October 16, 2023

Boelter/Caskie AM Digital Planner (if your student starts their day with Ms. Boelter in the morning): Boelter Caskie Digital Planner

Caskie/Boelter AM Digital Planner (if your student starts 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

• All Week Long – BOOK FAIR in the Library
• 10/19 Purple for Diversity Day
• Monday 10/23 – Boelter/Caskie Student/Parent/Teacher Conferences

Curriculum

Holy wow! We’re in the middle of October already. Time really does fly in 5th grade. We’ve learned so much already, and we will continue to pick up the pace as we venture toward the end of October. Our goal is to make sure your students are ready for middle school, and in order to do that, we must keep moving.

In science, we created a model of our constellation system. We will use these models to better understand what happens as our seasons change and our earth rotates. This will be our culminating project in a a very long unit, and we will take that summative assessment next week. The Earth and Sky unit is the longest unit in our curriculum and we are all ready to move into Modeling Matter.

In math this week, we finished up our unit on multiplying whole numbers. Students have used a variety of strategies to complete this work and check it for accuracy. Our discussions about strategies this week were centered around the students identifying which strategy was the most efficient strategy for them. We’ve moved headlong into our unit on multiplying decimals. Students will work through this unit to understand that when we multiply a whole number by a partial number, the whole number will always get smaller.

We will continue our unit on Caring this week as well. We’ve identified multiple forms of communication including passive, aggressive, and assertive communication. We will work to gain a better understanding of these types of communication before moving into apologies. The unit on apologies will also include a summative health grade.

We were able to schedule our next Student/Parent/Teacher Conference date for 10/23. We will send out sign ups for Monday, October 23, this week. Thanks for your understanding and patience in allowing us to plan for that additional day.

This week will be exceptional because I am lucky enough to teach the exceptional kids you send to me. Thank you for your continued support. It means everything to us!