Dear Parents, A new year and a new semester bring your scholars closer to being fifth graders than third graders. This second semester is going to be a time of growing up and getting ready to be the leaders of the schools. It won't be an easy semester, but it will be full of valuable lessons and lots of joy. Keep encouraging your students to do their best and love the learning! This WeekIn English Language Arts we are continuing our work outlining and summarizing short passages. It is starting to become routine for your students, which is great! Something you can start to try is having them quickly summarize the plot of a movie or a book you are enjoying together. Get the skill of summarization ingrained into their heads and life will be that much easier when they start having to write larger book reports and papers in the coming years. In History we are exploring the earliest days of the American colonists as they explore a world completely new to them. We will learn how the average colonist boy and girl lived their lives, and the struggles colonists faced. In Science we are learning about the layers of our Earth! This is a great unit to get your students thinking about things they can't see. The vast majority of our planet is made up of layers we never see, but that have huge effects on our daily lives. Get them to reflect on this and they will start pondering how other unseen forces can affect us. In Mathematics we are studying decimals, which your students are well prepared for by their work in fractions. Give them fractions with denominators of ten or a hundred and challenge them to convert them into decimals! The more familiar students become with the relationship between decimals and fractions, the easier it will be for them to work with decimals by themselves. Upcoming AssessmentsFriday (26th)
1) Spelling Test 2) Math Quiz on tenths and hundredths Next Wednesday (31st) 1) Test on decimals in general. (Includes a review on multiplying fractions) Comments are closed.
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