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November 8th, 2024
5th Grade News
Dear Fifth Grade Parents,
We would like to take a moment to thank you for participating in the Marshmallow Challenge. It was exciting to see you working together with your child, brainstorming ideas, and building community. Your involvement made the experience even more special!
This is also a friendly reminder to please sign up for the student-led conferences if you haven’t done so already. Click on your child’s classroom (5A, 5B, or 5C) to select a time. The student-led conferences are a wonderful opportunity for students to showcase what they’ve learned and demonstrate their academic growth and learning experiences.
Best regards,
Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks
English Literacy
Learning Goal
Students will construct meaning out of the many parts of a nonfiction text, noticing the ways that readers determine main ideas and which ones are most supported by the text.
What readers & writers are doing at school...
-Orient themselves to complex nonfiction texts by using text features and their knowledge of the topic.
-Preview the overall text and generate a tentative hypothesis. -Engage in an inquiry to determine how complex nonfiction gets challenging when it comes to determining the main idea. -Develop and draw on a toolkit of strategies to support them in determining the main ideas. -Using context to determine the meaning of vocabulary in complex texts
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
Students are encouraged to read daily for 45 minutes, and annotate any technique they notice in the books they are reading. We recommend asking and answering the discussion questions we sent in the progress monitoring letters.
Spanish Literacy
Learning Goal
Desarrollar la escritura informativa.
Escribir la información para desarrollar el tema.
Escribr en cada página de acuerdo al dibujo que hicieron.
Leer con diferentes propósitos.
What readers & writers are doing at school...
* Harán el diseño de sus páginas de escritura.
* Escribirán el desarrollo de las ideas de sus texto informativo.
* Escribirán la introducción utilizando diferentes estrategias.
* Leerán una selección de lecturas de diferentes géneros.
* Responderán preguntas literales, analíticas e inferenciales.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
La tarea será asignada en Google Classroom.
Mathematics
Learning Goal
Students will deepen their understanding of place value in decimal numbers, equivalencies between decimals, fractions and money, and adding adn subtracting decimals.
What mathematicians are doing at school...
Students will alter the use of removal or combinations strategy to solve more efficiently by finding the difference between two numbers. Students will compare decimals. Students will round and add tenths.
What mathematicians could be doing at home...
Check Google Classroom.
Science or Social Studies
Learning Goal
Students are learning why do countries declare independence.
What tigers are doing at school..
Discussing what are the two big philosophical ideas in the Declaration of Independence.
What tigers could be doing at home...
Research about the grievances of the colonists with King George III.
Social Emotional Learning Program
Learning Goal
When we have situations where we experience a strong emotion, responding usefully in those situations is an important skill we want to develop. In this lesson, we will use calming strategies so we can Stop, Think, and Cool Off from our strong emotions.
What friends and learners are doing at school..
Identify emotions—strong or mild, pleasant or unpleasant—that come automatically after a situation.
Practice emotional regulation strategies to become calm when I have strong emotions.
Identify things in my environment that influence my emotions, thoughts, and actions.
What friends and learners could be practicing at home...
Think about a situation you have experienced with a strong emotion. How did you use the Stop, Think, and Cool Off! strategy or how could you have used a relaxation method in that situation?
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Upcoming Events:
Nov. 8th
End of Trimester 1
Nov. 11th
3rd Kindergarten Stepping Stone
Nov. 13th
Student-Led Conferences (No School)
Reminders
Parent Engagement
Student-Led Conferences
Photo Package
You can still order your child's printed School Photo Packages.
Ordered Photo Packages before October 27th will be on campus before the Semester ends!
November - Calendar
Swimming
Big Questions Day
Meet the Team
Mrs. Dana Ramos
5A
Mr. Alexander Mercado
5B
Mrs. Dora Espinoza
5C
Mrs. América Ortega
Fifth Grade
Spanish Lead
Mrs. Heylikeng Morales
Fifth Grade
Specialized Learning Lead