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Welcome to our grade 5 teacher and student weblog. We attend Nettleton Science, Technology, and Reading Magnet School in Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.A. Check out our site to learn about our classroom, read our writings and give us some feedback. To add comments, just click on the comment link below a post. If you comment, please tell us who you are and where you are from. Your comments need teacher-approval before they show up on the blog. Our class likes to follow a blog comment recipe. You can write about something you saw or heard, something you liked, something to add or fix, or a question to make the writer think.

by Jay Monson, Grade 5 Teacher

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Teacher Assignments

Teacher Entries

11/1	The Week Ahead: Days 37-41
List 5, 10, all
Student Entries
10/28	Michel Jackson	KJ
10/28	My Silly Poem	SR
10/28	The Big Dinosaur II	BP
10/28	The Man	NM
10/28	I Wish	CA
10/28	The Day	JB
10/27	A Snowy Suprise	CA
10/27	The Man	KJ
10/27	The Ape	KJ
10/23	The Case of the Missing Broom	KJ
10/21	All About Me	VL
10/21	My Dad	KJ
10/21	The Case of the Missing Ice Cream Bar	MM
10/21	The Silly Poem	SR
10/20	Big Dinosaur	BP
10/20	All About Me	NM
10/20	Forestry Field Day	NM
10/20	Forestry Field Day	IM
10/20	Pizza	ET
10/20	The Funny Poem	KJ
10/19	It's About Me	KL
10/19	Forestry Field Day	KL
10/19	Catilina: The Wonderful Grandma (Acrostic Poem)	MM
10/19	My Day	KJ
10/19	All About Me	BP
10/19	All About Me	EM
List 25, 50, all

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The Week Ahead: Days 37-41

Article posted November 1, 2009 at 12:51 PM GMT-6 • comment • Reads 379

This Week in Notes: Days 37-41

Article posted November 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM GMT-6 • comment • Reads 15

Hello Families! We enter November with two good months under our belts. Thanks for the work you did with your student. We are really making some good progress with reading comprehension and fluency improving with many students. Math has brought a lot of new concepts and some difficult work. The kids are trying really hard to work with concepts they do not understand. We have a good bunch of peers in our room that help each other every day. I am grateful to have such a caring crew this year. Some new things we need to be working on are our phenology observations at home. Please make sure kids are paying attention to what is happening outdoors and recording this on their phenology sheets (Larry Weber Articles). We will be starting science lab work with variables coming next week and lasting through the rest of the quarter. Speaking of that, the end of the quarter is approaching quickly. All work is due November 20th. Nothing will be accepted from this quarter after November 20th. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions, comments or concerns.

Article posted November 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM GMT-6 • comment • Reads 15

Important Upcoming Dates and Events:

Article posted November 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM GMT-6 • comment • Reads 14

• November 9th: Happy Birthday Cory!
• November 13th: UMD Weber Music Field Trip
• November 17th: BOLD Theater Performance “Romeo & Juliet”
• November 19th: Happy Birthday Tanesha!
• November 20th: Early Release
• November 20th: End of First Quarter
• November 26-27th: No School-Thanksgiving Break
• November 27th: Happy Birthday Courtney!
• November 28th: Happy Birthday Jamila!
• December 1st: Happy ½ Birthday Keyon (June 1st)

Article posted November 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM GMT-6 • comment • Reads 14

The Week Ahead: Days 32-36

Article posted October 25, 2009 at 10:18 PM GMT-6 • comment • Reads 633

This Week in Notes: Days 32-36

Article posted October 25, 2009 at 10:09 PM GMT-6 • comment • Reads 26

The weeks are flying by. With a lot of kids gone early in the week it was great to see all kids at school Thursday and Friday to end the week. Thanks for doing all you can to help kids stay healthy from setting times for bed and keeping kids drinking water. I will allow water bottles in the classroom as long as the kids are responsible with them and they go home each week for a thorough cleaning.

As you may have noticed I did not send home the mid-term reports as I was working out some scores and it took longer than expected. Thanks for your patience as I plan to get them to you this week. Keep checking the assignment sheet, this newsletter and the behavior reports for up to the week reports.

You should be seeing work come back and forth from school to home. We do a lot of the same things each week for kids’ independent work. I hope you are helping kids observe out in nature as each week is assigned the Larry Weber phenology article to read and complete the back.

Please feel free to contact me if you have questions, comments or concerns.

Article posted October 25, 2009 at 10:09 PM GMT-6 • comment • Reads 26

Important Upcoming Dates and Events:

Article posted October 25, 2009 at 10:08 PM GMT-6 • comment • Reads 24

• ASAP: Please return your fundraising sign-up sheets for our Deep Portage Trip so we can place our order
• October 27th: Mid-Term Work Grade Reports Sent Home (due back signed by Wednesday)
• October 27th: BOLD Choice Theater
• October 29th: UMD Fall Family Night

Article posted October 25, 2009 at 10:08 PM GMT-6 • comment • Reads 24

The Week Ahead: Days 27-31

Article posted October 18, 2009 at 09:48 PM GMT-6 • comment • Reads 992

This Week in Notes: Days 27-31

Article posted October 18, 2009 at 09:48 PM GMT-6 • comment (1) • Reads 63

We are just past the middle of the first quarter. I am sending mid-term grade reports for work so you can review, sign and return them back to school. Kids have until the end of the first quarter to turn in all late assignments. I will provide time for them to work on some of their work throughout the day but most late work will need to be caught up at home, in the COMPASS room or another after-school program. I make some extra copies of learning sheets that are missing and they are located in file folders in our classroom. All other assignments need to be finished however they were assigned.

Please feel free to contact me if you have questions, comments or concerns.

Article posted October 18, 2009 at 09:48 PM GMT-6 • comment (1) • Reads 63

Important Upcoming Dates and Events:

Article posted October 18, 2009 at 09:46 PM GMT-6 • comment • Reads 44

• ASAP: Please return your fundraising sign-up sheets for our Deep Portage Trip so we can place our order
• October 19th: Mid-Term Work Grade Reports Sent Home (due back signed by Wednesday)
• October 22nd: All School Morning Meeting
• October 23rd: 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Hawk Ridge Science Trip-Please dress for the weather
• October 27th: BOLD Choice Theater
• October 29th: UMD Fall Family Night

Article posted October 18, 2009 at 09:46 PM GMT-6 • comment • Reads 44

The Week Ahead: Days 23-26

Article posted October 11, 2009 at 10:12 PM GMT-6 • comment (1) • Reads 775

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About the Blogger

My name is Jay Monson and I started teaching elementary school in the Mankato Public Schools in 1994. There I taught grades 2, 4, and 6. I moved north to Duluth in 1999 and have since taught grades 4, 5, 3-5 Title I Reading and Math, and K-6 Technology Integration.

My formal education includes a Bachelors of Science (Teaching) degree from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 1994 and a Masters of Education degree with a concentration in Educational Computing and Technology from University of Minnesota, Duluth in 2004. I have also been trained and trained others in teaching gifted and talented students, technology integration strategies, classroom management philosophies such as Responsive Classroom and Judicious Discipline, math and reading remediation methods, and various curricular area pilot programs.

I enjoy backpacking, canoeing, kayaking, and running the roads and trails of Northern Minnesota and the U.S. On any given day you may find me on the Superior Hiking Trail, on Lake Superior, or hanging out in the woods with my wife and Nettleton kindergarten teacher, Sara, and our chocolate lab, Jack.

I fell in love with blogging and the opportunities it offers to kids. I enjoy using technology to write, share, and communicate. I currently hang out with creative fifth grade kids as we learn to become peaceful, productive citizens of our world community.

Our students follow a technology acceptable use policy and sign a blogger contract. If you have any questions or comments please e-mail me at: Jay.Monson@duluth.k12.mn.us.

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