Welcome to Week 2! We had a fantastic week 1 with some beginning of the year assessments, a few small writing assignments, and some great team building activities as well as community meetings. We are going to continue our strong start during Week 2.
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This Week:
In Writing: We will beginning our first real writing assignment. Students will be writing a narrative about their summer. Students will be using this narrative to work through the writing process from pre-writing to the final draft. We will allow students time during the school day to complete each step, but we do expect students to take their work home if they are unable to finish in a timely manner.
In Math: We will be starting our new math curriculum with a review of numeration. This week students will be investigating place value, comparing and ordering whole numbers, and decimal place value. After our beginning of the year assessment, it looks to us like this will be an easy first chapter for most of our kids (they did real well on this portion of the beginning assessment). In addition, we are looking at starting a daily math fact warm-up to help our students with their confidence on math facts.
In Reading: We will be starting our first novel series with a great book called Maniac Magee. During reading this week we will be learning how to discuss novels in small groups and talking about some of the themes of Maniac Magee (family and nicknames).
Lastly, we will be continuing to build our sense of community in the 5th grade classrooms. This week we will be working on communication. We believe that this will be one of the most important aspects of working as a group. Needless to say, we will be working on this aspect all year long.
Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Allyn Woods and Alaina Therriault
Is there any home work for weekend? It seems like there is lack of home work assignment that may help students self learning and independent study habit. It is hard to pursue to have extra work if it is not home work.
ReplyDeleteAlso, is there any where I can check what were the home work assignment for the day? I trust my child but it seems he sometimes is not telling the truth. ( Sam's Mom )