It Has Been a Very Busy Summer at Altamonte You Won T Believe Your Eyes!

Altamonte Elementary School 5th Grade Newsletter and MakerTeam options will be SOCIAL STUDIES FOCUS SKILLS Welcome to 5th available soon. Talk to your US Geography/Civics Grade! We are students about their interests and looking forward to an encourage them to pursue NOTES exciting year. something new in the areas of HOMEWORK: 5th Graders Science, Technology, Engineering, will have homework as It has been a very busy summer at the Arts, and Mathematics assigned by his or her teachers. When given, Altamonte—you won’t believe (STEAM). each student is expected to complete your eyes! the assigned tasks. ELA FOCUS SKILLS th 5 Graders this year In August and September, we will be PLANNERS: Students are expected are the first students focusing on developing the following to copy any assignments into their at AES to experience skills: planners daily. Students are also learning in the brand --Quote accurately from a text when expected to keep track of important explaining what the text says explicitly new Science/Technology suites. dates and deadlines as well by writing and when drawing inferences. These traditional classrooms were them in their planner. Please check --Determine a theme of a story, and sign planners nightly. This is our completely renovated over the drama, or poem from details in the summer and new feature brand most immediate form of text, including how characters in a communication with home! new collaborative learning story or drama respond to challenges furniture, laptop computers, or how the speaker in a poem reflects DIVIDENDS: We have some exciting upon a topic; summarize the text. cutting edge smart boards, and field trips planned for the year and --Compare and contrast two or more more. What a great learning will always need chaperones. You characters, settings, or events in a experience! MUST be a registered Dividend to be story or drama, drawing on specific able to attend/chaperone. Sign up details in the text (e.g., how You will also notice today! characters interact). some major changes --Determine the meaning of words at the front office in and phrases as they are used in a text, Questions? Contact us! the main building. including figurative language such as Mrs. Hudson During the summer, the entire metaphors and similes. area was completely gutted and --Explain how a series of chapters, [email protected] scenes, or stanzas fits together to reconstructed. The new Front Mr. Royer Office features a much more provide the overall structure of a secure and appealing reception particular story, drama, or poem. [email protected] --Describe how a narrator’s or area as well as a suite of new Ms. Ivery speaker’s point of view influences administrative offices. how events are described. [email protected] About 5 th Grade Mrs. Thorpe MATH FOCUS SKILLS Our 5th Grade faculty is Place Value to 100,000 [email protected] departmentalized. If your student Whole number Operations; ( 2- digit Ms. Wainscott is in a paired classroom, he or she by 3-digit multiplication and 4-digit will have a Math/Science teacher divided by 2- digit division) [email protected] and an ELA/Social Studies teacher. Mrs. Sowers Departmentalization is just one of [email protected] the ways we begin preparing our SCIENCE FOCUS SKILLS students for the rigors of Middle Scientific Process: the Scientist at School. work; the Nature of Science; exploring Join us! the scientific method, engineering 5th Grade Curriculum Night model, science tools, testing THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Our MakerSpace program will hypotheses. AT 6:30 PM continue this year. New course