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Now that the holiday vacation is over and a new calendar year has begun it is the perfect time to reflect on how 5th grade is going for you so far. We began the year by thinking about our Hopes & Dreams for the year and then set goals for ourselves. It's time to think about our class, our learning, and our progress towards achieving our goals. We are about half way through the year! Have you achieved your goal? What do you hope to accomplish in the remainder of the year? Complete the following steps to create your New Year's Resolution (which will be your goal for Term 2).

Step 1: Review your original goal for this school year. Ask yourself the following questions:
 * Have I achieved or completed this goal? Am I done with this goal?
 * What am I doing to reach my goal? What is working?
 * What else can I do to make better progress?
 * Is my goal realistic? Can it be accomplished?
 * Do I need to change my goal? If so, what would be a better goal for me? Why?

Step 2:Brainstorm, revise, and edit your new goal. This is your New Year Resolution. (Click the link for the definition of resolution.)

Step 3: Type your Resolution. In Google Docs. You may insert images so that your page reflects you.

Step 4: Once your goal is typed copy and paste it onto this page. Be careful to be respectful of other people's work.

Step 5: Read your classmate's resolutions and make positive comments of encouragement or ideas that could help them achieve their goals in the dicussion tab of this page.

Due date: Friday, January 4, 2013

**My New Year Resolution**

**Mrs. McDonald**


 * My goal is always to help my students achieve theirs. I try to get to know my students so that I can support them in making progress in all areas. It takes time and a lot of effort to plan lessons and activities that will meet everyone’s needs. I have been spending a lot of time adjusting to the new Massachusetts Curriculum Framework that tells what 5th graders need to be taught. I know what my students’ abilities are and what their goals are. I will work very hard to help them achieve these goals so that they are ready for middle school. I work with many other teachers in order to meet my students’ needs and provide the support that they require. I am enjoying the work it takes to help my students achieve their goals!**


 * I am trying to be very organized this year. I still need to work on getting my correcting done efficiently. So far this year I have made a lot of progress compared to last year. I know that I still need to make more progress. I will need to spend some time each day correcting. This is best done during my prep or right after school. I will develop scoring guides that will help me to be able to correct more quickly. I have been spacing assignments out so that I do not have more than one per subject to correct at a time. I will pass corrected work back to students within 24 hours of recording the grades.**


 * My personal goal is to be a good member of my soccer team. In order to do this I have to be able to run for the length of time that I will be on the field for. I am able to do this but not very quickly. I will need to work on my physical abilities at least 3 times per week for at least 30 minutes at a time. To help motivate me, I will pay myself $1 for each half hour that I complete. I will rotate between using my treadmill and elliptical, doing yoga, strength training, and playing in games.**


 * In order to achieve my goals I will need to work hard and have the support of my family. I will need Mr. McDonald to help me make time to get my schoolwork done and have time to workout. Students can support me by turning in their assignments on time. I will need to work hard. This means that sometimes I will need to correct papers, complete schoolwork, and workout even when I do not feel like it. I will need to review my goals often so that I remember what they are. I will need to be patient with myself and understand that this is going to be difficult. I know that my hard work is going to pay off!**

My New Year Resolution Teddy Zwinski

My reading goals are getting a higher reading level. I will push myself to read every day. Also I will read more challenging books. To get a higher reading levels I will try to read every day. These are my reading goals. My social goals are to make new friends. To make new friends I will introduce myself to them. Also I will ask Mrs. Moutinho to help me to introduce myself to new people. My teachers could help me to. These are my social goals. To achieve these goals I will push myself every day. I will also try my hardest. Also I will ask my teachers to help me push my hardest so I can learn a lot every day. These are my goals for this year!

A Whole New Year! Payten Tardy


 * My reading hope and dream this year is to learn to read thicker books. If I read thicker books I can achieve my goal and be a better reader. A way to set my goal is to challenge myself to different levels in reading and to get different size books every time I get a new book. Another way is to just try to read a book and then keep reading books until i think they get to hard then i can just stay at the right level for me these things will help me to achieve my goals! **


 * My social hope and dream this year is to learn to talk in front of people more often. I don’t like talking in front of people because I get nervous. Some ways I can achieve this goal is by starting to raise my hand more often to answer questions. Another way is to take a risk of saying the wrong thing because i'm always scared to say the wrong answer so I really need to work on it and if I work on it I will be able to make a better start. **

Hunter’s New Year Resolution Hunter Rock My new year resolution for 2013 is to be a little more comfortable at reading. How I will achieve my new year resolution is by sounding out longer words that I don’t really know. I will accomplish my reading goal by reading more than 25 minutes a night for a week. Also I can give myself a challenge to master my reading goal. My social new year resolution for 2013 is to get better at talking in class discussions. How I will achieve my goal is to look at a person I’m good friends with (such as Connor and Brendan.). I will achieve my goal by trying to talk in front of large crowds to make me better at this.
 * My goals are complicated but if I try hard enough I can be able to achieve these goals. To learn to read thick books the smart thing to do is try new things and I can try thicker books and I will be able to be a better reader. To achieve my social goal I will raise my hand more often and take a risk and I will be able to do my goal. If I practice these things I will have a great year!!! **


 * My New Year’s Resolutions **
 * Olivia Fernandes **

**This year in 5th grade, one of my hopes and dreams is to not read so fast out loud in front of people.To help me accompilsh this goal I will I will try to read at least two times each week for at least 10 minutes. In addition, I will take a deep breath before I start reading out loud in front of anybody. Last,will try not to be so nervous in front of people whenever I read. ** **Another one of my goals is to get better at math. To help me achieve my goal, I will use any of my free time to go on IXL to practice some of the things I need work on. Also, I will at least once a week make my parents put down some problems that I have been working on that week to work on. Last, I will try not to ever get frustrated or nervous in a test or whenever I don’t know the answer. ** **My last goal is that I want to be a good teammate on my soccer team. To help me accomplish this goal, I will play hard at every single game, practice, tournament, ect. Also, I will try to use whatever I learn in practice in a game to show my coach that I listen in practice and try my best. These have been my goals for 5th grade that I know will be challenging, but if I work hard, then I know that I will accomplish them.**

My New Year Resolutions

Allison Maio

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My goals for this year are going to help me make a lot of progress this year. This year my reading goal is a level V. Level V because it’s a reasonable goal. I can achieve my reading goal by reading extra at home. Also, by making a reading schedule to schedule all of my reading. I think

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that reading extra at home and making a reading schedule will help because if I make a reading schedule I can schedule how long I will be reading, what book I will be reading, and what days I will be reading,. And reading extra at home will help me because if I read extra it will help me accomplish my goal. That’s how I think I can accomplish my reading goals.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My social goal for this year is to be a better student. I want my social goal to be a better student because I need to focus more on my work and not chit chattin and goofing off. I can become a better student by giving my friends lots of reminders. I can use that to accomplish my social goal because I’m always goofing around and it’s not helping me get my work done. Also, it will help me accomplish my goal by keeping me focused.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My personal goal for this year is to do better at gymnastics. My personal goal is to be better at gymnastics because I want to be even more flexible than I am now. I can achieve my goal by signing up and practicing at home and putting my best effort so that I can accomplish that goal. I think that doing all of that will help accomplish my goals because I have had the same goal but for dance and it worked so I think that if I give this a try it will/might work just as well as it did with dance.

=__My New Year's Resolutions__=


 * Brendan La Fleur**


 * My social New Years Resolution is to get better at my behavior. I want to get better at my behavior because I usually get off track and talk to my friends. I can achieve my goal by staying on task and only talking to my friends at recess and lunch if needed. my mom can help me achieve my goal by every week I am nice and behaving at school and home I get a reward and I love getting rewards.**
 * My reading goal is to read bigger books with lots of chapters. I want to read bigger books because small books can be boring if they are only about 1 person and I like reading big and interesting adventure books. I can achieve my reading goal by getting myself to read those big books. I can help myself achieve my goal by telling my mom to either go to the library or order books for me.**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My New Year Resolution Tyler Barroso

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This year in 5th grade I want to understand the author's message and what he/she is trying to say.I’ll try to find what the message is from the author to the book.I want to get better at math and Division.Until I do I won’t stop trying.My personal goal is to try to support my parents when they are strugling with stuff.I can achive my goals by asking for help if I need it from a teacher or an a adult.I can achive my personal goal by if I see my parents strugling I can just help then even if they don’t need it.Those are my new years resolutions.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My New Year’s Resolution <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Miranda Balbino

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My reading goal for the new year is to become a better reader. I will read books that are more challenging for me, that will also be engaging. Another way I will become a better reader is to read more often. (Maybe 45 minutes instead of 30.) Also, I will try reading aloud to help me with some other reading skills. In order to achieve my reading goal I will need the help of my teachers to introduce me to new genres. And also, my parents and friends encouragement to help push me on!

**New Year’s Resolutions**

**by sara maria**


 * First, I want to be a good reader. I will practice reading 20 minutes every day at any place.I will also read to my little cousins and help them wonder, predict, and infer. That way, I will be practicing and, helping my little cousins reading skills too. I want to be a good reader, so, here's my chance to practice hard! **

**Second, is that I want to be a great friend. Also, I will do good deeds to others. I will follow all directions and try to remember everything I have to do for school. My friends can help me by giving me reminders of what I need to do. I really want to earn cub coins at school. Once I have my goal reached, I will help others with the same goal. I will be a great friend throughout the year.**


 * What I need to achieve my goals... I will need my friends to help me with reading is thinking skills and, I ** will need a timer to keep track of how long I am reading and make sure I’m reading long enough.

= = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My New Year Resolution <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anthony Fortune
 * Alexa Carner New Years Resolution **
 * This year my hope & dream is To finish my books.Also ,to not abandon my books all the time .What can help me is finding books that are more interesting to me . This year I want to get better in capitalizing my letters and putting period at the end of my sentences .What can help me is as I finish a sentence i go back and check to make sure i put a capital letter and a period . **
 * This year my personal goal is to not talk in class . .What can help me is focusing on the teacher and on one thing (the lesson ) . I want to make sure we have a good classroom community. i can help make sure that happens by giving reminders ,pick up after myself, and follow the classroom rules and PRIDE . Those are my new years resolutions **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My reading hope and dream is to be a better reader.I will achieve my goal by practicing every day.Also my family can help me by guiding me through books when I read. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My academic hope and dream is to be a team player in basketball.I will do this by practicing outside every day for one hour. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I will achieve my goals by practicing.Also by getting help from my family.Another thing that I can do to achieve my goals is to practice with my family and then myself for 20 min.I can do different drills to get better at basketball.The last thing that I could do to achieve my goals is by trying my best no matter what.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">New Year’s Resolution

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hannah Robinovitz

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This year in 5th grade I want to get better at reading so I can be successful.I Will do that by picking the right book that suits me so I actually read the book!Also reading somewhere quiet and if I am doing good then maybe I will put music on. I will do that by having my w all teachers and family keep me in line. Maybe some of my friends will help to.My social resilution is is achive/acoplish the goals I make for myself or my teachers. When I set my mind to do something I am determined to do it no matter how long it takes.I have my mind set to anything that I or my teacher(s) teach me or tell me to do.I will achieve my goals by asking my teachers clarifying questions.Asking for help more often and making better choices.Also taking risks and sitting next to people who I won't talk to.Also giving as much effort as I need.I am determined to achieve all my goals.I know all of my effort will pay of.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Syncopate; font-size: 24px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__HAPPY New Year__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 19px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BY OWEN FRADETTE

In fifth grade I want to get better at reading by reading more challenging books. If I dont no a word I can ask a classmate and if they don’t no that word I can ask an adult. And I need someone to tell me I can do it. and I need to tell my self I can do it.

My personal goal is to demonstrate verbal self control by not talking out every day. I can do this by raising my hand. And that is my hope and dream for fifth grade.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My New Year Resolution

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Aaron harris

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My new goals are to be twice as better than before so i can get to a higher of a level.So I know that i read every night i will post it on a web site.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I need to master fractions.I can achieve this by using flashcards and saying ways to cut pizza.I can also play math games online to help me get better a fractions.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To achieve these goals I need support from my family to achieve my goals.

__MY__ __ New Year’s Resolution __ <span style="display: block; font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 23px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Aidan’s


 * My academic resolution is still to be able to read longer than 35 minutes. One way to achieve my goal is to read a lot more. The second way I could achieve my goal is to continue choosing and reading book’s at my level.The third way to do this goal is by reading more than 5 pages and reading faster. **


 * My independent goal is to get my work in time.One way I can accomplish my goal is by remembering when it is due.The second way I can do this goal is by remembering what I have to do and think how long it might take.The last way I can accomplish my goal is by not forgetting the work in class. **


 * I will need time to read and clean out my folder more. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Happy New Years!!! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> CONNOR COGNAC <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Cedarville Cursive'; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My academic hope and dream is to be way better at reading because i was not that good last year.I could not understand some of the books that i read last year.To achieve my goal i will stop talking and read more and get more books.I will also read read more at home when i have time or i can take a book in the car and read it then.I will stop stalling and just go somewere were there is no one so i can read the book.I will not just read for a minute and stop i will read for 20 or 30 minutes. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Cedarville Cursive'; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">my social hope and dream is to get at least one goal in hockey i will achieve my goal by skating harder and getting the puck from there team and set up a play.and will always give 110 percent. my parents can help me as much as possible by letting me practice more.