5th Grade
Mrs. Ward
Up Coming Events
March 23rd- Writing Celebration
March 24th - Camp Whitcomb Parent Meeting at PHS Auditorium at 6:30-7:30
March 26th- Human Growth and Development Parent Information Night at 6:00pm
April 2nd - March Madness
April 10th- Last day for Dreambox Challenge
April 27th- One Day Book Fair - Buy One Get One Free!!
April 29th- BizTown Field Trip (Bring a Bag Lunch)
May 28th & 29th- Camp Whitcomb Field Trip
Dreambox Challenge
Dreambox is doing a challenge that started this week and goes until April 10th. The best part? You don't have to track or do anything! Just encourage your child to go on Dreambox at home!! (school code: 4wgx/horizons). If our class completes an average of 5 or more lessons each week then we are entered into drawings for special prizes like: $100 pizza party, bracelets that say Math Rocks, 5 ipads for our classroom, etc.
Dreambox is a great tool to help fill the math gaps kids have, reinforce the great work they're doing in class, and provide enrichment for those who need it!
Summer School
Writing Celebration
We are wrapping up our historical fiction unit with a writing celebration on Monday. Student will be reading their classmates' stories and providing them with positive feedback. We have created a website to store all of our stories. Check out the website on next week's newsletter to read some of their stories.
Please feel free to bring in a treat with your child on Monday to help us enjoy our writing celebration.
Our next unit of studying in writing will be persuasive writing. We will be analyzing text features such as thesis statements, supporting details, and counterarguments. Students will be taking a position on a topic, creating a thesis statement, creating three supporting paragraphs and one counterargument. Their final piece will be a six paragraph paper including a bibliography, citing their resources.