5th Grade
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October 3rd, 2025
October 3rd, 2025
Dear 5th Grade Families,
It's inspiring to see 5th-graders exploring the topic of social media in their social studies class. They've been learning about rights, responsibilities, and the negative effects of not following them. Students will continue to work on adding and subtracting fractions in Math, and will also write about special moments that turn life into literature during our Literacy workshop.
Learning Goal
Writers will craft stories that reveal both the external actions and the internal experiences of their characters by showing thoughts, feelings, and reflections. They will deepen meaning by using time shifts—such as memories or imagined futures—that connect to the story’s central theme. Additionally, they will intentionally shape their sentence structure to reflect the tone, pacing, and meaning of specific moments in the narrative.
Writers will bring out meaning in a story, telling not just the external story-the actions- but also the internal story-the main character’s thoughts.
They will make characters travel through time and place by imagining future events or remembering past events that connect to what their story is really about.
They will think about what is happening in a specific part of their story and make their sentence structures in that part match the meaning.
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 encontrar las idea principal a través de diferentes estrategias de lectura.
Los lectores pondrán atencióna las diferentes partes del texto:
* Leerán las introducciones e identificarán las características del texto como pistas para encontrar las ideas
principales.
* Pondrán atención especial a las partes que se repiten y que consideren que pueden ser pistas que conduzcan a la idea principal.
* Identificarán múltiples ideas principales: Encontrar ideas grandes y más pequeñas en cada sección de
texto.
La tarea será asignada en Google Classroom.
Learning Goal
Use money and time, multiply whole numbers by fractions, create equivalent fractions by doubling, and use a double number line to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators.
5th grade mathematicians will explore and compare money and clock as they continue to add and subtract fractions. They will also multiply whole numbers by fractions and will create equivalent fractions by doubling numerator and denominator, and will use a double number line to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators.
See Google Classroom
Learning Goal
Students will develop their critical thinking and communication skills by analyzing the risks of social media and expressing their ideas persuasively in writing, while also engaging in game-based learning and collaborative lab activities to apply knowledge, problem-solve, and prepare for their final project.
Learning Goal
No school next Friday, October 10th.
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