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Weekly Newsletter Grade 5 Date April 1 - 5 Dear Parents, Curriculum Information for this Week: Literacy: Students begin to learn about Social Issues and Human Rights through historical fiction, biography and autobiography texts. We will focus on Informational text throughout this unit.  Students will revisit informational and opinion writing in this unit. Math: The students will begin the unit titled Order of Operations. We have been practicing this skill using daily warm-ups, so they are familiar with these skills. Students will evaluate how to use numerical expressions with parentheses, brackets, and braces. They will explain how to use these symbols in order to identify, write and describe simple numerical expressions. Unit of Study: We are beginning our unit on Social Change. This will conclude with the famous “Night of the Notables” on Thursday 9 May. This week we will: Start a historical fiction read aloud Begin reading historical fiction and social issue pictu...

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5 Dates: March 4-8              Dear Parents, Curriculum Information for this Week: G5 students will be spending much classroom time on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week preparing for their student-led conference (SLC) on Thursday 7 or Friday 8 March. Students will be reflecting on their reading, writing, math and science work and preparing work samples to share with you that show learning growth. They will also be reflecting on their learning behaviors, work habits and attitude in a variety if areas and will prepare and share their learning goals to address areas of need. Learning in our reading, writing, math and science units may be temporarily suspended in the early part of this week, while teachers prepare their students for success at the SLCs. For more information and ways to support your child please visit the Parent Learning Connection page . Important Reminders/Informa...