Newsletter April 9-13th

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5

Dates: April 9-13th         

Dear Parents,

Curriculum Information for this Week:

Literacy: Students continue to learn about Social Issues and Human Rights through picture books, biographies and autobiographies. This week we will be diving further into Informational text while focusing one social issue and/or a Human Rights Issue. Ask your child which human rights issue his/her class will be exploring.  This week students will be exploring building a thesis with a focus on a social issue or a social change maker.

Math: This week we will begin our Volume and Measurement Unit.  Students will estimate and measure shapes.  Students will also explore liquid volume using water and make comparisons. Students will explore volume by building and counting unit cubes in order to understand volume.

Unit of Study: We will continue our Social Change unit by preparing for ‘Night of the Notables’ 2018 presentation and begin writing our scripts as a class. Students will begin to think about a Change Maker or Social Issue that they would like to explore for their blackboard presentations.  The Night of the Notables presentations will be on the evening of Tues. 8 May. We will continue preparing for our Night of the Notables this week.

For more information and ways to support your child please visit the Parent Learning Connection page.



Highlight from last week:
We have a chosen a song for Night of the Notables and have begun practicing.