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March 27th, 2026

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Dear 5th-Grade Families,

We hope you have a wonderful and restful Spring Break! Enjoy this time with your families and stay safe.

It was amazing to see so many of you during the Big Question Day Exhibitions—your presence and support meant a lot to the students.

School will resume on Tuesday, April 7th, and we’ll be kicking things off with Big Question Day. As always, we encourage students to keep practicing on IXL to stay sharp. Summer Camp Enrollment is here! Take a look at this flyer.

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

Students will develop their ability to think critically and write effectively by engaging in intensive reading of nonfiction texts, planning and drafting their third argumentative essay, and applying critical reading strategies to evaluate and strengthen their own arguments for clarity and sound reasoning.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Writers will orient themselves to read nonfiction texts intensively, previewing texts, making reading plans, and pausing to get the gist, and push their thinking.

They will get started with their third argumentative essay, looking over their notes and plans, and then writing their argument.

They will make the connection between reading arguments critically and reading and revising their own arguments for flaws in reasoning.

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

Practice reading skills through IXL: see recommendations made by teachers.

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Establecer metas y plan de lectura para el club y la manera de evidenciar la lectura. Conocer los parámetros para hacer una buena escritura sobre la lectura a través del registro diario de los pensamientos sobre la historia.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Los lectores realizarán las siguientes actividades:

* Formación de Clubes

* Escribirán las metas para la lectura y un plan de trabajo para el grupo e individualmente.

* Seleccionarán la lectura.

* Escribirán en sus cuaderno ¿que idea o pensamiento le sugiere el título "Mi abuelo el presunto"?

* Comentarán en sus clubes sus respuestas.

* Definirán el concepto de "Presunto".

* Leerán los capítulos 1 y 2 Identificarán y analizarán los rasgos de la personalidad de los personajes.

* Compartirán sus respuestas en una plenaria.

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

La tarea será asignada en Google Classroom.

Mathematics

Learning Goal

Discovering, Describing, and Graphing Patterns

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Mathematicians will start anew unit on graphing, geometry, and volume by building and sharing observations about a series of related cube arrangements. They will determine and graph the corresponding set of ordered pairs, and compare the points.