Important Dates & Reminders

September 1 and 4: Student Holiday, no school

September 7: Back to School Night

September 25: Student Holiday, no school

Language Arts

What We Learned This Past Month

Reading: 

• We began learning to be a community of readers. 
• We listened to a variety of texts and discussed point of view, preferences, and specific genres of choice.
• We practiced skills that will be used in book clubs in September.

Writing: 

• We wrote First Day Jitter reactions to starting 5th grade.
• We wrote “Wanted a Friend” - a paragraph about what the writer wants in a good friend.
• Some students began writing pen pal letters to 5th graders in Florida, while others are preparing to be reading buddies with our preschool students down the hall.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

Reading: 

• We will make connections with characters to develop theories about characters’ motivations, relationships, and conflict.  
• We will consider multiple points of view within a text.
• We will expand our thinking by hearing the perspectives of other readers in the classroom and build on ideas in our discussions. 

Writing: 

• We will write memoirs which are true stories from the writer’s life.  We will use these stories to communicate a lesson or reflection the author has learned through his or her experience.

Math

What We Learned This Past Month

• We will learn to tell the difference between prime and composite numbers
• We will learn how to differentiate between even and odd

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

• We will round decimals through thousandths, rounding to the nearest whole number, tenth, or hundredth.
• We will learn to recognize the name of fractions in their equivalent decimal form and vice versa as well as understanding repeating decimals.
• We will learn how to compare and order fractions, mixed numbers, and/or decimals from least to greatest and greatest to least.

Advanced Math

What We Learned This Past Month

Students Learned: 

• How to represent relationships between quantities using ratios, and will use appropriate notations.
• How to represent and determine equivalencies among fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and percents.
• How to determine the unit rate of a proportional relationship and use it to find a missing value in a ratio table. 

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

Students are learning:

•  to multiply and divide fractions and mixed numbers
• To solve single-step and multistep practical problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions and mixed numbers.
• To solve multistep practical problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals.

Science

What We Learned This Past Month

Students learned

• What it means to be a scientist and work collaboratively with other scientists to solve problems. 
• Students were introduced to Force, Motion, and Energy and looked at examples of these in the real world.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

We will start our unit about Force and Motion! 

Students are learning:

• To investigate and understand that there is a relationship between force and energy of moving objects.
• To understand that the conservation of energy resources is important
• How to investigate to understand that energy can take many forms.
• To demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering processes

Social Studies

What We Learned This Past Month

Students Learned: 

• About digital citizenship, how to use the school device properly with respect and responsibility
• Student Rights and Responsibilities throughout the school and in the classroom

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

Students are learning:

• Patriot’s Day, remembering September 11
• Constitution Day

Portrait of a Graduate & Concepts

What We Learned This Past Month

Students Learned: 

Portrait of Graduate Skill:  Communicator

• Students learned that they speak so that others can understand them - this was practiced in Morning Meeting and Language Arts
• Students learned that they write to express opinions and ideas - this was practiced in Language Arts, sharing written ideas about First Day Jitters and good friend character traits.

Concept Skill: Systems

• Students learned that TLES is a system, each classroom is a system, the cafeteria is a system
• They are learning that there are systems all around the school, their homes and community.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

Students are learning:

Portrait of Graduate Skill:  Communicator

• Students will learn that they are communicators in Math and Science too.
• They will continue to practice sharing ideas with one another in all subject areas.
• Students will continue to use written communication to express opinions and ideas in Math and Science.

Concept Skill: Systems

• Students will discover the many systems that exist in Math, Science and Language Arts.