Progress Reports, Survey and Carnival

Hello All, Progress Reports go home today along with graded work. Any grades of 75 or lower can be corrected and turned in. What I have noticed, is that many of the 5th Graders have "Senioritis" and are starting to take short cuts with their work and sometimes need reminders to continue to do their best and use the strategies needed to do their best. If you are concerned about your student's grade/s, please feel free to e-mail me. I have told students that these are Progress Reports and it is there to give students and parents time to progress and monitor progress. Carnival is May the 5th from 10 until 2:00. Our classroom booth is the Mechanical Bull and we will need parent volunteers to work at the booth. The times are from 9:00 until 3:00 with one hour shifts changing on the hour. We need two volunteers per shift so that everything runs smoothly. There is a sign up sheet on our classroom door and you are welcome to come in and sign up or you can e-mail me and I will write your name on the sign up (first come, first serve). Ashley Malone is our first volunteer and she will be working a 10:00-11:00 shift, thank you Ashley! Last, but not least, Mrs. Graves has the following message and survey link: Parent Survey Open Parents, its that time again! Tell us how we are doing. We want your feedback as we begin planning for the 2012-13 school year. This is your chance to be heard. Please complete the online survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/robertsparents no later than May 4th! Thank you for everything, Carol Rivers

Blog Updates for April 17th

Two STAAR Tests finished and one more to go. As we approach our Science STAAR Test on Thursday, the 26th of next week, we are preparing with additional Science Labs with Mrs. Savarese. We will go to Science Lab each day this week and cover the more difficult Science concepts for review. We continue to review in class as well. We Tested for water retention in different types of soil yesterday and today discuss inherited versus learned traits, including behaviors.

Thank you to all of you who were able to volunteer to chaperone our Arboretum field trip. As some of you know, if you were approved through VIPS last year, you still need to update to be current for this year. We will have a 5th grade field trip to Regal Ranch on May the 24th and some other 5th grade activities on campus. If you are at all interested in chaperoning, please check with the office to be sure you are current with your VIPS status.

Stanford testing will be the week of May the 7th and have testing each morning. You can keep this in mind when scheduling any needed appointments so that students do not miss any testing. We know that it is sometimes unavoidable.

REMINDER- 12:00 Dissmissal tomorrow and there will be no extended day

Social Studies/IB Unit of Inquiry-

We have finished up Urbanization and have moved on to World War I, The Great Depression and the Roaring Twenties. We will be covering mapping skills starting next week. This will help in our review for Stanford.

Reading-

Book Clubs continue with a focus on Reading Comprehension strategies and Literary Devices (alliteration, meaphor, paradox, imagery, personification, understatement, hyperbole, simile, foreshadowing, onomatopoeia and rhyme). Modeling and think alouds are done through our classroom read aloud.

Math-

We have covered all of the 5th Grade Curriculum for Math. We are currently covering and reviewing 5th Grade and beyond for Geometric figures. Extensions to 6th grade are covered in area and circumference of a circle and cylinders. We will be meeting for Math on Thursday only of this week, so student will probably not be coming home with Math homework this week.

Roberts Idol-

Students interested in auditioning for Roberts Idol have been signing up with Mrs. Audi at recess time and auditions will be held on May the 1st and May the 3rd after school. If your student has not let you know, they should know when their audition is.


Carnival will be Saturday, May the 5th from 10-2:00. Can't wait to see you there.

Ms. Rivers