From: Ms. Huber
Important Dates:
Friday, February 21 – Jekyll Final Payment Due
Wednesday, February 26 –Spring Class & Individual Pictures
Friday, February 28 –February Book Log Due
Wednesday, March 4 – AMMS Field Trip
AMMS Field Trip (for my homeroom only-PM Parents-if interested e-mail your child's homeroom teacher)
For the AMMS Field Trip on Wednesday, March 4, we’ll need two chaperones to go along with us. This isn’t a time for
parents to ask questions of AMMS (there is usually a separate meeting for parents), but a time for the kids to see it, ease some anxiety, and get excited! Parent chaperones (and myself) will simply be along for the ride and escort a group of about 8-10 around AMMS as an AMMS student guide leads a tour and answers the kids’ questions. We’ll be leaving the school around 8:30ish and be back around 11:30-12:00 (right before lunch). Please let me know if you are interested! I’ll take the first two
parents who respond. Thank you!!! Very exciting!
Fifth Grade Behavior
It is that time of year where the 5th grade teachers start seeing some of the students starting to try and act like a middle schooler (we usually have to send this e-mail as a team in January-at least we made it to the end of February-this is actually very impressive). They think it is “cool” to not follow the rules, focus on drama/friends vs. their work/themselves (if your child has a phone-you might want to check in on their group texts/social media), or be disrespectful to teachers or peers
(they think they are being funny but some have started to cross that thin line between humor and disrespect). If you
see your child’s grades starting to slip (I’d check in Infinite Classroom once a week) or notes in their agenda, please have a conversation with them about staying focused and being respectful (and how this doesn’t change for middle
school either….same, if not higher, expectations). We want to make sure all keep their current placements next year (have to keep an 80% average in both reading and language arts) as well as end their time at Dolvin on a positive note having lots of
fun! Thank you so much for the support at home!
Coach Digital (Milestones Test Prep)
Now that we are in the 2nd semester of school, many of you have asked about how you can help your child prepare for the upcoming the Georgia Milestones Assessment. Our AMAZING Dolvin Foundation purchased the rights to the Coach Digital
electronic platform for all our students to access from home and school in order to prepare for the assessment. To access the platform, please go to www.coachdigital.com. Once there, select Georgia for the first drop down, Fulton County for the second drop down, and Dolvin Elementary for the third drop down. Your child's username is their 10-digit lunch number (which they know) and the password is 123456. I’ve added lessons to 5th Reading/Language Arts and will continue to update every week or two.
Jekyll Reminder
Don’t forget that if your child has food allergies or special food needs, you’ll need to contact Jekyll yourself in advance (if you haven’t done this yet, please do this week if possible because we are in our final few weeks of preparation). Contact information was in the packet sent home (if you e-mail them, please include my name on e-mail, too). Thanks!
Grammar:
This week we’ll continue our biggest 5th grade grammar unit on Verb Tense. Over the past few weeks, we
reviewed action verbs (direct objects and singular/plural spellings), linking verbs, helping verbs, verb phrases, subject-verb agreement, participles, and the simple verb tense (past, present, and future tense). Last week we started learning about the perfect tense (past-perfect, present-perfect, and future-perfect) and will continue to practice this tense this week. The 6th
graders will also be learning about transitive/intransitive phrases, predicate nominatives, infinitives, and gerunds. There
will be a unit test at the beginning of March.
Vocabulary/Spelling:
List 9 was added to your child’s binder last week. We will have the quiz next week. Remember, their quizzes have changed slightly to focus even more on the prefix/root/suffix meanings. If you feel your child needs more practice, all their lists have been uploaded into the website spellingcity.com under Huber.
Writing:
Last week we continued our opinion writing unit and started the writing process for our final practice writing. For
their final writing, students will be introduced to the career of public relations and become a PR firm for a vacation destination of their choice and will write to convince others to choose their spot for vacation. As they are writing this final writing, I’ll
be meeting one-on-one or in small groups for writing conferences to discuss areas to improve upon. This final
writing will conclude with a class contest (and a writing test) this week.
Reading:
A couple of weeks ago, we started a unit on poetry (to analyze poems for structure, figurative language, tone, and theme) and began our next class Book Club book (either Out of the Dust or Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry).
This week we will continue to analyze poems for the elements above as well as start to compare and contrast two
poems. Sixth graders will be learning about symbolism, iambic pentameter, sonnets, odes, ballads, and epics. For their February Book Logs, all students will need to read one chapter book of their choice besides the class
novel. This will be due this Friday, February 28.
Important Dates:
Friday, February 21 – Jekyll Final Payment Due
Wednesday, February 26 –Spring Class & Individual Pictures
Friday, February 28 –February Book Log Due
Wednesday, March 4 – AMMS Field Trip
AMMS Field Trip (for my homeroom only-PM Parents-if interested e-mail your child's homeroom teacher)
For the AMMS Field Trip on Wednesday, March 4, we’ll need two chaperones to go along with us. This isn’t a time for
parents to ask questions of AMMS (there is usually a separate meeting for parents), but a time for the kids to see it, ease some anxiety, and get excited! Parent chaperones (and myself) will simply be along for the ride and escort a group of about 8-10 around AMMS as an AMMS student guide leads a tour and answers the kids’ questions. We’ll be leaving the school around 8:30ish and be back around 11:30-12:00 (right before lunch). Please let me know if you are interested! I’ll take the first two
parents who respond. Thank you!!! Very exciting!
Fifth Grade Behavior
It is that time of year where the 5th grade teachers start seeing some of the students starting to try and act like a middle schooler (we usually have to send this e-mail as a team in January-at least we made it to the end of February-this is actually very impressive). They think it is “cool” to not follow the rules, focus on drama/friends vs. their work/themselves (if your child has a phone-you might want to check in on their group texts/social media), or be disrespectful to teachers or peers
(they think they are being funny but some have started to cross that thin line between humor and disrespect). If you
see your child’s grades starting to slip (I’d check in Infinite Classroom once a week) or notes in their agenda, please have a conversation with them about staying focused and being respectful (and how this doesn’t change for middle
school either….same, if not higher, expectations). We want to make sure all keep their current placements next year (have to keep an 80% average in both reading and language arts) as well as end their time at Dolvin on a positive note having lots of
fun! Thank you so much for the support at home!
Coach Digital (Milestones Test Prep)
Now that we are in the 2nd semester of school, many of you have asked about how you can help your child prepare for the upcoming the Georgia Milestones Assessment. Our AMAZING Dolvin Foundation purchased the rights to the Coach Digital
electronic platform for all our students to access from home and school in order to prepare for the assessment. To access the platform, please go to www.coachdigital.com. Once there, select Georgia for the first drop down, Fulton County for the second drop down, and Dolvin Elementary for the third drop down. Your child's username is their 10-digit lunch number (which they know) and the password is 123456. I’ve added lessons to 5th Reading/Language Arts and will continue to update every week or two.
Jekyll Reminder
Don’t forget that if your child has food allergies or special food needs, you’ll need to contact Jekyll yourself in advance (if you haven’t done this yet, please do this week if possible because we are in our final few weeks of preparation). Contact information was in the packet sent home (if you e-mail them, please include my name on e-mail, too). Thanks!
Grammar:
This week we’ll continue our biggest 5th grade grammar unit on Verb Tense. Over the past few weeks, we
reviewed action verbs (direct objects and singular/plural spellings), linking verbs, helping verbs, verb phrases, subject-verb agreement, participles, and the simple verb tense (past, present, and future tense). Last week we started learning about the perfect tense (past-perfect, present-perfect, and future-perfect) and will continue to practice this tense this week. The 6th
graders will also be learning about transitive/intransitive phrases, predicate nominatives, infinitives, and gerunds. There
will be a unit test at the beginning of March.
Vocabulary/Spelling:
List 9 was added to your child’s binder last week. We will have the quiz next week. Remember, their quizzes have changed slightly to focus even more on the prefix/root/suffix meanings. If you feel your child needs more practice, all their lists have been uploaded into the website spellingcity.com under Huber.
Writing:
Last week we continued our opinion writing unit and started the writing process for our final practice writing. For
their final writing, students will be introduced to the career of public relations and become a PR firm for a vacation destination of their choice and will write to convince others to choose their spot for vacation. As they are writing this final writing, I’ll
be meeting one-on-one or in small groups for writing conferences to discuss areas to improve upon. This final
writing will conclude with a class contest (and a writing test) this week.
Reading:
A couple of weeks ago, we started a unit on poetry (to analyze poems for structure, figurative language, tone, and theme) and began our next class Book Club book (either Out of the Dust or Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry).
This week we will continue to analyze poems for the elements above as well as start to compare and contrast two
poems. Sixth graders will be learning about symbolism, iambic pentameter, sonnets, odes, ballads, and epics. For their February Book Logs, all students will need to read one chapter book of their choice besides the class
novel. This will be due this Friday, February 28.