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| Students work with Mr. Taylor during a Math Workshop |
Math Workshops
The past few weeks students have been learning about place value and decimal numbers during their Math workshops. This will continue throughout May and will extend to operating with decimal numbers. If you have any questions about how to connect your strategies to strategies your students are learning at school, feel free to contact Curtis.
Writing and Reading Workshops
Your student may have been participating in an argument writing, reading strategies, a narrative writing, or A Wrinkle in Time series of workshop. We will be wrapping up this series on Friday and will be moving to poetry, informational writing, constructive response and a book group of the students' choice.
Book Groups
We will be finishing our Greek Mythology books this week. We will move to an independent book project for the end of the year. Look for information about this in the next two weeks.
Problem Solving
This month we will be exploring solar energy and through our solar home design challenge. Students will be conducting experiments and collecting data to help inform their design decisions. They will be working in teams throughout this unit to build heat efficient model homes. This unit will include a review of Math concepts from earlier in the year.
The Odyssey! Fifth Grade Play
The Quest Team will be preforming The Odyssey! on June 12th from 9:00-10:00. This month, we will be working on this play during II. Your student will be focusing on acting, costumes, props, reflection, and group work skills. If your child has a speaking role, please help your child to memorize lines. Students should be "off script" by May 18th. Roles will be posted Monday, April 30th.
Cooking with Quest
The next two POWs will be dedicated to sharing recipes with our penpals in South Korea. One of the options for this POW is to create a cooking show, the other is to write a paper / present a slide show. If your student needs an ipad for this, they can sign one out through the library. If you have a device that can record video, please be sure the video can then be transferred to a Google Drive (that would need to be an app on the device), or to YouTube. This POW is two weeks long, with two weekends, so it will be due Monday, May 14th.
Testing this month
Students will be taking three standardized test this month. They will be taking the MAP test in Reading and Math (each 45 minutes in length) the next two Fridays. The week of March 14th will include 30 minutes of Science testing each morning. Finally, the SBAC tests in Reading, Writing, and Math will take place May 21-25.
Brainado
Look for news from Cougar Comments for this school-wide project.
Possible end of the year Reservoir Trip
Team Quest is looking to take a field trip to the Waterbury Reservoir on June 1st (Step-up Day) to celebrate the year together and 'step-up' to 6th grade. More information to come in May.
Communication Survey
If you have not filled this out, please do so by following this link.
