143- Weekly Updates (May 15-19, 2023)

Hey Mr. Gray

May 15-19, 2023

Important Links

Video Announcements

Class Podcast

Class Website

Weekly Schedule

Work Page

Stocks Game

Parent Portal

School Calendar

Bell Schedule

PTA

Volunteer

Need to Know

• The kids will be working on their All-APAAS project (Project Convention open to parents Tuesday May 23rd)

• District Honors Art Show May 19-20 at Portola HS

• 5th Grade Pool Party Fri Jun 2 Information, Permission Slip

• Flag Deck (Parents can watch) Every Friday at 8:10 on the blacktop

• Final Chit Chat Speeches of the Year will Take Place the Week of May 15

• Talent Show May 18 5:30p

Reader’s

Workshop

We will continue our unit on Fantasy Books unit. The kids will continue reading their fantasy novels. I am not sure yet what I’ll be teaching. It will be based on how much state testing we still have to do. We may discuss the complicated nature of fantasy characters and/or symbols in fantasy novels.

Read Aloud

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis serving to connect with our study of Fantasy novels.

Writer’s

Workshop

The kids will keep working on their Fantasy Stories. The kids will publish their stories, review them with their writing partner and with me, will use Open AI’s DALL-E 2 to make a cover for their fantasy novel.

Maths

We will move onto our next unit Shapes on the Coordinate Plane depending on our testing schedule. We will explore and review the coordinate grid and plot points and shapes.

Social Studies

We will continue to work on a project called, Fortunately, Unfortunately where the students are writing a book with a partner recapping the important parts of the American Revolution following the structure of the book Fortunately by Remy Charlip.

Read Aloud

The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington Young Reader’s Edition Read Aloud by Brad Meltzer

Science

The kids will, of course, see Ms. DeMarco for Science Lab.

Vocabulary

Nothing this week.