5th Grade
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September 5, 2025
September 5, 2025
Dear 5th Grade Families,
Our Spanish class is preparing for the Fiestas Patrias celebration. This year, 5th grade will highlight the cultural tradition of El Güegüense.
On Friday, September 12, students should come dressed in costumes inspired by El Güegüense: jeans (blue, white, or black), a colorful shirt, a black vest, and a hat decorated with flowers or ribbons. Dancers will also create their own masks in Art class with Ms. Kathia Chica and practice the dance with Ms. Marcela Morales, our dance teacher. A tutorial is provided here for extra practice at home.
Room Moms are organizing the shared snack. Thank you for your continuous support!
Learning Goal
Readers will analyze and synthesize ideas from the text to develop deeper interpretations or theories, identifying central themes or lessons supported by textual evidence.
Readers will link ideas together to build larger theories or interpretations, aiming to uncover a larger truth or lesson. Readers will wear their interpretations like a pair of glasses, reading on in the text with their ideas in mind, gathering evidence and deepening their theories.
Readers are expected to read for approximately 45 minutes each day and use a reading log to track their reading stamina and volume.
Learning Goal
Aprender sobre la historia y cultura de Nicaragua mediante la Celebración de la Semana Patria.
Los estudiantes aprenderán cada día sobre:
* Las causas y fecha de la independencia de Nicaragua y resto de países centroamericanos.
* Causas y fecha de la Batalla de San Jacinto.
* Período Colonial de Nicaragua: Teatro Colonial: Comedia El Güegüense.
La tarea será asignada en Google Classroom.
Learning Goal
Understand strategies of multiplication.
Students will learn the relationship between 5 and 10 in multiplication, and other multiplication strategies. Students will be taking Unit 2 Screener.
See Google Classroom
Learning Goal
Next week, students will be answering their scientific questions by presenting their findings and poster to the class. We will then move on to Social Studies where we will be looking at Social Media.
I can share my scientific findings clearly with others and then begin exploring how social media impacts people and communities.
Learning Goal
Discuss with students the importance of getting to know each other, and how finding commonalities and differences can help us understand and appreciate each other more.
Next week, students will focus on building connections through the theme Getting to Know One Another. We will discuss the importance of learning about each other, exploring both our commonalities and differences, and how this helps us develop understanding, appreciation, and respect. Students will be reminded of our Word Jar and the key idea of community, reinforcing how each person contributes to creating a positive and supportive classroom environment.
At home, learners can practise getting to know others by sharing their favourite activities, foods, or hobbies with family and listening in return. They can look for similarities and differences, talk about how these make each person unique, and ask kind questions to learn more about others. Families can also remind children that just like at school, home is a community where everyone works together and shows appreciation for one another.
- Students can bring typical Nicaraguan food to school on Friday, September 12th to celebrate the National Week. They will eat and share it during snack time. -Also, on Friday, September 12th, students should come dressed in costumes inspired by El Güegüense: jeans (blue, white, or black), a colorful shirt, a black vest, and a hat decorated with flowers or ribbons.
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