Boelter/Caskie AM Digital Planner (if your student start their day with Ms. Boelter in the morning): Boelter Caskie Digital Planner
Caskie/Boelter AM Digital Planner (if your student start their day with Mrs. Caskie in the morning): Caskie Boelter Digital Planner
Please see the school Newsletter to keep up with all that is happening in our building this week: Newsletter
Upcoming Events
- Sunday, September 23, 7:55 live landing of OSIRIS-REx
- Thursday September 28 – Ober Fun Run
- Friday, September 29 – Rock Your School Day
Curriculum
REMINDER – OSIRIS-REx lands at 7:55 AM tomorrow. We’ve really enjoyed tying this historical mission to our curriculum in science. I’d love for you to watch that landing at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range with your students live tomorrow morning. Here’s a PBS article which includes a live link for the landing in Utah: PBS News
In math this week, we completed our Topic 1 Assessment on place value and understanding decimals and fractions. We also started a unit on adding and subtracting decimals. We make sure students understand what’s happening conceptually with those numbers by using base ten blocks to model those operations. Mathigon (Link here) has great tools for students to continue to use these models outside the classroom.
We will complete this unit this week and then move into a unit on multiplying whole numbers. Students need repeated practice when multiplying whole numbers, as we culminate by multiplying 3 digits by 3 digits at unit’s end. I’d love for students to work on this at home as well. Extra practice is easy to find in Topic 3 in their math workbooks. If you’re unable to locate your student’s math workbook, please reach out! I’m happy to send another home. 🙂
In our SEL lesson, we’ll focus on rumors and gossip in a unit on caring. We usually teach this unit around this time as this is when rumors and gossip tend to pop up in our fifth grade year. Please communicate to your students that it is really important to reach out to a trusted adult when they find themselves in these conversations or subjects of these conversations.
I also made a fundraising challenge to all of the other classes in our school. I think we can raise more money than any other class for the fun run! I will let kids brainstorm ideas for a class reward if we meet our goal. It could get interesting!
Ms. B. in Class 