News to Know 

• Our field trip to the Grififth Observatory has been approved!

  • On Thursday, January 21, 2027 we will leave the school at 7:00 a.m. and return around 3 p.m.

  • We will need a few chaperones to accompany us. We will work out all the details in December!

• Halloween Parade- 8:30 on Friday 10/30

• On Mondays we will have musical practice for the 5th grade play. We will be working with Mrs. Wilson's class and our music teacher is Miss Emily.

• Reading logs are currently going back and forth between school and home. This is a way to record their nightly, at home reading. They are responsible for a minimum of 4 at home readings of 20 minutes or longer each week. A parent needs to initial the at home readings to verify that students are actually reading at home.

  • Reading logs go home on Monday and are turned in on the following Monday.

• Please use the agenda to check for homework and to also see what your child does each day! Homework will be circled in the agenda.

• Please keep working on multiplication fact fluency.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

ojensen@pleasantvalleysd.org

Fifth grade Weekly Overview

Math- Addition and subtraction of fractions 

ELA- Students will be starting their second novel study, Esperanza Rising this week. 

We skipped Benchmark Unit 2 and are on Unit 3. 

We will continue our vocabulary work which is based on Greek roots, prefixes, and suffixes. This week we are doing Unit 6.  

Social Studies- Native American Tribes of North America. We are almost done with this unit.

Science- We have started on Unit on Ecosystems and we will be working on this the next couple of weeks.