5TH GRADE RED HOUSE
MS. MITCHELL'S CLASSROOM NEWSLETTER: 2020-2021
WEEK THIRTY-ONE : APRIL 12TH - APRIL 16TH
Red House famiLEEs, here is our weekly newsletter filled with news you can use!
LEADER OF THE WEEK: ARUNA
Our Leadership Quality of the week is OPTIMISM
LEEdership Quality of the Week:
to anticipate the best possible outcome
A lesson in Leadership:
Be positive and enjoy life. Keep everything in perspective and focus on the good.
Lee Quote of the Week:
“Everyday may not be good but there is something good in in everyday." -Anonymous
WHAT WE ARE LEARNING
READING & WRITING
Reading this week, we began our read aloud, The One and Only Ivan. Learners are viewing the world from the eyes of a gorilla. During our unit on Fantasy, learners used their selected novels with their book club and began to understand how cultures are portrayed in stories. In Writing, we worked on a creative writing activity about the different forms of energy.
Math
In Math, we are representing and solving problems related to perimeter, area, and volume.
SCIENCE
In Science, we continued our Life Science Unit. This week we explored organism structures and functions that help animals survive.
SOCIAL STUDIES
In Social Studies this week, we continued our unit on the 20th Century and explore important events that occurred in the United States during the Civil War.
IMPORTANT TIMES:
Schedules:
- Morning Meeting 7:50-8:10
- Specials: 8:30-9:15
- Recess: 11:30-11:00
- Lunch: 1:00-1:30
Conference Time:
- Daily: 8:30-9:15
Specials Rotation
- Day 1 - P.E.
- Day 2- Music
- Day 3 - Design
- Day 4 - P.E.
- Day 5 - Art
- Day 6 - Create