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.