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Welcome to our grade 5 teacher and student weblog. We attend Nettleton Elementary 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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•	Solar System Games
•	PMP Certification
•	Youth Group Games

Teacher Assignments

Teacher Entries

Here We Are!		9/3
Goodbye For Now		7/17
2011-2012 Grade 5 Curriculum Calendar		5/20
This End-of-the-Year in Notes:		5/20
Important Upcoming Dates and Events:		5/20
List 5, 10, all

Student Entries

MR	Basketball	5/30
RS	River Reeds	5/29
RS	Fire	5/29
RS	Winds	5/29
RS	Waves	5/29
AK	Achivements of my Hopes and Dreams	5/9
KK	hopes and dreams	5/9
NS	hopes and dreams narrative	5/9
IB	Hopes and Dreams: The Narrative	5/9
HF	Flowers	5/6
HF	dragons	5/6
JC	Hopes and dreams narrative	5/3
RS	2011-2012 Hopes and Dreams Narrative	5/3
HF	stars poem	4/27
HF	Water (Poem)	4/27
JSG	Bacon Strips	4/27
AK	A poem about a poem!	4/26
AK	Music	4/26
AK	Earth	4/23
AK	Music	4/23
RS	Cow Woes	3/30
RS	Cat Woes	3/30
IB	Fred the Unicorn	3/30
DB	PEZ I Like	3/30
MR	Halloween	3/30
List 25, 50, all

Conditions of Use

This Week in Notes: Days 3-7 Hello families! We had a great two days with our community last week. This week we continue to get to know one another and work to build strong relationships, student-created rules and logical consequences to allow us to have a productive learning environment in our classroom and around our school. Ask your child about his or her “Hopes and Dreams”, “Classroom Compact” and any of the other team building activities we are doing during the school hours.

This is the format of our newsletter that you will receive most weeks. I complete this over the weekend and send it out Mondays. Each ✭ means there is a homework assignment that is due, each dot is an important event and a ✔ is an important form to return to school. I get as detailed as I can on the academic calendar above but will occasionally leave out some assignments and other information. Let me know if you have any questions about anything listed as not all the information in the weekly calendar applies to all kids.

Begin to look for the red communicator folders coming home each day. I ask that you create a daily location where your child can keep the folder and a consistent way you approach homework and important papers from school. My expectations are for all kids to share what their responsibilities are to parents/guardians on a regular basis.

I am always open to new strategies to reach and teach your child. Please contact me with any questions, comments or concerns.

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My Classes & Students

-	Grade 5 Students
	•	AA
	•	AK
	•	AS
	•	DB
	•	DD
	•	DP
	•	HF
	•	IB
	•	JC
	•	JF
	•	JH
	•	JS
	•	JW
	•	KD
	•	KD
	•	KH
	•	KK
	•	MR
	•	NE
	•	NS
	•	PP
	•	RS
	•	TK

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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