From: Ms. Huber
Important Dates:
Friday, February 28 –February Book Log Due
Wednesday, March 4 – AMMS Field Trip
Thursday, March 5 – Verb Tenses Test
Friday, March 6 – Vocabulary Quiz List #9
Tuesday, March 10 – Poetry Test
Wednesday-Friday, March 11-13-Jekyll Island Field Trip
Puberty/Health Permission Form Coming Home Today
A permission form to sign if you are NOT interested in having your child hear the puberty/health speaker on March 19, 2020, is coming home today!! Please be sure you ask your child to see the form and to read it carefully since we are only returning if they DON’T have permission. Meaning if your child doesn’t give you things or loses them easily, TODAY you’ll need to ask for it and possibly dig it out of their binder. I just want to make sure everyone sees
it! Thanks!
AMMS Field Trip
For the AMMS Field Trip on Wednesday, March 4, we are asking the kids to wear their
5th Grade T-Shirt (the white one with all their names on it) for safety purposes. If they’ve already lost
it or it is MIA 😊, please have them wear another Dolvin t-shirt! Thank you! Very exciting!
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 so.
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 conclude 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). A couple of weeks ago we started learning
about the perfect tense (past-perfect, present-perfect, and future-perfect) and continue to practice this tense last week.
The 6th graders will also be learning about transitive/intransitive phrases, infinitives, and gerunds. There
will be a unit test this Thursday, March 5.
Vocabulary/Spelling: List 9 was added to your child’s binder. We will have the quiz this Friday, March 6. 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 concluded our opinion writing unit with a final assessment and a class contest on a practice opinion writing we had finished. This week we are going to start reviewing for Milestones. We’ll start back with the
narrative genre and review all the techniques and ingredients an engaging narrative contains. Then we’ll have a
quiz on narratives (after Jekyll). Next, we’ll spend a week or two reviewing informational and finally review opinion
for a week or two right before Milestones.
Reading: A few 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 compare and contrast two poems. Sixth graders will be learning about symbolism, iambic pentameter, sonnets, odes, ballads, and epics. Their unit
poetry test will be next Tuesday (day before Jekyll) and will have a novel test after Jekyll (once we finish the book) March
Book Logs were passed out today and are due at the end of the month. If you aren’t signing your child’s Book Log,
please make sure you see them reading their book at home. Remember the whole point is to encourage them
to be avid readers (whether it is their favorite subject or not) and to always be reading something both at home and at school. Thanks!!
Important Dates:
Friday, February 28 –February Book Log Due
Wednesday, March 4 – AMMS Field Trip
Thursday, March 5 – Verb Tenses Test
Friday, March 6 – Vocabulary Quiz List #9
Tuesday, March 10 – Poetry Test
Wednesday-Friday, March 11-13-Jekyll Island Field Trip
Puberty/Health Permission Form Coming Home Today
A permission form to sign if you are NOT interested in having your child hear the puberty/health speaker on March 19, 2020, is coming home today!! Please be sure you ask your child to see the form and to read it carefully since we are only returning if they DON’T have permission. Meaning if your child doesn’t give you things or loses them easily, TODAY you’ll need to ask for it and possibly dig it out of their binder. I just want to make sure everyone sees
it! Thanks!
AMMS Field Trip
For the AMMS Field Trip on Wednesday, March 4, we are asking the kids to wear their
5th Grade T-Shirt (the white one with all their names on it) for safety purposes. If they’ve already lost
it or it is MIA 😊, please have them wear another Dolvin t-shirt! Thank you! Very exciting!
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 so.
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 conclude 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). A couple of weeks ago we started learning
about the perfect tense (past-perfect, present-perfect, and future-perfect) and continue to practice this tense last week.
The 6th graders will also be learning about transitive/intransitive phrases, infinitives, and gerunds. There
will be a unit test this Thursday, March 5.
Vocabulary/Spelling: List 9 was added to your child’s binder. We will have the quiz this Friday, March 6. 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 concluded our opinion writing unit with a final assessment and a class contest on a practice opinion writing we had finished. This week we are going to start reviewing for Milestones. We’ll start back with the
narrative genre and review all the techniques and ingredients an engaging narrative contains. Then we’ll have a
quiz on narratives (after Jekyll). Next, we’ll spend a week or two reviewing informational and finally review opinion
for a week or two right before Milestones.
Reading: A few 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 compare and contrast two poems. Sixth graders will be learning about symbolism, iambic pentameter, sonnets, odes, ballads, and epics. Their unit
poetry test will be next Tuesday (day before Jekyll) and will have a novel test after Jekyll (once we finish the book) March
Book Logs were passed out today and are due at the end of the month. If you aren’t signing your child’s Book Log,
please make sure you see them reading their book at home. Remember the whole point is to encourage them
to be avid readers (whether it is their favorite subject or not) and to always be reading something both at home and at school. Thanks!!