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Weekly Newsletter Grade 5 Dates: December 17-21 2018 Curriculum Information for the Week: Literacy: This week students will wrap up their informational writing, focusing on sustainable energy. Information paragraphs follow the same format as all good paragraph writing, starting with a topic sentence, followed by FRED’s, and concluding with a “So what?” This week students will show what they know in their Writing on Demand Assessment. Math: As we move forward in our decimals unit, students are learning to add and subtract decimals.  We have multiple tools and strategies to help students develop conceptual understanding.  Students will show what they know about decimals by adding, subtracting, and rounding while shopping for a meal on Tesco.com Unit of Study:  Design Thinking is in full swing. Students have started making connections to energy consumption and climate change, and have begun their designs of a prototype to help reduce their dependence on fossil fuel...

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5 Dates: December 10-14, 2018 Curriculum Information for the Week: Literacy: Students will finish their informational writing, focusing on sustainable energy. Information paragraphs follow the same format as all good paragraph writing, starting with a topic sentence, followed by FRED’s, and concluding with a “So what?” Students will write a variety of non-fiction paragraphs: sequencing, compare and contrast, cause and effect, just to name a few! Math: As we move forward in our decimals unit, students are learning to add and subtract decimals.  We have multiple tools and strategies to help students develop conceptual understanding. As the week continues, they will choose ways that are most efficient to them. Unit of Study:  Design Thinking planning will start this week! The students will start making connections to energy consumption and climate change, and design a prototype to help reduce their dependence on fossil fuels, in order to ...

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5 Dates: December 3-7, 2018 Curriculum Information for the Week: Literacy: Students will continue to work on their nonfiction reading and writing units, which are integrated with our sustainable energy science unit. Students will continue to use hard copy and online texts about sustainable energy to improve their nonfiction reading and writing. This week the students will focus on choosing and researching one form of sustainable energy, including the pros and cons etc. They will begin to synthesize their research in an informative essay. All of this research will guide us to use the design thinking process in order to problem solve around climate change. Math: We are wrapping up our unit on coordinate planes. We are now bridging into understanding the decimal system. In this unit, students will grasp that the location of digits in decimal numbers determines the value of a digit. Students will also be using real-world problems in order to understand how t...