September 2025
Dear Parents, Guardians and Students,
Hello and welcome to Miss Tierney's fifth-grade ELA class! I hope your summer has been wonderful and that you are ready to SOAR into the new school year!My name is Miss Tierney and I will be your Language Arts teacher this year and Mrs. Popadiuk will be your teacher for Math, Science, and Social Studies.
This year in Reading we will be exploring a variety of genres and reading different types of texts, from non-fiction to fiction to poetry. We will be examining a number of novels, articles, short stories, and Read-Alouds, as well as working in a book club to discuss novels in more depth withour peers.
In Writing, we will be constructing narratives, exploring different structures of nonfiction writing, and learning how to write a variety of essays. We will also be working on our grammar and taking a closer look at words to develop our vocabularies.
I am extremely excited about this year and what it has to bring! We will work hard to become not just better students but better overall people. We will learn how to communicate better with one another, make smart choices, work as a team, and be the best we can be in all aspects of life :)
I hope you enjoy the end of the summer and I cannot wait to meet you all!
Miss Tierney
Room 200