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Week 36 5/29-6/1/2023

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  Upcoming Dates to Know Monday, May 29 Happy Memorial Day / No School Wednesday, May 31 Late Start 5th Grade Musical Performance @ SJHS 5pm Friday, June 2 Popcorn Friday MATH 5.7 Shapes on the Coordinate Plane Unit Goals Students plot coordinate pairs on a coordinate grid and classify triangles and quadrilaterals in a hierarchy based on properties of side length and angle measure. They generate, identify, and graph relationships between corresponding terms in two numeric patterns, given two rules, and represent and interpret real-world and mathematical problems on a coordinate grid. Section A Goals Locate points on a coordinate grid.   Reading- continue Unit 8: Summarize and Synthesis/Evaluate Author's Purpose Monday-Hockey is my Game Tuesday- Some Weather Wednesday- Cheap Land Thursday- Bacteria Friday- Constructed Written Responses

Week 35 5/22-26/2023

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  Upcoming Dates to Know Wednesday, May 24 Late Start Thursday, May 25 5th Grade Book Club Pizza Party Friday, May 26 Last Kindness Club (Rescheduled) Monday, May 29 Memorial Day  Reading- Start Unit 8: Summarize and Synthesis/Evaluate Author's Purpose Monday-Hockey is my Game Tuesday- Some Weather Wednesday- Cheap Land Thursday- Bacteria Friday- Constructed Written Responses Math-continue Unit 6   In this unit, students deepen their understanding of place value relationships of numbers in base ten, unit conversion, operations on fractions with unlike denominators, and multiplicative comparison. The work here builds on several important ideas from grade 4. In grade 4, students learned the value of each digit in a whole number is 10 times the value of the same digit in a place to its right. Here, they extend that insight to include decimals to the thousandths. Students recognize that the value of each digit in a place (including decimal places) is  1 10 1 10  the value of the same d

Week 34 5/15-19/23

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  Upcoming Dates to Know Monday, May 15 Mileage Club Makeup Day Tuesday, May 16 Donuts with Someone Special Wednesday, May 17 Late Start Tech Team Field Trip Lory's Place Group Student Art Show / Book Bonanza 4pm-6pm Thursday, May 18 PTO Meeting 7pm - 8pm ( virtual link ) Friday, May 19 Kindness Club in Media Center GOTR 5K at SMC 5:30pm - 7:30pm Reading- finish Unit 7: Make Inferences/Draw Conclusions Monday-Introduce FluencySkills: Phrasing-High-Frequency Word Phrases  Tuesday- Connect Fluency and Comprehension: Analyze Author's Purpose Wednesday- Apply Fluency Skills to Reader's Theater Thursday- Build Tier Two Vocabulary: Adjectives That Describe Places Friday- Show Time: Perform Reader's Theater Science- Mystery Science: Continue Spaceship Earth Math-Start Unit 6   In this unit, students deepen their understanding of place value relationships of numbers in base ten, unit conversion, operations on fractions with unlike denominators, and multiplicative comparison. Th

Week 33 5/8-12/2023

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  This Week at Brown School 5/8 Monday- Penny Wars fundraiser begins!   5/9  Tuesday-  NWEA ELA in the morning 5/10 Wednesday-    Late Start Day            NWEA Math in the morning 5/11   Thursday-  Our class to Grand Rapids Museum for our 5th-grade trip! Bring a sack lunch.         5/12    Friday-  Brown Bear Credit Union 8:20 - 8:45 a.m.            Popsicle Friday!           3rd - 5th-grade track meet today (11:30 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.)           3rd - 5th graders eat early and depart for SJHS @ 11:15 Reading- finish Unit 7: Make Inferences/Draw Conclusions Monday-Introduce FluencySkills: Phrasing-High-Frequency Word Phrases  Tuesday- Connect Fluency and Comprehension: Analyze Author's Purpose Wednesday- Apply Fluency Skills to Reader's Theater Thursday- Build Tier Two Vocabulary: Adjectives That Describe Places Friday- Show Time: Perform Reader's Theater Science- Mystery Science: Continue Spaceship Earth Math   5.6 More Decimal and Fraction Operations Unit Goals Students sol