FIFTH GRADE NEWS
VOLUME 3 November 2015
Upcoming Events
November 1- Day Light Savings…Turn your
clocks back one hour!
November 3- No School for students!
(Election Day)
November 5- Parent/Teacher Conferences
Half Day for students!
November 9- Picture Day…Dress your best!
November 11- Veterans Day/Diwali
No School!
November 18- PA Meeting
November 26-27- Thanksgiving…No school!
Gobble, Gobble!
Give Thanks!
Important Parent Links Go directly to www.ps102q.org for many
helpful sites such as:
i-Ready
Capstone Library
Edmodo
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What’s New In Fifth Grade…
November is a month to give
thanks and the fifth grade is
thankful for another wonderful
month in school! November is
an important month as we will
host the first parent/teacher
conferences of the school year!
These informative meetings are
a wonderful opportunity to
meet with your child’s teachers
and dicuss their academic
progress thus far. As a reminder,
please be mindful of all
appointments. Please make
arrangements to meet with
your child’s teacher on a
Tuesday morning if you are
unable to attend the afternoon
or evening sessions on
November 5th. We look forward
to meeting with you all!
5th Grade Teachers:
Ms. Henriquez
Mr. Lubin
Ms. Teape
Mrs. Vicario
Ms. Wagner
Mrs. Wright
ELMHURST EDITION
Mr. Ko, Principal Mr. Borelli, Asst. Principal
Mrs. Atkins, Asst. Principal
Ms. Mulé, Asst. Principal
Achieving is what we do at P.S./I.S. 102!
Value of the Month: Trustworthiness
“If you want to be trusted, you must be trust-worthy!”
Literacy
In reading, we will be continuing Module B of
Unit 1 in ReadyGen. In this module, the big idea
continues to be “Depending on Each Other”,
however we will be reading non-fiction texts
such as Rachel Carson: Pioner of Ecology,
Rainforest Food Chains and Pale Male. This
module’s essential question is “How do readers
identify relationships and interactions in texts?”
Students will be exposed to new vocabulary,
have text based discussions, form opinions
based on a text and identify the relationships
among scientific concepts.
In writing, students will work on informative
essays. They will practice developing a topic
with facts, definitions, concrete details, and
quotations from their texts. The essential
question for this module is “How do writers group
information logically with supporting details?”
Students will examine a topic and convey the
ideas with facts in an essay.
Math
This month, students will be learning how to
divide by a one digit divisior. In this chapter,
students will relate division to multiplication and
use different division strategies such as the
distributive property and partial quotients. They
will be challenged as they learn to interpret
remainders and solve complex division word
problems. By the end of the chapter, students
should be able to answer the essential question
“What strategies can be used to divide whole
numbers?” In each lesson, students will build
upon their understanding of this question, by
answering rigorous questions, dicussing the
strategies they used and by being exposed to
varies pathways to the answer!
Science
For November, students will continue to study the
nature of science and how scientists use the scientific
method. We will be working on a lab in class and
students will need to use their notes to create a lab
report. Be aware that this assignment is worth a test
grade. It will be posted on EDMODO at the end of the
experiment and must be completed on EDMODO for
homework. Having access to technology, and
becoming comfortable using it, is an important part of
the science curriculum. Students will then start an
engineering project using up-cycling. Up-cycling is the
term for repurposing things that would normally be
thrown out or recycled.
REMINDER: All students should be logging into
EDMODO regularly to check for and hand in
assignments; ask questions to our class communities;
and participate in discussions. Parents should create a
parent account using their child’s parent code
located on their child's home screen for each group
they belong.
Social Studies
This month, students will complete Unit One of the
Social Studies text and be learning all about European
exploration. They will be introduced to influentail
explorers such as Ferninand Magellan, Chrisopher
Columbus and others who bravely sailed the ocean in
persuit of a sea route to Asia. In this unit, students will
critically think about the struggles and motivations the
explorers were faced with. They will particpate in text
based conversatiions and complete content related
projects to enhance their learning!