Fifth Grade News
Curriculum Highlights
Literacy:
Focus Skills/Strategies
 Narrative Elements
 Prefixes, Suffixes,
Roots
 Self questioning
 Using text structure
and format
**Please remember to read
with your child using the
weekly fluency sheets.
Writing:
Focus
 Launching Writing
Workshop
 Creating memoirs
Fifth Grade Happenings
We’re off to a wonderful
school year and are excited
about working hard this
year to prepare your child
for middle school. Thank
you for all of your contin-
ued support in that en-
deavor.
Cowlishaw Elementary School
Social Studies Mathematics
Volume 2 , Issue 2
Focus Focus
 Native Americans of  Unit 2-Estimation and October 2010
North America Computation
 Life in the Eastern  Unit 3-Geometry Explo-
Hemisphere rations Fifth Grade Team:
Science  Jan Kelly:
jan_kelly@ipsd.org
Focus Accelerated Math
 Ryan Klein:
 Layers of the Atmos-  Unit 2– Operations ryan_klein@ipsd.org
phere with Whole Numbers
 Christi Grezlik:
 Weather  Unit 3– Variables, For- christi_grezlik@ipsd.org
mulas, and Graphs
 Tamela Williams: tam-
ela_williams@ipsd.org
Spelling  Julee DeGeus:
julee_degeus@ipsd.org
Focus
 Word Study
Reminders:
 Weekly spelling units
- Parents can sign up
for conferences at the
“Open House” October
14th. Conferences will
be held November 2nd
from 8:00 to 3:00,
and November 4th and
10th from 4:30 to
*Walk to School Day: *Picture Day: October 20th
8:00.
October 6th *Fall Room Parties: October
22nd
*No School: October 11th- The “Book Fair” starts
Columbus Day *End of the Quarter: Octo- October 14th and runs
*12:00 Dismissal: October ber 22nd through October 22nd.
13th-In Service Day
*Open House: Oct. 15th.