5th Grade
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October 24th, 2025
October 24th, 2025
Dear 5th-Grade Community,
What a powerful and exciting week of learning it's been! Our students became scientists, hands-on, as they experimented with ice and water to explore the three states of matter. For a fun and easy action item, ask your child to show you a solid, liquid, and gas at home this week!
Next week, we have the Unit 2 Math Post-Assessment. Please ensure your child reviews their concepts at home so they can tackle this assessment with confidence!
Halloween is a fun tradition at ANS, and we are happy to bring back these special traditions for our students:
Students can dress up in Halloween costumes next Friday, Oct. 31st. Please have your child wear their costume to school. Remember to keep the costumes “fun scary,” not “scary, scary.” (No weapons or blood) Students will have PE class on Oct. 31st, but the PE teachers will have them do some simple activities given that students will have their costumes on. Students will not swim on this day, but they will still go to class for PE.
And finally, are you ready for some festive fun? The Fall Festival is just around the corner next Friday! Don't miss out on the fun—make sure you buy your tickets ahead of time! 🍎🎃.
Learning Goal
Writers will create emotionally engaging stories by focusing on one meaningful moment, using details that support that meaning, revising for clarity, and using verb tense shifts to show time changes.
Writers will use details to evoke emotions.
Writers will decide on one moment or one image that holds the big meaning they want to convey.
They will revise their drafts to leave out parts in which the details don’t relate to the big meaning.
They will purposefully change verb tenses inside a story to show shifts in time.
They will start the publishing process.
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
Los lectores van a leer textos informativos (biografías / historias reales) en estilo narrativo enfocándose en los elementos de la narración y diferentes filtros.
Los lectores leeránn textos informativos en estilo narrativo. Se enfocarán en los siguientes aspectos:
Los lectores(as) utilizarán distintos filtros - o maneras de mirar el texto.
* Un filtro les permite poner atención al texto para entenderlo.
* Otro filtro les ayuda a aprender la información.
La tarea será asignada en Google Classroom.
Learning Goal
Add and subtract fractions using different strategies
5th-grade mathematicians will complete their unit 2 post-assessment of adding and subtracting fractions next Tuesday, October 28th. They will start Unit 3 on Place Value and Decimals
See Google Classroom
Learning Goal
Identify States of Matter
Students will be conducting in class experiments to learn about the different states of matter.
Learning Goal
In this lesson, we will create two comics, one in which we think unhelpfully and one in which we think helpfully.
Recognize that my emotions, thoughts, and actions are connected and happen in response to situations in my life.
Change the way I respond—think, feel, and act—to the same situation.
Understand why someone else may have a different response to a situation than I do.
Create a “reminder to be mindful”—write a little phrase or question that you can tell yourself when you find that you haven’t checked in with your emotions lately. For example, you might use the question, “What’s going on up there, brain?”
-Fall Festival next Friday, October 31st.
-Students can wear costumes to school next Friday, Oct. 31st. Remember "fun scary, not scary scary."
Big Questions Day
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