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.
  
  
• Thursday, February 29, 2024 - Field trip to the Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the Blue Ribbon Children’s Festival. We will be gone from 8:45 AM until 12:15 PM. Recess and lunch times will be adjusted so that students have ample time for appropriate nutrition. I would like to take 2 chaperones on the trip, so if you are interested please let me know. Permission slips will be sent home today. Please sign and return them as soon as possible. Thank you!

Reading: Informational Reading - Making and Confirming Predictions, Central Idea, Author's Craft & Author's Purpose

Writing: Planning & Conducting Research for Opinion Writing

Grammar: How to properly write titles using italiics, quotation marks, and capitalization

Word Study: Prefixes: mega & sub / Latin Roots - ped & dent

Math: Multiplying a Whole Number by a Decimal

IB Unit of Study: Three Branches of American Government - Legislative, Executive & Judiciary

Social Studies - Colonial Life (Comparing Colonies) - Colony Advertisement Posters; Slavery in the Americas

Science: Earth Systems - (biosphere, atmosphere, geosphere & hydrosphere)

In the science lab, students will learn about the negative affects of unbalanced ecosystems and ways to help protect the enviroment.

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