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Weekly Newsletter Grade 5 Dates: April 29th - May 3rd Dear Parents, Curriculum Information for this Week: Literacy: Students will continue to learn about Social Issues and Human Rights. They will continue researching a variety of topics and begin narrowing down their ideas. They will reinforce and build on their note-taking skills as well as learning more about trustworthy resources and identifying perspective.  As they research, they will be writing down their ideas to help them solidify their thinking around the topic. Math: Students will continue our Volume and Measurement Unit. They will explore volume by building and counting unit cubes as well as learning the relationship between different units of volume measurement. Unit of Study: Students will continue our Social Change unit by preparing for ‘Night of the Notables’ 2019 presentation. Class scripts have been finalized and we will begin our practices. Students will dig deeper into the Change Maker or Social Issu...

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5 Dates: April 22-26th        Dear Parents, Curriculum Information for this Week: Literacy: Students will continue to learn about Social Issues and Human Rights through picture books, historical fiction, biographies, autobiographies and research. Classes have been diving further into Informational text while focusing on one social issue and/or a Human Rights Issue. Ask your child which human rights issue his/her class is exploring. Classes have been building a thesis with a focus on a social issue including different social change makers. All of this is in preparation for creating our class presentations for Night of the Notables, May 7th. Math: This week we will begin our Volume and Measurement Unit. Students will estimate and measure shapes. Students will also explore liquid volume using water and make comparisons and conversions. Students will explore volume by building and counting unit cubes in order to understand volume. Unit...

Date April 15-19 Dear Parents, Curriculum Information for this Week: Literacy: Students will continue to learn about social issues, human rights and activists through historical fiction, biographical and autobiographical texts. They are also focusing on informational texts in their Book Clubs throughout this unit. Students will also continue to review and practice informational and opinion writing in this unit. Readers at this level will be asking themselves about author bias, comparing varying opinions and learning how to summarize more complex ideas. This work all culminates in our Night of the Notables performance on Tuesday, May 7. Math: The students will continue the unit titled ‘Order of Operations’, practicing this skill using daily warm-ups, math lessons and in their math review home learning sheet. Students will continue to evaluate how to use numerical expressions with parentheses, brackets, and braces. They will explain how to use these symbols in order to iden...

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5 Date April 8-12 Dear Parents, Curriculum Information for this Week: Literacy: Students will continue to learn about social issues, human rights, and activists through historical fiction, biographical and autobiographical texts. They are also focusing on informational texts in their Book Clubs throughout this unit. Students will also continue to review and practice informational and opinion writing in this unit. Math: The students will continue the unit titled ‘Order of Operations’, practicing this skill using daily warm-ups, math lessons and in their math review home learning sheet. Students will continue to 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: The students will continue our unit titled, ‘Social Change’. One of the highlights of the G5 calendar - the “Night of the Notables” pre...