Here are some of the topics we have been covering in 5th grade....ask your 5th grader about these for some conversation starters about school.
Teacher PD Day
No School for Students next
Friday, October 22nd
Picture Make-Up Day is November 18th
Math
- fiinding common denominators to add and subtract
- multiplying a whole number by a fraction
- order of operations using parentheses
- double number lines
- working with creepy carrots --weighing and graphing
- working with mystery buildings (deciphering front view/side view/top view)
Science
- How can we investigate why we see different stars on different nights?
- Final discussions for this first unit
- Social Studies starts next week!!!
Literacy
- long "i" sounds, spelling and rules
- answering questions explictly while quoting accurately from a text
- backing up inferences with evidence from text
- practicing paragraph writing
- reflecting on personality traits that make up who we are
- reading and writing around non-fiction texts
- quick writes in the form of narratives and creative writing
- creative writing
- independent reading with reading responses
- Literacy text we used this week
SELS/Health
- Hispanic Heritage Month
- Coming Out Day/Week
- Indignous People Day
- Empathy
- How to be an ally to someone being bullied
- GSA started this week!!!
