Week of March 18-22

Hello 5D Parents!

What a blast I had in the game last night! Thank you for coming to watch all your children participate, play and be present! Nights like this make me love what I do even more!

*Math:

• Assessed adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers
• Pre-Assessed multiplying and dividing fractions
• We sat one on one with each student to figure out where he/she starts in the unit
• New unit officially started Thursday

*Literacy:

• Our World Changers unit is growing!
• Students are working on Argument and Advocacy
• In their Active Citizen Groups they are learning to ask questions
• Groups are researching HOT TOPIC real world issues!
• All students are looking at both sides to an issue
• See the pictures below of the groups hard at work

*Science

• We are still learning about the spheres!
• Atmosphere and Biosphere are our current spheres
• Students looked at the layers of the atmosphere
• We looked closely at all the biomes
• We will look at the geosphere and hydrosphere next week

*Choose Love

• We completed forgiveness with how to apologize
• We began our final pillar, Compassion

*Important Information:

Early Releases on 4/4 and 4/11

Dismissal at 12:50

Testing will occur in May (dates to come later)

Week of 4/4-4/8

• *Math:
  • Began our self guided unit on +/- of fractions and mixed numbers
  • Adding and subtracting with like denominators
  • Adding and subtracting with unlike denominators
  • Regrouping with  subtraction
  • Multi-step problem solving of fractions
  • Using Edpuzzle, task cards, IXL and online games to master the I Cans
  • The assessment for this math unit will be coming soon….
  
  
  *Literacy:
  • Began our new unit which is centered around argument and advocacy
  • Discussed the difference between opinion and having a strong argument
  • Went over claims, reasons and evidence in order to have a solid argument
  • Looked at advertisements and determined if what they were claiming about their product had a solid argument
  • Talked about how informed citizens need to suspend judgement and gather evidence from both sides of an argument before choosing a side
  • Looked at different arguments about chocolate milk and whether or not it is healthy
  • Started new book clubs
  • Students chose a fiction book of interest and will be having book club meetings
  • Wrote letters to Gertrude and Ruth, two elderly visitors who will be visiting the classroom during the month of march (the drill sergeants have left, so it was time for new characters)
  
  
  *Science
  • We began our next science unit all about the Earth’s spheres
  • Quick refreshing of learning about gravity and the water cycle
  • Students worked in groups to act out a skit of the life cycle of a water drop
  • We will begin with the hydrosphere then continue on with the geosphere, atmosphere and biosphere
  
  
  *Choose Love
  • We learned today about apologizing
  • Practiced a genuine apology using specific steps
  • Learned about apologizing and the brain
  • There’s powerful research behind forgiveness and apologizing
  
  
  *Important Information:
  No School Tuesday, March 12
  Staff vs 5th Grade Basketball Game Thursday, March 21
  Important Memory Book information keeps coming home.  Be on the lookout