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Weekly Newsletter Grade 5 Dates: 27-31 Jan. 2019                Dear Parents, Curriculum Information for this Week: Literacy: This week the students will continue their reading unit on the Fantasy genre. They will also continue working in their fantasy book clubs where they will discuss elements of fantasy, keep track of characters’ development and problems and identify internal and external character conflicts and themes that run through their fantasy books. Questions which you can ask your fifth grader, What book are you reading in the book club? Tell me about who has the power in the book and why? How has your character changed throughout the book? What theme do you see emerging in this book? Students will begin writing fantasy stories this week. The focus of this unit is for students to be able to elaborate their thoughts (while keeping a focus!), use transitions to move from one ide...

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5 Dates: 21-25 Jan. 2019                Dear Parents, Curriculum Information for this Week: Literacy: This week the students will continue their reading unit on the Fantasy genre. They will also continue working in their fantasy book clubs where they will discuss elements of fantasy, keep track of characters’ development and problems and identify internal and external character conflicts and themes that run through their fantasy books. Our daily fantasy read alouds will also continue. While the focus for the first week of semester 2 was on fantasy reading, the students will begin their fantasy writing unit this week by completing a writing pre-assessment. Math: The students will continue Unit 4: Place Value and Decimal Operations. Last week, the students reviewed adding and subtracting decimals and towards the end of the week they moved into multiplying decimals (whole number ...

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5 Dates: 14-18 Jan. 2019                Dear Parents, Happy New Year and welcome back to semester 2 in G5! We hope you had a relaxing holiday with your family and friends. Curriculum Information for this Week: Literacy: This week the students will start new reading and writing units on Fantasy Genre. The students will begin by doing a tuning-in to the fantasy unit by identifying the elements of fantasy. In the first part of the reading unit, readers will read alongside the characters keeping track of problems, identifying internal and external character conflicts and themes that run through fantasy books and history. Our daily read aloud will also be fantasy books. The students will begin their writing fantasy unit next week by completing a writing pre-assessment. Math: The students will continue Unit 4: Place Value and Decimal Operations. They will begin the we...