Multiage News
March 10, 2013
What We’ve Been Up To
I keep forgetting to introduce Mrs.
LaFrance to our families. She is our
pre-student teacher, in once a week to earn credit towards her teaching degree
at Madonna University. So awesome to
learn from a fresh perspective!
We are over the hump of 5 week grades. Please remind your student to keep working
hard-sometimes this is a hard time of year with Spring on the horizon…
This week
READING We are starting a new unit in
our Making Meaning—Finding the Main Idea and the Supporting details in
text. This will work directly with our
nonfiction writing unit. Our 5 Book
Clubs are wrapping it up and will be presenting to the class in the next couple
of weeks.
WRITING We begin official research on
our Country Reports this week. We will
be using notecards and will be learning how to cite sources, as well as use our
own words in finding info.
MATH This week we will be
translating decimals to fractions and percentages. This unit will be about 2 weeks and we will
be grade-level specific with these lessons—as objectives are different.
SCIENCE Wrapping up Force and Motion. Our Roller Coaster Project will finish by
Tuesday and our science test will be on Thursday. Watch for the study guide.
SS We will explore the
southern colonies a bit and then students will be creating a realistic colony
(based on what they’ve learned about successful colonies). They will be doing research and be thinking
about many components of survival in their colony. We will work on this project for a few weeks,
both at home and at school.
** Exciting news—We have been chosen to participate in a
Reading Video Call with a classroom in Kansas.
The video call will take place on Wednesday and will give us a chance to
chat with other 5th graders about reading.
Book SWAP
Our class is hosting a 3-5th
grade Book Swap on March 22. Students
may trade up to 5 gently used books. All
books are due on the 21st.
Our class will use what they’ve learned about genres to set up the 3-5th
grade “Bookstore” in our classroom and will aid students in “shopping”.
Running Club
As you know, I wanted to organize a
running club at Anderson. It has been
such a pleasant surprise – with about 100 students signed up and over 30 parent
volunteers. Watch for more info this
week. Very proud of our class for
supporting me in this healthy endeavor—about 20 from our class alone!
Have a fabulous week! Hope you can make it to the Talent Show this
week J
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