PARCC is finally upon us. We already started with our first assessment today, English-Language Arts, and will take an assessment daily until we conclude on Friday of this week. Below is the fifth grade testing schedule for the week. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
WEX: We are putting the finishing touches on our final response to fiction essay. As part of the writing process, students have cultivated thoughtful leads as part of their introduction into the essay, and are learning to use effective transitions between their two moments. We learned to identify the character traits from the novel we read, The Liberation of Gabriel King, by K.L. Going, and found moments in the text that exemplified these traits. Students are also able to identify showing details and direct quotes within these moments to support the character’s traits.
Reading & Wax Museum: Our genera for March is biographies and autobiographies, and it is also when we hold the much anticipated Wax Museum. Students have selected important historical figures and will be reading and sequencing their person’s life in preparation for their written monologue. We will complete the reading and notetaking portion in class, but students may need to supplement with additional reading at home to ensure they have a good grasp of their figure’s important milestones and contributions to society. More information will be sent home in the next two days. For now, save the date for the evening of March 18th.
History Alive: We are wrapping up the Watery Earth unit over the next few days, and will be directing our full attention shortly to learning about the United States Constitution and the three branches of government. To reinforce the concept of checks and balances, students are going to create a poster project that is a metaphor for how the U.S. branches of government are interdependent on each other.
Math: We have been working with Mrs. Burns on our exciting Dream Room project. Once PARCC testing is finished, we will resume working on the project and finalize our financial allocations to ensure we have budgeted successfully for our ultimate dream room! Before spring break, we will begin Unit 6 of Everyday Mathematics. Students will be revisiting adding and subtracting fractions, and finding the common denominators to cement these concepts. We will also learn to read stem and leaf charts, investigate the effect of a sample size and be able to use and interpret data from surveys.
- Monday : ELA 1:30 pm
- Tuesday: ELA 1:30 pm
- Wednesday: ELA 1:30 pm
- Thursday: Math 1:30 pm
- Friday: Math 1:30 pm
WEX: We are putting the finishing touches on our final response to fiction essay. As part of the writing process, students have cultivated thoughtful leads as part of their introduction into the essay, and are learning to use effective transitions between their two moments. We learned to identify the character traits from the novel we read, The Liberation of Gabriel King, by K.L. Going, and found moments in the text that exemplified these traits. Students are also able to identify showing details and direct quotes within these moments to support the character’s traits.
Reading & Wax Museum: Our genera for March is biographies and autobiographies, and it is also when we hold the much anticipated Wax Museum. Students have selected important historical figures and will be reading and sequencing their person’s life in preparation for their written monologue. We will complete the reading and notetaking portion in class, but students may need to supplement with additional reading at home to ensure they have a good grasp of their figure’s important milestones and contributions to society. More information will be sent home in the next two days. For now, save the date for the evening of March 18th.
History Alive: We are wrapping up the Watery Earth unit over the next few days, and will be directing our full attention shortly to learning about the United States Constitution and the three branches of government. To reinforce the concept of checks and balances, students are going to create a poster project that is a metaphor for how the U.S. branches of government are interdependent on each other.
Math: We have been working with Mrs. Burns on our exciting Dream Room project. Once PARCC testing is finished, we will resume working on the project and finalize our financial allocations to ensure we have budgeted successfully for our ultimate dream room! Before spring break, we will begin Unit 6 of Everyday Mathematics. Students will be revisiting adding and subtracting fractions, and finding the common denominators to cement these concepts. We will also learn to read stem and leaf charts, investigate the effect of a sample size and be able to use and interpret data from surveys.