Mr. Lignell 5th Grade 2023-2024

  5th Grade Awards & Walk Away Parents of 5th Graders are invited to join us on May 31st at 10:45 in the gym for our awards assembly. We will recognize their accomplishments, contributions and bid farewell to our 5th Graders as they walk their last lap as an elementary student! The walkaway will take place immediately following the awards ceremony (approx. 11:30) near the walking track. Student Medication Rescue medications (Epi-pens and inhalers) will be sent home on the last day of school with students.   If your child has other medication in our school office  it must be picked up by the child's parent/guardian in the school office by Friday, May 31st.  Any medications left after school is closed for the summer will be discarded.  Please disregard this message if you have already picked up the medication at any time during the year. Have a great summer vacation! Moving out of District??? If your family is moving out of the district and not planning to ret...

  Field trips this week! Wednesday: South Bend Cubs game Friday: Wissing Lane(Shoreham Park) Yearbooks are Here!!! The 2023-24 yearbooks have arrived! You can still purchase one in the office for $17 (exact change please or a check written to SJPS). This is a great memory of the school year for your student! It's time to celebrate another great year at Brown Elementary School with our annual Spring Picnic! The picnic will be held on   Tuesday, May 28th! Activities will include a picnic lunch, snow cones, cotton candy, popcorn, an inflatable obstacle course, a variety of yard games, chalk the block, temporary bear paw tattoos, and the annual 5th Graders vs. Teachers kickball game! The only way for grown-ups to participate is by volunteering to help! (Younger siblings are welcome to come along with their volunteering grown-ups!) TO VOLUNTEER, PLEASE SIGN UP  HERE ! In order to volunteer,  you must have a current background check on file at the school . If you haven't a...

  MATH 5.7 Shapes on the Coordinate Plane Unit Goals Students plot coordinate pairs on a coordinate grid and classify triangles and quadrilaterals in a hierarchy based on properties of side length and angle measure. They generate, identify, and graph relationships between corresponding terms in two numeric patterns, given two rules, and represent and interpret real-world and mathematical problems on a coordinate grid. Section A Goals Locate points on a coordinate grid.   Reading- continue Unit 8: Summarize and Synthesis/Evaluate Author's Purpose Monday-Hockey is my Game Tuesday- Some Weather Wednesday- Cheap Land Thursday- Bacteria Friday- Constructed Written Responses Book Bonanza!! Join us for the Book Bonanza on May 15th from 4-6:30. Students will be able to select up to 10 summer reading books that were generously purchased by our Saint Joseph Foundation!! John Hall Elementary Track Meet The John Hall Elementary Track Meet is an event that takes place each year. It is a tr...

  Reading- finish Unit 7: Make Inferences/Draw Conclusions Monday-Introduce FluencySkills: Phrasing-High-Frequency Word Phrases  Tuesday- Connect Fluency and Comprehension: Analyze Author's Purpose Wednesday- Apply Fluency Skills to Reader's Theater Thursday- Build Tier Two Vocabulary: Adjectives That Describe Places Friday- Show Time: Perform Reader's Theater Science- Mystery Science: Continue Spaceship Earth Math-continue Unit 6   In this unit, students deepen their understanding of place value relationships of numbers in base ten, unit conversion, operations on fractions with unlike denominators, and multiplicative comparison. The work here builds on several important ideas from grade 4. In grade 4, students learned the value of each digit in a whole number is 10 times the value of the same digit in a place to its right. Here, they extend that insight to include decimals to the thousandths. Students recognize that the value of each digit in a place (including decimal p...