 Hi Families, What a week! We had a number of absences… I think one day we were missing 6 students! But I am very pleased by the determination of the kids to keep up. By Friday, we had everyone back in class! It was so exciting to finally have a full house again! Lunch with Mrs. Gallegos! Every Friday Mrs. Gallegos will be having lunch with fifth grade students. This is a special privilege so she can get a fifth grader’s perspective on Barrows. If your students say they had lunch with Mrs. Gallegos, it is not a punishment! Out-of-School Reading Reading Logs. This past week I have asked students to log their out-of-school independent reading. It was very informal and designed to just get the kids talking and sharing about their reading. The goal was 90 minutes for the week. Next week it will be a bit more formal and the goal moves to 100 minutes a week. My hope is that students practice reading 20 minutes a day for 5 days a week, or whatever combination of time/days that enables them to get to 100. I will be previewing the first chapters of books and offering those books to interested students who need something good to read. I am hoping to move students out of graphic novels to chapter books so that they are getting practice with complex sentence and paragraph structures, visualizing from written details, and following the format of written dialogue. Please consider taking your child to the Reading Public Library to find great chapter books in genres and on topics that they are interested in. While our library is great too, the Reading Public Library has many more books categorized in more detail, and the librarians are eager to share book recommendations to even the most reluctant readers. I love bringing my boys there! Homework Homework starts next week. I will begin sending home a math practice sheet. I am also expecting students to read at least 100 minutes out of school. You can check my Homework Assignment Log to see what I assign and when it’s due starting next week! Math Finished Unit 1 “Finding Volume.” We completed the last section of the unit on finding the volume of composed figures and took our End-of-Unit Assessment, which I will hopefully have time to grade over the weekend. I hope you have been checking the Cool Downs and the Section Checkpoints that come home every few days. If I write, “Needed support,” on your child’s paper, it typically means your child needs more practice with the concept and is not able to work through the assignment without help. If I write “Revised together,” on your child’s paper, it typically means I had to point out an error or misconception, but once clear, your child was able to correct their mistakes relatively independently. We will be starting Unit 2 on “Fractions as Quotients and Fraction Multiplication” next week.
English Language Arts Nearing the end of our Historical Fiction novel study of, “The Watsons Go to Birmingham -1963,” by Christopher Paul Curtis. This week we met the infamous Grandma Sands and witnessed Byron slowly easing out of his juvenile delinquency. We finished the week with a startling chapter where our main character, Kenny, almost drowns but is saved by his older brother, Byron. We've also been writing in our ELA notebooks in response to our read aloud. I had students do a Sentence Combining activity to help them develop their command of conjunctions and sentence structure.
Science Unit 1: Matter in Motion. We did some hands-on investigations this week to explore matter, its states, and its particles. We proved that matter has mass and that even if it changes state that its mass stays the same. We also proved that just because you can’t see matter, like salt when you mix it into water, that matter doesn’t just disappear. It still has mass. Science from Scientists This special program for 4th and 5th graders begins next week! Students will get to participate in a bi-weekly hands on science class from real scientists. Students participated in this in fourth grade and will have all new lessons in fifth grade. We love this enrichment, and can’t wait! Community Building We continue to practice social skills and peer listening skills in our Morning Meetings. I talked to students this week about “building goodwill” by doing kind, respectful things for other people. Important Dates:
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