Grade 5

Dear Parents,

We have had a fun and educational week in Grade 5 ! The students have completed their first piece of writing – from brainstorming, to drafting, to writing conferences, to revising, proofreading and publishing. I have high standards when marking writing and I was very pleased with their first efforts ! The students choose their first library books, please encourage them to read, read, read ! Let’s see if we can be the class with the most A/R points 🙂 In Math we reviewed the four step plan for problem solving and worked on decimals and fractions. In Science they students are continuing on with Cells, next week we start learning more about the Body Systems.

Please ask your students the following questions to review class work –

1. What is 0.5 as a fraction ?

2. Use the following vocabulary words in a sentence – maven, conceited, designated. ( a sentence for each word )

3. How did God promise to bless Abraham ?

Thank you for your continued cooperation in the education of your child,

Janine Nyyssonen

As the students reviewed and used the steps of the scientific method they came up with a hypothesis about which paper airplane would fly longer and faster – the smaller wing span or the wider wing span.

Then they had fun flying their planes outside !