Weekly Updates

Spring Pictures will be taken tomorrow.  It is also the beginning of Spirit Week.
Grammar is due tomorrow, Tuesday is the Social Studies Challenge, and on Wednesday students should have a copy of their completed Bibliography to be checked for changes.

Homework for this week on the iPads will be a Popplet for our new reading story.  Also an
Educreation will be made to explain the comprehension questions at the end
of the story.   These are the only assignments this week besides charging the iPad nightly.  The Educreation will be worked on at school, and will only be homework if it is not completed for Friday.

Have a great week.

Monday      Reflection Log Due  Hurricane

                   iMovie Due  /  Grammar Due

                                Spring Picture Day                   

Tuesday    Social Studies Challenge

Wednesday   Bibliography Check

Thursday    

Friday      Spelling Test / Books Due

                       Spirit of Endurance Packet Due

March 17 - Spring Picture Day

March 20     D97 Instrumental Music Festival

March 24     Spring Break until March 28

If you went to an iLearn meeting, checked in, signed the paperwork, your child will begin bringing their iPad home this week to be used only for homework assignments.  The assignments are app related, you should not see your child on the internet on any program this week unless they are on Thesaurus.com.  The only apps they should be using this week are Popplet, to finish their Hurricane vocabulary and, iMovie, to finish their movie on the story facts and questions. (The imovie will be worked on in class, so this really isn't homework unless they fall behind). You might be seeing them using Educreations, Showme, or Explain Everything, if they are working on late work for the story "Up in the Air" that was due last week.

Your child will be expected to come to school with a fully charged iPad EVERY day, so it will be a good idea if this BECOMES part of their daily homework.  Find one specific outlet in your home where the iPad is to be charged nightly, and we suggest it is not in your child's bedroom.  Just a tip, ipads charge faster in airplane mode.  As soon as I get the parent attendee list, iPads go home.  iPads WILL NOT be going home over spring break.  If you have any questions, please feel free to send me or Ms. Diehl an email.

Monday      Reflection Log Due                   

Tuesday     Last Notecard Check!

You should have about 100 notecards for your last notecard check

Adapted papers should have 50 notecards 

Wednesday  

Thursday   

Friday      Spelling Test / Books Due

                       Hurricane's Packet, Popplet, and iMovie are due

March 13 - Irving Technology Night 

March 17 - Spring Picture Day

March 20     D97 Instrumental Music Festival

March 24     Spring Break until March 28

Weekly UPdates

This coming week is ISAT testing.  Please make sure your child gets a good night sleep Monday through Wed. evening and a good breakfast in the morning before they come to school.  We will begin testing promptly at 8:30am each morning of testing, so please make sure your child is to school on time.  Once again please discuss the importance of this test with your child.

Thank you to the parents that donated healthy snacks for this week's testing.  I appreciate all you do for our classroom!

This Wednesday is the mandatory iLearn meeting in the Irving auditorium at 7pm.  If you cannot make this meeting, you are required to attend one of the other meetings for 5th grade parents given throughout the district. On Saturday I emailed each of you a flyer that included the dates of the other district iLearn meeting dates.

Have a great week.


Monday      Reflection Log Due                   
                              Greek/Latin Roots Practice Packet Due
Tuesday     ISAT Testing in AM                                 
Wednesday  ISAT Testing in AM
                                      
Thursday   ISAT Testing in AM

Friday      

March 3-7    ISAT Testing  Make ups will be given next week.
March 5       iLearn Parent Meeting  7-8pm in the auditorium
March 20     D97 Instrumental Music Festival

March 24     Spring Break until March 28

Weekly News

This week I sent each of you an email about the iLearn Parent Meeting. In order for your child to take an iPad home for assignments, you MUST attend one of the meeting listed, it does not have to be the one at Irving School. 

Grammar Books were due this past Friday.  A new grammar assignment will be given to the students on Monday.  This assignment will be be March 10.

The third NOTECARD CHECK is this Wednesday.  Please make sure your child brings their research bag to school and has all the items that need to checked.

New book discussion novels went home on Thursday, students need to be on their required page for this coming Thursday.

THANK YOU to each of you that helped with our classroom basket.  It was a huge success!  The Irving Fun Fair this year was a great time by all.

ISATs begin next week.  Please begin to discuss the importance of this test, and encourage them to take their time and do their best, as you prepare your child for this testing week.

Have a great week!

Monday      Reflection Log Due                   

Tuesday                                      

Wednesday  Notecard Check!

Thursday   Art sketches must be all up to date 

Friday   Spelling Test/Books Due  

Feb. 22          Irving Fun Fair

March 3-7    ISAT Testing

March 5       iPad Parent Meeting

March 20     D97 Instrumental Music Festival

March 24     Spring Break until March 28  

Tuesday is the science quiz on Swingers.  I will be trying something new with this quiz.  I am actually going to have the students take the quiz on their iPads in a program called Socrative.  I will be putting the paper form of this quiz up on my website as usual with the answers after all students have taken it.

My math students will take a short assessment on double digit divisors on Tuesday as well.  We will begin Unit 7 on Multiplying and Dividing Decimals on Wed.

The Irving Fun Fair is this Saturday.  Please come out and support our Irving PTO Fundraiser!

Have a great week!  Think Green!

Monday      No School                   

Tuesday     Reading Log Due       Notecard Check 

                   Science Quiz      Outdoor Ed journals DUE

Wednesday                                        

Thursday   Art Homework Due  Logo and Outer Space

Friday   Spelling Test/Books Due   Lesson4-2

Feb. 17        NO School        Presidents' Day

Feb. 18        2nd Notecard Check  

Feb. 22          Irving Fun Fair

March 3-7    ISAT Testing

March 5       iPad Parent Meeting

March 5       End of 2nd Trimester  (NEW Date!)