Week 2 Sept. 8-11

🌟 Grade 5 Weekly Update

Hello Grade 5 Families! 👋

📚 What We're Learning

🌎 Social Studies

This week:

  • In Social Studies, we introduced our learning about ancient civilizations by sharing what we already know and what we wonder. 


🔬 Science

This week:

  • In science, we explored the topics we will be learning about and shared what we already know and what we wonder. 





➗ Math

This week:

  • In Math, we created “Me in Numbers” title pages to represent ourselves using numbers and mathematical ideas. We also practiced our basic multiplication facts and began exploring place value, including understanding the value of digits in numbers.




🗣️ ELA

This week:

  • In ELA, we wrote paragraphs about our weekends, focusing on organizing our ideas and writing complete sentences. We also practiced literacy stations, including creating mini-books about welcoming others, kindness, and building a positive classroom community. 


  • We started a whole class novel study on the book Fatty Legs. Students will be doing journal entries as we go responding to various questions from each chapter. 



🎨 Art

This week:

  • Students completed their fish art from last week


  • Students started working on Zentangle bookmarks to use in their books for the year. They also created galaxy inspired stars for our class birthday board.



Buddies

Students met their grade 2 buddies this week!



📢 Announcements & Reminders

Important Dates:

📅 Thursday September 17: Terry Fox Run

📅 Monday September 28: Picture day!

Reminders

🔔 Weather reminder: Please check the weather before getting dressed and make sure your child has appropriate layers, a jacket, and weather gear as needed. 

💡 At Home

Here are a few ways you can support your child's learning at home this week:

Read: 

  • Students are encouraged to read for 20–30 minutes each night. Reading can include novels, graphic novels, nonfiction books, or magazines. Reading time can also be a great opportunity for parents and caregivers to read with or to their child. Taking turns reading, listening to your child read, or sharing a book together all count!

 Practice:

  • Students are encouraged to continue practicing their basic math facts. Quick recall of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts helps students solve more complex math problems with confidence and efficiency.

 Talk about: What you are excited for next week? Who is your grade 2 buddy? What did you like about this week? What was hard this week? Ask about the novel (Fatty Legs) that we are reading. What does it look like to be welcoming?


Thank you for your continued support! We are looking forward to another great week of learning together. 💛

Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Boldt

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