Families, we started a new Friday Folder checklist for the 2nd Trimester. Since I met with each family last week, I had the children make their comments Friday about the Potlatch and their Native American learning. Below is a snapshot of our focus for each subject. There is also links to Native American presentations, science inspirations and pics too!
Social Studies: We will finish everyone’s Native American presentations by Thanksgiving Break. Then we will begin our focus on European Explorers and Colonization. This learning fits within the context of our Discovery theme. There will be a letter with details of our theme work and due dates for more creative projects coming home soon.
Reading: To match our Discovery theme, each child is reading an award winning chapter book with a character who goes on a journey. We will have weekly literature journal assignments to practice our comprehension skills. Students are independent readers for this cycle. I will be reading shorter picture book children’s literature also focusing on characters who make journeys and European Exploration too.
Writing: During our writing time in the Discovery theme, students will be practicing their narrative writing. We will use inspirations from our social studies learning to craft narratives of various personal or fictional journeys.
Math: Our math focus is on multiplication and division of decimals. There will be a quiz over this work the first week of December. Then our focus will be variables and algebra leading up to Winter Break.
Science: Next week, all 5th graders are joining together to discuss our inspirations from our field work and mini experiments. After sharing, we will begin the process to choose our Community Project Based learning focus. This work will be integrated with our science units, starting with Matter through December.
Here are pictures and links to our Native American projects and decorations.
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| OLIVER'S BOW AND ARROW |
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| PEARL'S SHELTERS |
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| WINTER COUNTS |
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| MORE WINTER COUNTS |
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| TOTEM POLE |
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| MORE TOTEM POLE |
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| MORE TOTEM POLE |
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| HARPER'S TOTEM POLE DISPLAY |
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| JACK'S IGLOO DISPLAY |
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| SACRED BUNDLES FROM HANNAH'S LESSON |
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| MORE SACRED BUNDLES |
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