Remote Learning Update

Hello Fifth Grade Families!

We hope that you and your loved ones are doing well and are healthy during these crazy times. As many of you have read the message from Superintendent Williams, the structure of remote learning will be changing to benefit families and students.

The new structure will consist of STEM content on Mondays and Wednesdays, and Humanities content on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The work for the day will be posted at 6:00 AM that morning, and will be due by midnight that evening. The goal is to make the Google Classroom more manageable and easier to find material needed for the day.

There will be two optional Zoom meetings held each week for students to participate in and ask questions if they would like. Students do not need their own Zoom accounts to participate in these meetings!!  A STEM Zoom will be Monday mornings 8:45-10:00, and Humanities Zoom will be Wednesday mornings 8:45-10:00. Once again, participation in the Zoom meetings are completely optional. Students do not need to be logged into the Zoom for the entire time. Just as needed, and also for short drop-ins if they have any questions. They can stay in the meeting the entire time if desired as well.

The students will see their work on the Classwork portion of Google Classroom. Each day they will be asked to check in for their daily attendance and let us know how they are doing. The district is working on sending something to parents and guardians to help the school keep track of attendance as well.

Google Classroom has an option for parents and guardians to have access to get information on their student’s work for the week. The information you would receive includes what work is missing from the week, what they have turned in, and what they have due. If you would like access to this information, please respond to this email and we will add you to both Humanities and STEM classes.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns. We are here to help!

Kindly,

Ms. Kelleher and Ms. Moran

Full Steam Ahead!

Hello 5th Grade Families,

Can you believe it's already April?! We are missing everyone, but it has been wonderful to still hear from families through emails, calls, and see everyone's creativity in videos. Thank you to all who completed the Survey for 5th grade, and helped us understand how to move forward as a 5th grade team. We are working with your feedback to come up with some plans to move forward, and best help your family during this time. 

Also, the school will be sending a permission form for your student to use Zoom. Zoom is a great tool for students to interact, check-in, and ask questions while video-conferencing with teachers and learning coaches. More news will be coming soon for how 5th grade will be using Zoom.

Below is the task sheet for all work that needs to be completed between this week and next week. 
Please check on STEM and Humanities' blog pages to see updates from teachers. 


Daily Task Completion Sheet (4/6-4/17)

 Please let us know if you have any questions, we are here to help!   

Warmly,
Ms. Moran and Ms. Kelleher  

Superheroes of Fifth Grade

Hello 5th Grade Families!

All of the Fifth Grade Team will be reaching out to families throughout the week to check in and see how they are doing and how their work is going. We are here to support you and your students! Please do not hesitate reaching out to us, we are here to help!

Please feel free to send us pictures of your superhero!

Here is the line-up for the League of Remote Learning! (See what we did there? 🤣)

Mr. D (AKA Batman)

 

Mrs. B (AKA Wonder Woman)

Ms. Kelleher and Ms. Moran (AKA the Wonder Twins)


Kindly,
The League of Remote Learning

Fifth Grade Schedule

Hello Families,

Where to begin? This surely is an interesting way to start the final trimester of school. There are many emotions that we are all having with the recent events, but we hope that this letter and packet can provide some comfort and answers to your questions. We want to first start off by saying that we will miss the students greatly over the next few weeks and look forward to seeing everyone. We are sad that we were not able to properly say goodbye/see you soon. We are going to miss our fun bunch of fifth graders!

For academic logistics, underneath this letter is a schedule for classwork that is expected upon school return. There is a combination of Google Classroom work, blog Videos to watch, and math journal work to complete. We will hold unofficial office hours from 2:00-4:00 PM Monday through Friday and can be easily contacted via email if parents or students have questions about their assignments.

Inside this folder, I have included many items that I think will be helpful to you.  You will find a school schedule for home, a daily task completion sheet, a list of websites/apps that teachers approve, and some paper and pencil tasks and Google Classroom work for your child to complete.

We are only an email away. Please contact us at mmoran@rivendellschool.org or mkelleher@rivendellschool.org whenever you have a need. We cannot wait to see the fantastic fifth graders soon!

Schedule Document                 Additional Work Document 

Sincerely,

Melissa Kelleher and Maureen Moran

Trimester 2 Conferences

Hello Fifth Grade Families!

Conference Season is upon us! The official date for conferences is Friday, March 20, however, families can sign up for earlier dates! This trimester families will be only meeting with their student's homeroom teacher, but can request an additional conference with the other teacher upon request.

Please follow the link below to sign up!
https://www.ptcfast.com/schools/Samuel_Morey

Best,
Ms. Kelleher and Ms. Moran

Welcome Back!

Hello 5th Grade Families!

Welcome back! We hope that your breaks were relaxing and fun! As we are heading into our first full week of school for the new year, we wanted to reach out to remind you that the Winter Ski/Snowboard Program is set to begin this Thursday, January 9. Please be sure to make sure that if your child is participating in this program that all of your paperwork has been turned in to the school ASAP.

Warmly,
Ms. Kelleher and Ms. Moran

Color Cycle at SME

Hello Families,

Mrs. Johnson introduced the Color Cycle project here at SME at the beginning of the year to prevent dried up markers from going to the landfill. Fifth Grade offered to count how many markers SME has recycled throughout the year. To this date, 11/26, everyone at school has kept 531 markers out of the landfill and has recycled them via the Color Cycle program! Amazing job!!

Below is a chart that categorizes the numbers of each color that was recycled.

Warmly,
Ms. Kelleher and Ms. Moran

Pajama Day Wednesday

Hello Fifth Grade Families!

In celebration of a short week and all the hard work the fifth graders have done, we would like to have a fifth grade Pajama Day this upcoming Wednesday, November 27th. Please make sure that your student comes to school prepared for outside recess!

Warmly,
Ms. Kelleher and Ms. Moran

Upcoming Concert Information

Hello Fifth Grade Families!

Wednesday, December 11th is the fifth and sixth grade Winter Concert! The concert will begin at 6:30 in the gymnasium at SME. Students will be dropped off in their classrooms before the concert begins and will be picked up from their classrooms after the performance.

Below are the links to the songs the students will be performing so they can practice at home!

Sing-A-Long: (Song)    (Lyrics)

Falling Snow: (Song)   (Lyrics)

It's Snow Wonder: (Song)    (Lyrics)

Warmly,
Ms. Kelleher, and Ms. Moran

Upcoming Assessments

Hello Families,

Tomorrow we have our second unit assessment in math. Please click on the link below to review practice problems we went over in class. It would be helpful to go over these problems and make similar problems for your student(s) to prepare for the assessment!

Unit 2 Review Questions

Next Tuesday (11/26) there will be a Social Studies test, please check in with your student to prepare for this!

Best,
Ms. Kelleher and Ms. Moran

Intervention Schedules

Hello Fifth Grade Families,

Wow! Just like that conference time is over. You can expect report cards to be mailed home December 9th.
Starting next week we will be incorporating Intervention and Extension activities in our schedule on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday each week. Over the course of a four week schedule, groups of students will be working either with Ms. Moran or Ms. Kelleher on math or language arts activities to enhance their learning and understanding in these concepts. Each group will meet with the teacher almost daily for two weeks. Once the four weeks are complete then groups will be changed and the Intervention process will continue.

As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to us!

Warmly,
Ms. Kelleher and Ms. Moran

Conferences This Week!

Hello Families!

Conference week is finally here! Tomorrow your students will be given reminder sheets for your conference dates and times! Please be sure to check bags for these! Conferences in fifth grade will be happening Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. These will be traditional 3-way-conferences, where your students will lead the discussion for how they are doing in class. We have slightly changed the model for the conferences. Instead of meeting with only your child's advisory teacher, you will be meeting with both Ms. Moran and Ms. Kelleher for 15 minutes each. This allows teachers and parents to communicate and supply additional comments on student behavior and achievements in class.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns!

Best,
Ms. Kelleher and Ms. Moran

Parent Teacher Conferences

Hello Families!

How exciting that we are almost halfway through October! Crazy! Conferences are right around the corner. Sign-up sheets will be going home soon. Stay tuned and check backpacks!


Warmly,
Ms. Kelleher and Ms. Moran

Upcoming Events

Hello Fifth Grade Families,

Lots of exciting things are coming up for SME. This Thursday, from 6:00-7:00 PM, we will be having our Curriculum Night! We look forward to seeing you there!

Next Tuesday, October 8, will be SME's All School Hike. A permission slip went home last week. Please be sure to sign and return that slip ASAP.

Lastly, this upcoming Wednesday, October 2, fifth graders will be finishing up their scarecrows that we have been working on in class. We would love to have parent volunteers come in and help us finish and put the scarecrows out around our school's campus! Please email us if you are available and would like to come join us!

Best,
Ms. Kelleher and Ms. Moran

Updates

Hello 5th grade families,
     It has been an exciting start to the school year! We would like to thank our students for the hard work they have put into the new school year. In class, we have seen a lot of new and positive friendships as the Samuel Morey and Westshire classes have merged. We will continue to work and develop these new relationships through bonding activities in the coming weeks.  
     Also, we want to reach out to families about 5th grade's homework policy. We believe that homework is an important tool that helps students practice and improve skills outside of school. Important things to keep in mind:

-Students should expect to have homework every night.
-This work should not take more than 30 minutes if the student is focused.
-On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday students will receive homework in Humanities.
-On Tuesday and Thursday students will have homework in STEM.
-If students do not turn in homework, their guardian/ parent(s) will receive a phone-call in addition to losing points for the assignment

     Please reach out if you have any questions about this policy. 

      Also, we have received questions about volunteering in the classroom. If you or another adult in the school community would like to volunteer please use the link below to complete a volunteer form! We are excited to collaborate with the community! 

     Volunteer Form Link: https://forms.gle/YjXCs7Pnf9yHJgMc8 

Best,

Ms. Kelleher and Ms. Moran

mkelleher@rivendellschool.org
mmoran@rivendellschool.org