Mrs. Gray's 5th Grade Newsletter

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Here are a few reminders and updates.

• Students should bring their chromebooks to school fully charged every day.
  
  

• Parent-Teacher Conferences - If you did not sign up for a parent teacher conference, but would still like to schedule a time to meet to discuss how your child is doing in school, please email me and let me know.
  
  

• Remember to fill out and return the permission slip for the field trip to the Armory Center for the Arts on 10/31 @ 9:30 am. The bus will be leaving at 9:00 am. If you would like to chaperone for the trip please let me know. There will be a Halloween parade in the morning at 8:30 am. Students who would like to participate in the parade, can wear their costumes to school. We will go first in the parade, then the students will change into their uniforms before going on the field trip. If possible, have your child wear their uniform underneath their costume for fast and easy changing since we will be short on time. Students are not allowed to wear their costumes to the field trip, so it is important that they wear their school clothes under their costumes or bring a change of clothes for the field trip.
  
  
• PUSD's Math Academy Program - Willard will administer PUSD's Math Academy Screening Assessment on Tuesday, October 24th to interested 5th graders. Math Academy is a Math Academy is a program within the Pasadena Unified School District that radically accelerates the math curriculum for the district's gifted math students. The program begins in 6th grade with students completing BC Calculus by the end of 8th grade. The high school courses will consist of a variety of undergraduate college level math classes. The middle school programs are offered only at Sierra Madre, Octavia E. Butler, and McKinley. If you would like your student to be tested, please fill out the attached form and return it to your student's teacher by October 20th. If you have already filled out this form, please disregard this message.

  
  

• What is coming home this week - Check your child's folder for the Heritage Project Score sheet, Reading and Math assessments.

• FREE Tutoring - PUSD will begin providing after school tutoring at school sites including Willard. If you are interested in having your child participate, please register by clicking on the link below. Teacher interviews are currently underway, and the goal is to have everyone hired and trained to start during the week of November 6th. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUMp2Omj0RsQdQI3Jlfxh2UOGpvPGpi2pNuGljLKcxysDyLA/viewform

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) - Students will be able to identify at least one change a person can make to manage a strong emotion in a recurring situation.

Reading: Class Novel, Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate

• Figurative Language - Students will identify and anaylze the meanings of figurative language including similes, metaphors, idioms, hyperboles, and personification in literature.
  
  

• Word Study - Latin roots - (pop, man, nav, ject)
  
  

Writing:

• Revising personal narratives - Adding Figurative Language and Describing the Setting
  
  

Math:

• Dividing Multi-digit numbers with 2 digit divisors

IB Unit of Study: Exploration (methods, reasons and effects)

Social Studies: We will wrap up our unit on Native American Cultural Regions this week. The students will finish making their portion of our class totem poles and we will review and quiz on this unit.

Science: In class, we will review and quiz on structure and properties of matter.

In the science lab, students will continue to study Stars and the Solar System. They will learn why the day was divided into hours and how clocks measure the Sun's apparent movement as well as make their own sundials.

October 5 - Chance

October 30 - Leroy

Email: gray.melanie@pusd.us
Phone: 6263965600

“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.”

-Nelson Mandela