Monday, November 2, 2015

November 4, 2015 Newsletter

This is what we have been learning in fifth grade:

Daily 5/CAFE: The students will complete their Daily 5 Menu entitled: “Katie’s Trunk”.  We will continue to review text structure and also analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting similarities and differences in the point of view they represent. 

Writing: This week, the students are finishing their opinion pieces. They are revising, editing and publishing them.

Math:  Students have started multiplying decimals to hundredths, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction. They are also relating the strategy to a written method and explaining the reason it was used. Next week, we will be moving into division of decimals to the hundredths place.

Social Studies:  Students will begin their study of the Revolutionary War.  They will learn: how independence is gained; how European settlements changed the land and people of North America; the causes of the Revolutionary War and the aftermath of the American Revolution. Students will begin a Newspaper Webquest in a few weeks.  

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