Dear Families~
Happy New Year! I hope that everyone enjoyed the wonderful break. Over the past 2 weeks I've relaxed and spent time with family and friends. I sure hope you were able to relax also.
Please keep in mind that as the weather continues to get colder, your child will need to come dressed for this cold weather. Please make sure that he/she is wearing layers to school. This might include a long sleeve shirt, sweater, coat, hat, gloves, and scarf etc. We will be going outside for recess as long as the temperature including the windchill is above 32 degrees.You may want to help remind your child to check the lost and found if they happen to misplace anything of theirs.
Since this is still the cold and flu season, please make sure that your child stays at home if they are SICK. When they come to school sick, germs spread. Please do not send them to school unless they have been well for at least 24 hours after being sick.
What's Going On this Week
Mon, 1/5: Teacher work day. No school for students
Tues, 1/6: Back to school; December Reading Log due; Tuesday Red Folders come home
Wed, 1/7: Return Tuesday Red Folders
Since we are in a new year, let's start it off right and focus on school work. We really do have a lot going on over the next few weeks. I know that I say that every week! (5th grade doesn't get easier as the year goes on).
ScienceStudents will be working with Ms. Creel this week to study electricity and magnets! They will test next week.
MathWe are beginning one of our biggest units of the year - multiplying and dividing fractions. We are starting with what a fraction really means - it's a division problem. Therefore, 12/4 means 12 divided by 4. We will look at creating story problems for fractions to help us understand the meaning of that fraction. That will be our focus for this week. (standard NF.3)
Please make sure that your child spends some time on IXL at home if possible. Please go to section "N" Multiplying Fractions and begin with N.1. Continue to work and earn ribbons!
Reading
Students will begin working with point-of-view (RL.6). There are two parts of this standard:
- Point of View: 1st person (told from a character's point of view; I did this, we did that, this happened to me) and 3rd person (told from a narrator's point of view who is NOT a character in the story)
- Viewpoint: how a character or narrator feels about something that has happened in the story or how they feel about another character
