As Fall graces us with it’s presence, Fifth Grade is off and running with exciting classroom happenings.  I’m pleased to share some of the highlights with you!
 

In our Language Arts time, our class is finishing our first novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by legendary storyteller Roald Dahl. We focused heavily on understanding how character traits add to the mood, setting, and overall appeal of a story. To highlight our focus on developing character traits, the class created novel unit dolls of a favorite character from the book.  They then infused our writing lessons into their projects as they wrote several paragraphs on their character, demonstrating their reading comprehension and displaying their ability to cite information from the text.

In Math class, we have been hard at work tackling place value, properties, and powers of 10!  The kids have shown what they know on multiple assessments, worksheets, and math games with their peers. We are currently taking on the monumental task of large number multiplication and division. Please help your child be successful by practicing math facts with them each night for 15 minutes; this one action can have a huge impact on the rest of their math year!  Social Studies has been a blast these past few weeks, as we have been learning about early exploration. We’ve traveled the Silk Road with Marco Polo, learned with Mansa Musa in Mali, and sailed with Christopher Columbus to San Salvador.

Looking ahead, October will be a busy month for us.  Please check the reminders below for our holidays and half days this month, and please remember to check our class website weekly!  I hope that you and your families will enjoy this additional time together during our harvest season! May Fall bring blessings and health to you and yours.

9/28- no school

10/3- (conferences)

10/4- noon dismissal (conferences)

10/5 noon dismissal (conferences)

10/8- no school (holiday)

10/11- 5th grade led mass (at 12:15pm)

10/17- noon dismissal (teacher inservice)

10/23- picture retake day

10/26- Family Halloween party (at 6pm)

10/31- noon dismissal (Halloween)