Parent conferences begin the week of Monday, April 9th. Please check out our class wiki for available times and to sign up. You should have received an email invitation. You can also request to join the wiki or email me with a time you would like and I can sign up for you.
http://msvalenti.wikispaces.com/April+conferences
We are learning about:
- Fractions
- New England, Middle and Southern colonies
- Persuasive essay
- "Reading" characters
Some activities we did this week:
- Decided the purpose and audience for our persuasive essays
- Chose three reasons to support our opinion
- Began researching to find evidence to support our three reasons
- Reflected on the third quarter by self-assessing using our report cards from last term
- Selected a colonial region to study more in-depth
- Started designing a Glogster on our colonial region
- Reviewed for and took our unit 7 math test
- Played "build it" during math to practice ordering fractions
- Noticed how other characters treat the main character during read aloud and reading workshop
- Enjoyed the fifth grade band and chorus concert
- Played wiffle ball with the whole fifth grade to celebrate opening day
- Parent conferences begin the week of April 9th
- Jeff Warner (our fifth grade artist in residence) evening performance: Thursday, April 19th at 6:30
- Report cards go home Friday, April 20th
- Jump Rope for Heart- Friday, April 20th
- April vacation- week of April 23rd
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