This Week in Room 33! Oct. 7-11

This Week in Room 33! Oct. 7-11

P.E. Skating Permission Slip will be out this week

Parent Volunteer Form for JA Biztown Field Trip (DUE 10/17) : Click HERE!

The JA Biztown form is only for those parents who wish to volunteer! We only have a few volunteers as of now and are in need of many more.  Please consider volunteering if you are able. Thank you! 

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 everyone into our community?

Over the past month we have studied the stories of diverse cultures and had many conversations about how to celebrate and how to welcome and include others not only into our classroom, but into our country. This focus has been weaved into almost every aspect of our day and will continue to be for the remainder of first quarter. If you have a chance to talk to your child about this question, having empathy, spreading kindness, and how to make our community a better place, I hope you do. Your kids have incredible ideas and they are showing us each and every day how KIND they can to be to their peers regardless of ability, whether it be academic, social, emotional, or physical. 

This week in 5th grade…

ELA: This week, we will continue to look at our reading with a writer’s eye as we continue our narrative pieces from last week. We will be noticing and discussing dialogue, figurative language, and commas in our reading AND in our writing. We will continue to ensure the heart of our story (message or lesson) is being revealed to our reader through our storytelling. We will finish the week by spending time revising/editing for organization, craft, and mechanics in our piece.  On Friday, we will celebrate all of our hard work! 

STEAM: This week we are problem solving, estimating quotients with 2 digit divisors, and dividing by 2 digit divisors. We are also in the middle of our final project from our science unit, Food to Sun. The students had to write a 3 paragraph informational piece explaining the main components of our unit, and how it relates to their pizza farm. Then, they get to make a prototype of their pizza farm. Thank you for all the recycled donations, the students are very excited to begin this part of their project.