Wednesday, December 1st

Reading:  30 minutes

Yankee Candle Orders:  The company emailed to let us know that the warehouse is behind and they will shipped as soon as they can.  I will let you know when I hear anything and then email you with pick up time options.  Thanks!

Moodle:  This is a way for us to talk about books via computer.  This is a closed blog only accessible by our 5th grade students. 

moodle.ghaps.org
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Monday, November 15th

Camp:
1.  Pack brown bag lunch for tomorrow
2.  Be prepared for weather (gloves, hat, raingear,etc.)
3.  Doors open at 7 a.m.
4.  Garbage bag gear and label with masking tape

Thursday, November 11

Veteran's Day!

Reading:  30 minutes

Math: Math packet 83 and 84

Camp packing list and Camp news note went home today to those students who turned in their health form/high ropes permission

Wednesday, November 10th

Math:  pages 81 and 82

Reading:  30 minutes

Camp:  Please return the health form and sign the High Ropes permission.  When student bring this back, we give them their packing list and cabin assignments.  

Holiday Food Drive:  Search your pantries for items to donate:  canned veggies, canned fruits, soups, cereal, rice/potatoes

Monday, November 1st

Math:  separate sheets on rounding numbers - not in the workbook

Reading:  30 minutes

Reminder that there is a 1/2 day on Wednesday and not school for Thursday and Friday.

Wednesday, October 27

Reading:  30 minutes tonight

Math: 61-62

Halloween Party on Friday! 

Tuesday, October 26

Reading:  Read 30 minutes tonight

Math:  pages 59-60

Costume Fashion Show Friday during our party! 

Monday, October 25th

Reading:  30 minutes

Math: Pages 53 & 54 - Mini quiz tomorrow

Picture Day on Wednesday

Thursday, October 22

Read for 30 minutes

Math:  pages 51-52 due Monday

Fundraiser due tomorrow!

October 19th

Reading: Please read for 30 minutes tonight, think about your characters and how your are growing ideas about your characters.  How is your character feeling right now?  What else is going on in the scene?  What theories do you have about your characters?

Pick one food and look up the number of grams of sugar.  You can use the food label on the food, or look it up at school on the internet.  This is for Friday.

Friday is the end of the Yankee Candle Sale.  Please turn in order forms and money by then.

Friday, October 15

Go Bucs!  Last home game tonight against East Kentwood.

Reading:  Do some thinking this weekend about what you see as you read.  Do you see pictures? a movie? or are you there, in the scene with your characters.  Do some writing about your "envisionment".

Reminder that math is due Monday and social studies test on Monday.  Meaps continue on Tuesday and Wednesday

Thursday, October 14

Reading:  read for 30 minutes

Math:  pages 47-48

Social Studies:  Test on Monday.  Study guide sent home today with all materials.

Wednesday, October 13th

Meaps are over for the week!  Back to a regular schedule for Thursday and Friday.

Reading:  30 minutes

Reminders:
* turn in Square One Art!
* Box Top Collection
* Yankee Candle payment is due at the time you take the orders

Reading:  30 minutes

**Reminder to wear something from your favorite sports team.  If that would be the Spartans, then don't wear it.  You won't be allowed in the classroom.  (Just kidding)

Wednesday, October 6th

Math: Pages 43 and 44

Reading: Read 20 minutes

Fun Friday! Free Popcorn and dress like your favorite sports team.

Tuesday, October 5

Reading: Read for 30 minutes. Don't forget to log it in your reading journal

Math: Pgs. 41-42

Reminders:

Please email me or return the permission note for kids to sell Yankee Candles! (millera@ghaps.org)

Camp payment can come in anytime for those who WILL NOT be using the fundraiser. Please write a check to Peach Plains 5th grade for $52.00

Monday, October 4

Dates:
10/7 Domino's Doughraiser Night
10/8 Fun Friday - Free popcorn and dress in your favorite team/sport gear

Math: pgs. 39 and 40

Reading: 30 minutes, be sure to log in your minutes/pages

Happy Homecoming!

Reading: read for 30 minutes

For fun: comiclife.com
You can download the demo for free (with parent permission!)

Thursday, September 30th

Math: pages 37,38

Reading: Reading for 30 minutes, write down what you need to hold on to for the next time you read.
(Just like today)

Happy Almost Friday! Homecoming for GHAPS. Please consider wearing the temporary tatoo!

Wednesday, September 29th

S.C.O.R.E. party Friday. Choose between craft, kick ball and chess. Good work on keeping yourself safe and on task!

Math: pgs 35-36

Reading: 30 minutes

Social studies: Watched parts of "Journey to 10,000 B.C." from the History Channel

Tuesday, September 28th

Math: NO homework

Reading: 30 minutes, 2 sticky notes for thinking

Craft on Friday: Please bring in 3-5 colorful leaves

Monday, September 27th

Social Studies: Test tomorrow, first without notes/textbook, then an opportunity to use notes/textbook. Use study guide to help you focus your study time. Talk yourself through each bulleted item.

Math: Test tomorrow

Reading: 20 minutes goal

Writing: First story draft must be complete!

Have a great night!

Friday, September 24th

Reading: 30 minutes over the weekend

Social Studies Test Tuesday!

No math homework

Square One Art goes home today. Please read Note sent home with it.

Thursday, September 23

Social Studies: Test Tuesday, as study guide will go home on Monday.

Math: Kids had a quiz today, no homework for Monday!

Writing: Drafting is finished, we work on endings tomorrow.

Reading: Please read 30 minutes or more tonight. Remember that 5th graders should be able to read and finish one book a week or more depending on the size.

Wednesday, September 22

PTA Updates:
*Wesco Popcorn Buckets for sale - $8.00
*Join PTA
*October 11th is first box tops collection

Math: pgs. 25-26

Reading: Try to hit the 30 minutes mark tonight.

Social Studies: Continent drawing with 7 physical features due Thursday.

Tuesday, Septembe 21st

Reading: I think our readers are ready for 30 minutes a night. We are working on thinking deeply about what we read and making good book chocies. We looked at Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com to help us find titles we may want to read.

Math: see attached sheet pg. 23/24

Social Studies: create a continent with at least 7 different physical features, due tomorrow

Writing: Each writer need at least 2 different opening for their story. These should be written in their notebook.

Have a great night!

Friday, September 17th

PTA Little Caesers Fundraiser is coming home today. Ends October 8th.

Camp Pendalouan Details:
1. November 16th - 17th
2. Cost $52.00 (Fundraiser available)
3. Chaperones Needed! Please email if available - millera@ghaps.org

Homework
1. Math
2. Read 25 minutes

It was great meeting many of you at Open House last night. If you were not able to make it, please feel free to call or stop in with any questions.

Thursday, September 16th

Open House Tonight!!!!!! Hope to see you there.

Reading: 25 minutes tonight

Math: p. 19 & 20 due Monday

Wednesday, September 15

Math: 17 & 18

Reading: Share with parents the results of your 10 minutes reading rate.

Homework: Enjoy the sunshine!

Tuesday, September 14th

We had another great day! I am sure I have the sweetest class in the whole school, just ask them.

Homework:

Reading: 25 minutes tonight, make sure to write down start/stop pages in planner

Math: pages 15 and 16

Writing: Need 7 or more ideas generating in our notebooks

Reminder: Open House on Thursday
Relay for Life Donations

Monday, September 13th

We didn't get much reading time today. Kids should read 25 minutes and write down their start/stop page in their planner.

Math homework is pages 13 and 14.

Reminder that Open House is Thursday!

Friday, Spetember 10

Please read 20 minutes tonight and try to get in another 20 over the weekend. Of course, you can read more! We are up to 30 minutes of reading stamina (some even more than that!).

Parents have some math homework due Monday.

Open House is Thursday, September 16th. We meet at 7:00 in the classroom. PARENTS ONLY!

Thursday, September 9th

Kids are coming home with a little math quiz for parents. Good Luck with that! Our goal is 20 minutes for reading tonight.

Happy Birthday to McKenna Keefe tomorrow!

Wednesday, September 8th

Kids should be reading a book, magazine, newspaper etc. at home for at least 15 minutes.  They should bring that book or other reading material to school the next day.  They will read it during Reader's Workshop.  Some kids have selected books from our classroom library.  These should also come back to school each day!

Writer's Workshop:  Some kids may want to bring in pictures, drawings, etc . to personalize their writer's notebook

Parents, please initial or sign your child's planner.  If you would like to jot me a note in the planner, I will check it each morning.

Thanks!!!
millera@ghaps.org

First Day of School Yee Ha!!!!

Thanks for sending such great kids to Peach Plains today.  We had a wonderful time together.  Here are some important pieces of info:

1.  Open House is September 16th.  A rep from Camp Pendalouan will be there to talk about our camp trip.

2.  Kids are personalizing their writer's notebooks.  They can bring things to school to work on it Wednesday and Thursday.

3.  Student need to think of a HOME RUN book that really turned them into readers.

See you all tomorrow.  Go to bed early!!!

Welcome to 5th Grade!!!!!

Hello Peach Plains Panther!  I am so glad to have all of you in our class this year.  Using this Blog, I hope we can talk to each other about "all things Panther important!"  Check back weekly for Homework Updates and other fun.

March 26, 2010

Upcoming Events:

April 1st         Pajama Day 

April 2 - 11     Spring Break

April 22 - May 6   Mrs. Miller out for surgery, Miss Estafan subbing

April 28th       5th Graders to White Pines

May 4th         White Pines Parent Night Meeting, 7:00 p.m.

May 5th         Non student day - Teacher Professional Development

May 13th       Peach Plains Graduation at White Pines

May 26th       Field Day at Lakeshore Middle School

Janaury 29th

We are so excited to have a student teacher here from Aquinas College.  Chelsea Estafan with be here until after spring break. 

Math Quiz on Monday.  Mr. Klanderman had a study group meeting today to help those who still have questions.

Our colony simulation has ended.  Students will be writing a journal entry on Monday explaining a day in the life of a colonist.

The Lightning Thief is over, but the good news is there is a movie coming on out February 13th.  Our focus in reading switches to informational text.  Kids will be reading many different types of informational text and learning different ways to determine what is important.  At home, we expect kids to continue to read other genres.  Check the planner on Monday for new reading goals.

We finished our Personal Essays.  Our class will be celebrating on Monday.  On Wednesday we begin a new unit focused on writing fiction.  Kids are really looking forward to this.

We are in need of hot chocolate donations.  We are all out!

January 15th

Can you believe it is the middle of January already?  Here is a little update on classroom work, news and dates to remember:

Writing:  We are looking to publish our personal essays on January 30th.  Ask your child to explain his/her thesis statement.  There are some interesting ones out there.  My thesis is:  Watching sports brings people together.

Reading:  We are just about finished with The Lighning Thief by Rick Riordan.  We are working on tracking how the main character, Percy Jackson, changes over the course of the book.  The movie based on this book comes out February 13th.

Social Studies:  The kids are very excited.  We have just begun a Colony Simulation.  Kids set sail on Monday.  Hopefully, there will be no storms to sink any of our ships.

Math:  Kids continue to work with fractions.  They had a short quiz today to help Mr. Klanderman see if there are any challenges out there that need more practice.

Science:  Our class continues to work on measuring movement by doing experiments using a stop watch.

**January 25th is a NON STUDENT day.  Teachers are working on curriculum on that date.