Tuesday, August 30, 2016

August 31, 2016 Newsletter


Here is what we have been learning in fifth grade:

 Daily 5/CAFE
This week students will begin a new menu entitled, “Elena” and “Journey to Nowhere”. Students will work on making character inferences and practice summarizing the text. (RL5.2) They will also create a Double Bubble thinking map to compare and contrast one character from each story. Students will meet in strategy groups to work on CAFÉ strategies to improve vocabulary and comprehension. "Tracks"

Writing
Students will complete their own memoir later this week and will begin to share them with the class.


Math:  Students are learning to add, and subtract decimals to hundredths place. They have been doing this using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction. Then the students have been relating the strategy to a written method and explaining their reasoning used.

Social Studies:  Students will begin a summative project that will last until track out. They will need to apply all of the knowledge that has been acquired thus far to complete this assignment. They will take a short answer test this Friday.

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