TOPS 5th Grade Weekly Newsletter

I hope you had a fabulous week! 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:

Next week we will focus on note-taking strategies and be looking into the lessons you had due the week of the 20th and upcoming lessons for ELA.

Many of your assignments began on Monday the 20th. Please make sure that you are following the assignments listed on your daily plan. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Teacher Graded Assignment:

Literature Q1 TGA1 (quarter 1 teacher graded assignment number 1) will be due on 8/24/18. This can be found in USA Test Prep. Please do not worry that your grade does not update automatically as I manually enter your grade from TGAs.

Upcoming TGA: Composition Unit 1 Writing a Memoir Check-in will be assigned in USA Test Prep and due on 8/29/18. Please make sure you are completing the lessons in the book, but also completing the check-in in USA Test Prep when they are assigned.

Resources:

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

Below is a helpful video about Memoirs:

https://safeshare.tv/x/ss5b7b327230297

Last Week's Riddle:

I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

A Candle!

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?

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

I'm looking forward to seeing you in class connect on Monday. 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 start working on Unit 1 Lessons 1-4 next week involving estimation. See you in class!

What a great start we are having to this school year! 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 will start the year by looking at the scientific method and what that means as we are doing science all year long. You won’t need anything except your working headset, a science journal/notebook, pencil, and your imagination. You will have some OLS assessments that go with next week’s lessons, and we will discuss what those assessments will look like as well as how we will use USATestPrep. Remember that you can always reach out to me with any questions that you may have about science or anything else. See you in class!

Welcome to 5th grade social studies! Next Wednesday during class we will spend some time getting to know each other. We will work together to set some goals, share our favorite books, and work in breakout rooms. Please bring a pencil, notebook (can be a composition book or a spiral), and a working headset with a microphone. Your social studies OLS assignments for the week are unit 1 - lesson 1, and unit 2- lesson 2 (We will be skipping over several lessons at the beginning so watch your daily plan to know which lessons are due each week). We are going to have a fun year learning Early American History together!

Welcome to 5th grade Music! This week we will learn how to navigate the music program, Music Studio. I will walk you through how to find everything you need during our content orientation on Tuesday morning. :) 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 directions 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 U1 L1 in the OLS and click the link to take you to Music Studio!

Music Studio lessons for this week:

• In the Spotlight, Lesson 1 - Step into the Spotlight
• In the Spotlight, Lesson 2 - Home on the Range
• Extra Credit Assessment

*Note: We're working on assigning the content to students in Music Studio, but we should be up and running by Monday! :)

Video showing how to get into Music Studio and find the lessons and Assessments page:

https://k12inc-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/jbass_k12_com/EY4-uSYFegNLtaz1rcTZSREBUeo-TGm17c0ljqPp9zujaQ?e=niWThx

Video showing how to find just the Assessments page in Music Studio:

https://k12inc-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/jbass_k12_com/EYmNdB6FSztOuCqZsifUT08B9AfPyx9ShL5japwEilZXQw?e=aul3Bx

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 begin your lessons in the OLS. We will practice using the BBC tools and navigate through the OLS. I would like to see any artwork or creations you may have handy to share on the web cam.

Lessons for this week:

Art: Unit 1 Lesson 1 & 2

Health: Unit 1 Lesson 1 & 2

PE: Unit 1 Lesson 1

We will also start meeting in The Hive. Plan on a fun week! Are you ready? I sure am!!!

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