September 2, 2024

Digital Planners

The digital planners for this week can be accessed by clicking the link below:

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

Young/Boelter AM Digital Planner (if your student start their day with Mr. Young in the morning): Young Boelter Digital Planner

Curriculum

Last week, students had so much fun building their wind cars and learning through a growth mindset. We also used our understanding of the order of operations to solve more complex problems. If your student is struggling with the order of operations, working through the end of unit assessment in Topic 13 of their workbooks will really help them prepare for next week. If your student does not have volume one and volume two of their math workbook, please reach out. I sent both of those home. (Also, check their backpacks. They are heavy!)

Here’s a video that you can use at home to reinforce the order of operations with your students.

Next week, even though we have a short week, we’ll progress to our next unit in math, understanding place value and how it relates to partial and whole numbers, including numbers with exponents. Wednesday, students will complete their Order of Operations assessment. Students will be assessed in a variety of ways in the classroom, and we intend to break down how we assess in conferences with you. You’ll note that the digital planner this week has an❗next to Wednesday’s assignment. This is how students know that they have an assessment. Each assessment will be marked with that ❗ In science, we’ll start to investigate the size and proportional distance of planets and stars in our solar system.

Conferences

Since we have two teachers in fifth and we’d all like to meet with you. Mr. Young and I will start sending out dates this week for our conference availability. We realize that conferences are usually held in October, but we do have quite a bit of student performance data already this year. Keep your eyes out for available conference dates in Dojo.

We jump into more challenging concepts in both science and math this week. Encouraging your student to work through those difficult concepts will help their mindset in the classroom so much. We appreciate all of your encouragement and support. Thanks for another incredible week!