This newsletter covers this week and next!
HINT- if anything is GREEN in the blog, it is a hyperlink, click on it. Items in RED are important test dates or memos!)
Take a look at the Home Page for important Carpenter and Fifth Grade dates and reminders.
How to help out:
Academic and P2 Highlights for next week:
Positivity Project: Next week we will be learning about humility and modesty. We will learn how we can be proud of yourself without showing off!
Math: We will be finishing chapter 3: Multiplication and Division of fractions. Students will be focusing in on understanding story problems and choosing an operation.. Chapter 3 test will be on Thursday, December 19th.
Readers' Workshop: Students will beginning an inquiry about your topic of their choice. Students will be practicing putting their summarizing skills to use. Students will get to research through books, internet, and encyclopedias.
Writers' Workshop: Students will be drafting their body chapters and organizing their facts from research into an essay. Students will be learning about the two types of facts: paraphrasing or quoting.
Social Studies: Chapter 3 Assessment is on Tuesday. Students will begin chapter 4 which students will learn how and why explorers set out for the New World in the late 1400s and 1500s. We will explore using an underwater exploration, diving for artifacts! Science will begin after break!
Thanks for reading! Have a great week!
HINT- if anything is GREEN in the blog, it is a hyperlink, click on it. Items in RED are important test dates or memos!)
Take a look at the Home Page for important Carpenter and Fifth Grade dates and reminders.
How to help out:
- Fifth Grade is still collecting CANDY CANES for our fundraiser this week. We nearly ran out already and it is only MONDAY! The more that are donated, the more money that goes to our end of year field trip!
- Please click HERE for the link to the holiday party sign up genius! Thank you Mrs. Hazen for organizing this!
Academic and P2 Highlights for next week:
Positivity Project: Next week we will be learning about humility and modesty. We will learn how we can be proud of yourself without showing off!
Math: We will be finishing chapter 3: Multiplication and Division of fractions. Students will be focusing in on understanding story problems and choosing an operation.. Chapter 3 test will be on Thursday, December 19th.
Readers' Workshop: Students will beginning an inquiry about your topic of their choice. Students will be practicing putting their summarizing skills to use. Students will get to research through books, internet, and encyclopedias.
Writers' Workshop: Students will be drafting their body chapters and organizing their facts from research into an essay. Students will be learning about the two types of facts: paraphrasing or quoting.
Social Studies: Chapter 3 Assessment is on Tuesday. Students will begin chapter 4 which students will learn how and why explorers set out for the New World in the late 1400s and 1500s. We will explore using an underwater exploration, diving for artifacts! Science will begin after break!
Thanks for reading! Have a great week!