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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 26<sup>th</sup>-30<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 readers of fifth grade will continue to make inferences in their guided reading books.<span> </span>The work that the students do in their guided reading group accounts for 30% of their reading grade.<span> </span>On days when the students are not working in their guided reading group, they should be responding to their reader’s response letter.<span> </span>These letters are 40% of their final grade.<span> </span>In the letters, the fifth graders know that they should write four thoughts about their independent book and four thoughts about their guided reading book.<span> </span>The letters are due every Friday.<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 students will choose three poems that they will publish to be graded.<span> </span>Last week, the poets were given a rubric to help them know how the poems will be graded.<span> </span>This week, the poets will continue to be inspired by the work of other poets including Gwendolyn Brooks.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Social Studies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">After learning about the Western Movement this month, the fifth graders will now learn about an important event that happened in the West in the late 1800’s ~ the Gold Rush.<span> </span>In addition to learning about the Gold Rush, the fifth graders will be able to identify how it changed the Western  United States.<span> </span></p>