Looking ahead to this week, we have a walking field trip on Wednesday at 9:30 am. We will go to hear the governor speak at the city’s 9-11 memorial. This meets a Social Studies standard about why cities have memorials and monuments. We have plenty of chaperones going with us. Thank you for volunteering. Please make sure your child has comfortable walking shoes that day, along with sunscreen and a hat. We will be back in plenty of time for lunch.
Parent journals are going well, thank you for responding. I realize that this is kind of like homework for you on the weekends, but I wish you could see how delighted your student is to read your letter in the classroom. Thank you. We are really encouraging the use of writing as real-life communication. We started learning about prepositional phrases today in writing, and we will wrap up our study of parts of speech this week. Then we will go into a narrative writing unit.
In projects, we are learning some vocabulary so we can begin a new project on weather and climate. Your child will need to watch the weather in a few cities for several days.
Things are moving right along in fifth grade this year. Have a great week!
