Weekly Update 5th Grade

Welcome fifth grade Park Street students! We're excited about our upcoming year!

We strive to create an environment that helps our students to meet their highest potential.

Please read our newsletter each week to get important updates and reminders.

In ELA class students chose one important power word to reflect learning or personal goals for the year! Students also practiced persuasive writing techniques using the OREO format! Fifth graders enoyed eating oreo cookies for inspiration!

Cup stack and human knot team building activities are pictured below. Students also formed rectangular prisms!

• Aug. 14 - OPEN HOUSE, 5:00-7:00 p.m
• 🍩Aug. 15 - Donut Day!
• Sept. 1st - Labor Day, No school
• Sept. 22-26, FALL BREAK, No school

Students may bring water bottles, but please ensure that they are spill-proof! Classroom temperature sometimes is difficult to control, so you may want to bring a sweater or jacket.

Teachers will be using Classroom Dojo to communicate with parents and send important updates. Teachers also use Classroom DoJo to send quick text messages when needed.

Weekly Communication Folders are sent home each Thursday, to be returned on Friday. Homework is coming home this week. Teachers will be sending guidelines and due dates in folders!

Math - Students will be studying area, perimeter, volume, and review multiplication facts. Students that can recite all math facts will be able to "pie Mr. Soto in the face!"

Science - We are learning about Earth changes over time including constructive and destructive forces

ELA - Students are choosing a class mascot to represent the community spirit of fifth grade. Students will express their choice of mascot using an opinon writing formative and employing argumentative techniques. The essays will be read collectively and students will participate in the election process to select the best candidate for grade level mascot!

Math- Students will continue the unit in math focusing on area, perimeter, and volume! Keep working on multiplication facts!

Science- Students will continue to learn about constructive and deconstructive forces!

ELA - We will begin module one in the New Wit & Wisdom curriculum. Fifth Grade Module 1, "A Cultural Perspective," helps students explore what it means to belong to a culture and how beliefs and values guide actions. Through studying U.S. westward expansion and its impact on the Nez Perce tribe, students learn about cultural conflicts and the losses Native Americans faced. They will read the historical novel Thunder Rolling in the Mountains and analyze Chief Joseph's "Lincoln Hall Speech" to understand and write about how cultural values shape people's actions. Specifically next week, students will review the impact of Lewis & Clark's exploration along with the term "cultural values." We will be closely examining the process of identifying "main idea" along with summarization skills.

Arrival / Dismissal

Change of Transportation

If there is a change in transportation arrangements, we require notice from the parent before allowing students to be transported by anyone other than a parent. You may send in a note with your child or email parkstreet@marietta-city.org with the details of the change. We do not allow students to walk or to ride home with unauthorized people.

At dismissal time bus riders will be put on the school bus unless a parent is present for pick-up, or the parent has notified the school office of another arrangement.

Students are not permitted to change buses to ride home with friends without a note from their parent. Please make arrangements for your child before he/she comes to school. If you must make a change during the day, notify the school office staff before 2:30 p.m.

Pick-up by Car in the Afternoon

Anyone picking up a child must have his/her Panther Car Tag. If you do not have a Panther Car Tag, you may get one at Sneak-A-Peek or by coming to the front office.

Please do not park across the street and have your child designated as a “walker”.

This is extremely dangerous, and teachers on duty will stop children crossing the street

unescorted by a parent or adult. If you need to come into the building, please park in a parking space.

Tardy Drop-Off

When a student arrives late (after 8:30), an adult must sign the student in at the office.

Early Pick-Up

Please limit early pick-up of children to emergencies and appointments. If a child is out for any portion of the school day, the missed time is recorded as a tardy. A note sent in the morning will help us to have your child ready. To avoid interruptions to instruction, no student

will be released between 2:45 and 3:15. Parents will be asked to wait for the dismissal bell. Come to the office to check out a student. Please be prepared to present photo identification upon request. No student will be released to an unknown or unauthorized person.

Late Pick-Up

Students waiting to be picked up will be supervised until 3:30. After 3:30 they may be sent to the After School Program if they are pre-registered ($10 fee). Regular after school charges will apply. Many parents sign up for the program so their children can attend in case of emergency.