Our first lower school town hall took place today, and it was a blast!\u00a0 We got together as a lower school and the Student Leadership Council gave information about upcoming events, led a game with the whole group, and told a story about kindness before giving everyone the challenge of completing 3 acts of kindness this week.\u00a0 Later this week, there will be a uniform buyout day on Thursday.\u00a0 Here’s what the 5th grade is up to in the classroom:<\/p>\n
Reading: Students are writing their family folktales.<\/p>\n
Writing: The focus of the week is on sentences.\u00a0 Students will be working on their sentence fluency by diversifying the lengths of the supporting sentences in their essays.<\/p>\n
Language Study: It’s a grammar week.\u00a0 The focus of our grammar lessons is also sentences – basic sentence structure.\u00a0 We will be learning about subjects, predicates, and objects this week.\u00a0 Quiz on Friday.<\/p>\n
Social Studies: We will be learning about maps this week.<\/p>\n
Science: We are learning about how the interior of the Earth affects the surface.\u00a0 Kids will learn that the crust of the Earth is broken into tectonic plates and investigate how those plates move.<\/p>\n
Math: Students will take an assessment on the second unit of the year on Tuesday.\u00a0 On Thursday, we will begin our new unit on multiplying and dividing multi-digit whole numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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