Thursday, August 29, 2019
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Dear Parents, Hello and welcome to 5th grade! I hope this week has been going well and everyone is getting into the routine of school life again! I am glad to be back with the kids. I had a great summer, but am ready for a routine. I do my blog on Wednesdays and will post it to Facebook as well. The blog you receive will come to your email on Thursday mornings. I think it shows up really early. On here, I will keep you informed of things we are doing in our subject areas and I will let you know of upcoming events whether they are happening in our room or in the school.
Reading- This week they started with a pretest. This just gives me an idea of their basic skills. We will start our first story on Thursday. We have a weird schedule since we started on a Friday and next week is only 4 days. Normally, we do a story a week. So...this week they will have their spelling pretest on Thursday, and I will give them their post test in spelling next Thursday. I am spreading the work out for the next week. We will continue to take the weekly tests online. That will happen next Friday. They will do vocabulary words each week. I tend to change how they do those each week. They won't start with bonus words in spelling. I base that off their first few weeks of their pretest scores. I will let your child know if they will be getting them. I will also shorten the lists for the post tests for those I see who really struggle.
Handwriting-- we don't have a handwriting book. In my room they write in cursive for all subjects except math. There will be times I tell them to write in print. This cursive writing is their handwriting book in a way. They will do it everyday!
Technology- On Monday I got them on their chrome books and we bookmarked Google Classroom and Quizlet. I can use Google Classroom when I have a class wide assignment that I want them to do or if there is a link I want all of them to go to online. I believe they will use it with Mrs. Sickels as well because their Iowa history class is online now, it is no longer in print. Quizlet I use in reading. I post their vocabulary and spelling words there. They can get on it during their free time to practice knowing both!
Spirit Day- The first one is this Friday! The students can pay $1 for wearing sweats or a hat or both! The cost is only $1 even if they do both! 😁 The money we raise will be helping to STM families. 💙💛
Substitute- I will be gone next Wednesday afternoon. I will be going to a PLC meeting in Des Moines for the religion teachers. Mrs. Cline will also be going. This is our face to face meeting, but every month I will attend the meeting online. This will only be once a month that we do this and only in the afternoons.
Back to School Picnic- Next Wednesday, Sept. 4 from 6-7. There will be a flyer going home in folders with more information on it! I believe each family brings a dish! Look at the flyer for the details!
DEAR Time- I am currently reading the book called Because of Mr. Terupt. I read it last year for the first time. It is a wonderful book. I told your kids they would love it! Today I think they finally caught the hook! It is a 5th grade classroom and there are about 5-7 kids. They tell the story from their own point of view. Today my kids figured out that all of these kids come from backgrounds that aren't all happy. That life can be tough for different reasons. Right now they all dislike/ hate Alexia. She is pretty much a bully. There are three books in the series. I will read them all to them! They will watch the class grow. Your kids are very involved in the book and making their own predictions and judgments about it. I LOVE IT!!! This is probably my favorite part of the day!
Preschool lunch- Lesha showed them what they would do every day. There will be two people who go every day for a week. The next week its two more. They have two carts they will take down and bring back. We did tell them this was my idea...that I thought they could handle the task. We did also tell them that there be no messing around or they are off the list to help out. I have badges they will wear on the job. There is a schedule made out for the entire year. If they don't like doing it, they can let me know and I will readjust it. I think they are pretty excited.
Mass- Just so you know now, Father Adam is going to Europe in September. He has a sub priest coming in on the 18th and 25th. Those mass times we are going to move to 9:30 so that priest can get here. The 5th grade mass is on Sept. 18.
It has been a good week! I think we are establishing some routines to our day! I hope everyone has a great weekend and enjoys the 3 days off. I plan on sticking around and doing some work here at school, but also head to Des Moines for some shopping! I know it's the big ISU vs UNI game and with that I will say.... GO PANTHERS!!!! 💜💛💜
God Bless,
Miss Surma
Reading- This week they started with a pretest. This just gives me an idea of their basic skills. We will start our first story on Thursday. We have a weird schedule since we started on a Friday and next week is only 4 days. Normally, we do a story a week. So...this week they will have their spelling pretest on Thursday, and I will give them their post test in spelling next Thursday. I am spreading the work out for the next week. We will continue to take the weekly tests online. That will happen next Friday. They will do vocabulary words each week. I tend to change how they do those each week. They won't start with bonus words in spelling. I base that off their first few weeks of their pretest scores. I will let your child know if they will be getting them. I will also shorten the lists for the post tests for those I see who really struggle.
Handwriting-- we don't have a handwriting book. In my room they write in cursive for all subjects except math. There will be times I tell them to write in print. This cursive writing is their handwriting book in a way. They will do it everyday!
Technology- On Monday I got them on their chrome books and we bookmarked Google Classroom and Quizlet. I can use Google Classroom when I have a class wide assignment that I want them to do or if there is a link I want all of them to go to online. I believe they will use it with Mrs. Sickels as well because their Iowa history class is online now, it is no longer in print. Quizlet I use in reading. I post their vocabulary and spelling words there. They can get on it during their free time to practice knowing both!
Spirit Day- The first one is this Friday! The students can pay $1 for wearing sweats or a hat or both! The cost is only $1 even if they do both! 😁 The money we raise will be helping to STM families. 💙💛
Substitute- I will be gone next Wednesday afternoon. I will be going to a PLC meeting in Des Moines for the religion teachers. Mrs. Cline will also be going. This is our face to face meeting, but every month I will attend the meeting online. This will only be once a month that we do this and only in the afternoons.
Back to School Picnic- Next Wednesday, Sept. 4 from 6-7. There will be a flyer going home in folders with more information on it! I believe each family brings a dish! Look at the flyer for the details!
DEAR Time- I am currently reading the book called Because of Mr. Terupt. I read it last year for the first time. It is a wonderful book. I told your kids they would love it! Today I think they finally caught the hook! It is a 5th grade classroom and there are about 5-7 kids. They tell the story from their own point of view. Today my kids figured out that all of these kids come from backgrounds that aren't all happy. That life can be tough for different reasons. Right now they all dislike/ hate Alexia. She is pretty much a bully. There are three books in the series. I will read them all to them! They will watch the class grow. Your kids are very involved in the book and making their own predictions and judgments about it. I LOVE IT!!! This is probably my favorite part of the day!
Preschool lunch- Lesha showed them what they would do every day. There will be two people who go every day for a week. The next week its two more. They have two carts they will take down and bring back. We did tell them this was my idea...that I thought they could handle the task. We did also tell them that there be no messing around or they are off the list to help out. I have badges they will wear on the job. There is a schedule made out for the entire year. If they don't like doing it, they can let me know and I will readjust it. I think they are pretty excited.
Mass- Just so you know now, Father Adam is going to Europe in September. He has a sub priest coming in on the 18th and 25th. Those mass times we are going to move to 9:30 so that priest can get here. The 5th grade mass is on Sept. 18.
It has been a good week! I think we are establishing some routines to our day! I hope everyone has a great weekend and enjoys the 3 days off. I plan on sticking around and doing some work here at school, but also head to Des Moines for some shopping! I know it's the big ISU vs UNI game and with that I will say.... GO PANTHERS!!!! 💜💛💜
God Bless,
Miss Surma
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