Mrs. Gray's 5th Grade Newsletter

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Here are a few reminders, updates, and announcements:

• Please remind your child to bring their chromebooks to school fully charged every day.
  
  
• Thank you chaperones! - Thank you Mr. Fujii, Mr. Ghoshtagore, and Ms. Makenna for chaperoning our field trip to the Norton SImon Musuem. Your help was greatly appreciated!!
  
  
• Reading Pilot - PUSD will be adopting a reading curriculum next year. I signed up to pilot the programs. For the next four weeks, I will pilot the Into Reading Curriculum. I am excited about this program which has rich, complex, and culturally responsive literature as well as a variety of other resources to differentiate student learning.
  
  
• Inquiry Night - Feb. 8th -Students and families will have a chance to engage in activities and see Science, Innovation, and Cardboard Challenge projects. Pizza will be available for purchase. We hope you can join us! (And there are plenty of opportunities to volunteer!). Please see the flyer below or contact Ms. Wittry if you have questions: wittry.linda@pusd.us.
  
  

  Inquiry Night Signup - to Supervise or Run an Inquiry Room

  
  
• Please read and review the 5th Grade Activities Participation Contract with your child. The form must be signed by both you and your child and returned to school.
  
  
• Please review the Parent-Student Compact sent home this week with your child. The form should be signed by both you and your child and returned to school.
  
  
• 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. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUMp2Omj0RsQdQI3Jlfxh2UOGpvPGpi2pNuGljLKcxysDyLA/viewform
  

Reading: Informational Reading - Over the next three weeks, our class will build their knowledge about exploration, with a focus on the autobiography genre. We will read texts and view videos about important discoveries people have made on land, in the oceans, and in space. Children will also write an expository essay that explains how curiosity encourages exploration.

Writing: Publish informational writing on biomes.

Grammar: Commas in a series and perfect tense (past, present and future); indefinite, possessive and interrogative pronouns

Word Study: Latin Roots - vis/vid, aud, dict, liber and mar

Math: Fractions and Word Problems

IB Unit of Study: Different forms of government - Students will demonstrate their knowledge of a type of government by planning and acting out a skit of the leader(s) in the process of making a decision (ex. raising taxes, going to war, etc.). The class will have to guess what type of government is being portrayed.

Social Studies - Colonial Life (Comparing Colonies) - We are continuing to learn about and compare the 13 colonies. Students will create a billboard advertisement for one of the colonies. They will create a slogan and include catchy statements and illustrations to convince other settlers to come to their colony.

Science: We will explore how matter cycles between the air and the soil and among plants, animals and microbes as these organisms live and die.

In the science lab, students will learn about the critical role that earthworms play in decomposing organic material. They will observe earthworms and then design experiments to determine if they prefer dry or wet areas.

Gigi - February 5

Juan - February 25

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

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

-Nelson Mandela