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Weekly Newsletter Grade 5 Dates: February 25-March 1              Dear Parents, Curriculum Information for this Week: Literacy: Grade 5 students are continuing to generate ideas for their fantasy stories. They will be taking all their great ideas and choosing the best one to write a story. They are including all the elements of a fantasy story including themes, life lessons, quests, magical creatures, metaphorical and literary dragons. Here are some questions you can ask your son or daughter about their story: Who are your main characters? Describe the setting of your story. Is there a quest in your story? How is your story connected to real life problems? What is the life lesson? What are the struggles your character is facing? What will come of the protagonist? How will s/he change? Math: The students are beginning Unit 5 in Math - multiplying and dividing fractions using a variety of manipu...

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5 Dates: February 18-22               Dear Parents, Curriculum Information for this Week: Literacy: Grade 5 students continue to work on their fantasy stories. This week we focus on making our stories believable by adding details to our settings, internal and external character traits and making sure to show not tell throughout our stories.  Fantasy book clubs continue as students analyze their books through the focus on metaphors, symbolism and thinking about how fantasy helps us understand the real world. Math: The students will conclude Unit 4: Place Value and Decimal Operations. Students have explored multiplying and dividing decimals using a variety of manipulatives to show their thinking . The assessment will be giving this week. (See last week’s newsletter for helpful video links.) Unit of Study:  Students will continue their second science unit: Modeling...

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5 Dates: 11-15  Feb. 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, How can you relate to the character? What character traits the character have and how do you know? Can you compare the character or theme to another story you have read? Students will continue to work on their Fantasy writing. As we navigate the Fantasy writing, a few key concepts we will focus on are how the setting impacts the story, power in the story as well as identifying a deeper social issues that the character has to navigate...