August 31, 2015

Big thanks to Mr. Jones for volunteering to take our class to P.E. once a week! We appreciate your time.
Last week was really about getting into routine, learning about the basics of our writing and reading, getting into our project groups to begin research and creating positive habits that will help us succeed.
We did however, have a few conduct issues that we will continue to work on. It is important for us to establish the "norms" for classroom expectations and behavior in and out of the classroom. I am confident in this children and their abilities, it has been an awesome 2 weeks for me.
This week will find us solid into the Daily 3, finishing up our first books, getting deeper into our projects standards and continuing to learn about the details of writing that we will be using daily to strenghthen our writing skills. We will also have a student council class rep election in our room as well.

Thank you for sharing your children with me, they make me smile about 100 times a day!

One week down!!

We had a wonderful first week together, we learned a lot about each other and we will dive into our academics next week in full force.

This week, we learned all about the procedures in our class, we took a writing assessment and we learned about what kind of writing we will be doing each day, we shared special items from home that have unique meanings to them, we did 4 TRIBES activities, we logged into our Chrome books, we organized all of our materials and we started a read aloud titled, "Wonder." Ask your child about it!  We were also the first class to turn in ALL of our paperwork, so Mrs. Mackedon surprised us with free milkshake certificates from Jack in the Box! We celebrated 2 birthdays already as well! We also wrote in our parent journal for the first time, please make sure that you respond so they can bring it back on Monday.

It was a busy week, but the real work starts next week!  We will be starting our book clubs (we already received our book today), and we will start projects!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, thank you for sharing your children with me.

Mrs. Mori

Thanks for coming!

Thanks so much to the parents who attended back to school night.  For those who could not make it, please come by the classroom before school Monday morning to sign their interned access agreement so your students can use their Chrome books.  If it is not signed, they will not have access to their computer until it is. also, I will have you take the paperwork out of their binder and leave it here with your student as we will be using them to get organized.

On a side note, but very important....your students will no longer have assignment notebooks.  They will be using their Google calendar to keep track of homework and due dates. They will have access to this calendar anywhere there is a computer with internet access from their Gmail account. They will be learning how to use it first thing, and will be proficient at it in no time!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Ready, set.....

Hope you are all ready, because I am all set!

Back to school night is Thursday so I sincerely hope to see you all here at Oasis.

We are in Mrs. Loop's old room, look for the blue door with the white and red lighthouse!

We will be going over the 5th grade expectations for the school year, as well as handing out the traditional white binder with the student handbook inside.  If you haven't begun to follow this blog yet, please take a minute to do so. It will save you time and hassle later!

Fifth grade is gonna rock that Bighorn Blue!