Tomorrow (Wednesday), the students will be presenting their ELA Allegory projects.  We will take both ELA and Math periods to present them. They have worked hard on their projects and get to share their work with their peers. If we have additional math, we will play fun math games to celebrate all that we have learned.

 

It has been a pleasure teaching your students ELA and Math.  I am so excited to see them move onto 6th grade.  Have a wonderful summer!

 

 

This week we will be having a few special days. Monday 5/11 is our Health Day all day.  5/6 students will be rotating through teacher led stations throughout the day.  Science is the theme. There will be a variety of activities planned and students will be separated into grade groups (boys and girls) for the health day.

 

Tuesday, May 12, we will be going on our field trip to Majestic Nature Center.  Students will need to bring a sack lunch. We will be out most of the day, returning to campus around 2pm.  Students should be wearing comfortable shoes appropriate for lots of walking.  Students should be prepared for a day outside and bring a water bottle.

 

In ELA, we will be working on writing argumentative essays, finishing up Module 10 in HMH, and doing DIBELS reading testing this week.

 

In Math, students will continue working in Chapter 8 on fractions.  Students are learning to simplify and reduce fractions.  

Module 10 in HMH.  Here is the link for the Module 10 family letter.  We will spend the next 4 weeks on Module 10- The Lives of Animals.  We have MAP testing, DIBELS (reading) and a few days of field trips and such.  This will be our last module in HMH for the school year. Module 10 Family Letter

This week is round 2 of CMAS testing. We will be testing for ELA. Monday and Friday will be our normal schedules.  In ELA we are still working through Module 9.  In Math we are working on Decimal Division.  In the afternoons on testing days this week we will be doing a fraction and geometry workshop during social studies and science. I will be doing Fractions for both sections of 5th grade and Ms. O'Leary will be doing Geometry for both sections of 5th grade.   

We start the CMAS in math and science this week. Testing days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  Testing starts in the morning first thing so have your students at school on time.  The Math CMAS will be given first, then we will administer the Science  CMAS for 5th grade only.   In the afternoon, on testing days, Ms. O'Leary and I will be teaching ELA classes to each section.  Monday and Friday in ELA and Math will be skill review days. 

 

We will be continuing working in Module 8 this week. We are writing lyric poems and we are working on writing pesuasive essays.  We will continue working in Module 8 after break, as well.

 

Parent conferences will be held in person March 12 and virtually March 13. If you have not signed up yet, the sign up will be open until Monday 4pm:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0449A9AB2AA4FFCF8-62647439-muftic

We will be starting Module 8 in HMH into Reading.

 

Here is a link to the parent letter explaining what the module will cover: Parent Letter Module 8

 

 

We are continuing our work in Module 7. We are answering the essential question: What role does curiosity play in exploration. We are writing informative essays and working on grammar: article, adjective, and noun.

We have completed Module 6 and I am happy to report that our students have shown a lot of growth in their writing skills.  We started an intense study of parts of speech. I am teaching them to use specific grammar symbols to code their work and help strengthen their recall.  We started with nouns and prepositions last week and we will move on to articles and adjectives this week.  I love grammar and I hope your students will love it, too.  

 

We are starting Module 7 in HMH.  The essential question we are exploring is, "What role does curiosity play in exploration." We will look at exploration in Sky and Space, Ocean, and Land. So many adventures await us in this next module.

As we complete Module 6 in HMH, students have been assigned a personal narrative on Writeable. This week, students will work in class on their expository essays about visual arts. 

We are reading several selections this week in Module 6 in our HMH book. Students will read about artists and use visualization to help understand about the person and important events in their life. 

In foundational skills, students will be practicing suffixes -ful, -ly, -ness, -ment. 

Students will also be strengthening their writing skills by focusing on personal narratives. 

Over the next three weeks, our class will build their knowledge about different art forms, with a focus on the biography genre. We will read texts and view videos about how different art forms impact people in different ways. Children will also write an expository essay telling how different art forms have impacted people’s lives.

We are wrapping up Module 5 - Living on Planet Earth in HMH.  Students are working in groups to develop a PSA (Public Service Announcement) about an element of protecting our environment. Students will also be finishing up their writing assignment  in class. They read the story, discussed the text, and wrote a rough draft of a paragraph. Next week they will finish their final copy on Writeable on the HMH platform. Wednesday, we will be doing MAP Math testing during ELA and Math. I have seen a lot of growth from students on writing paragraphs and will continue to work on strengthening their writing skills. In addition, we will be focusing on the past tense of verbs.

📖 ELA

HMH – Module 5
Essential Question:
How can caring for the Earth and its living things improve life now and in the future? 🌍💚

Over the next three weeks, our class will build their knowledge about our planet, with a focus on the persuasive text genre. We will read texts and view videos about the different things people do to care for the Earth and its living things. Students will also write an opinion essay about what they think people can do to make Earth a better place today and in the future. ✍️🌱

For more details about this module, you can read the family letter here:
https://www.hmhco.com/content/reading/into_reading_v2/g5/teacher/pdf/5re_ir_pr_05_familyletter.pdf 📄

MAP testing for ELA will be on Thursday, December 11, and for Math on Friday, December 12. 🧪🧠