Ms. Masserant's 5th Grade
Our Mission: Monroe Catholic Elementary Schools is a Christ centered, Catholic learning community committed to the academic excellence and spiritual development of every student.
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Reminders:
- Turn in your BoxTops!! The class with the most turned in by Oct. 25th wins a pajama comfy cozy day!!!
- If you have dead, dried up markers, please give them to your child to recycle. We are recycling any marker that is no good anymore. Doesn't matter the brand. The markers are recycled into fuel!
- Buddy Activity- Mass and then making Rosaries with our Kindergarten Buddies, Monday, the 22nd. Students may wear tennis shoes with their uniform if they wish. Please make sure they are dressed warm. We will be walking to St. Mikes.
- End of 1st Quarter is Tuesday, the 23rd.
- We are planning the Mass for this Wednesday. Please join us at St. Mary's at 8:15am.
- Field Trip, Wednesday, the 24th to St. Johns for Detroit Red Wing Presentation. Permission slips are due Monday, the 22nd.
- 2nd Quarter begins Wednesday, the 24th.
- No School, Friday, the 26th (MCES PD Day)
- MCES PTO Trunk or Treat 4pm on 10/28
- All School Mass Nov. 1st at St. Marys
- Susie's Popcorn Order Pick up date is Nov. 1st at St. Mikes from 2:30-5:30
- Fall Raffle Tickets due Tuesday, Nov. 6th
Dear Families,
Grandparents Day was successful and so much fun! The students and Grandparents really enjoyed it. I was happy to see such a great turnout. You will be receiving an email to sign-up for Parent-Teacher Conferences. If the times fill up and you don't have other choices, if you want to meet with me, I can always schedule a time after school. For Halloween, I am going to show a movie and the students can bring in candy for the movie; which will be Wednesday afternoon, the 31st. I would also like to have a donut bar where students can create their own donut. I will be sending an email through sign-up genius. This week is going to be a short, fun-filled week! Grades are due the 29th so I will be getting everything graded and making sure that the students are all caught up with assignments. Thank you for a great first quarter!
Important Note: In the past few weeks, I have had many students in both 5th grade classes repeatedly have missing assignments and not putting their name on papers. I was taking a point off the assignment when they didn't put their name on their paper. I've decided as of Oct. 10th, I am going to take away an effort point when I have a missing assignment or they don't put their name on their paper. I had a long conversation about responsibility, effort, and grades with both classes last week. I told them that they will all start with 100 points (100%) in effort. I told them that I care about all of them and I want them to do their best. I'm trying to prepare them for next year and the years after that. I know it's not easy and they won't master it, but they need to continue working hard. I remind them every time I am passing out an assignment to put their name on it first. For my class, I am going to be checking planners every day again instead of spot checking. They need to be filling them out and getting parent initials. I told them that it's their responsibility to ask for parent initials, not the parents responsibility.
Important Note: If you're child ever needs to stay after school to ask questions or get help with work, I am here to help them. My goal is to leave school at 3:45. As long as I don't have a meeting or have to leave for anything else, they can stay after any day.
If your child gets 2 or more wrong on an assignment, quiz or test, they are allowed to do corrections. When corrections are made and are correct; they will receive 1/2 pt credit. Corrections are not allowed for journals.
Most importantly, please keep Addie Bressler and her family in your continued thoughts and prayers. Myself, along with Mrs. Liz Shafer are going to be working with her and her family to give her the best care for her education and will be doing everything we can and when we can to involve her with the class via technology.
Thank you for your continued support and patience. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at masserant@monroecatholicschools.com.
Below, at the bottom of my website, you will find important files that you may need.
Have a Blessed Week!
Miss Masserant
Week of Oct. 22nd - 26th
Monday - No Band (Field Trip)/DARE
Tuesday - Gym
Wednesday - Mass/Art
Thursday - Tech
Friday- No School
Monday - No Band (Field Trip)/DARE
Tuesday - Gym
Wednesday - Mass/Art
Thursday - Tech
Friday- No School
ELA Read Aloud: We are reading Wonder for our read aloud. The students are loving this story and they are answering comprehension questions for each chapter as we are reading it.
Reading: They should be reading 20 minutes every day. Students will be working on October Task Cards this week in class. Every student will get a copy of the task cards. If they don't finish them in class, they will need to finish them at home. They are due, Wednesday, the 31st. Grammar: Writing: Students are writing daily in their journals. I really enjoy reading them every day. Important notice about English Tests: Students will not receive a study guide for English tests. To study, they need to review their notes; they can practice any of the exercises that are in the lessons; review the end of the unit review problems from the book (they have the answers in their ELA notebook); worksheets they did for homework; and/or use the online review games. To use the online review game, go to www.voyagesinenglish.com. Once you are there go to parent and student resources and then select grade 5. Students then click the correct unit that they will be tested on. We will also play the review game in class, so they will be familiar on how to navigate the website. |
Spelling/Vocabulary Words
Unit 2 Packet will be due Wednesday, the 24th. Unit 2 Test will be Thursday the 25th. We have no school on Friday, the 26th. Please make sure that your child is studying the spelling of these words every day.
Unit 2 Words and Definitions: 1. abandon - to give up on completely; to leave with no intention of returning 2. assault - a violent attack 3. convert - to change from one form to another 4. dispute - to argue, debate, quarrel over; to question or doubt the truth of 5. impressive - having a strong effect, commanding attention 6. justify - to show to be fair or right; to give good reasons for 7. misleading - tending to give a wrong idea, often on purpose 8. numerous - many or very many 9. productive - making or capable of making large amounts of; giving good results 10. shrewd - showing clever judgment and practical understanding 11. strategy - a carefully made plan or plot; a plan of military operations 12. villain - an evil or wicked person or character, especially in a story or play |
Religion
On Tuesday, we will be having Deacon Mike Stewart coming to our class to talk to us about vocations and his vocation as a deacon. On Wednesday, we are planning our first Mass. Thursday the students will be doing a group activity that has to do with the seven sacraments. For extra study practice, your child can go to religion.sadlierconnect.com. Click on the purple box (Sadlier Religion Resources), scroll towards the bottom and select We Believe Project Disciple K-6. From there, click on the We Believe, Grade 5. Once you click that, there are study guide options and games and study aids for each chapter of each unit.
Social Studies
We are going to be working on Ch. 2 which is about American Indians and their land. We are going to explore how the American Indians came to North America, where they came from and how they survived before Columbus discovered them. If your student doesn't finish the assigned section in class, it's their responsibility to finish it at home. If they forgot how to log in, the log-in information is below. Any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
To log on to TCI, you must put masserant for the teacher username. The student's username is their first name and their passwords are school. Please email me if there is an issue.
Science
We will be discussing careers in Science specifically Prosthetic Designers. I'm hoping to do an experiment on Thursday. If we don't get to it, we will be doing it next week.
Math
See Mrs. Jones webpage.
