Hello!  I hope you all have had a Merry Christmas and that your New Year celebrations are fabulous. Parent-Teacher conferences are by invitation.  If I did not invite you to have a conference, you can still set one up with me if you have questions or concerns or you can email me to set up a time to talk by phone!  I am looking forward to seeing you all next year!!!
Mr. Lehrer

Attention 5C!!

Make sure that if you are dressing up tomorrow like I am (I am coming as Gandalf), you also have clothes to wear outside as we will spend some time outside playing.  

I am looking forward to seeing all of my favorite literary characters come to life!

Mr Lehrer

Upcoming Tests, Assignments That Are Coming Due, and Exciting Happenings Before Christmas Break!  

1. Turn in note cards with your 3 minute speech written on them by Monday 12/14.  This will simply be a shorter version of your 5 paragraphs about your historical person.  You will have time in class to work on this.
2. History test on Monday 12/14 over the age of the explorers.  You already have a study guide and we will go over it in class.  Study this guide and you will do well on the test.  
3. There will be a Greek and Latin roots test on 12/15.  This will be over the last 25 roots that we have studied in class.  You will have time in class to study for this.
4. There will be a math test on ratios (our next short math unit) on Friday 12/18.
5. Thursday 12/17 is Literature Day where you get to dress up as your favorite literary character!  Make sure you pick one and come dressed up! I have decided to come as Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings.
6. Friday 12/18 is our Literature Feast!  

History Study Guide

History study guide from slehrer1

HISTORY TEST!!!!!

This Friday we will be having a history test over the Golden Age and the Glorious Revolution. We will be studying for this all week in class, and I will post a study guide powerpoint with which we will go over in class in detail.

Two Quizzes on Monday!

Science quiz:  

Be able to label all parts of an animal cell

Know all organelle functions

Know the six types of animal cells and where they are found

Literature Quiz:

Where the Red Fern Grows chapters 7-12

-Know your vocabulary

-Know the basic events that happened in those chapters

-Be especially familiar with the part in the book when Billy trees his first coon so that you can write a very beautiful paragraph about it!   

Animal analogies ws version from slehrer1

Tudors from slehrer1

REFORMATION HISTORY TEST WEDNESDAY!

The students have been writing paragraphs answering questions that will be on the test and they have been working on their history study guides.  They have their vocabulary lists with definitions that they are studying as well.  We will be working Monday and Tuesday to get it all nailed down!

Parent Teacher Conferences

It is time to sign up for Parent-Teacher Conferences.  Sing up here http://vols.pt/aHo6N5
The conferences will be held on the 19th and 20th of October (this month!).  Please fill the first day as much as possible before scheduling the second day.  I am looking forward to sitting down with each one of you and talking about these wonderful students!

We have been slowly working our way through this power point supplementing with worksheets.  We are at diagramming prepositional phrases.  Now we are going to spend some time just practicing recognizing prepositional phrases and then diagramming sentences with subjects, predicates, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases.  Diagramming is not only great fun, but it teaches students to become engineers with words!

Diagramming beginscomplete 1 from slehrer1

Renaissance painters sculptors 2015 from slehrer1

Renaissance in italy (2) from slehrer1

Important Dates

September 25: Dawn Treader Quiz (Ch. 13-16)

September 28: Math Quiz Bar Models &Division

September 28: Begin reading "Where the Red Fern Grows"

October 8- Animal Research Project Due

October 9- Latin & Greek Roots Quiz (1-25)

The Animal Project is Due on October 8th.  Students will do their 3 minute presentations on October 9th!  
Parents, if you already had a peek at the project packet you may have noticed that it was missing some information.  That is because we had a printing error and every other page was missing.  We are putting those pages in this morning!  We will be working on this in class over the next two weeks.  I will be updating this blog regularly to give at home help and direction for this project.

Need a refresher on multi digit multiplication? Here you go!!!

Is Long Division Confusing You? Here's Help!!

2 digit-division-1227661657892203-9 from slehrer1

Need to Review Bar Models For Word Problems?

Model drawing from slehrer1

TESTS  AND QUIZZES NEXT WEEK!

Monday: Literature Quiz
Don't sweat this quiz.  If you have been awake in class during our reading and discussions you wont' have any trouble.  Did you work hard at all on the comprehension sheets for each chapter?  This will be a piece of cake for you! Did you study the vocabulary we went over in class today?  You will breeze through this quiz.  Easy peasey!

Tuesday: Math Test
I will be testing you over order of operations, the distributive property of multiplication, and mental math addition, subtraction and multiplication.  You can do this.  I will give you problems to review.  You will practice.  And then you will come in and take this test as cool as a cucumber and you will ace it!

Fall of the Incas and Aztecs

Rise and fall of aztec and inca from slehrer1

Multiplication Facts

Are You a Multiplication Fact Wiz?  If not, check this link out for some help fast!   Don't worry, your head will not explode!

The Distributive Property

Did the the distributive property of multiplication confuse you?  Try watching this and see if it helps!

Correction!

History Test Thursday September 10th

Classification 2

5thgrade classification 2 from slehrer1

History Test 

Tuesday September 8th

The test will be over all of the power points and the quizzes we have derived from them.  We will be correcting all quizzes and ensuring that these form a great study guide for all students.  I will also ensure that all students make flash cards to study from.  In addition, the primary sources for the test are the power points and they are posted on this blog each day after we work through them.  So don't worry about the test.  I will help you prepare.  Your job is just to work hard and be happy!

5thgrade classification 1 from slehrer1

Incas

The inca from slehrer1

Fragments and Run-ons

Writing effective sentences runons frags stringy ch 18 (1) from slehrer1

The Aztecs

The aztecs from slehrer1

Power Points!

Th e mayans from slehrer1

Science Test Canceled!  Yay!!

Dear students and parents,

I am canceling the science test for this first unit.  I am working with a new science curriculum and I do not think I did an adequate job teaching the material in this first unit.  I will do a better job of preparing you now that I am getting a clearer understanding of the goals of this curriculum.  The result will be that I will be able to test the students over the material.  But I will never test my students over material that I have not taught adequately.  So, rest easy in that there is no science test this week.  But get ready for better and better science lessons and for fair testing over the lessons I give you!  I love all of my students in 5c, and thank you again, parents, for loaning your wonderful kids to me each day!

Mr. Lehrer

Name: ________________________                        #: ________________            Date: _______________

World Lakes Study Guide

Your test will be on Wednesday, August 26, 2015. The test will be comprised of 15 multiple- choice questions, five true/ false questions, knowing all of the locations of the lakes and one short- answer question.

Directions: Answer each question in complete sentences. The more accuracy and detail you provide, the better you will do on your test.

1. Where is Lake Tanganyika? What does it provide for its people? What is significant about its shape?

Lake Tanganyika is a long lake and touches the boundaries of four different countries- Zaire, Tanzania, Burundi, and Zambia.  It provides its people water, food, and all that they need to make a living.  It’s long and narrow shape is significant because it is located in a rift valley which is a long narrow depression where tectonic plates have shifted leaving a place for water to gather.

2. Where is Lake Victoria? How did it gain its name? What surrounds Lake Victoria and why are they important?

Lake Victoria, named after Queen Victoria (queen of England in the 1800’s, when the first Europeans came to the lake), is located in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.  It is surrounded by game reserves or areas set aside by the government where animals are protected from hunters.

3. Where is Lake Chad? How is it different from the other lakes on the same continent?\

Lake Chad is shared by several countries.  Chad, Niger, Nigeria, and Cameroon each have a part of the shore of Lake Chad.  It is different from other lakes because it is very shallow.

4. Where is Lake Titicaca? What surrounds the lake? What is life like around the lake?

Lake Titicaca is on the border of Peru and Bolivia in South America and is shared by both countries.  Along the shore of Lake Titicaca are ancient ruins of a civilization whose people lived hundreds of years before the Inca Indians!  Life around the lake is agricultural.  It involves the raising of llamas for wool and use in working the land.  The people grow hundreds of varieties of potatoes.  The people around the lake also wear and sell colorful wool sweaters, scarves, hats and blankets.

5. Where is Lake Maracaibo? What surrounds the lake? How is it different from the other lake on the same continent?

Lake Maracaibo is in Venezuela.  It is different than Lake Titicaca in that it is not really a lake, because it is not completely surrounded by land.  Instead, it is a gulf.  A gulf is a part of an ocean extending into land.

6. Where are the Great Lakes? List a few facts about the lakes? How are they connected (if they are connected)?

The great lakes are in the country of Canada and in the United States. In the U.S. they are in several states.   These include: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.  They are connected by canals (waterways made by people) and boats use locks (parts of canals that have gates for lowering and raise the water level)

7. Where is the Aral Sea? What is unique about it?

The Aral Sea is found on the border of Kazahkstan and Uzbekistan.  It is unique in that the lake is shrinking.   The volume of the Aral seas has decreased by 75 percent in the last few decades.

8. Where is the Caspian Sea? What is unique about it? How was it used for trade?

The Caspian Sea is in Iran, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan.  It is unique in that it is a salt water lake.  A lake has slat water if its water evaporates more quickly than rivers can bring in new water.  When water evaporates, it leaves behind salts and minerals.  People travel across it from Asia into Europe and back for trade and today it is found to be rich in oil.

9. Where is Lake Baikal? How is it different from any other lake in the world?

Lake Baikal is a very deep lake located in Siberia.  It is incredibly clear and it is the deepest lake in the world.   In this one lake there is enough water to fill all five of the great lakes until they overflow.

 Mistakes for you to find in the answer key:

 - "It’s long and narrow shape" should be "Its long and narrow shape"

- "A lake has slat water" sould be "A lake has salt water"
- "enough water to fill all five of the great lakes" should be "enough water to fill all five of theGreat Lakes"

*You must also know all of the vocabulary words in the chapter. 

Mr. Lehrer’s 5th Grade Class! Week of August 17-21, 2015

 I hope that your child had an excellent first week of school! If you have any questions regarding the classroom, feel free to email me.

This year the students will have a 30 minute Lyceum (Study Hall/ Reading Enrichment) time four days a week (not Wednesday) from 2:50- 3:20. This time will be used for various activities including, but not limited to: reading instruction (if deemed necessary), homework/study hall, silent reading, read alouds, and tutoring (if deemed necessary). This will give more opportunity for other after-school activities for the students.

Curriculum Night is approaching quickly! On Wednesday, September 2^nd at 6:30-8pm, parents of 3^rd- 5^th graders are invited to their child’s classroom to learn about the daily routine, classroom expectations, and yearly curriculum. On that evening, we ask that you don’t bring your children. Thank you for your understanding.

Reminders:

• The students need their own copy of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
• If you are coming on campus to volunteer, you must sign in with the front desk. You must also have fingerprint clearance through Great Hearts.
• All Wednesdays are early release days. Archway students will be dismissed at 12:30pm. We will not have lunch on Wednesdays. Those students who stay after school for clubs or Athenaeum may bring their own lunch to eat.  If you plan on having your child stay after school in study club, or any other offered club, you must sign up and pay for these clubs. Please check the weekly Headmaster Updates for more information. 

Class Wish List: Large dispenser of hand sanitizer, anti-bacterial wipes, and red pencils. Fulfilling these wishes will really help to make our classroom run smoothly.

Paper Towel/ Kleenex Rotation: Every month, a new group of families will be responsible for bringing in one box of Kleenex and one roll of paper towels. This will be announced in the weekly newsletter. The Month of September will be any family with a last name starting with the letter A or B. Please be aware that you may be asked to send in these materials more than once this year. Thank you! This Week: Language Arts: We will start reviewing our phonograms and proper letter formation in Spalding and begin reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  We will have a comprehension quiz on the first four chapters of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. History: We will continue to study the great lakes of the world, specifically the lakes of North America and Eurasia.  We will have a test on the material on Wednesday, August 26th. Science: We will continue our pursuit of Scientific Inquiry and have a test on Tuesday, August 25th. Math: We will learn how to estimate numbers to different place values and how to approximate answer in addition, subtraction, and multiplication problems. Upcoming Events -August 24: Dawn Treader Comprehension quiz (Ch.1-4) -August 25: Great Lakes of the World Test August 26: Science Test -September 2: Curriculum Night (3-5) 6:30pm- 8:00pm -September 7: No School September 17: Singapore Math Night (6:30-7:30)

Welcome to fifth grade!

          Hello fifth grade families and welcome to Mr. Lehrer's 5C class website! This website will be an important place to check for upcoming events, volunteer opportunities and the location of my weekly newsletter (which will be posted every Monday afternoon). Please check the website at least once a week in order to ensure you are up to date with your child's classroom. You can sign up for blog updates by entering your email address in the "Follow by Email" section to the right of the page. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at slehrer@archwaylincoln.org. I am looking forward to an excellent year!