News to Know 

• Noon dismissal all week due to conferences.

• Picture day is this Friday.

• We are continuing our WIN time. All writing will be done at this time.

• 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- We are continuing with Module 2. This is our first of two modules on fractions. Addition and subtraction of fractions will be taught first. 

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

We skip Benchmark Unit 2 and go straight to Unit 3. 

We will continue our vocabulary work which is based on Greek roots, prefixes, and suffixes. This week we are doing Unit 5.  

Students will be turning in their second journal entry this week. All journal entries are completed in class. 

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

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