Weekly Update 5th Grade

We're excited about our year ahead in fifth grade!

We strive to create an environment that helps our students to meet their highest potential.

Please read our newsletter each week to get important updates and reminders.

• Sept. 6 - Grandparents Day Lunch

• Sept.12 - Progress Reports Go Home

• Sept. 19 - Fall Picture Day
• Sept. 20th - DONUT DAY 🍩
  
• Sept. 23-27, FALL BREAK, No school
• October 4th - Famous Hispanic Heritage Month Posters turned in, more info coming in the Panther Roar in September!
  
• October 10 - Hispanic Heritage Celebration PTA mtg #2, 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the gym
• Oct. 14-18, Conference Week, school dismisses at 1:15 p.m.

• Students must be pre-registered for after school program for Conference Week.

• October 28- Nov. 1- STARBASE (more information forthcoming)

Please provide your child with a set of headphones or earbuds for school. Students need headphones to plug into their chromebook to complete a variety of assignments that require the student to listen to lessons. You can even find earbuds at the dollar tree or affordable headphones at Walmart or Target! It is better for students to have their personal set due to health reasons to minimize the spread of illness.

This week students have been taking the MAP test in reading, math, and science. In ELA students have been analyzing writing from last week, reflecting with peers, and utilizing an editing checklist to make corrections and revisions. Students read about the Nez Perce culture, work together in peer groups to construct meaning, participate in comprehension deep dives, and consult glossaries to determine unknown words. In math students are completing their unit test covering volume. In science, students began their study of weathering.

Students created posters highlighting cultural backgrounds. We are studying how cultural beliefs and values guide people during our Wit & Wisdom unit entitled, "Cultures in Conflict." Enjoy some of our student's beautiful artwork! Artists in order include Cassidy, Leslie, Monserrat, Elvin, Matthew, Amgie, and Jaxson.

Math - We will begin unit two, building conceptual understanding of place value using measurement and data reasoning. Continue to work on multiplication facts and area models for multiplication.

Science --We will be learning more about Earth’s Changing Surface. This week we will discuss how Earth’s crust is made up of moving pieces called, tectonic plates. The places where these plates touch volcanos can be created. Volcanoes can cause immediate changes to Earth’s surface when they erupt. We will also be discussing how volcanoes can be destructive and constructive.

Words to Know:

• Magma: is molten rock under Earth’s crust
• Lava: molten rock above Earth’s crust

ELA - Students continue to read articles about various aspects of Nez Perce culture and lifestyle such food and drink, clothing, shelter, transportation, children's play. These articles will seek to uncover the focusing question, "How did the Nez Perce's homeland sustain lifestyle and culture." Students will seek to explain the function of topic statements and body sentences in an informative paragraph and use knowledge of affixes and context clues to determine word meaning. Eventually students will be writing their own informative paragraph about a chosen aspect of the Nez Perce culture.

Helpful resources from our ESOL specialists!

Teachers will be using Classroom Dojo to reward positive behaviors. Students earn points and are able to "shop" with their points to purchase items. Teachers also use Classroom DoJo to send quick text messages when needed.

Weekly Communication Folders are sent home each Thursday, to be returned on Friday. Inside the folders you will find your student's weekly homework. Your student is expected to complete all homework AND read 20 minutes each night. Homework is turned in on Thursdays and will be graded.

Arrival / Dismissal

Change of Transportation

If there is a change in transportation arrangements, we require notice from the parent before allowing students to be transported by anyone other than a parent. You may send in a note with your child or email parkstreet@marietta-city.org with the details of the change. We do not allow students to walk or to ride home with unauthorized people.

At dismissal time bus riders will be put on the school bus unless a parent is present for pick-up, or the parent has notified the school office of another arrangement.

Students are not permitted to change buses to ride home with friends without a note from their parent. Please make arrangements for your child before he/she comes to school. If you must make a change during the day, notify the school office staff before 2:30 p.m.

Pick-up by Car in the Afternoon

Anyone picking up a child must have his/her Panther Car Tag. If you do not have a Panther Car Tag, you may get one at Sneak-A-Peek or by coming to the front office.

Please do not park across the street and have your child designated as a “walker”.

This is extremely dangerous, and teachers on duty will stop children crossing the street

unescorted by a parent or adult. If you need to come into the building, please park in a parking space.

Tardy Drop-Off

When a student arrives late (after 8:30), an adult must sign the student in at the office.

Early Pick-Up

Please limit early pick-up of children to emergencies and appointments. If a child is out for any portion of the school day, the missed time is recorded as a tardy. A note sent in the morning will help us to have your child ready. To avoid interruptions to instruction, no student

will be released between 2:45 and 3:15. Parents will be asked to wait for the dismissal bell. Come to the office to check out a student. Please be prepared to present photo identification upon request. No student will be released to an unknown or unauthorized person.

Late Pick-Up

Students waiting to be picked up will be supervised until 3:30. After 3:30 they may be sent to the After School Program if they are pre-registered ($10 fee). Regular after school charges will apply. Many parents sign up for the program so their children can attend in case of emergency.

Attendance is a critical component to the success of an elementary student. If an unavoidable situation necessitates an absence, the parent must notify the school office in writing within 2 school days of the student’s return. You may send a note to your child's teacher or email parkstreet@marietta-city.k12.ga.us

An excused absence means that your child is absent for a legitimate reason, for example, personal illness, illness or death in the family, religious holiday, court appointment, quarantine, or conditions rendering school attendance hazardous to health and safety. All other absences will be considered unexcused.

Georgia Law requires school action after five unexcused absences or ten tardies. The process begins with parent notification.

Students are tardy after 8:30 a.m. A parent must sign the student in at the office if arriving after

8:30 a.m. A student is counted present for the day if he/she arrives at or before 8:30 a.m. and stays until at least 11:55 a.m. or arrives before 11:55 a.m. and stays until 3:15 p.m. Partial attendance of a day is considered a tardy.

Good attendance is vital to the academic success of students.

• After three parental excuse notes in a semester, parents must submit documentation from a physician explaining the student's absence.

• If documentation from a doctor is not provided after three parental excuse notes in a semester, subsequent absences will be marked as unexcused.

• Excessive absences can result in the intervention of the school social worker.