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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Peek at the Week</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Week of May 3<sup>rd</sup>-7<sup>th</sup></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Reader’s Workshop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">During the month of May, the readers in fifth grade will be introduced to the Question-Answer Relationship.<span> </span>Through this reading strategy, readers formulate their own questions as they are reading the text.<span> </span>As the readers reading the text, they learn to formulate different types of questions.<span> </span>This week, the readers will be focusing on asking questions that can be found directly in the text.<span> </span>Because of the nature of this type of questioning, these questions are called “Right There” questions.<span> </span>The fifth graders will be practicing these questions while in their guided reading groups.<span> </span>At home, please have your fifth grader generate these questions as they are reading.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Writer’s Workshop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">The fifth graders will begin their fiction writing unit this week.<span> </span>To start the unit off, the writers will be generating ideas in their writer’s notebook.<span> </span>Before they begin to write their stories, they will learn about what it means to embellish a true story.<span> </span>In addition to embellishment, they will also learn about external and internal conflict in characters.<span> </span>The teacher will read <span style="text-decoration: underline">My Rotten Red Headed Older Brother</span> by Patricia Polacco as an example of a story with a character that has external conflict.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Social Studies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">This month, we will learn about the Civil War.<span> </span>We will begin the unit with learning the causes of this war.<span> </span>This week, the fifth graders will complete an anticipatory guide activating prior knowledge of what they know about the causes of the Civil War.<span> </span>After they complete the anticipatory guide, they will use the text to correct or confirm their answers.<span> </span>They will be graded on how they used the text to correctly answer the questions.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Art</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">This week, Room 301 will go on their second visit to the SMART  Museum.<span> </span>The first visit was a great success.<span> </span>Next week, we will go to the SMART  Museum on Tuesday, May 11<sup>th</sup>.<span> </span>On Monday, May 10<sup>th</sup>, the fifth graders will go to the Hyde Park Art  Center.<span> </span>Today a permission slip was sent home about this field trip.<span> </span>Please save the date for Monday, May 24<sup>th</sup>.<span> </span>On this date, the fifth graders will present their final projects to parents and friends from 6-8PM at the SMART  Museum.<span> </span></p>