Week of August 7, 2023

Welcome to your student’s first week of 5th grade! This week, we will focus on classroom community. We will define what that looks like as a class to make sure every student has a voice in that process. Students will engage in growth mindset activities which help then understand why experiencing delayed success can change their brain.

We will also start the year with some self reflection about our math process and how we feel about math. Each day, we’ll engage in a number talk, where students engage in a mental math activity and then share their strategies with one another verbally. This helps us strengthen number sense and better understand our own strategies.

As we progress through the week, we will reinforce our norms and expectations. It is important students understand our classroom expectations so they know what they need to do to meet them. Students will attend a SOAR expectations assembly on Wednesday. We will get our Chromebooks on our assigned library day. On Friday, we’ll have our first House Challenge!

I have included a link to my Amazon Wish list below, but know we’re pretty well set to start the year. We will be engaging in another Pringles Challenge this week. If you’d like to send in some Pringles, we can use them.

We will MAP test starting the week of August 14, and that will likely start on Tuesday, August 15th.

Please reach out if you have any questions via Dojo!