This week, we are going to jump into our first “big” fifth grade standard in reading. We’ll learn all about point of view. We really push students to demonstrate a complete understanding why an author wrote a piece with a specific point of view and how that advances the story. Our key components of understanding this standard are the third person omniscient and limited points of view. We will work with various texts so that students can understand and identify the author’s point of view with confidence.
In writing, we’ll take the prompts we’ve done thus far through revising and editing, and into publishing. On Friday, we’ll have a publishing party!
In math, we’re exploring place value and how to move from decimals to fractions for numbers that are less than one whole.
Finally, we’ll start a power hour this week. This will be the time when students really get to drive their education and make some of their own decisions about their work. Don’t worry! We’ll still hold them accountable! This process allows them to decide what they want to work on and how they can asses if they are learning, so they get buy in and ownership of their own learning process.
Ask your students to show you their Digital Brown Bag project! We’re sharing those this week as well.
We all have Chromebooks now! YAY! Students will be able to bring their Chromebooks home. We brainstormed together to decide if we should charge them at home or at school. They decided they would charge them at home. Tomorrow, they will go home (if students want to bring them home), and Tuesday will be the first day they’ll be responsible for bringing them back in. Please help your student remember to charge their device tomorrow night and bring it in on Tuesday.
We’ve had a few bumps getting this year started, but we’re finding our stride as an awesome 5th grade community.
Thanks for sharing your incredible, creative, and caring students with me. We are going to have a great year!
Reminders:
MAP testing on Tuesday and Thursday this week! And here’s our digital planner (also available in Canvas under speaking and listening) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ERb_hhsG_LpMMVAgf2-c0IMJQkYQeCzEX8MMTc3WVRU/present#/slide=id.g2e165bc7e1_0_313
Ms. B. in Class 