Mrs. Caverly and Mr. Baker's Grade 5 Class

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Workshop<o:p></o:p>We are working with the students on strengthening their comprehension skills. We are having meaningful discussions about thinking beyond the text and thinking about the text, so as to analyze a writer's purpose. Writing Workshop This week, we had the pleasure of having Mr. Christopher Reaske, join us for our writing workshop. He shared some excellent advice with the children in regards to pre-writing techniques and developing their voice as writers. The students loved to hear from him and they got a lot out of the hour. This is a unit on writing memoir, and in particular on the art of writing well. Since this unit comes at the end of the year, I want to be sure that it sets children up for a summer (and a lifetime) of continued writing. For this reason, I will emphasize independence. Your child will learn that he or she can compose not only pieces of writing but also a life in which writing matters. As they write memoir, children will draw on everything they have learned all year and will create writing new strategies for themselves and each other.  At the start of the unit, I’ll invite children to search for over-arching Life Topics. I’ll suggest that Life Topics can be found by rereading one’s notebook and by collecting writing on the topics that feel intensely potent and close to the heart. One child may write about moving from his childhood home, another may write about his love for his grandmother. I’ll teach children the saying, “The bigger ones’ topic, the smaller we write,” and help them describe these gigantic Life Topics with specifics.  In this unit, children will read great literature because it can be “an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us,” as Kafka has written. Literature calls us from our hiding places, helping us bring ourselves to the page. Of any quality of good writing, the one which matters the most may be voice. We write with voice when we allow the imprint of our personalities to come through in our texts.  Of course it will not be strategies alone that allow children to think and write with open hearts. In order for children to put themselves on the page with honesty and intensity, they will need to write within a community of trust. And so now, as children ‘round the final bend of the year, we will think about what it means to really listen to each other and to ourselves.  I ask that you and your child share both verbal and written stories over the next few weeks and encourage students to share some of the “seeds” they will be planting in their small journal. This unit will culminate our year-long writing workshop and I want to thank you for the great privilege of being your child’s teacher.    MathA new focus will be on extension work such as area projects, pan balances and algebra, ratios and probability.  With our final weeks we will stay in our homerooms and work through some of these topics to both strengthen prior knowledge and challenge ourselves with higher level learning.  Here we will skipping all over the place so don't be surprised to see work in geometry one night and algebra the next :) <div align="left"><div align="center">Social Studies</div></div> <div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> We have been learning about the American Revolution. The students are so fortunate to live in a town where all of this history was made. They have been active learners and we will continue to explore this topic.  </div>Science</div><div>The students have begun studying weathering and erosion so that they can make connections between the Earth's history and soil. They were able to explore and discover how nature materials erode and weather over time.  <div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> </div>

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Mrs. Caverly and Mr. Baker's Grade 5 Class

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