5th Grade

What We're Learning: January 2022

Reading & Writing: This month we will delve deep into short stories. Readers will take a closer look at how authors use craft elements such as figurative language, foreshadowing, and building tension to create a compelling story. In writing, students will write about their reading, telling their insights and giving evidence to support their ideas.   

 

Math: This month we will focus finish on deepening and extending students’ understanding of fractions and equivalent fractions and representing fractions using an area model (rectangles). They will use these understandings to add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers.

 

Social Studies: This month we are moving away from South and Central America, and learning more about North America. As we refresh and move into the New Year, we will also continue to grow our community and team-building skills. 

  • Students participating in a student-led lesson
  • Students coding on tablets

Home Connection

  • Math Tip: Equivalent Fractions In 5th grade we learn how to add unlike fractions. This procedure involves converting the fractions to equivalent fractions with a common denominator. So, the concept of equivalent fractions is an important prerequisite to fraction addition and subtraction. Equivalent fractions 1/2 =2/4 = 3/6 = 4/8

  • What is perspective? Two people can have the same experience but feel differently about it. Look at this comic and think about the difference in perspective.
     The Family Circus cartoon about perspective whether roses have thorns or thorns have roses. 

  • Reading assessments are happening this month. Make sure your student is reading independently for 40 minutes every day. They should stop to jot their ideas every 3 pages. They should use literary terms (e.g. foreshadowing, theme, symbolism, suspense, etc.) when talking/jotting/writing about their reading.

Important Dates

  • Monday, January 3rd: Return from Winter Break

  • Monday, January 17th:  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Schools Closed)

  • Wednesday, January 19th at 6pm: Parent Association Meeting

  • Monday, 1/24-Friday, 1/28:  Career Week





Contact Your Teacher

Ms. Aucapina maucapina@ps343.org Text Ms. Aucapina

Ms. Strohm astrohm@ps343.org Text Ms. Strohm

Ms. Verde everde@ps343.org Text Ms. Verde

Ms.  Ramirez jramirez@ps343.org Text Ms. Ramirez

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