The following is a BIG question we are exploring, discussing, and trying to answer in 5th grade. Encourage your student to continue the discussion with YOU at home!
How can we celebrate diversity and welcome refugees & immigrants into our community?
This week in 5th grade…
STEAM: We are continuing our unit on division as we show our complete understanding of the process through models, distributive property, partial quotients, and the standard long division algorithm.
***It is SO IMPORTANT that students know their basic multiplication and division math facts! It is becoming increasingly difficult for those students who do not know their facts to complete the higher level thinking and problem solving that 5th graders are expected to do. Thank you for taking the extra steps to make sure your 5th grader is working towards mastery of these facts! Math Magician is a great website to practice math facts. Students can also work on their QuickTables in ALEKS OR Xtramath through Clever.
ELA: I couldn’t be prouder of our literary essayists! Please read below for writing portfolio expectations to be completed by this Friday.
***Students will be responsible for showing off their hard work and will celebrate with YOU! Students will show you their online writing portfolio Google site. They will show you their “Panyee Football Club” essay and their newest essay. They will also show you their self-evaluation checklist and share their “glows” and “grows” with you. Please help them celebrate their accomplishments, but also look for & encourage setting new goals for their next piece. These writers know that "when they are done, they've only just begun!" :)
This week we will wrap up our book clubs and work hard to make our discussions stronger as we continue to make connections across texts and study our authors’ choices. We will also begin exploring narratives (our next writing unit). This week students will choose a small moment story idea with an emphasis on our study of refugees and immigrants. Some may choose to create their own story idea or continue the story of Home of the Brave or any of the other picture books we have read. They will work on creating a story arc to guide their writing. Students will utilize all they have learned from their study of reading and analyzing texts in our literary essay unit as they perfect their own narrative craft! We will practice emphasizing the heart of our stories (what our stories are really about!) and elaborating on important details. We will discuss the importance of revealing the theme through the choices we make as authors in our narratives.
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