<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Fifth Grade</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Peek at the Week</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Week of April 5<sup>th</sup>-8<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">The students have been divided into guided reading groups.<span> </span>Please ask your fifth grader which book he or she is reading.<span> </span>While the readers are reading this particular guided reading book, they will be focusing on character development.<span> </span>The student will be able to identify events, language, and traits that describe who the character is and how the character adds to the plot of the story.<span> </span>While the teacher is reading with the guided reading groups, the other students should be independently reading, working on extra credit letters, or completing their book recommendations.<span> </span>Because the end of the quarter is on Friday, April 9<sup>th</sup>, all work is due on Thursday, April 8<sup>th</sup>.<span> </span>Everything not turned in on Thursday will receive a 0 for the quarter.<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">All Young Author Books are due on Monday, April 5<sup>th</sup>.<span> </span>The two winning books in both Room 301 and Room 309 will be submitted to the language arts committee on Tuesday, April 6<sup>th</sup>.<span> </span>The students are aware of the criteria for each genre for this exciting writing project.<span> </span>Now that it is April, it means that we are in Poetry Month.<span> </span>Throughout the month, the poets of fifth grade will be introduced to and practice a variety of poetic devices.<span> </span>This week, writing mini-lessons will entail using imagery, emotion, music, metaphors, and a double focus in a poem.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Social Studies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">In the next few weeks, the fifth graders will be learning about the Western Movement of the people of the United States during the 1800’s.<span> </span>In learning about the people of the western United States, the students will learn about the Texas and Mexican War.<span> </span>After learning about this war, the students will identify themselves as newspaper editorialists and write their opinion in support or in criticism of the Texas and Mexican War.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Author Visit</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">On Wednesday, March 17<sup>th</sup>, Room 301 met author Jana Laiz. During her presentation, the fifth graders asked excellent questions asking the writer for advice in their own pursuits to be writers.<span> </span>Currently, our class read aloud is a book written by Jana Laiz entitled “A Free Woman On God’s Earth.”<span> </span><span> </span></p>