November 2, 2018 Newsletter

Here is what we have been learning in fifth grade:

In EL, students just took their mid assessment for Unit 2 of Module 2. Students had to identify and explain the meaning of similes, metaphors and idioms. They also had to compare and contrasts stories from the same genre and determine how the narrator's point of view influenced how the events were described.(RL.5.4,RL 5.6 RL.5.9, L.5.2 and L.5.5) Students are currently working on writing an a literary analysis of the book, The Most Beautiful Roof in the World. In their essay they are explaining how the author uses concrete and sensory details to help them better understand the rainforest. (W.5.2,W.5.4,W5.5, W.5.9b) 


In Math, students have been reading, writing, and comparing decimals to thousandths place. We will be moving into rounding decimals and powers of 10. The students will be recognizing that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left.


In Social Studies,The students have started 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.

October 5, 2018 Newsletter

Here is what we have been learning in fifth grade:

In EL, we have started our 2nd Module. The topic this quarter is Biodiversity in the Rainforest. Students are reading, The Most Beautiful Roof, to build background knowledge about the rainforest, rainforest destruction and to understand why scientists study the rainforest. We also began this week  to discuss and identify different types of text structures within our text.

In Math, students finished their unit on multiplying a fraction by a whole number and took an assessment on Thurs. We are now moving into dividing fractions by a whole and a whole by a fraction.(5NF3 and 5 NF4)

In Science, we have started our force and motion unit.The students are beginning to understand the concepts of force and motion and the relationship between them. They are also inferring the motion of objects in terms of how far they travel in a certain amount of time and the direction in which they travel. One of their investigations they completed this wekk was to design a vehicle using the Kinex pieces that could travel 100 cm.