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  • Week #1 August 22-25, 2016
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5th Grade Homeroom Class

Humanities Core
5th Grade
Math & Science 5
Language Arts
Social Studies


Weekly Assignments

The Coming Year in Room 25 by rdcurry on GoAnimate
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     After teaching a 4th and 5th grade combo class in 2014-2016 and Language Arts /Social Science core for both those grades last year, Mr. Curry will be returning to being a 5th grade homeroom teacher and teach all core subjects to his own class.  

     Additionally, through the pursuit of grants, Mr. Curry has obtained 9 laptops  in addition to the Chromebooks provided by the district, so e should haver 1:1 ratio of students per Chromebook..  Students will learn to use their devices to do much of the assigned classwork.  This is called 21st century learning.  Other elements of 21st century learning are collaboration (working with others) and creativity.  We will be focusing on all of these learning styles on the very first day of school..   

We will also be having field trips and special learning opportunities.
So far, we have the 5th grade week-long Science Camp in January at Walden West. 
Other possible field trips are a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) trip to Levis Stadium and to NASA Ames Research Center   We are awaiting confirmation of possible trips to The Tech Museum and to the O'Neil Sea Odyssey out of Santa Cruz Harbor.  With the soon to be completed opening of the Berryessa BART Station, we hope to have even further opportunities.

Our class will be offering students the opportunity to engage in the school's Young Authors' Fair, Tech Challenge, National History Day, The National Geographic Geography Bee and the Synopsys Science Fair.


Service Learning   

Adopt-A-Park
We also are part of the City of San Jose's Adopt-A-Park program.  Our class will regularly help clean our very nearby local city park, Vinci Park, located on the other side of the new fence in back of the school.
​We will learn about places here in America and in the world where we can help make a change for the better.  Locally, our class is part of the Adopt A Park project of the City of San Jose.





Coding Challenge
    We will be learning how to do computer coding.  There are 2 major Coding Education programs we will be involved in.

      Year-long: We.org Code for Change | Microsoft Virtual Academy: Learn to Code

      Focused Week-long: Hour of Code     https://studio.code.org/


Accelerated Reader Challenge / Reading Is Cool

When students read books and successfully take an AR test, they earn points towards a monthly class competition )with prizes) and add points to their monthly reading grade.  They also record the pages they read as part of the San Jose Shark sponsored Reading Is Cool reading incentive program.  Search for AR books and tests at AR Book Find
Take tests online, during the school day, at https://hosted306.renlearn.com/284068/ 

Common Core Explained in 3 Minute

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Students and their families can access local papers e-editions Aug 18-June 21.


To access the free e-edition of the SF Chronicle, Go to:
http://nieonline.com/sfchronicle/studentconnect.cfm 
User Name: curry25
Password: Room25

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San Jose Mercury News In Education

Log in at:  
http://sanjosemercurynews.ca.newsmemory.com/nie.php
User Name: rcurry@busd.net 
Password: 95131 

Teacher/Student Resources
         Math CCSS Math Worksheet Generator-- http://www.commoncoresheets.com/ 
         4th Grade Practice Problems from Engage NY
         
5th Grade Practice Problems from Engage NY




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