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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Peek at the Week</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Week of October 26<sup>th</sup>-30th</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Reader’s Workshop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">The readers of fifth grade will continue to preview the text, make predictions, and enhance their predictions after reading.<span> </span>All of these reading strategies will be taught and practiced in book club groups.<span> </span>During independent reading, the readers will finish their book club tasks, read their own independent reading books, and will be responding to the reader’s response letter that was written to them.<span> </span>Everyday please ask your child what he or she did during reader’s workshop.<span> </span>Fifth graders should be responsible for completing the work that is assigned to them.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Writer’s Workshop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">On Friday, every fifth grader will turn in a published narrative writing piece to be assessed.<span> </span>Last week, the fifth graders were given the rubric to help them in their drafting.<span> </span><span> </span>I will use this same rubric to assess their narrative writing piece.<span> </span>Mini-lessons taught this week will be on varying sentence leads, breaking a text into paragraphs, avoiding run-on sentences, using consistent verb tense and using parentheses to add information.<span> </span>All of these mini-lessons will help the writers publish their narrative writing piece.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Social Studies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Last week, the fifth graders worked in groups to create a game board representing the path of an explorer.<span> </span>They created the games for another group to play their game and learn about their explorer.<span> </span>This week, the students will work independently to learn about an explorer.<span> </span>Tomorrow every fifth grader will be assigned an explorer.<span> </span>The fifth grader will complete the explorer using the social studies book.<span> </span>On Thursday, they will present their information to the class acting as the explorer.<span> </span></p>