Grade 5

Coming up In October: 

• One School, One Book - The Wish Tree

• Fiction Reading - My Teacher is an Alien - determining multiple themes, author's craft 

• NonFiction Reading - Amazing Aliens - text features and text structures

• In mid-October, Researching EcoSystems

Coming up In October: 

• Write Longs (writing about reading fiction novels.  Both book club books and independent books) 

• Personal Narrative/Memoir - expanding the heart of the story, revising, editing

• Summarizing fiction and nonfiction

•  In mid-October Information writing - Ecosystems

Coming up In October: 

• Our Unit 2 Family Math Letter

• Solve problems involving division of whole numbers leading to answers that are fractions.

• Explore the relationship between multiplication and division of fractions.

• Find the area of a rectangle when one side length is a whole number and the other side length is a fraction or mixed number.

• Solve problems involving the multiplication of a whole number by a fraction or mixed number.

Coming up In October: 

• In this unit, students taken on the role of ecologists investigating a Costa Rican rainforest that isn’t as healthy as expected.

• Students will explore why animals like jaguars and sloths and plants like cecropia trees are not thriving. They’ll investigate how living things grow and where they get the matter and energy they need to survive.

• By the end of the unit, students will use evidence from their investigations to explain what is happening in the ecosystem and consider what can be done to help restore it to a healthy state.

Coming up In Unit 1 : 

• Government

• Kid Governor

• European Settlements in America

Coming up In September: 

• Our fifth graders are starting Unit 1 in Spanish class by learning how to write about their typical day! 

• Students will practice using action  verbs alongside telling time to describe their daily routine in Spanish. 

• To showcase their learning, each student will create a presentation and share their daily routine with classmates, strengthening both their speaking confidence and interpersonal skills. 

• We will be celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month in Spanish Class.

Coming up in Unit 2 

• Students will be hard at work building their fitness levels for our upcoming state fitness testing in November!

Coming up in Unit 2: 

• Students will be working on the skill of self-management, as we introduce the topic of Puberty. 🤭 

• Puberty can be an uncomfortable topic, but we’ll tackle it with accurate information, open conversation, and some giggles along the way! 

• Be on the lookout for a family communications email about this unit in mid-October. 

In October: 

• Band students will be learning to read and play their first three notes while beginning to play simple tunes. 

• General Music students are continuing with songs/rhythms  in triple meter.  Students will begin reading & notating rhythmic patterns in triple meter and will begin their written Body Percussion Compositions in 6/8. 

Coming up In September: 

• As our artists continue to delve into one point perspective,  we have taken a turn away from rules and measuring tools and instead are embracing our imaginations!  Students have created their own worlds within their one point perspective frameworks and are now  reviewing colored pencil technique as well as color theory by blending their own secondary colors and burnishing when they would like a different texture.

• Soon, we will continue the journey we began in 3rd and 3th grade with watercolor paint. This year focusing on  technique, care and craftsmanship to bring out the incredible translucency and depth of waterolor.

• Ask your artist what the most important thing  to remember is when blending  wtih colored pencils and why!

October in the Library!

• Book exchange and library check out are officially open! Students may check out up to two books at a time. Books are due back within two weeks, or may be renewed for a longer period of time. 

• The WIS Library offers volunteering opportunities for parents. Please fill out this Google Form to sign up to volunteer!

• The WIS Library is also home to the WIS Daily News! Interested in watching our news show? Download the Google Classroom app on your device and join our class using the following code: g46xmegx.

Grade 5  joins MakerTech Trimester 3!

• Grade 5 will begin MakerTech during Trimester 3. 

• Students reviewed and signed our Digital Citizenship Charter and pledged to be safe, responsible, and kind digital citizens!