Curriculum Night!

Tonight is Curriculum Night for 5th grade!!

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at 7 pm! 

Weekly Update 8/26

Happy Saturday!  I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful weather!  Here is what we were up to during our first full week of 5th grade...

Science:  In science we started setting up our science notebooks and began talking about observations.  We went outside and observed objects in nature on Friday and will continue our conversations about the different types of observations we can make, this coming week.


Reading: We kicked off our first unit by writing our year-long reading goals.  We discussed the importance of reflecting on ourselves as readers in order to write a realistic goal.  We will be diving deeper into our unit this coming week.


Writing:  We took our writing pre-assessment by writing a personal narrative.  Yesterday we began talking about strategies we can use to think of a really good personal narrative story that we can focus on throughout this writing unit.  Some of those strategies were thinking of an important person in your life or thinking of the first/ last time you did something.


Math:  We started chapter one by reviewing place value and also practiced using standard and word form for numbers into the millions.  We also learned about expanded notation!

Here is a quick video that explains the difference between expanded form and expanded notation: Expanded Form vs. Expanded Notation


It was a busy and fun week!  I'm looking forward to another great week!

Upcoming Events:

(Thursday) 8/31: 5th grade curriculum night @ 7 PM

Sincerely,

Mrs. Holtmann

We had a blast decorating our writing notebooks today! We can't wait to fill them with our wonderful writing!

Today we did a Book Frenzy where we got to know the books in our classroom library! :)

What an amazing day!

Wow!  What a wonderful, fun day!  Although I don't have pictures, I promise it was a day we won't ever forget!  We started off the day by rotating through the 5th  grade classrooms.  We did lots of different eclipse activities!  Then we went outside to actually view the eclipse and we finished the day by rewriting the lyrics to Total Eclipse of the Heart (SUN).

Today the kiddos wrote our class mission statement! We are all set for an amazing year!

Mrs. Holtmann’s Class Mission

Our mission is to have fun and be productive while being  respectful and listening to others. We will work our hardest and not give up when things are challenging. We will be responsible by participating in all activities.

Second Day of School Photo!

Here is our Second Day of School photo!  With all of the excite me yesterday, we forgot to take a picture!  I'm looking forward to a wonderful year!