hope you all had a wonderful break. I enjoyed rest,  family, celebrations, Lake Tahoe and band performances. I wanted to thank all of you who donated to my class gift to Bittersweet Bistro and Aptos Guitar. We went to breakfast twice over the break and I got strings for my bass at Aptos Guitar. The gift cards, treats and Corralitos Market certificate were put to good use, indeed. Here is a brief overview of our learning this week in Room 12:

Reading-Our 5th grade RTI groups have started reading The Fighting Ground, a book about the American Revolution and a young boy who fights for the Continental Army. This week our reading skill is sequence of events.

Mindsets-I will be teaching about the power of having a "growth mindset". Parents are welcome to watch the Ted Talk we will watch together at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN34FNbOKXc
This is a wonderful springboard for discussions at home and will certainly illuminate our parenting/coaching and teaching styles!

Math-We are reviewing fractions and playing math games this week to reinforce concepts previously taught in Common Core Math. Here is a math support link for parents:
http://www.cgcs.org/cms/lib/DC00001581/Centricity/Domain/36/ParentGuide_Math_5.pdf

MLK - This week and next week we are watching the "I have a Dream" and "Mountaintop" speech and discussing this amazing man and how he transformed this country.




Writing-We will be writing and discussing our New Year's Resolutions.

At home students will continue to work on the Heritage Project. I will be sharing a model of a written project and Powerpoint Portion along with all of the parts of the project using the Document Camera. Parents are welcome to come by and check out these to help support your child at home.





See you at the school where kind hearts and open minds rule.
Mr. Sweet