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January 23rd, 2026
January 23rd, 2026
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.
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.
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.
Practice reading skills through IXL: see recommendations made by teachers.
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.
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.
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.
Learning Goal
Using a variety of strategies to solve multi-digit multiplication problems
Fifth-grade mathematicians will continue to deepen their understanding of multi-digit multiplication by solving problems using a variety of strategies.
See Google Classroom
Learning Goal
Understand how gravity affects falling objects by doing experiments, collecting data, and using their observations and reading.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Big Questions Day
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5th Grade
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