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Mr. Mell's
Fifth Grade Classroom
2010-2011

Welcome to Mr. Mell's Fifth Grade Classroom
2010 - 2011

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Welcome to our classroom website! I am really glad that you are here. I hope you are getting ready to start a fantastic year together. Take a look around our website and be sure to check back in case there are any updates before school starts. Please also be sure to complete the parent AND student interviews below. These can be emailed to me or brought in on the first day of school. Enjoy the rest of your summer and I look forward to seeing everyone in September!

~Mr. Mell

Welcome Letter	Supply List	Mr. Mell Interview
Student Interview PDF copy of Interview	Mr. Mell's Email mellt@guilderlandschools.org	Parent Interview PDF copy of interview

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Want to see what your new classroom looks like? Click HERE for a quick classroom tour.

CLASSROOM NEWS

Below are some of the things we will be learning about in September:

SOCIAL STUDIES - We will be learning about our constitution and government.

SCIENCE - We study the Human Body in fifth grade. We'll start by learning about cells and how to use microscopes.

READING - Our reader's workshop will start with a unit called Readerly Life. We'll setup our reader's notebooks and develop our routines in reading.

WRITING - Writerly Life will be our first unit. As in reading, we will develop writing routines. We will also setup our writer's notebook and experiment with a personal narrative writing piece.

MATH - We will start unit 1 in our math program. We will work with arrays, prime numbers and factors in this unit. A more detailed outline of each unit is available in the parent letters that go home each moth.

You can click HERE for a copy of each parent letter that is sent home in math.

TECHNOLOGY - Technology is integrated into many of our lessons. We'll start by creating our network folders so that we have a place to store and retrieve our files. Having a flash drive will be helpful this year in transferring files to and from home.

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A Look Back...

Here are some pictures from last year so that you can get an idea of how much fun we have learning in our classroom!

We use microscopes in science.	We learned a lot about the United States & Canada.
We put on our pajamas one day, decorated some cookies and snuggled in to read the day away!	Halloween
We took a tour of the Capitol Building in Albany.	We traveled to Boston for our end-of-the-year field trip.
We have a huge marketplace when we learn about economics. Many students take the opportunity to run their very own business!	We had a fun Fiesta after we learned about Latin America.

* Check back soon for more updates *

DATES:

9/8- First Day of School

9/9- No school. Rosh Hashanah.

9/17- PTA Welcome Back Picnic

9/20- Open House

9/24- Apple Fun Run

10/11- No school. Columbus Day.

10/28- Picture Day

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