Welcome back team! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Break! We have a busy and fun 3 weeks ahead…starting with our field trip to the orthodontist’s office Monday, December 2nd! Please make sure your student is dressed appropriately for the weather!
With our field trip, we will begin a new science standard, studying properties of matter, and looking first at the particle nature of matter. We will work with this standard into February.
In ELA we are asking the question, “What benefits come from people working as a group?” as we evaluate and compare text structures and work to determine the main idea and key details of a text.
In math, we are switching gears and learning about fractions. First, we will learn how fractions represent division problems. Next week we will begin learning how to multiply by a fraction. At home practice with decimal operations, especially division, would still be very beneficial. I recommend 5th grade IXL Lesson FF8 to reinforce that skill. Math tutoring will continue by invitation only. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Please remember that students should be reading for 20 minutes every night at home! Thank you for your support!
Other Important Dates:
- Dec 2nd – Field Trip
- Dec 2nd – Choir Performance @ West Haven Tree Lighting (6PM)
- Dec 3rd to 6th – Paper Pie Book Fair (8-9 AM & 2-4PM)
- Dec 4th – Choir Performance @ Ogden Amphitheater (6PM)
- Dec 6th – Dollar Dress Down Day
- Dec 7th – Breakfast with the Grinch. Tickets may be purchased here.
- Dec 20th – Class Christmas Party. Please sign the permission slip here.
- Dec 23 – Jan 3: Winter Break- No School
