Dear Parents,
My name is Christy Chen and I am your child's new 5th grade teacher. I believe in parent involvement and an open door communication policy. These are important factors that will help the with the success of your children and my students. Every week I will be putting out a newsletter where you can see a brief overview of activities and lessons the students learned, important announcements and reminders, and how you can be involved in the classroom. This newsletter will also have a star student of the week where I exemplify a student in our class for something they did that week that was wonderful or for his/her cooperative interactions with other classmates and teachers. This newsletter link is an interactive flyer from a website called smore.com. I believe in the use of technology in the classroom because like our children, it is the future. The link for the weekly flyers are listed under the "Our Classroom Tab". Homework and assessments are probably big topics that you have questions about. I have a tab here on the website where I go into detail about my philosophies and how I will implement homework and assessments. But a brief overview would be that I believe assessments should be done not to scare a child but to help with instruction. I will not know what the children need to know more of if I do not assess their knowledge. Assessments will be of all kinds, tests, projects, worksheets. Sometimes the children won't even know that it is an assessment. But I will always be assessing their knowledge to make my instruction better. Homework will be for students to reinforce what they learn in class and to prepare for the next day. Students need to be in charge of their own learning that is why I give them some choices about how and when to do homework. Please refer to the Homework and Assessment tab for more information I am so excited to work with you and your child this year. This year will bring new adventures and opportunities. Please email me at [email protected] if you have any questions or comments before school starts. Thank you for allowing me to be in the life of your child, Christy Chen |
To My Wonderful New Students,
Welcome to 5th grade my friends! You have worked so hard in the 4th grade and you should be proud to be in the 5th grade! This year will be full of adventures and new opportunities that I want you all to embrace and remember. We will be working together in so many ways, you will get to know your classmates and you will learn so many new things that you will definitely be using in 6th grade and even later in your lifetime. Get excited! we will be learning and doing some chemistry this year! We will be reading some books from my favorite authors such as Patricia Polacco, and Sharon Draper. We will do a unit on Immigration where you will learn a little more about yourself and America. I love technology so we will be doing projects on the computers, the smart board and IPads. This year will be full of surprises, good surprises, so I want you all to have fun, make new friends with our new or old classmates and learn because learning will keep our minds growing and growing. Love, Miss. Chen :) |