Miss Heinemann's School News
by Nicole Heinemann
News from Miss Heinemann's Class
5th Grade
Week at a glance...
Spelling Quiz on Thursday
Please return conference slips as soon as possible! I am asking that all students join you for the conference as they will be preparing some thoughts to share with you!
This week's focused reading skill: Summarizing using the strategy of repeated words!
This week's focused writing skill: Building layers and depth when writing about an idea/concept
Monday: Band assembly in the morning! Good luck to all band members on their evening performance! We will start Chapter 4 in social studies today as Explorer Presentations took a little longer than expected. We will go over our Science Quiz today.
Tuesday: Students will read Island of the Blue Dolphins (an excerpt from our Trophies series). We will be focusing on story elements as well as summarizing a fictional piece of text.
Wednesday:This week in science we will be exploring minerals, their properties, and how they are classified. Students will also take a few minutes to prepare some self-ratings to share with you during conferences!
Thursday: We will read Star of Fear, Star of Hope to begin thinking about World War II, the Holocaust, and the difficult decisions that had to be made during that era.
Friday:Miss Heinemann's math class will test over Chapter 8, multiplying decimals. Our class will engage in a powerful community meeting, continuing the theme from last week. We will focus on positive comments and relationships between community members. Students will engage in a science lab depicting building structure and what types might most be able to sustain the impact of an earthquake.
Enjoy your week off! Have a great Thanksgiving!
Other Notes & Ongoing Projects:
Each month I will choose
either a frgeuit or vegetable to discuss with the students. They
will learn about the fruit/vegetables health benefits and learn how
to make healthy, fun snacks with this food. I will provide the
ingredients, and the class will make one snack together! There will
be other recipes posted. If you have any recipes, please send them
to school as I will be collecting them all year long for a special
year end treat for each student!
This month's healthy food: BROCCOLI
Student Ambassadors: 
All the
students ambassadors from the first quarter did a wonderful job! A
new quarter has started and we have a new group of student
ambassadors. We will continue to meet during lunch on Wednesdays
and hold our community meetings on Friday afternoons. Each students
will be given an opportunity to participate in the program, and all
participation is voluntary! It is a opportunity to become involved,
develop leadership qualities, and build better community
relationships!
Other notes: Please have students to work on their math facts! We are diving into more complicated multiplication and division!
