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Can you believe it? Our first trimester is coming to an end. We are almost there! What that means for you.. Report Cards and conferences! We will be discussing a lot of things at your conference, and most importantly checking in on your scholars progress so far this year! Please look in your scholar's next Monday Mailer for the conference slip that is being sent home. Please fill out your top three choices for conference time and I will do my best to assign you that time. Please remember that these times are a first come first serve, so make sure to get your form in as soon as possible. For your convenience, I have schedule quite a few times outside of the scheduled conference time, so understand that these…

Let's move on! Dividing decimals is just like long division, again you just need to move the decimal point in order to complete the problem. Take a look as Khan Academy walks you through it. You can also get some long division refreshers on the site while you're there. Khan Academy- Dividing Decimals

Our first fundraiser is coming home next week in your scholar's Monday Mailer. We are selling Little Caesers pizza kits and your scholar personally earns 5-6 dollars on every kit that they sell. I have had students that have paid for their entire trip to camp through this fundraiser! Please understand that that is not the expectation. Although, I would advise spending a bit of time on this fundraiser as it will really help you out! This is not our only fundraiser for the year however, there are a few more out there that will also be helpful to you! Important Dates:  Order Forms Due: November 1st Pizza Kits Delivered on: November 7th *Remember all orders must be received in Cash. No checks will be accepted.

We have finished adding and subtracting decimals and we are moving on to multiplying and dividing decimals. To start, I will just include the multiplying decimals videos to help you out! Multiplying decimals is just like the standard algorithm. Lining them up and then multiplying one digit at a time. The only thing that is different is the decimal point, which you are going to forget about until the end of the problem when you count the amount of spaces that you need to move the decimals point. These videos go into quite a bit of detail which will help you throughout the chapter. Khan Academy- Multiplying Decimals

Good Afternoon Parents, My goal throughout the year is to put some homework help on here so that you are able to assist your student with their homework. Sometimes, there may be something you forgot from your own schooling and sometimes, we may go about achieving the problem different ways, that's ok! We don't want to confuse the student, so as long as they understand the concept, that's ok by me! Now that we are diving full force into the school year and getting started on some real content, we are starting with Decimals! I hope you find the following videos helpful! Remember- When adding and subtracting decimals, you need to make sure that the decimal point is always lined up! Khan Academy- Adding Decimals Khan Academy- Subtracting Decimals

Good Afternoon Parents, As Ms. Nickel said in her Sunday E-mail, we are beginning to MAP Test all students this week. We take this test so early in the year so that we can get an accurate gauge of where the student is academically coming into 5th grade. This will help me get to know your student's abilities a little bit better and make up some of their learning goals for the year. Some students have worked very hard on their summer learning materials and may have made progress over the summer, while others unfortunately may have lost some of the information they learned in 4th grade last year. Now, Why is this important to you? There are several things that you can do in order to make sure that…

Hi! I am so excited to be sharing this page with you. Throughout this school year you will be referring back to this page often as I will be updating it with all of the information you're going to need to survive 5th grade! Here, both students and parents will find resources to help you with a variety of different things. Students you will find links to websites that you can use to practice everything that we are doing in class including things that you missed while you were absent. Parents you will find things such as documents for field trips and homework tips to help your students! You will be able to download documents and print them from home when you need a copy and your student forgets it…