G5 Life

Attention! Free Tutor Opportunity Available!!

Your child may be eligible for extra help in reading, language arts, or math!

 Earlier, you received a letter explaining that the school your child attends did not meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) requirements for three or more years. The letter also explained that if your child remained at their current school, he/she may be eligible for Supplemental Educational Services (SES). This extra help is provided to your child in reading, language arts, and/or math. The extra help can be provided before or after school, on weekends, during school vacations, or during summer. And it’s tutoring for FREE!

Bellevue School District is committed to providing an excellent education for every student. Our mission is to provide all students with a top-of-the line college preparatory education so that they can enter and succeed in the college or university of their choice. The companies that provide SES free tutoring are approved by the Title I department at the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). The tutoring companies are not part of Bellevue School District. You can choose any provider from the approved list. Eligible students will be enrolled in SES tutoring after the enrollment forms are processed. All SES tutoring will begin after December 2010.

 

 Come meet math and reading tutors and choose the best one for your child!

Included with this letter is an invitation to the SES Provider Fair on

Thursday October 7^th from 6:00pm-7:30pm.

.We hope that you can join us.

***Interpreters will be available***

I'll be sending home more information at the end of this week!!

*Click on the link below for more info on Supplemental Education Services*

  

*English Info: Download Parent Packet SES 2010_2011-1

*Spanish Info: Download Parent Packet SES 2010_2011_Spanish

*Russian Info: Download Parent Packet SES 2010_2011_Russian

Author Visit at Bellevue Regional Library!

Suzanne Selfors will be at the Bellevue Regional Library (Downtown Bellevue) for an author event on Wednesday, October 6 from 7-8:30. She is a children’s and young adults’ book author. She will be talking about writing (in costume!) and will be available to answer questions and sign copies of her books. Her newest title is Smells Like Dog. Go check it out!!

 

Class Poll

Collect Box Tops for Education!

Please bring in any box tops to help us earn money for our school!  We all shop for groceries, sometimes two or three times a week –- or more. Now turn those shopping trips into easy cash for your school, and encourage friends to do the same! Just look for the Box Tops logo on hundreds of products like Cheerios^®, Hamburger Helper^® and Kleenex^®, in almost every aisle of the store. All you need to do is clip and bring them to our classroom —- each one is worth 10¢ for our school.  Last year, the class with the most box tops won a doughnut party!!

 

First Math Quick Quiz!

Science

Students are making mixtures and separating the mixtures as part of their first science lab.

MAP Reading Test September 27th (Regala)

Bellevue elementary schools are piloting a new kind of reading assessment in grades 3-5 this Fall.  The test will replace the DRA at grades 4 and 5 and the DIBELS/TRC in grade 3.  The MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) assessment is computer-based and is individualized for each student because it is adaptive.  As the student answers correctly, questions become more difficult.  If the student answers incorrectly, the questions become easier.  The test is not timed, but generally takes about 1 hour to complete.  The testing window is September 23 – October 7. 

The President's Back to School Speech

September Math Challenge

Are you up to the challenge?  To participate, you must use this Download RECanswerform and turn in by the end of the month.  Please download the challenge Download September 2010 Math Challengeand read the directions carefully.  If  you can't do this at home, you may ask Mr. Regala for the forms.  Good luck and may the force be with you...

Curriculum Night Tomorrow

Curriculum night will take place tomorrow starting at 600pm in the cafe and will move to the classroom around 630pm.  Please join us to learn about what your child will be learning this year and get a sense of what a typical day in the grade 5 looks like.  Hope to see you there!