Week of November 23 - November 27, 2015

Dear Families and Friends,

Thanksgiving Break: Wednesday November 25-November 29

Jupiter Grades. Most of you and your children have logged in and changed your pass codes. If you have not had a chance to do this, please do so now. This will help you and your child monitor grades and assignments together as a team. This tool should be utilized to help your child develop as a life-long learner teaching them the value of responsibility and expectation as they grow as scholars. Jupiter Grades

Play: "13 Colonies."  Roles have been selected, and we are practicing our play daily as we have a relatively short time to prepare given the Thanksgiving Holiday. Please be sure that your child practices his/her lines over the break. It would be great if the kids could have their lines memorized when they come back.

Play performance dates: Thursday December 10 at 7 p.m. for parents and friends and Friday December 11 at 11 a.m. for the school. Mark your calendars! You don't want to miss this wonderful event!

Parent help and volunteers needed: costumes (talk to Marika) rehearsing lines, practicing dances and songs, assisting with the set and back stage, etc. I have put together a sign up sheet on google docs for those who would like to sign up to help. Thank you in advance! Your participation is greatly appreciated!

Shared Music and Scripts: I have shared the music with lyrics and the instrumental version along with a script of the play. Your child also brought home a script today which is to stay home and be used to read and practice from nightly. 

ELA/Social Sciences: We will read and do various activities that support our theme of learning about the colonies. Students will continue to work on their Native American essays and their colony research and posters.

Art: Students will complete their tribal shadow boxes this week, and we will start to create set designs for our play with the help of Mary Beth in the Art department!

Read Aloud: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech.

Math: Despite our commitment to the play, we will continue to weave our math curriculum into our days. We took our multiplication pretest on 10's, 100's and 1000's on Thursday. I hope to build a solid foundation with these skills. We have been working diligently toward this goal. We will review division with a single digit divisor and introduce the 5th graders to 2-digit divisors. Then, we dive into fractions in the coming weeks.

Writing and Grammar: There is no grammar homework this week.

Spelling: There is no spelling homework/packet this week due to the holiday.

Nightly Reading: Please remind your child to read their lines and go over their script for nightly reading this month. This will help students reinforce and build confidence with their parts. 

Thank you for supporting both our classroom and your wonderful child!

Have a great Thanksgiving with family and friends!

Warmly,

Mrs. Young