SES 5TH GRADE TIMES

Today your student received their role for the Addams Family Haunted House.

The students are VERY excited about their big, spooky night coming up.

They also received their script and can start practicing their lines. There might be some edits made by Monday. If so, they will receive a new script to work on.

There are also pictures of their character for you to pull costume inspiration from.

If you are unable to find, buy, or borrow a costume please do let us know ahead of time and we will make accommodations.

Thank you for all that have volunteered to help with the Haunted House next Friday.

You have all been very gracious with your time and resources.

But we still need more help!

WE ARE IN DIRE NEED OF PARENTS TO VOLUNTEER TO

HELP WITH EVENTS ON THE 18th

Please click the links below if you are able to help in any way.

1. Sign Up for Haunted House PRE-EVENT Prep - Use this sign up genius to help with set-up, decorations, etc. before the big day.

2. Sign up for Haunted House DAY OF Event - Use this sign up genius to help out on October 18th at your child's class time.

Below are the times the different classes run the haunted house.

Mr. Haven's Class 5:30-7pm

Mrs. Lawson's Class 6:30-8pm

Mrs. Jones's Class 7:30-9pm

Hello 5th Grade Parents!

Believe it our not, it's time to sign up for our FINAL bake sale of the year! The bake sale takes place during the Pumpkin Walk from 6-9pm on Friday October 18, 2019. This bake sale's funds will go in the 5th grade account to be used for various things like science camp bus transportation and towards the gift the 5th Graders give to the school. We need your help (& your 5th grader's help) with running our bake sale.

Please take some time to review our volunteer signups and sign up to help! We are asking every family to provide 1-2 dozen baked goods for the event. Items should be separated into individual portions, wrapped and ready to sell. Large items (cupcakes, brownies, etc) will sell for $1 each. If you bake smaller items, wrap several together in one bag to make $1 portions.

The Sign Up Sheet can be found below.

Parent and student volunteers are needed to run the bake sale during 30 minute shifts. Parents are asked to help with the cashier position to make sure the money gets handled properly, and to support the 5th grade student sales team. Consider signing up your child during your shift!

*If you plan to help in the Haunted House while your child's classroom is having their shift, please be aware of the scheduling and do not schedule a Haunted House shift and a bake sale shift at the same time. We have a separate Haunted House Sign Up Genius to keep things organized. *

We will collect baked goods in the carpool line on Friday October 18th between 8-8:30am during drop off and also from 2:45-3:30pm during pick up.

Please do not send baked goods with nuts.

If you have questions, please email me. Thank you for your support!

Thanks!

Ana Maria Preller

anamariaferro2003@yahoo.com

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW AVAILABLE!

The Saratoga Student Tech Team gives your student a chance to learn about technology, work with their peers, help others and earn SES Tech Badges.

Our mission statement: We will empower all students to create with technology to solve real problems and make meaningful change in our world.

Applications were sent home to those who were interested in signing up. If your student is still in need of an application they can pick one up on Monday at school.

Please complete your application and return it to one of your Student Tech Team Coordinators, Mr. Larraux & Ms. Lawson by Friday, 10/18/19.

If you have any questions, please email Mr. Larraux tlarraux@saratogausd.org

or Ms. Lawson mlawson@saratogausd.org

A big thank you to those you have contributed to our field trips and PTA.

If you are able to contribute for our classroom field trips or for PTA, please send checks with your child to school.

Your contributions help fund: PE, Music, Makerspace, Art, Walk Thru the Revolution, Saratoga Springs and more.

PTA check can be made out to PTA.

Field trip checks can be made out to SUSD.

Send your teacher a Class Dojo message for any questions.

WE LOVE OUR VOLUNTEERS!

If you would like to volunteer in your child's classroom or chaperone on any field trips, you MUST get fingerprinted. Once you complete the process, your volunteer clearance and badge are good through your child's graduation from middle school.

In Math, we have continued to work our way through moving from whole numbers to multiplication with decimals, again using place value as a guide to reason and make estimations about products.

Students have been working extremely hard on Multi-Digit Whole Number and Decimal Fraction Operations. We have been practicing multiple different strategies with decimals including mental strategies, standard algorithms, partial quotients and word problems.

Remember you can check in on whats going on in your students math class but having them show you the daily Hyperdoc posted on Google Classroom. It shows the homework assignment but also has videos to help your student.

These past couple weeks in science, we have started learning more about the states of matter. We had an exciting lab where students combined water in corn starch to make a Non-Newtonian fluid. They had a blast and clearly thought this was the best lab yet! We’ve delved farther into the different states of matter and have even acted out different molecules of solids, liquids, and gases.

Additionally, in Digital Citizenship, we’ve started our coding that students have been eagerly anticipating since the beginning of school. Using our book, The Sign of the Beaver, students are developing dialogue in characterization of the main character in the story. They’re adding backgrounds, voiceovers, and speech bubbles to show Matt's character.

Today, we had our final lesson for our first Seed Story. We focused on dialogue tags and margins to make sure that everything was lined up and fixed correctly. We ended our lesson by editing and revising our papers with a partner. Their checklists were a huge help in this.

Because of the unexpected short week, I have allowed the students to make any last minute changes to their story this weekend. They have until Monday to make any final edit and revisions before I start grading their papers. Have them refer to my class website and their checklist to make sure that they have everything that they need.

On Monday, we will start a brand new Seed Story that we will focus on for the next two weeks before we wrap up our Personal Narrative writing unit.

Office Hours - Please email me to make an appointment

Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 8:30

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday - 3:00 -3:30

Email: mlawson@saratogausd.org
Website: http://mslawson5thgrade.weebly.com/
Phone: (408) 867-3476

Office Hours - Please email me to make an appointment

Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 8:30

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday - 3:00 - 3:30

Email: jhavens@saratogausd.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/saratogausd.org/havens
Phone: 408-867-3476

Office Hours - Please email me to make an appointment

Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 8:30

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday - 3:00 - 3:30

Email: mjones@saratogausd.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/saratogausd.org/jones-journal/home?authuser=0
Phone: 408-867-3476