Welcome April!! Thursday, April 5th

Reminders and Announcements

Important Dates

• Monday, April 9th - Last Day of Quarter 3
• Tuesday, April 10th - School Closed for Students
• Friday, April 13th - Shrek Permission Slips Due
• Wednesday, April 18th - Shrek, The Musical at OHS
• Friday, April 20th - Report Cards Issued 
• Tuesday, April 24th through Wednesday April 26th - PARCC ELA Testing (afternoons)
• Monday, April 30th and Tuesday, May 1st  - PARCC Math Testing (morning)

Thursday folders will come home tomorrow with the permission slips for Shrek.  Please let me know as soon as possible (Monday at the latest) if you are interested in attending the play.  We have limited seating and may need to do a lottery.

Writing 

We will be working on short constructed responses to our reading next week and will begin to learn about Memoirs the following week so the students can plan what to include in their own memoir writing.

  

Math 

Focus Standards:

• 5.G.A.1 - Use a pair perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin ) arranged to coincide with the 0 on each line and a given point in the place located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates. Understand that the first number indicates how far to travel in the direction of the second axis, with the convention that the names of the two axes and the coordinates correspond (e.g., x-axis and x-coordinate, y-axis and y-coordinate).
• 5.G.A.2 - Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation.

We will begin Unit 8 next week which focuses on Geometry.  In addition to prepare for PARCC testing, we will begin to look at test release items and review our math understandings and problem solving skills.

Reading 

Focus Standard:

RL10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

We have just begun our next class novel, Blood on the River.  I will be reading the first four chapters aloud and we will have guided discussions together.  The remaining chapters will be read independently and  we will have group discussions centered on character, plot, theme, and determining the meaning of new vocabulary.

Social Studies

Tomorrow we begin packing our boats to sail to America!!  On our journey over seas, we will learn about the hardships and trials of the first colonists.  We are all looking forward to the journey.