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January 23rd, 2026

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Dear 5th-Grade Community,

In class, students have been continuing to deepen their understanding of different multiplication strategies, focusing on choosing efficient methods and explaining their thinking. In literacy, they have been researching topics and gathering evidence to prepare for an upcoming debate, practicing how to support their ideas with strong reasons and facts.

Thank you for your continued support.

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

Readers will prepare for and participate in a debate using evidence from texts, reflect on new ideas and questions, and begin a new cycle of research. They will annotate purposefully, use strategies to understand challenging texts, and approach their learning with confidence and independence.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Prepare for and have a debate to find new ways of thinking and gain new insights into that issue.

Reflect on what they learned through arguing, and raise new questions, insights and ideas.

Begin a new cycle of work, researching the same topic but analyzing more texts and generating their own questions.

Annotate texts in purposeful and deliberate ways as they read to facilitate evidence-based conversations about the text.

Recognize difficult texts and draw on their own portfolio of strategies to help them manage the difficulty, approaching this work with a strong sense of agency.

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

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

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Elaborar una presentación en digital del analisis del contenido un poema seleccionado a partir de los elementos del poema, sentimientos e interpretación de las figuras literarias de metáfora, símil, personificación e hipérbole.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Leerán comprensivamente poemas variados de Rubén

Darío y utiliza estrategias de lectura para comprender

el contenido de los poemas leídos.

* Identificarán los elementos del motivo del poema, el tema y los sentimientos que evoca.

* Identificarán las figuras: metáfora, símil, personificación e hiperbole.

* Escribirán con sus propias palabras lo que trata el poema tomando en cuenta, el tema, el motivo y lo que entienden del poema.

* darán evidencias usando el contenido del poema.

* Harán un presentación del análisis en Cava o Google Slides Form.

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

La tarea será asignada en Google Classroom el día jueves 29 de enero. La fecha límite para entregar esta tarea será el miércoles 4 de febrero.

Mathematics

Learning Goal

Using a variety of strategies to solve multi-digit multiplication problems

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Fifth-grade mathematicians will continue to deepen their understanding of multi-digit multiplication by solving problems using a variety of strategies.

What mathematicians could be doing at home...

See Google Classroom

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

Understand how gravity affects falling objects by doing experiments, collecting data, and using their observations and reading.

What tigers are doing at school..

Scientist will explore gravity through hands-on experiments. They will drop different objects, collect data, and design paper airplanes to see how gravity affects movement. Students will also read about gravity and connect their learning to their experiments.

What tigers could be doing at home...

Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

We will learn to use Communication Boosters in conversations to make sure that everyone has a turn to speak, to listen when others are speaking, and to make sure the group’s goals are met successfully.

What friends and learners are doing at school..

Use Communication Boosters to help make group interactions clear, fun, and interesting for all of us.

Pay attention when we communicate to support others and facilitate conversations.

Check that others feel heard and are part of the group interactions using verbal and nonverbal communication.

What friends and learners could be practicing at home...

Think about a time when you worked in a small group that struggled to get its work done. What Communication Boosters might have helped the group succeed? If you could go back in time, what would you tell group members about boosting and how it helps?