I hope everyone had a great week and are enjoying their long weekend! It is so good to finally see the sun, and I'm sure the kids are happy to get outside!
This past week in Literacy we finished up our first unit of stories, ending with the story Ten Mile Day. We discussed the challenges immigrants faced and had a discussion on family members who are/were immigrants. The first unit of stories helped me to get to know students as readers and writers, and helped prepare us for our next unit! This week I will be introducing Book Clubs to students. I will be grouping students into four different groups and each will have a trade book they are responsible for reading, discussing, and responding to. We will start off with Historical Fiction books, and the era will take place during World War II. I am excited to launch our very first book clubs and I know students are too!
In writing we have been continuing to draft our narrative stories. This past week we focused on elaborating our main events using slow motion action, character dialogue, sensory details, and descriptive words. I am so impressed with our writing and cannot wait to start publishing them!
Just to note, please make sure students are studying for spelling tests throughout the week! It is important to encourage them to study a little bit each night to help promote effective study skills. I assign spelling words every Monday and spelling tests are every Friday, unless there is a 1/2 day then tests are on Thursday's.
Just a reminder to sign up for Parent-Teacher Conferences through Sign Up Genius! The link is on Fisher School's homepage. Conference time slots are limited to meeting with homeroom teachers only. We simply do not have enough time to meet with all of our math, science, and social studies student's parents within the conference window. However, all fifth grade teachers will give me detailed notes on your child's progress that I will be sharing with you!
Thank you and have a great rest of your long weekend!
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