Mrs. Gray's 5th Grade Newsletter

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Here are a few reminders, updates, and announcements:

• The students will continue taking the iReady Diagnostic this week. Most students still need additional time to complete the Math Diagnostic. Please remind them to bring their chromebooks to school fully charged every day. If they have earbuds or headphones, they are welcome to use them for testing.
  
  
• This week students will bring home a Parent Survey to help improve Willard's programs and services related to discipline and social/emotional support. Please fill out and return this form to school with your child. The students will also bring home graded homework packets and math quizzes.
  
  
• Pasadena Educational Foundation (PEF) Grant - I applied for and received a $1000 grant to purchase culturally responsive read aloud books with diverse characters written by diverse authors to support social emotional learning (SEL). The books will include topics such as having empathy for others, managing emotions, peserverance, conflict resolution, and problem solving. We will read and have discussions surrounding these topics in class to support students SEL.
  
  
• 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 (Quoting Accurately from a text to explain explicit and inferential information).

Writing: Students will continue to research and gather information for their expository (informational) writing on a terrestrial (land) or aquatic (water) biome.

Math: iReady Math Diagnostic & Adding and Subtracting Decimals

IB Unit of Study: New Unit - How the World Works (Physical and Biological Science): Students will learn about ecosystems. We will focus on the roles that all organisms play in these systems, the interrelationships between living and non-living components of an ecosystem, and how energy is transferred through food chains and food webs.

Social Studies - Early English Settlements: We will explore the challenges that were faced by early English settlements including Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth.

Science: In class, we will study matter and energy in plants.

In the science lab, students will develop their thinking about predator and prey relationships by examing food chains.

December 28 - Brandon 🎊

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

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

-Nelson Mandela