New Link to PE site

There's a new link on the sidebar to Mr. Richert's PE site. Check it out for announcements periodically. Mr. Richert sent me an e-mail today: For the next couple weeks, your classes will be working with the soccer balls on the grass field during PE. I have talked with your students and encouraged them to bring sun screen and a hat. Please parents, help us out. Send your children sunblocked and hatted on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Italian Dinner for Only $5

There will be a Spaghetti Dinner

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 2

InterAmerican Academy

School Cafeteria

All proceeds will be donated to "Mujeres de Lucha"

and the

IA Physical Education Department

Powerpoint About Next Week's MAP TEst

Next week we will have MAP testing. We will have Reading tested Monday morning at 7:30, Language Arts test is Tuesday morning at 7:30, and the Math test is Thursday at 7:30. Please come to school well-rested, well-fed, and with your brain on high speed. Check out this SlideShare Presentation: (If the presentation doesn't show in the window, please click on the link, go to slide share, click on Get file, and then watch the presentation.)

Map Student ppt

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Doctor-to-be

My doctor-to-be friend from Quito visited our class today and talked about studying medicine and answered a flood of questions from the kids. As usual, they were a great audience!

Guided Reading Book clubs Start Today!

Students chose the books they wished to read for their non-book club today and created a calendar for their reading. As soon as my browser stops crashing everytime I go to google, I'll create a master calendar for the reading groups and post it online.

Next Week

Next week we are beginning new units in ever subject area except science where we continue to teach wood and paper to the kindergarten:
Writing: Persuasive letters
Reading: Reading and writing non-fiction
Social Studies: Revolution! (US, Mexican, Cuban)
Math: Division concepts
Word Work: Working with verbs

Computer Class Site

As we at IA continue to improve communication, the specialist teachers are also online with their sites. Note the addition of the computer class link to the sidebar. You can check there to see what your children are doing.

Math Tests

Hi, I sent you the results of last week's math fact tests. I'll be giving math fact tests every three weeks. I don't give a lot of homework, so that while we are working on mastering the math facts the students have time to work on learning the math facts.

Substitute

Dear Parents,

I will be absent Thursday and Friday as I will be working with teacher scoring teams to score the 6-Traits of writing assessments that the students wrote a few weeks ago.

Fortunately, we have a great sub--Mrs. O'Hara--an experienced teacher who came in today so that she would totally understand what we are doing.

Thanks,
Sue Stevens

Link to art blog

The art teacher, Ms. Carcache, would like you to check her blog every two weeks or so. She is uploading photographs of student work every time they finish a project.
http://sites.google.com/site/theiaartsite/home/grade-5

Spelling and Math Websites

You can get more information about our new spelling and math programs on the following sites:
http://www.sittonspelling.com/ Has practice papers you can do at home!
http://www.epsbooks.com/dynamic/catalog/program.asp?seriesonly=1886M Has information about the spelling program.

http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/ Has Information on the new math program.

Exponents . . What do those little numbers do?

Today in math we continued our work with exponents, expanded notation, and expanded notation with exponents. The following video may help you with your work!

TODAY

Math Assessment: Related arrays and constructing arrays
Writing: Word processing our narratives
Reading: Continued with Dr. Goodreader, assessments during Independent Reading
Science: Taught Science to Kindergarten
Social Studies: learned how to locate places when given latitude and longitude
Reading: More independent reading while students were assessed

OPEN HOUSE Reminder

Elementary Open House is this Thursday, September 3rd at 6:30 pm.

Please come, I really want to meet those of you I haven't met, and want to explain what we are doing in 5th grade.

Making the World a Beautiful Place

Sunny, Camila E., and Camila A. are working together on a project that Sunny's Dad's company (LG) is doing to benefit a special needs school in Guayaquil. They are collecting used clothing, shoes, notebooks, and coloring books for this school. Please send in your donations. These three girls receive the Miss Rumphius Award for this week.