Book Order

If you are interested in placing a book order (they came home in your child's Tuesday folder), please return to Miss Michel by next Tuesday (Septemeber 4th). You may also order online at :https://orders.scholastic.com/GRWLL. Our class activation code is: GRWLL Thank you!

Testing, testing, oh my!

Tis the season for... testing! Our class will be taking our NWEA tests on September 4th (Tuesday), September 5th (Wednesday), and September 6th (Thursday). We will be taking the tests first thing in the morning, so please make sure your child is at school on time. Our class will also be completing the 5th grade Writing Assessmnet on September 12th and 13th. Thank you in advance for sending your child to school well rested and well feed (and most importantly well loved). :)

Unit 1 Spelling Words

frantic, closet, grasp, crush, direct, promise, blister, fund, vanish, breath, stingy, comic, bundle, solid, energy, swift, a lot, until, our, it's

Next Week's Agenda

What a great first three days together! I look forward to our first FULL week together next week. Here is what we will be learning about next week (August 27th - 31st): Reading: Lead 21 Week 1. Our theme in reading this week will be "Common Ground: What brings people together?" We will also learn about determining an author's purpose and determining important information while reading. Language: We will be studying the meaning of different prefixes and talking about synonyms and antonyms of our theme vocabulary words. Spelling: Short Vowels Science: We will begin our first unit: Populations and Ecosystems. Social Studies: We will be reviewing our map skills by completing four different Geography Challenges! Fun! Math: We will be learning about Bar Graphs, Line Graphs, Circle Graphs, and Stem and Leaf plots (all in Chapter 5 of our textbooks). Hopefully we will have time to start our surveys, which will allow us to create our own graph!

Welcome back!

I simply cannot believe the day has arrived: the much anticipated first day of school! I am so excited to spend another year with this amazing group of students. We are going to learn a bunch and have tons of fun along the way. On the first day of school, a plethora of papers will be coming home in need of your signature(s). Returning these in a timely manner would be greatly appreciated. As always, please feel free to contact me via phone (281-6393), email (michelw@billingsschools.org), or appointment with any questions, concerns, or feedback. It is going to be a fabulous year! Thank you for raising such wonderful kids and sharing them with me for another year! :)

Needed

Our classroom is in need of disinfecting wipes. Any donations would be greatly appreciated! :)

August & September Dates

August 8th - Main Office Open 8th - New Student Enrollment 12th - Class Lists Post 15th - Lunch tickets, bus tickets, and planners can be purchased 20th - Meet at Greet (bring school supplies) 4:45-5:45 22nd - First day of school :) September 3rd - No School 14th - Carnival @ 5:30 20th - Open House from 6:00-7:00

Unit 31 Spelling Words

Basic Words: enter, banner, sugar, shower, motor, collar, labor, finger, mirror, beggar, favor, bother, fever, doctor, temper, actor, polar, master, traitor, whenever

Challenge Words: calendar, error, popular, barrier, director

Unit 27 Spelling Words

Basic Words: poster, secret, whether, author, rocket, bushel, agree, bucket, ticket, declare, chicken, clothing, apron, whiskers, degree, gather, achieve, rather, bracket, machine

Challenge Words: regret, nephew, method, decline, vibrate

MontCAS

Just a reminder that we will be taking our MontCAS tests on Tuesday, March 13th - Friday, March 16th

Unit 26 Spelling Words

Basic Words: dentist, final, finish, narrow, shelter, ahead, corner, hollow, divide, famous, recent, silver, capture, diner, dinner, minus, minute, value, reward, broken

Challenge Words: decent, secure, standard, frontier, stampede