It’s a short week this week!  With a uniform buyout day on Friday!  Here’s what we’re up to in fifth:

Writing: Carrying on with poetry!  We’ll be looking at how the sound of words can influence the feeling, melody, or meaning of a poem.  In addition to composing their own poems in writing, we are also reading tons of poems that feature the poetry elements we are learning about.  We’ve read selected poems by Robert Frost, Shel Silverstein, Amanda Gorman, Dr. Suess, Langston Hughes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary O’Neill, and many others already!

Reading: Next week will be our last week with these reading group novels.  As we’re approaching the end of the books, students are beginning to reflect on themes and the aspects of the writing that remind them of other novels or problems in the modern world.

Selling/Grammar: It’s a grammar week.  We will be reviewing and practicing capitalization and comma rules.

Science: We’re launching into learning about electrical circuits (including making a few!)

Social Studies: Students are wrapping up their visual displays on a European explorer.  We will begin using these to learn about the many European explorers who explored the American continents and the world in the 16th and 17th centuries.  Additionally, we will be learning how to write newspaper articles.

Math: Comparing, rounding, and ordering decimal numbers.