Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!

We wish all of you a wonderful upcoming Thanksgiving Break starting on Wednesday, November 24th. We are thankful to be a part of such a caring school community.

In Math we started dividing using the Partial Quotients Method. Ask your kids about "friendly numbers" and how they use them.

In Social Studies we finished our study of the Revolutionary War and we are making pop-up pages of our favorite events during the war. The Sophomore class at Lake Region High School created books describing events that led up to the Revolutionary War, and they are coming here to share these books with our 5th graders next Tuesday.

We spent this week researching our Earth's Changing Mission Project. Mrs. G.M. has started putting our research on templates.

Our new reading strategy that we are learning is called, Monitoring Understanding. We ask ourselves questions like, "Do I understand what I just read?" and "Should I go back and re-read that passage?"

Have a safe and wonderful holiday with family and friends!

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