5th Grade Newsletter
September 11-15, 2017
(Peter asked Jesus,) “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Matthew 18:21
Religion – All three classes have been holding daily prayer services following the resource Children’s Daily Prayer. The Reading or Gospel for the day is read aloud, prayer intentions are stated and a quiet reflection time is observed. This is a beautiful way to begin our Religion classes each day. We will attend Adoration on Tuesday the 12th, and we will continue to attend Adoration every second Tuesday of the month. We started to discuss the fruits of the spirit using our planner theme. We will continue after those lessons with our first unit of the school year on prayer.
Reading – We started reading the novel, Frindle. We are using this book to model how our reading program will work with the students as independent readers. We will begin mini lessons on genre next week. We will also begin letter writing and conferencing with the students as well.
Math – We are continuing Unit 1 in Math. As stated last week, your child will be bringing home a study link most nights. They will need to complete the study link as homework and check it against the answers published in the family letter. They have been instructed how to do this. It is my hope that I can save time in math class reading the answers and designate that time to answering any questions and reviewing. Please assist your child as needed. The parent letter servers as a reference for you as you work with your child. Please remind your child to brush up on those math facts. Assessments will be given next week on basic math fact recall. Thank you for your support!
Social Studies – Our focus this past week has been dedicated to the events of September 11th. I am so proud of all your children for listening and discussing these events with such maturity. So many thought provoking questions and discussion came from viewing videos and photographs from 9/11.
Science - We will get going with science next week discussing the Scientific Method.
Language Arts – We spent this week discussing how to come up with ideas for writing. Ideas start small and grow! We practiced writing a piece in which a small idea was given and the students made it grow! We also completed on our first week of DLR (Daily Language Review) and Word A Day. Next week, we will begin increasing our writing stamina as well as cover a unit on punctuation.
Spelling – We will took our first Spelling test. The format of the first test was a bit different than what the students are typically used to. We will continue to test on Spelling in a variety of formats (including writing the words as traditionally done).
Spelling will also consist of daily mini lessons along with homework on some days.
Next week’s spelling list will include words with the prefixes un- and dis- .
