Happy Tuesday Families!
It’s hard to believe that it's our our last week of school! Although we’ve been wrapping up the year with some final assessments in different subject areas, we’ve also been fitting in many fun activities! Our hope is for your student to end 5th grade with many fond, lasting memories! Highlights of last week included Field Day on Wednesday, as well as today’s 5th grade games rotations! We are looking forward to more fun this week!
Please also note: donation boxes have been set up by the student council for the purpose of donating unused school supplies. Kindly have a discussion with you student about whether you would like any unused supplies to be donated, or would prefer them to be brought home.
Literacy
We have spent much of our time in literacy comparing and contrasting the way in which authors approach the theme of stories. We’ve learned that they often show the theme through character actions, dialogue, repetition, and other devices. We’ve also analyzed poetry for this purpose as well.
Writing
Our latest writing samples have piggybacked on our learning about comparing and contrasting how authors show theme. Here, we’ve been taking our ideas one step further, and organizing them into analytical papers. Our final PBA of the year required students to compose an essay which compared and contrasted the ways in which the authors showed the theme in two folktales.
Math
We wrapped up our final math unit of the year on Wednesday, which included skills in multi-digit division, as well as multiplying and dividing decimals.
Science
This week we finished a series of lessons within our matter unit about how to know when new substances are created. We ended with an investigation where students mixed substances such as water, vinegar, iodine, baking soda, salt, and sugar together in different combinations and observed whether new substances were formed! We Looked for changes in color, temperature, and fizzing/bubbling to indicate when a chemical reaction had taken place.
Upcoming Events
Monday, May 27: Memorial Day No School
Friday, May 31st: Last Day of School 1/2 Day Dismissal at 11:45
Thank you for your partnership this school year and have a wonderful summer!
Enzie Pangilinan
