KE Boosters Beef and Noodle Meal

Please join Kalona Elementary Parent Boosters for a

Beef and Noodle Meal

And

Homemade Dessert Auction

Fundraiser

Please mark your calendars and join us on Saturday, December 8th at M-P Middle School for a fun evening! Beef and noodles, green beans, bread and dessert will be served from 5pm-7pm in the cafeteria. Cost for the meal will be a free will donation. The live auction will begin at 7pm in the gym. All items being auctioned will be homemade and include cheesecakes, pies, specialty cakes and cinnamon rolls. Invite grandparents, neighbors and friends for a fun evening!

We need your help to make the fundraiser a success. If you are willing to donate supplies for the meal, please complete the form your child brought home today and return by Wednesday, November 21st! The committee will contact you with further directions for your donations. THANK YOU!

Please contact Bobbie Peiffer with questions at cherry@kctc.net.

American Education Week

American Education Week is November 11-17, 2012

The 2012 Motto is: Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility

Monday, Nov. 12 – Wear your favorite sweatshirt day
Wed., Nov. 14 – Wear red, white, and blue day
Fri., Nov. 16 – Black and Gold or School Logo shirt day

Science

We have started our new science unit, The Mysterious Powders.  We will also be exploring matter throughout the unit.  Near the end, the students will again have an opportunity to design and set up their own tests.  In the first couple of lessons, students were examining known and unknown objects and made a list of what science skills they will be using throughout this unit.  Some of those skills included asking questions, measuring, observing, estimating, experimenting, discussion, collaboration, and many more!

Fall Party

Miss Roettenbacher planned some fun games for us during our fall party. . .we learned to play Haunted House and Giants, Elves, and Wizards--the kids had a blast!!

Math

It has been a division marathon in 5th grade math!  We have practiced both the partial quotients algorithm, as well as, long division.  We will be taking the Unit 4 math test next week.  We have also explored tangrams and learned about their history.  Tangrams are a form of an ancient Chinese puzzle that includes 7 "tans" (2 large right triangles, 1 medium right triangle, 2 small right triangles, a medium square, and a parallelogram) to build and create different shapes.  Our first task was to create a square using all 7 tans--this was a task that was MUCH harder than it sounds!

Iowa Assessments

Iowa Assessments start on Monday, October 29th.  Please make sure that your child gets plenty of sleep at night and a good breakfast each morning.  We will be testing in the morning, usually between the times of 9:30 and 11:30, thought it will vary a little each day.  Just a reminder. . .there will be NO HOMEWORK and NO SPELLING during testing.  Each student is still expected to read for 15-20 minutes each night and get their planner signed.

Unit 4--Division

We started Unit 4 in math today. . .Division.  Based on the pretest scores we have a lot of review to do; I heard a lot of "I don't know how to do division" or "I don't remember how to do this!"  We will be using the partial quotients method from our Everyday Math series, as well as, the long division algorithm.  Both ways are taught and practiced and the student can choose whichever one works best for them.  If you would like to learn and/or review the partial quotients division algorithm go to:

https://www.everydaymathonline.com
(try typing the link into your browser instead of clicking on it)

1.  Click on Free Resources (bottom right hand corner)
2.  Click on ALGORITHMS IN EVERYDAY MATH
3.  Choose GRADE 5
4.  Choose DIVISION
5.  Choose PARTIAL QUOTIENTS DIVISION (FOCUS)
6.  Choose 3 DIGIT DIVIDEND BY 1 DIGIT AND 3 DIGIT DIVIDEND BY 2 DIGIT

You can also go to:

http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/parents

At this site, the algorithm tutorials are along the left hand side.  On this site you can also find games, the family letters, any time activities, etc.