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5th Grade Newsletter

September 25-September 29

Religion – All three classes have been holding daily prayer services as the schedule allows.   We are continuing to work through our unit on Prayer.  We are taking time to focus on the Apostles’ Creed and using it to teach the students what we believe as a part of our Catholic faith.  This instruction will continue next week.

Reading- We are continuing our work with genre.  We are looking at each individual genre and discussing its characteristics and elements.  This unit will help the students determine which genre to place each of their 40 books as they read them. We have started conferencing and letter writing too!  Many students are well on their way to their 40 books by the end of 5th grade!  Keep on reading!  

Math – Your child will be bringing home their Unit 1 assessment on Monday for you to review and sign. We will begin Unit 2: Estimation and Computation.  I will begin testing on basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts next week. I will be providing feedback to your child if they need to complete additional study to master basic facts.

Science - We continued our study of the scientific method this week having interesting discussions on whether Skittles melt faster in hot or cold water.  The students loved our interactive experiment and finally had a chance to find the answer to that testable question.  Ask them about it.  We reviewed today for our Test over the scientific method that all 3 classes will have on Monday.  STUDY!!!

Social Studies - Although we have been spending most of our time on science, we are still taking the first 10 minutes of class to study our map skills.  We have discussed latitude, longitude, and all four hemispheres.  Students took their D.O.G. quizzes today and will get them back on Monday to be signed.  This will be the process throughout the school year so be asking your students to see their quizzes.  

Language Arts – We spent this week working on antonyms.  We also spent time reading re-written and different versions of classic fairy tales.  We read aloud the book The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs.  We discussed point of view in stories.  Students then developed a list of ideas in which a new point of view is used in a well known fairy tale.  After individual and small group brainstorming,  students began drafting a piece of writing stemming from one of these fairy tale ideas.  We will continue with this process next week.  We will also begin a unit on The Sentence.

Spelling –  Our Spelling list next week will contain the prefixes re-, pre-, de- and time will be spent looking at homographs.