This newsletter provides updates on upcoming events and classroom activities for 5th grade students. It discusses that PARCC testing went well and thanks parents for their help. It outlines that students are reading novels on the theme of loyalty, having discussions, and writing poems. Students are also learning about fractions in math and will go on a field trip and hovercraft project. The newsletter asks parents to check for important emails and stay tuned for more information on the Invention Convention project.
This newsletter provides updates on upcoming events and classroom activities for 5th grade students. It discusses that PARCC testing went well and thanks parents for their help. It outlines that students are reading novels on the theme of loyalty, having discussions, and writing poems. Students are also learning about fractions in math and will go on a field trip and hovercraft project. The newsletter asks parents to check for important emails and stay tuned for more information on the Invention Convention project.
This newsletter provides updates on upcoming events and classroom activities for 5th grade students. It discusses that PARCC testing went well and thanks parents for their help. It outlines that students are reading novels on the theme of loyalty, having discussions, and writing poems. Students are also learning about fractions in math and will go on a field trip and hovercraft project. The newsletter asks parents to check for important emails and stay tuned for more information on the Invention Convention project.
This newsletter provides updates on upcoming events and classroom activities for 5th grade students. It discusses that PARCC testing went well and thanks parents for their help. It outlines that students are reading novels on the theme of loyalty, having discussions, and writing poems. Students are also learning about fractions in math and will go on a field trip and hovercraft project. The newsletter asks parents to check for important emails and stay tuned for more information on the Invention Convention project.
Purse Pages Edition 14 Busy, Busy, Busy Dear / Parents, will contain important Please stay tuned This is a very busy information regarding for more information time of the year for upcoming events and regarding the everyone, but activities 5th graders Invention Convention. especially 5th grade. will be participating in. We have discussed it We have a lot of As you are aware we together in class and activities and completed PARCC you child should have projects coming up. testing this week. It shared the timeline I will be in contact went very smoothly with you at home this with you a lot over and the kids worked week. More the next month in a incredibly hard. Thank information will come half, please make you for helping to get as we get closer. sure to read the e- your child here and on mails or handouts I time each day! send to you as they
Whats Happening in the Classroom?
ELA During Daily 3 the challenging poetry We have continued students are all can be broken down our Thematic Unit on reading different to be understood by Loyalty and have had novels that tie into anyone. some excellent class our theme as well. discussions involving We are having higher As a part of our our essential level discussions Invention Convention questions and the about character process students stories they are development, have had to choose reading. The historical events, and an inventor that students have really conflict. they will research grappled with the and write a research We began our poetry paper on. This week question of what unit last week and happens when they selected the the students are inventor they are loyalties conflict and really enjoying this week were interested in learning looking at different more about for this thinking about where styles of poems and loyalty comes from. research and writing will have the assignment. We are deep into opportunity to write the novel One for their own poems the Murphys. The We analyzed two students are making poems written by outstanding Emily Dickenson and annotations and one by Robert Frost. thoughtful comments The class was able while reading. to see that even Page 2 of 3
Continued Math Social Studies In Math, we have The students are continued to work in continuing to learn also were able to our fraction unit. about the slave trade discover that in West Africa and Students are making multiplying fractions how slavery began in sense of fractions. We proves much easier North America in the have been doing a lot southern colonies. then adding and of problem solving and subtracting with unlike Science looking at language to denominators. I even help identify how to In science, we began heard, this is easy! approach a problem our Life Science unit and this is fun! best. We began to with a discussion of take a deeper look at systems and multiplying fractions subsystems. The class this week. The identified what makes students started to a system. Each group discover what happens created a diagram of a to the product when current functioning you multiply fractions system to demonstrate and are making the how it works and the connection to our subsystems that are decimal unit. They within it.
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
5/5 Heller Ravine Education Program Field Trip 5/12 Rockys Buffet & Hovercraft Project Questions to Ask Your Child . 1. What did you do in art, gym, music, and library this week? 2. What do you think about the novel you are reading for Daily 3? Tell me something that Phone: is happening in it. (224)-765-3674 3. In community building last week Ms. Purse E-Mail: taught you about grounding yourself. Can [email protected] you show me how to do it? Why is this helpful? 4. When you discussed loyalties conflicting what did that mean? 5. When you annotated the poem by Emily Dickinson with Ms. Purse what were you doing? 6. What is a stanza, refrain, and rhyme scheme? 7. How is Ms. Purse having you read One for the Murphys? What is it about so far? Are you enjoying it? 8. Every morning on the board Ms. Purse has been doing something for when you come in the room. Tell me about it. 9. How many deep breaths does Ms. Purse have you take before starting a test? What does she tell you to say to yourself? 10. Describe what the invention convention is? What inventor are you going to research?
