Welcome to the Olsen Family Miss Olsen5 th

Welcome to the Olsen Family! Miss Olsen-5 th Grade SWAS August 29, 2014 Reminders As discussed at Open House; we will be focusing on organization and successful study skills this year. To help in our endeavor, please provide the following for your student: • 3 inch 3 ring binder • 5 Notesbooks (total) • Purple-Literacy • Blue-Math • Green-Word Study • Orange-Social Studies • Pink-Technology and Genius Hour It was so great to meet you all at Open House on Tuesday; thank you for taking the time to come meet with me! I look forward to a collaborative and fun-filled year! Helpful Downloads! Class Dojo-Keep up with your child’s behavior in class (use the access code sent home on Thursday Remind-Get text reminders from me! Use this link to become connected to me: https: //www. remind. com/join/5 thswa QR Reader-easily scan the QRs I send home Reading: This week we read and thought about the story Gaston by Willian Saroyan. We also learned about the 5 types of questions readers ask and think about while reading; Factual, Background, Evaluative, Speculative, and Interpretive Encourage your child to record these types of questions as they read in their own independent reading! We will continue to work with questioning to deepen our comprehension of text. Math: In working with Landmark and Survey Data, it was evident our students have an understanding of these concepts. Therefore, we took a pre-test to assess where our students are at in math, and to help form our math curriculum here forward. Writing: We have started exploring the anthology This I Believe… a collection of essays written in response to the prompt “This I believe…” In reading these essays, we have begun to brainstorm and analyze our own beliefs. Our goal is to write our own This I Believe Essay, in which we share our core values which guide our daily lives! Exciting stuff! Check out the mission here: thisibelieve. org or scan this QR code