TOPS 5th Grade Weekly Newsletter

Each Friday you will receive a grade level newsletter with important information needed to plan your upcoming week. Since you have one more week of orientation, you are receiving a special edition of the newsletter crafted specifically for students who started with us on January 23rd.

You will see Class Connect (CC) sessions on your daily plan for course sessions outside of orientation. You are not required to attend those sessions this week. However, you are free to drop in and see what class is like.

The daily plan is currently down. You will see many assignments and some may say overdue. Please ignore these alerts and focus on what is listed below from your teachers.

https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/Recording-Attendance

https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/Missing-Attendance

https://www.help.k12.com/s/article/Support-for-the-Attendance-Mobile-App

I hope you had a fabulous week! I am so excited you are here at TOPS! Before we all take off for the weekend I wanted to send out an overview of what to expect next week, some resources to help you, and a fun riddle!

Preparing for next week:

You will start to see assignments in the daily plan on your OLS. Please make sure you look ahead to see what you will be working on. Go ahead and gather the books and supplies you will need so that you can begin working on Monday.

USA Test Prep

Please ensure that you know how to log in to USA Test Prep so that you can begin to work on assignments there next week.

Teacher Graded Assignment:

These will be assigned in USA Test Prep.

When you log in you will see the TGAs under your assignments. Please work on them as they open. The due dates for TGAs are listed in the grade book an will be listed here as well.

Resources:

Please make sure that you have your books organized as we will go through some of them in class next week.

Weekly Riddle:

Each Friday I will send out a Riddle. Please come to class the following week with your answer

In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink! What color were the stairs?

If you have a riddle or joke you would like to see in the newsletter please email it to me.

I will share the answer next week in class! Have an amazing weekend!

I'm looking forward to seeing you in our math orientation class connect on Wednesday. We will talk about class expectations and then have some fun using the tools in Blackboard and getting to know each other. You will need to have a notebook and pencil for your math class connects, but we will talk about that during class as well. You will begin working in the OLS (On-Line School).

I have listed the lessons you need to complete below. Notes to help you as you work on your lessons are linked below. There are some lessons that direct you to offline work in your yellow book. Even though the math book is a hardback book, you will not need to send it back, so you can write in this book. See you in class!

Math Readiness Assessment in USA Test Prep: Make sure this is completed before you start your other math assignments

OLS Lessons:

Unit 10 Lesson 1: Grouping

Unit 10 Lesson 6: One Variable Algebraic Equations

Unit 11 Lesson 1: Quadrants in the Coordinate Plane

Unit 11 Lesson 3: Graph or Write Equation A

Math Facts Pro Multiplication Fact Practice: Students are expected to login and practice their facts at least 3 times a week. Knowing multiplication facts with quick recall is vital. Be sure to login and practice 3 times this week, you will receive a TGA grade every week. Here is the login information

• https://mathfactspro.com/
• Teacher Username: TOPSMath
• First Name and Last Name with space in-between (same as OLS)
• Password: Student ID

A great big WELCOME to our new TOPS students! I am so happy to have you 5th graders in Science, and I just want to give you some idea of what next week will look like for us. We started the year by looking at the scientific method and what that means as we are doing science all year long. This week you won’t need anything except your working headset, a science journal/notebook, pencil, and your imagination.

You will have one OLS assessment that goes with next week’s lesson (listed below), and we will discuss what that assessment will look like as well as how we will use USATestPrep. This lesson is a way for you to get familiar with the OLS and the online and offline assessments. DON’T WORRY, we’re going to make sure that you can understand what we have been studying and where we are going from here. Remember that you can always reach out to me with any questions that you may have about science or anything else. See you in our orientation session on Monday, Jan. 28th at 11am!

Lesson for Week of Jan. 28th - Feb. 1st

Unit 8, Lesson 3: Static Electricity - Truly Shocking

OLS Lesson

Lesson Assessment

Offline Assessment – Three question offline multiple choice, short answer quiz (3 pts.)

Key vocabulary – static electricity, electrons, negative, positive, friction, induction, conduction, static discharge

Welcome to 5th-grade social studies! We are learning some exciting things in Early American History and we are so happy to have you join us! We are currently working in unit 5 – A New Nation.

You will see these 3 lessons on your plan this week:

• Lesson 5: The New Government Begins
• Lesson 7: The Louisiana Purchase
• Lesson 8: The War of 1812

I'm looking forward to seeing you in our social studies orientation class connect on Wednesday, January 30th. We will talk about class expectations and then have some fun using the tools in Blackboard and getting to know each other. Welcome to TOPS!

Welcome to TOPS!

Welcome to 5th grade Music! This week we will learn how to navigate the music program, Music Studio. Check your email for a PDF file from me about Music Studio (it will also be available in the file share in the OLS). There are also some directions and helpful hints in the Music Reference Guide book you received in the mail with your materials.

Every week you will check the grade level newsletter to see which Music Studio lessons to complete. Just open Unit 1, Lesson 1 in the OLS and click the link to take you to Music Studio! (I marked everything else as skipped in the OLS because there isn't any content in those lessons. You can just ignore the skipped ones.)

Course prep work for the week of 01/28:

• Watch the video showing how to get into Music Studio and find the lessons and Assessments page: https://tinyurl.com/elem-MusicStudio
• Music Studio - Section 1, Unit 4, Lesson 1 - Moving Rhythms
  
• Music Studio - Section 1, Unit 4, Lesson 2 - History in a New Key
  
• Music Studio - There is an extra credit assessment, but no other graded work for you to complete this week. :)
  
• Attend Music Orientation on Thursday, 01/31, at 10:00am.

Welcome to 5th grade!!! I am very excited to begin our classes. We have a fun year ahead of us full of activities, projects and much, much more. This week you will continue with orientation sessions. We will practice using the BBC tools and navigate through the OLS.

Lessons for this week:

Art: none

Health: none

PE: none

The Hive is on Tuesdays 12-12:30 and Thursdays 8:30-9. Plan on a fun week! Are you ready? I sure am!!!

Email: bwatt@texasonlineprep.org
Phone: 682.593.1514
Twitter: @TOPSMrsWatt