Hello 5th Grade Families,

I hope you had an amazing Spring Break! It’s hard to believe we are down to our last few weeks of school! They are some of our busiest weeks of the year. We are going to be putting our hard work to the test and practicing our growth mindset! Challenge is an adventure!

Please remember that the 5th grade maturation program is this Friday, April 11th. Please make every effort possible to attend this program with your child. Your attendance is not required, but is highly encouraged. Girls’ instruction will begin at 8:35 am and boys’ will be at 9:25 am.

This week and next week in ELA, we are going to be learning about how different groups can contribute to a cause, studying heroic examples from World War II. In math, we will be learning all about evaluating, writing, and interpreting expressions and the order of operations, followed by the classification of two-dimensional figures. Please feel free to have students use IXL at home for extra practice with any 5th grade standard. We are on the countdown to testing, so it all adds up! Please also encourage those mighty minutes of reading every night! They do make a difference!

Acadience (DIBELS) and iReady Diagnostic testing will be the week of April 28th – May 2nd. RISE testing will be Wednesday, May 7th – Friday, May 16th. We will have two testing sessions each day. Please make every effort to ensure your students have a good breakfast, are well rested, and are at school for review and testing! Please check with your student to make sure they have a functioning, reliable set of headphones in class. If you are aware that your child is going to be missing learning time in the next few weeks, please let me know as soon as possible so that make-up resources can be prepared ahead of time.

Thank you so much for your continued support and please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any concerns,

Mrs. Shaw