Congratulations to our class for receiving the First "Cleanest Classroom" Award from the Simonton custodial staff. Keep up the great job class.
We are starting our division section in math so students really need to make sure that they know their multiplication facts. In reading we are working on comprehension and our Reading enrichment groups will be working on a literature study. We are wrapping up our unit on Native Americans and will be taking our test at the end of the week. Make sure you student has their study guide with them to review for the test. We also have a new writing prompt for this week and we are focusing on VOICE as well as remembering what was required for CONVENTIONS.
I would like to thank the parents for supporting our school book fair and also ordering from the scholastic book clubs. September's order is in and the students will be getting October orders next week.

Class News

spelling words for sept 13

Spelling List
1.percent
2.absence
3.years
4.refused
5.ancient
6.pressure
7.machine
8.notice
9.scene
10.station
11.social
12.special
13.parachute
14.specialty
15.detention
16.constitution
17.advertisement
18.advise
19.cities
20.chalet
21.sincere
22.tissue
23.resident
24.magician
25.medicine

Advanced spelling list
1.specific
2.census
3.niece
4.certificate
5.circuit
6.service
7.celebrate
8.sacrifice
9.circular
10.fierce
11.cylinder
12.crevice
13.presence
14.civil
15.century
16.citation
17.cemetery
18.scent
19.ceramic
20.circumstance
21.sincere
22.tissue
23.resident
24.magician
25.medicine

IMPORTANT UPDATE!!!!

The dates on the school book fair is incorrect on the previous post. It is next week! Sept 13-17th
Come and enjoy reading under the stars Monday night or have Donuts for Dads on Wednesday morning. The book fair is open from 7 AM until 7PM on Monday. Wednesday it opens at 7AM.
All other days it is open from 7:30AM until 4:00 PM.

Also watch for Progress reports going home on Friday.

September News

The first month of school is now gone by and the class has a good understanding of what it feels like to be a fifth grader. We have reviewed the things we should have learned in 4th grade in Math and Language Arts and have started learning about the United States. This month we move to multiplication and division in math, understanding the conventions of writing, and about the early native americans in the US.
It is important for parents to be checking and signing the Character Always sheets each Thursday. This lets you keep up on how your child is using their character traits in completing assignments and behaving during the day. At the end of each Quarter the school has a Character Always event for the students who have met the requirements, this time it is getting their character card signed weekly and no having any office referrals. Many in the class are doing great in this.
Our student teacher, Ms. Smith, will be finishing up her time with us at the end of the month. The students and I would like to present her with a gift card to a teaching store, so if you would like to help out with a dollar or so, we would appreciate it. Some students have already been bring in some change or a dollar. Amything will be useful.

WELCOME TO A NEW SCHOOL YEAR

I would like to welcome all of my students to a new and exciting year of 5th grade here at Simonton. Right now we have a roster of 27 students with more coming and some going. The 5th grade team of teachers is now made up of Mrs. Strong, myself and now we welcome Mrs Luna to our team. I hope you are all excited about this year. Be sure to come and meet the teachers and check out our classroom on August 5th from 5:00 - 7:00 P.M. Hope to see you there. Don't forget that you can contact me through my school email at shamm@jocombs.k12.az.us. or leave a message through the school line at 480 987-5330 ext 4425.