Mrs. DeLello's Class: October 15-19

Happy Friday 5D Families!

The students have been working diligently in all curriculum areas so far this year. See what they've been working on!

Math

Math Menu is still going well with check ins each day to make sure the students know what they need
We have worked on multiplying and dividing decimals by powers of ten
Reinforced the decimal point moving to the right with multiplication
Reinforced the decimal point moving to the left with division
Practiced ten times more and 1/10th of within place value
Reviewed our first unit
Played TRASHKETBALL and then took a unit assessment

Literacy

Book Clubs have continued with character problems as well as plot versus theme
Book range from The Thing About Jellyfish to Schooled, Wringer, Absolutely Almost and Rules
Students should be reading nightly from their book AND keeping track of their things on sticky notes or in an electronic document
In writing, students took a second look at their lead and reworked it using a mini-lesson on effective leads (Mystery, Dead End, Onomatopoeia, Descriptive, Question)
Students were asked to work with literacy partners to get to the bottom of what their story is truly about ( the "SO WHAT?" of the story)

Social Studies

We've visited all three worlds in depth, pre-exploration
Push and Pull factors of exploration were discovered
Students worked on the Venn-Doodle Gram to add these factors
Ask your child if they thing exploration was a good or bath thing depending on who you were
Ask them about how Africans ended up in the Americas and how slavery began
History and perspective is an amazing life lesson

Remember we have conferences on 10/25 and 11/1 so those Thursdays will be early releases at 12:50.

Our school day will end at 2:55 starting on 10/29. Also, lunch and recess have been changed to 25 minutes a piece.

Wellness Policy can be found here. Letter

Halloween Party will be on 10/31 starting after lunch. A signup will go out and you can send things in with your child.

Literacy Partners