October 22, 2014 Newsletter

What we have been learning in fifth grade:

Daily 5/CAFE: This week 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 we will begin to write an opinion piece on a topic supporting a point of view with reasons and information. They will strive to provide logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details.

Math:  Students have fininshed the coordinate grid unit and are now starting multiplying and dividing decimals. They will be multiplying and dividing 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 also will be relating the strategy to a written method and explaining the reason it was used.

Science: We are finishing up our force and motion unit. The students were given a study guide on Monday. They need to complete 20 of the 29 questions by this Friday. They can work on this in class and at home. Their test will be next Tuesday, the 28^th and their Case 21 will be on Wednesday the 29^th.