Blog Layout Change
In an effort to make our blog more user-friendly, we put the important dates listed on the right hand side. If something important is coming up you will find it in the top right part of the blog page. Please check this section regularly for important dates.
In the Classroom
Readers' Workshop
In Readers' Workshop this week, we shifted our focus to nonfiction text. We are going to spend sometime working with nonfiction text. We will focus on the following over the next week:
- previewing the text and text structures
- asking, how is this organized? What are the different parts?
- studying the physical layout of the whole text
- paying close attention to expository text features
- titles and subtitles
- table of contents, diagrams, charts, graphic organizers, photos, and captions
- activating prior knowledge of the topic by thinking, What do I already know about the topic?
During this upcoming week we will be looking at different text structures. We will be studying descriptive text along with cause and effect.
Writers' Workshop
In Writers' Workshop this week we worked chronological order. We took information from a nonfiction text and put it in order. During the upcoming week we will work on using the text structures we study in Readers' Workshop and applying them ourselves in Writers' Workshop. We will also be working on summary writing. We will research informational topics and take the information we learn to write a summary.
Social Studies
In Social Studies this week, we continued to study the events leading to the American Revolution. This week we focused on The Sugar Act, Quartering Act, Stamp Act, and Townshend Acts. Ask your 5th grader what they learned about these events. The students were very interested in the effects of these acts. The ways in which the colonists reacted. The students really enjoyed incorporating some drama into our lessons this week. They love acting!
Math
In Math this week we continued to work with fractions. We worked on addition of fractions and finding common denominators. We also worked on adding and subtracting mixed numbers. We ended the week by looking at "fraction of" problems and how they connect to multiplication. This coming week we will move into multiplication of fractions. We will do this traditionally and using an area model. Please make sure that your child is doing his or her math homework every night. These homework assignments should not take long and your child should be able to do them independently.
Upcoming Events
BIRTHDAY IN A BAG
- The WLE Girl Scouts are collecting items to make a child's birthday extra
special. All items will be collected from February 20-March 10th.
They are looking for things like - cake mix, canned icing, sprinkles,
balloons, festive birthday plates, candles, etc. See the flyer attached
for more information.
