Wow, what beautiful Spring Break we had last week! I hope everyone enjoyed the week off and made the best of their time off school. I had a blast playing with my kids and reading some great books over the break! Now it is time to get back to the grind with only 7 weeks left to finish out the school year! I can’t believe how fast it’s gone by and how soon these kiddos will become middle schoolers. Speaking of middle school, please note that our 5th Grade Recognition Ceremony will officially take place at 9:15am on Wednesday, June 1st. Please view the calendar on this website for other important upcoming dates.
As the school year winds down, we are still covering lots of material in class. Below you can see what we’re learning this week.
*Please view the Family Letter for this new unit over Probability, Ratios, and Rates, Unit 12 at http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/parents/homework_help/5th_grade/. This will give you insight into key vocabulary as other necessary information to help your child with his/her homework.
This week we will be learning all about probablility and ratios. In order to kick that off we learned today about finding the GCF of two numbers using factor trees. Finding the GCF helps us to quickly simplify a ratio or fraction. If your child has difficulty with tonight’s homework, please check out the following website for extra help. http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/a/gcfl.cfm
Writing
This week we will kick off our short story writing unit by studying fractured fairy tales. Today in class we watched the Muppets perform some fractured fairy tales and we analyzed those for the story elements. Tomorrow we will begin practicing and learning parts for fractured fairy tale plays to be performed next week. I will record these and put them on the blog for parents to view.
Social Studies
We are currently focusing on the 20th Century. The kids will be learning about major events of the 20th Century for the next several days including WWI, WWII, the Cold War, the Great Depression, and the Civil Rights Movement. Next week they will be given the opportunity to work in groups to research and present information about a 20th Century topic of their choice.
Word Study
You might notice a new word study sheet in your child’s planner tonight. We are going to learn measurement vocabulary as we explore the different units of measure and the different tools for measuring followed by measurement conversions and a quiz next week.
Reading
In reading we will continue learning about main idea and supporting details followed by a mini-unit over author’s bias and how to locate author’s bias in a reading passage.
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