Happy Friday Families!

It is so hard to believe that this will be our final blog for the year. It has been an amazing year with your children. Our final countdown days will continue into next week! Tuesday will be cap/hat day, Wednesday is Red/white/blue day, Thursday is Tie-dye day and on Friday please have your student wear his/her 5th grade t-shirt! Thank you for all you have done to make it such a success. Here is what's happening the last few days of school:

Twin Groves Transition Day

The students really enjoyed our time at Twin Groves last week. They were able to hear all about next year and everything Twin Groves has to offer. They were given quite an informative presentation by Twin's principal, assistant principal, and teachers. They were also given a tour of the building by former Ivy Hall Students. Our students left Twin Groves with a lot of excitement for next year!

Literacy And Writing

We wrapped up our final CFA and PBA of the school year!  Over the last few weeks, we read various paired fiction texts to find a common theme, then compared and contrasted how the authors of each approached the shared theme within each story. We also finished our "How To" analytical essay and worked hard to make the writing process move faster and more seamlessly as our students transition to middle school.

Over the summer, our students are required to complete the Summer reading project given by the Twin Groves language arts teachers. We will be discussing this in class next week and I will an overview of the process in class. Please click on the link below to find out more information:

Summer Reading Project

Math

We wrapped up Unit 7 this week which focused on division and decimals. Throughout the unit, we worked with powers of ten and then moved into the multiplication and division of decimals. We also learned multiple strategies of division in order for our students to solve complex problems and to solve real-world word problems with remainders.  

Social Studies

As we wind down our Social Studies unit, our focus has shifted to understanding the Bill of Rights and how the Amendments apply to everyday citizens and to their own lives.  Our end goal with understanding the Amendments is how our students can strengthen our democracy and how they can be agents of change.

Important Dates:

*Monday, May 28th: No School (Memorial Day)

*Friday, June 2nd: Last Day of School (HALF DAY - Dismissal at 11:45)

Final Reminders:

*Please bring a second bag next week so we start to send cubby materials home.

 

Thank you for your partnership this school year and have a wonderful summer!

 Happy Friday!

It is crazy to think we have already reached our last month of the school year! Students have worked hard this week and finished our last round of MAP tests for the year. We still have a lot of learning to do! Although we have many fun activities scheduled in the weeks ahead, academics will remain the primary focus!

Read below to see what we have been working on!

Literacy

We finished reading our shared text, Jess and Layla’s Astronomical Assignment. It is a science fiction book about two girls who get a homework assignment from their teacher and they end up going back in time to understand more about astronomy and famous astronomers. We started reading another story, Mayday on the Moon of Jupiter, another science fiction story. We then worked on comparing and contrasting how the authors of each approached the shared theme of compromise and finding common ground. We will continue working on comparing and contrasting themes in the days ahead. Today we read one of my favorite stories, The Name Jar and compared the theme with another story titled .

Writing

We wrapped up our Real Life Superhero speeches this week! Students have really enjoyed researching, working on their notecards, and sharing their hard work with their peers. They did a great job on their presentations as they practiced using good eye-contact, pace, and voice intonation. Today we did a cahoot during our class meeting based on the facts that students presented during their speeches! For our final writing assignment, students are going to be putting together a "How-To" essay, where they will have some choice over their topic and focus. We are working hard to make the writing process move faster and more seamlessly as we approach middle school

Math

We are in our last unit, Unit 7, already! This unit teaches us multiple strategies for dividing whole numbers and fractions. We will be learning more about how the powers of ten affect place value in numbers. Finally, we will be learning multiplication and division of decimals.

Social Studies

We have begun our final unit of study in social studies- Rights & Responsibilities. Students have learned about the different branches of government and the checks and balances that those branches use on each other. Next, we will be exploring how our country’s founders established a system of federalism within the United States.

Upcoming Events

Monday, May 8th--Deadline to register for the Spring Fling/5th Grade Party

Wednesday, May 10th- 5th Grade Music Show (students arrive at 6:15, show starts @ 6:30)

Friday, May 12th- 5th Grade Party right after school

Monday, May 15th- Twin Groves Middle School Visit

Tuesday, May 23rd- Early Release

Friday, May 26th- Half Day

Monday, May 29th- No School- Memorial Day

Friday, June 2nd- Last Day of School- Half Day