Aug 31-Sep Updates and Announcements

Reader’s Workshop 5th graders will be working on our “Building Your Reading Life” unit with the novel, Tuck Everlasting.  Here is the link to purchase the book, should you choose to do so. It’s about $6. If you order today, it should arrive by Monday. A free digital copy will be available to all students (but the page numbers may differ). 6th graders will be working on our “Building Your Reading Life” unit with the novel, A Long Walk to Water.  The book is about $6 and should arrive before Monday if you order by Friday evening. Here is the link. A free digital copy will be available to all students (but the page numbers may differ). Writer’s Workshop We will start a mini-unit on “Living a Writerly Life.” Students will practice strategies that writers use across the week in various pieces of writing.  Keep in mind that you should expect to see your child writing every morning after our morning meeting. Math 5th graders took a pre-assessment today. Next week, we will begin our first unit on the addition and subtraction of fractions. 6th graderss will begin our first unit. We will use geometric principles of perimeter and area to review some skills from 5th grade like adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing whole numbers and fractions. History We will be looking at the indigenous people of North America, focusing on their culture as well as how the geography of their home affected where they lived. We will continue our study of ancient humans by looking at hunter gatherer societies. What was their culture? What technology did they use? How did they survive? Science 5th graders will work with Ms. Parrino in science lab and we may start our first unit from our science textbook. 6th graders will work with Mr. Nelson in science lab and we may start our first unit from our science textbook.