Dear Parents,

This is our last heavy work week in Room 304.  Students will be taking final tests in Social Studies and Math and 5<sup>th</sup> grade memoirs are due on Wednesday.  Please remind your child to stay in work mode so that they may finish 5<sup>th</sup> grade strong.

<strong>We will have our 5<sup>th</sup> Grade Poetry Slam on Friday at </strong><strong>1:30 pm</strong><strong>.  You are invited to attend.  We will have a Poetry Café with snacks in the classroom after the Slam.  I will provide drinks and cookies.  Please contribute a snack if you can.  Please stay tuned for location and any updates throughout the week.</strong> You may contact me at <a href="mailto:agkrecik@cps.edu">agkrecik@cps.edu</a> if you have any additional questions.

<strong>Reading</strong><strong>: </strong>We will continue to read <span style="text-decoration: underline">The Witch Of Blackbird Pond.</span> Students will refine their reading comprehension skills that we have been focusing on all year.  These include:  prediction, summarizing, visualizing, inferencing, and drawing conclusions.  In addition, students will read short fiction books to refine their skills in guided reading groups.  Students will respond to independent reading in their journals.

<strong>Writing:</strong> We will practice Poetry Performance techniques, and students will prepare poems to perform for this week’s Poetry Slam.   As a final writing piece, students will complete their memoirs of a moment from 5<sup>th</sup> grade.  <strong>Memoirs are due on Wednesday June 9<sup>th</sup>.</strong>

<strong>Math:</strong> This week students will complete lessons from Unit 8.  Specifically, students will find fractional units of a whole and divide fractions.  We will cover lessons 8.10 and 8.11.  <strong>Students will take a Unit 8 Assessment on Thursday June 10<sup>th</sup>.</strong>

<strong>Science: </strong>Students have completed Health and Human Development classes with Ms. Garcia.  This week we will continue to investigate Levers and Pulleys.  Students will construct and identify class-1, 2, and 3 levers and perform multiple trials for different experiments.

<strong>Social Studies: This Wednesday June 9<sup>th</sup>, students will take a test on Chapter 12:  The Constitution. </strong>This test will be open-book/open-note.  In addition, we will spend time examining The Bill Of Rights.  Student pairs will complete a set of flashcards depicting the first 10 amendments.

<strong>Spelling: </strong>We will complete our last spelling practice this week.  Please study with your child the spelling words.  The spelling test will be Friday.

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