Class News for Mrs. Scott's Fifth Grade Scholars 2024-2025!!
November:
We end October writing more narratives--this time spooky stories! Students had been working on their narrative writing skills and practicing sentence variety using complex sentences while adding more sensory details to their stories. Our thematic book clubs are going strong. Students will work within their club to uncover a theme and write an "I am poem" about their main character. We will also discuss an upcoming independent book project called-- Feast of Characters. As we begin November, we will write book reviews and study argument writing. In social studies, students are presenting in News Teams the events leading to the Declaration of Independence, and they will be learning about Loyalists and Patriots--choosing a side as they pretend to be colonists living in the 1700s.
October:
As we end September, students are writing narratives and learning how stories tend to go both in their novels and in personal narratives. Students began listening to Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate which is as our mentor text. They have also been practicing different ways to write about reading. This work prepares them for upcoming book clubs on social issues. Social studies has students reviewing geography and examining the varying regions of the original thirteen colonies. Why did colonists choose to live in certain regions? Eventually, studying the regions will lead us to the settling of Colonial America and the tensions that grew between Great Britain and the colonists.
