Wow! We have had quite a productive week in fifth grade! Our kindness boomerang is nearing completion. We cannot wait to share it with you. Your children blew us away with the improvement they made from the first take to their second take today. We are hoping to be able to film a final version on Monday if all students are present.
We also had many students join in on the playscape for Drums and Donuts with our very own music teacher, Mr. Santulli, on Tuesday. This is always such a fun event. Please be sure to check out the Fall Carnival Flyer sent home for the Fall Carnival. This is always a fun way to start off fall and for our Lower School students to participate in homecoming weekend.
Please do not forget to sign up for a parent conference. We hope to be able to meet with every parent! You will find the sign up sheet under the Upcoming Events section to the right or you can click HERE to sign up. Thank you to all who have already signed up!
Reading: Our main goal this week was to finish working on our Genre Group Projects and to practice writing effective summaries for works of fiction. Being able to summarize the key components of a story in your own words is a vital skill (and one of the most important pieces of their Genre Project), so we practiced honing our abilities through a Somebody-Waned-But-So-Then structure.
Though we had hoped to begin the student presentations this week, we’re confident that the extra work time will result in even more polished and comprehensive projects. Many of the students have drafted cue cards and begun rehearsing with their other group members. We’re really looking forward to seeing what they’ve come up with next week!
History: Just as we worked on summarizing works of fiction in our Language Arts class, in History this week, we practiced summarizing nonfiction texts. Being able to recognize the main points of nonfiction (such as online articles, biographies, newspapers, etc) and put their respective information into our own words will be essential as the students begin their Landmark research and take notes next week.
Math: In math this week we have been working on learning a set of divisibility rules. These rules will be helpful with so many topics of math for years to come. So far in fifth grade these rules have been a huge aid in finding factors and multiples of various numbers. Next week we will practice using prime factorization to find ALL the factors of larger numbers. Keep an eye on your child’s agenda, as we will have a test on Factors, Multiples, Prime and Composite Numbers at some point next week. This is in addition to the weekly review quizzes we usually take on Fridays.
Have a great weekend!
Kimberly & Tim