Welcome Back!

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas season and a Happy New Year. We are so glad to be back and are ready to work work work!

We are starting off the year with our first science unit, on Magnets. The students will be rotating to each of the 5th grade teachers to study the different subjects in the 5th grade science core curriculum. We are excited to be learning about Magnets and encourage the students to look around their homes and see what they can find that use magnets.

For math, we are continuing to study about fractions. We find that most students who struggle with fractions usually have a hard time remembering the multiplication tables. Please encourage your students to practice flash cards, worksheets, or whatever else you have to help them get faster on reciting the multiples of each number.

For social studies we will be learning about the United States Constitution. Students will learn about the branches of our government and how they work together. Since the students triumphantly won our "revolution" we now get to learn what it was like to set up a new government. We will be learning how a bill becomes a law and discussing the Bill of Rights. The students were assigned a President and are completing a "Presidential Portfolio" including a portrait. They will also be able to participate in our "Presidential Trivia Jeopardy". We will have a competition with the other 5th grade students and see who knows our presidents the best! We have some fun activities planned so be sure to ask your students what they have been learning about our government in the next few weeks.