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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 April 19<sup>th</sup>-23<sup>rd</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 readers of fifth grade will continue to practice making inferences while reading their guided reading book.<span> </span>In addition to sharing the inferences that they make with their guided reading groups, the readers are also encouraged to write about their inferences in their reader’s response letters.<span> </span>During the fourth quarter, the readers do not have to respond to their letter on a specific day, but they have to respond to their letters by the end of the week.<span> </span>If the student has not responded to the teacher’s letter by the end of the week, he or she will not receive credit.<span> </span>In their letters, the students should write one paragraph about their guided reading book and one paragraph about their independent book.<span> </span>Letters account for forty percent of the student’s final reading grade.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Writer’s Workshop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">The poets of fifth grade have been quite successful with incorporating poetry devices into their poems.<span> </span>This week, they will be taught to avoid clichés and to use fragments in their poetry.<span> </span>On Thursday, the poets will be given a rubric of how their final poetry assignment will be graded.<span> </span>During poetry month, fifty percent of their grade will account for the everyday writing that they do during writer’s workshop.<span> </span>The remaining fifty percent will be their published poetry.<span> </span>On Friday, every poet will meet with another poet to share their poems.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Social Studies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">The fifth graders will continue to write their historical fiction journals documenting their journey of a pioneer traveling west in the 1800’s.<span> </span>Last week, the students were given a rubric of how this assignment was going to be graded.<span> </span>To help the students write this journal, the read aloud of the month will be <span style="text-decoration: underline">Facing West – A Story of the Oregon Trail</span><span> </span>by Kathleen Kudlinski.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Art</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"><span> </span>On Tuesday, Room 301 will go to the SMART museum at 5550 S. Greenwood.<span> </span>We will continue to go every Tuesday.<span> </span>On Monday, May 24<sup>th</sup> from 6-8PM, we will have a final celebration that all parents are invited to attend.<span> </span>Save the date!<span> </span></p>