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From now until school starts on the 29th, you can keep up to date on what’s happening. Be sure to follow our classroom blog: http://cantone5.blogspot.com/

5-CANTONEClass of 2020

Visit our classroom website!: https://sites.google.com/a/sau16.org/cantoneclassroom/

WELCOME TO 5TH GRADE!Hello Explorers, Scientists, Historians, Authors, Artists & Innovators!

I hope you are as excited to receive this letter as I am to send it. As you know by now, we will be spending your 5th grade year together. 5th grade is full of amazing learning opportunities and topics. I can’t wait to get started!

A good theme for this year is “Discovery & Exploration”. We will bring the world to our classroom with virtual field trips, expert visits to the classroom, and plenty of hands on activities in our own backyard. We’ll uncover what it was like to navigate the world during the “Age of Exploration” , and what it took to turn America

into the country we know today. We’ll explore the world outside of the classroom for adventures in colonial and revolutionary America, ecology and, of course, at Sargent Camp (just to name a few!).

I’m eager to learn more about you. When you have a free moment, please log onto our classroom website (you can get there through the 5th grade site) and take the “Student Survey”. Try to do this before school starts. We’ll use the info the first day!

It’s going to be a great year! I’m so glad you’re joining us.

Happy Learning!

Mrs. Cantone

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What’s new in 5th Grade?

Fifth grade is a year focused on preparing you for your journey to the middle school and your lifelong learning beyond Swasey. With this in mind, several things will be “bumped up” from 4th grade - especially the expectation of responsibility. You will need to be responsible for yourself, your choices, your work, and your learning this year.

We will have several long term projects over the course of the year. You will need to help manage, plan, and complete each along with regular, daily homework assignments. Fifth graders also have to adjust to different teachers for Science and Math units throughout the year. For many reasons, it will be important to be organized. We’ll spend much of September setting ourselves up for success through good organizational strategies.

There will be lots of opportunity to stretch your wings as a learner this year as well. You’ll discover new things about yourself as a community member, a friend, a school leader, and as a person. We will be sure to have lots of fun along the way too!

Throughout the year, you will have choices to make in what you explore and discover and how you share your learning with others. Be prepared to connect what interests you outside of school - sports, dance, nature, music, whatever(!) - to your work in the classroom.

We are fortunate to have many technology resources available to us this year. We’ll learn using digital cameras, green screens (learn more about this on our website!), laptops, netbooks, ipods & ipads, blogs, wikis, website creation, and much more. Speaking of adventures - hold onto your hatS (with a capital S!). You’ll wear many of them this year as you try jobs such as tutorial designer, official scribe, researcher, collaboration coordinator, news broadcaster, and curriculum reviewer.

With all of the learning and hard work we’ll do this year, we need to keep our brains fueled! Our classroom DOES allow (all day) grazing on healthy snacks (only). Be sure to pack additional snacks to keep your brain running all day! Water packed in a re-useable, plastic bottle (marked with your name) is also welcome in our room. Additionally, to keep our hardworking brain focused, please feel free to bring in sugar free gum to chew throughout the day.

I’M HUNGRY!

Our work this year

will include collaborating locally and

globally.

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This year, we’ll explore the world - past & present with tools of the future....We will connect to the world virtually

(through blogs, book clubs,

website creation, etc), and in person (through field trips -

like the one to Camp Lincoln

at the START of the year!).

We’ll also learn how the world,

as we know it today, was

discovered, mapped, and governed

throughout history. We’ll uncover

how (and why) America was formed. We’ll also think about

how the environmental choices

we make today will affect the

world we leave for future

generations.

5TH GRADE SCIENCE WORLD STUDIES MATH LITERACY

* Ecology* Scientific

Method* Respiratory &

Circulatory Systems

* Chemistry

* Geography* Government* European

Explorers* Colonial

America* American

Revolution

* Fractions & decimals

* Multidigit multiplication and division

* Geometry* Using data* Ratios & rates

* Metacognition* Inference * Determining

importance* Summarizing * Synthesizing * Non-fiction * Memoirs * Blogs

For more on 5th grade curriculum,

please visit our website!

OLD & NEW

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Swasey

One Small Step for 5th Grade...This year, you’ll also leave your first footprints as a digital citizen and global learner. We’ll learn what it takes to be a safe, positive,

contributing member of a classroom and virtual community in the 21st century.

We will take what we know as readers and writers and apply it to larger audiences in the form of virtual literature

circles, bloggers, and reporters.

We’ll also set foot outside of the classroom on field trips and special activities!

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3 10 Random Facts About Room 2

We don’t have desks...even the teacher!

Our classroom jobs are unlike any others you’ve done before...the chores, on the other hand, are definitely things you’ve done before.

We Skype with other classrooms, people, authors, places often throughout the year.

Hard work always pays off.

We work together often in lots of different ways inside and outside of the classroom.

Our class mascot(s) are the minions from “Despicable Me”. You’ll find them in the strangest places.

We do LOTS of academic simulations. You’ll get to be an EXPLORER, COLONIST, and REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER.

You can eat & drink all day as long as it’s healthy and not near electronics.

We create every day.

You’ll get to choose a lot of what you study, read, and do!

10 Random Facts about Mrs. Cantone

10. Her family is made up of all boys (and her), including her husband, her crazy but adorable son, Rocco; two dogs: a severely overweight Golden Retriever named “Bear”, and a cat-and-child-herding border collie named “Max”; and a kitty named Fenway.

9. Her favorite color is lime green. 8. She still has the name plaque her 5th grade

teacher gave to her on the first day of 5th grade.

7. Her biggest pet peeve is when people chew with their mouth open. Especially gum. Yuck!

6. She secretly wishes she could have a classroom pet guinea pig.

5. Her favorite author is Roald Dahl. 4. She loves to paint, draw, and create. 3. She has a HUGE collection of Crayola stuff -

both vintage and new. It’s an obsession. 2. Halloween is her favorite holiday...but she

hates scary movies. 1. She is a lifelong learner.

Copyright 2010 Despicable MeIllusion EntertainmentUniversal Studios

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Here are a few other items you might like to have for the year:

Highly recommended items: 2” plain binder (clear front sleeves are great!)

2 packages of hole punched wide ruled white paper3 packs of insertable, write on dividers (5 subject packs)

Recommended items: GRAPH PAPER notebook (Staples has these) - 1cm squares are

larger work best. Index cards (100 or more) - we’ll use these for research and

writing throughout the yearTHIN wipeboard markers (2-3)

Markers (thick and/or thin)Colored pencils

Pencils Ruler (with inches and cm)

Erasers (pencil tops are great!)Large, sturdy zipper bag (to hold pencils, coloring materials, etc.)

2-3 Pens (for correcting - bold colors are best)

Highlighter Family Google Account (see website for more information!)

CONNECT!

Email Mrs. Cantone with any questions about

supplies : acantone@sau16.org

www.edmodo.com Class Code: 97hnp1

CantoneClass

www.diigo.com/user/cantoneclass

Please take a moment to join our class Edmodo group

PARENT HOMEWORK!

That’s right, you read correctly!

Please give your PARENTS this

homework! Ask them to log onto our

classroom website and:

1) Follow the link on our

website to our blog and

enter your email address

in the subscribe box. This

way, you’ll receive an email

anytime our class website is

updated.

2) Take the parent

survey on our class

website. Follow the link

on the home page. or

find the survey under

“Home” and

“Parent

Resources” or by

following the link

on the home page.

Oh, right...you have homework too (sorry!):

Don’t forget to complete the

Reading and Math assignments given

at the end of last school year. If you

need a reminder log onto our website

under the homework section.

Math facts will be VERY important

this year! Be sure to take time to practice

BEFORE school starts!

MRS. CANTONEc/o Swasey Central School

355 Middle Road

Brentwood, NH 03833