Mr. Shahriari’s blog

5th Grade Reminders

May 18 5^th grade Auction Pool Party 6:30-8:30PM- spaces are available for $20.  Forms are in the Tuesday folder.

May 22/23 Portfolio Picnic- Please try and make your child’s last picnic.  You will receive 6 years of your child’s work consolidated into a wonderful portfolio to take home.  

May 24 Regal Ranch- Please wear your blue 5th grade t-shirt, shorts, and tennis shoes.  No sandals or flip flops. Permission slips are required.  Pending Behavior Contracts.

*** We need parent volunteers 8:15-2:30.  Please contact Alyson if you are able to volunteer alyson.v.rooney@gmail.com

May 28 NO School

May 29 Promotion Ceremony!  Please join us at Pershing Middle School at 6:30.  Students should arrive no later than 6:15 PM.  A photographer will be taking candidate shots before and after the ceremony of students with their family and friends.

May 30 Fun Day- students may wear their swim suits under their clothes.  Boys and girls must wear a shirt at all times. Please bring a beach towel and an extra pair of clothes to change into.  Roberts Idol: There is a mandatory rehearsal from 3:15-5:00.

***We need parents to work a shift.  Please contact Caroline to volunteer ckq@rice.edu

May 31 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL – 3:00 Dismissal 

Hello 5th Grade Parents! The end of school is near, which means it’s time for the 5th Grade Regal Ranch day – Thursday, May 24! Permission slips will be coming home soon, so please be sure to send them back. 

Check out the Regal Ranch website to get a better idea of what it’s all about – www.regalranch.com

It will be a great day filled with swimming, volleyball, a DJ, sack races, putt putt, baseball, tug of war, etc!! The kids will be fed lunch and have access to drinks all day long!

Please send your child to school with a backpack or bag that contains:swim suit, towel, sunscreen, hat and a plastic bag for wet swimming gear. They DO NOT need to bring any sports equipment, electronics, or money.

 We need 12 parent volunteers to assist as chaperones. So if you are available, please let me know – alyson.v.rooney@gmail.com

 Please let me know if you have any questions. This will be a great day for your child, so we’re hoping all can attend!

 Alyson Rooney

Alyson Rooney

Cell: 713-446-2739

“Dare to Dream” due May 11.  Make sure you look at the requirements I posted in my last post.  If you have been paying attention to Ms. Anderson, you should have been uploading your work to google docs so you can access it at home.  Don’t forget that you can write the stroy and interview with a pencil!

“Your made up biological creature”  due May 16.

Here are the instructions I passed out the other day.  I will post more information as soon as I have it.  This will be due the week after Stanfords so get working hard on this.  This is a major project and a major grade, so do a good job.

Dare to Dream Newspaper Project

Section I.  General

1. Photo of you, personalized on image maker
2. Title of newspaper
3. Date of publication
4. Use of Capitalization will be graded in this section.

Section II.  Educational and Professional background paragraph

1. A paragraph explaining your career.  What is your job?  What did you do that showed you succeeded in your job?  Did you do something fabulous that made you famous? 
2. A paragraph explaining the education you needed to succeed.  Which subjects were most important and why?
3. A paragraph explaining your personal characteristics (2 – 3 IB Attitudes or Profiles) that you want people to see in your character and why they are important to you.
4. Writing skills and grammar will be graded in this section.

Section III.  Interview.  In this section you are interviewed by CNN for a feature news article.

1.  Include at least 5 well thought out questions and responses.
2.  Writing skills and grammar will be graded in this section.

Section IV.  A personal hero or mentor.  In this section, you will write a brief biography of someone in your life who was a hero, role model or mentor for you. 

1.  Name the person and what your relationship is to them.
2. What did this person accomplish?
3. How were they a role model for you?  How did they impact your life?
4. Writing skills and grammar will be graded in this section.

You were supposed to do this last year, but if you didn’t, go to this web site and do the games and reading.  http://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/

http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/

I am missing a lot of work from you guys.  Ask yourself if you turned these assignments in.

Science Review — Was two, two sided sheets of questions, the first of which was “what are the three states of matter (most common) and what are some properties that they all have in common?”

I have them only from a few students ( 5 to be precise.) Come on guys.  Also, some of you have not turned in your WWI writing project and the homophone project.  What is up?  I know it is spring, but you still have to turn in the assignments.  Thanks.

You will find the list and links to the brainpop videos to use for review at:

http://robertsfifthgrade.pbworks.com/w/page/52509794/STAAR%20Science%20Review

Please do at least one each night and bring in the tests to show you have done it.

Oran M. Roberts Elementary, first opening its schoolhouse doors in 1936, will celebrate 75 years of educating children on Saturday, March 31, 2012.  The celebration will begin at 6:00 p.m. with a reception on the front lawn and school tours available for alumni and neighbors.

Visitors and neighbors are invited to stay for our free Spring Community Night at the outdoor stage, to include the 1930’s classic film, The Wizard of Oz.  Nachos and popcorn will be provided, with dinner available for purchase by Lola catering.  Bring lawn chairs or a blanket for your comfort.

Help us get the word out to neighbors and alumni!  Find out more information on twitter @REworldschool, or friend us on facebook at Oran M. Roberts Elementary Alumni.

 If you are a Roberts’ alumnus, let us know about you at

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RE75th

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GREAT JOB TODAY.

Follow the rules for tomorrow’s Staar and you will be one. 

Also, looking forward to the science Staar, which will be in one month, here is a list of BRAINPOP videos that you can use for review you should know the user name and password. 

STAAR Science Review

Basic Science

Scientific method — FREE

http://www.brainpop.com/science/scientificinquiry/scientificmethod/

 Pysicial Science

Matter

http://www.brainpop.com/science/matterandchemistry/matterchangingstates/

 Conservation of matter and energy

http://www.brainpop.com/science/matterandchemistry/conservationofmass/

 Mixtures and compounds

http://www.brainpop.com/science/matterandchemistry/compoundsandmixtures/

 Potential and Kinetic energy

http://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/potentialenergy/

http://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/kineticenergy/

 Energy and Forms of energy

http://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/

http://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/formsofenergy/

Electricity

http://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/electricity/

http://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/electriccircuits/

http://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/electromagnets/

 Sound

http://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/sound/

 Light

http://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/light/

http://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/electromagneticspectrum/

http://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/color/

 Sources of Energy

http://www.brainpop.com/technology/energytechnology/energysources/

 Energy Sources

http://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/energysources/

 Space Science

Solar system

http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/solarsystem/

 Moon Phases

http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/moonphases/

 Why we have seasons

http://www.brainpop.com/science/weather/seasons/

 Tides

http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/tides/

 Earth Science

 Earth’s structure

http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/earthsstructure/

 Plate tectonics

http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/platetectonics/

 Natural Resources

http://www.brainpop.com/science/ourfragileenvironment/naturalresources/

 Water Cycle

http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/watercycle/

 Carbon Cycle

http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/carboncycle/

 Erosion

http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/erosion/

 Weathering

http://www.brainpop.com/science/weather/weathering/

 Soil

http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/soil/

 Rock Cycle

http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/rockcycle/

 Climate

http://www.brainpop.com/science/weather/climatetypes/

 Weather

http://www.brainpop.com/science/weather/weather/

 Clouds

http://www.brainpop.com/science/weather/clouds/

 Review of third and fourth grade

 Force

http://www.brainpop.com/science/motionsforcesandtime/force/

 I will be adding more to this list from time too time and if you do the ones on topics you feel a little weak on, and if you start now watching two a night, it will greatly improve your science score.  Have fun with it.  Don’t forget you can find more on these topics on line at Kahnacademy.org and many other web sites.