November 26-30

Just 3 Weeks Left Until Christmas Break!!!

Notes for the week...

** The Student Environmental Council will be meeting this Tuesday
morning at 7:15 in the Information Center. Luciana Nunez and Ninel Cevallos will be representing our class and will be showing the recycling and cleanup posters we have created for the cafeteria which will go up later this week.

This week in class...

Language Arts

In Language Arts this week, we will continue our next Guided Reading novel, The Egypt Game. We have been utilizing what we've learned about "sketchnoting" so far to create more effective summaries, including drawing icons that represent important elements in the chapter and using different handwritten "fonts" to make certain ideas stand out.

In Writing, we will continue to make progress on our Recess Safety Public Service Announcements by using storyboarding to plan out what scenes to shoot.  Then the recording will begin!

Math

This week we will continue to practice division. We will be working principally with the standard algorithm, although we will refer back to other division and multiplication strategies which help us understand this operation.

If your child has not completed their multiplication XtraMath yet, please be certain that they are working on this each day. These foundational skills will be paramount to their success in middle and high school. Our Math homework this week will help the students review the skills we practiced with multiplying decimals. Later in the week we will touch on this theme with division.

Homework:

Monday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL I.4
Tuesday: One Xtramath.org lesson

Wednesday:One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL I.7
Thursday:One Xtramath.org lesson

Science

Our recycling and cleanup posters will be going up this week in the cafeteria! Luciana and Ninel will be presenting them to the other Environmental Ambassadors in the Student Environmental Council and to Mr. Davis and Ms. Cristiana.

We will begin a new Science unit this week about water! We will have several activities and a simple experiment as we review evaporation and condensation. We will also be talking about the difference between salt water and fresh water, and where they can be found on Earth.

Thank you for all of your support, parents! Please feel free to email us if you have any

questions.

Ms. Amy and Mr. Andrew

November 19-21

Notes for the week...

** This week will be a short week. We will not have class on Thursday and Friday, November 22nd and 23rd.

**Wednesday we will be celebrating Thanksgiving as a class. We will be eating lunch together at 12:30 pm. We have made plans to purchase our lunch with the school cafeteria, however, we would love any additional contributions to the celebration, especially pies or other desserts! :) Parents, please feel free to come celebrate with us!

This week in class...

Language Arts

In Language Arts this week, we will continue our next Guided Reading novel, The Egypt Game. We'll also be adding more skills to our "Sketchnoting" repertoire to help us take notes in a more brain-friendly way.  In Writing, we will continue to work on our scripts for our Public Service Announcements, and we will learn how to use "storyboarding" to plan the visual aspects of our videos.

Math
This week we will begin studying division in class. We will look at several concrete and pictorial strategies for understanding division and how these concepts transfer to the standard algorithm, most notably the Octopus Model and Montessori Manipulatives.

Homework:

Monday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL D.6
Tuesday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL D.3

Wednesday:One Xtramath.org lesson

Science

Last week we finished up our unit on Ancient Egypt. We will use our short week to complete posters we are creating to promote recycling and waste reduction in the school. We will finish our posters this week and them have them laminated so that we can put them up in the cafeteria.

Thank you for all of your support, parents! Please feel free to email us if you have any

questions.

Ms. Amy and Mr. Andrew

November 12-16

Welcome back to another week of learning and fun in Grade 5! 

Notes for the week...

** We would like to send out a huge thank-you to parents who were able to join us last Thursday for our 5th Grade Speech Exhibition!  We are so proud of our students, who conquered their nerves and delivered their presentations expertly!  

**Congratulations again to our Environmental Ambassadors, Luciana and Ninel! This week these young ladies will be leading the school's charge to improve recycling. You can expect to see them helping the rest of elementary with their recycling at lunch time. They will also be training the rest of 5th grade so that all of us can become better at this process. Great job girls! 

** This Friday, November 16, is an Early Dismissal Day to allow for Staff Professional Development.  Students will be dismissed at 11:45.

** HOLIDAY BASKETS CONTRIBUTION - Please help us share with our maintenance, support, office and security staff by sending your family contribution of L 150  before Friday, November 16. Please place your contribution in a sealed envelope with your family name, and send it to school or give it to one of your homeroom teachers. These proceeds will be used to buy the staples for the Holiday Baskets that will be given out before the Holiday Break.

This week in class...

Language Arts

In Language Arts this week, we will continue our next Guided Reading novel, The Egypt Game. We'll be learning the basics of "sketchnoting," to make our notes more visual. See the video below for a brief description.

We will also begin our next Language Arts project -- creating, recording, and editing a Public Service Announcement for students at Discovery School.  We will brainstorm ideas and learn about the process of "storyboarding" in order to plan camera shots.

In addition, we will continue to analyze and practice the use of irregular verbs in the past and past participle forms.

Math
We will review multi-digit multiplication strategies this week as well as how to solve problems involving decimals from the tenth to the thousandths. We will have a short quiz on these skills. We will also begin our division unit at the end of the week.

Homework:

Monday: One Xtramath.org lesson
Tuesday: One Xtramath.org lesson

Wednesday:One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL D.6
Thursday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL D.3

Social Studies

We will learn just a little more about the mummification process this week with a fun little experiment involving aguacates! We will also spend time reviewing for our final test on Ancient Egypt at the end of the week.

Thank you for all of your support, parents! Please feel free to email us if you have any

questions.

Ms. Amy and Mr. Andrew

Week of November 5-9

Welcome back to another week of learning and fun in Grade 5! 

Notes for the week...

** All families of 5th-grade students are invited to join us at 8:30 am, this Thursday, November 8, in the Sala de Reuniones / Meeting Room, for our 2nd Annual "TED Talks: Discovery School" Exposition. Our fifth graders have been preparing for this for the last month!  Students will be presenting ways to make the world a better place, inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. If you haven't had a chance to respond to the email invitation or haven't received it, please let Ms. Amy know!

** FUNDACION ABRIGO is a shelter that provides lodging for families from outside Tegucigalpa who bring patients to Hospital Escuela. Discovery School has been a partner in solidarity with Fundacion Abrigo for the past years. In keeping with our support to this noble cause, we are asking for a donation of 1 gallon of disinfectant per family. Please send us your donation per family as soon as possible!  

This week in class...

Language Arts

In Language Arts this week, we will begin our next Guided Reading novel, The Egypt Game. We will also be spending some time practicing our speeches for our "TED Talks: Discovery School" Exposition on Thursday.

In addition, we will continue to practice more irregular verb forms in the past and past participle forms.  There will be a Language Quiz on Friday.

Congratulations to all of our participants in our Language Arts Competitions last Friday! The following first place winners will be representing Discovery School at the ABSH Language Arts Festival in February.  Second place winners will step in for first place winners in case they are unable to attend the February competition.

Spelling Bee:  1st place - Ninel Cevallos,
2nd place - Felipe Bertrand

Speech: 1st place - Luciana Nuñez,
2nd place - Mia Ortiz

Ortografía: 1st place - Marielle Ávila,
2nd place - Gabriel Paz

Oratoria: 1st place - Valentín Mejía
2nd place - Daniela Aguirre

Math
This week in Math class we will be finishing up studying multiplication. We will be looking at how to solve multiplication problems involving decimals. Although we will no longer be studying multiplication directly, we will continue to use these skills throughout the school year. Parents, please continue to encourage your child to practice their XtraMath activities each day. We can see the results in how fluent the students are with their basic operations.

Homework:

Monday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL I.2
Tuesday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL I.3

Wednesday:One Xtramath.org lesson, MobyMax Multiplying Decimals
Thursday: One Xtramath.org lesson

Social Studies

This week in Social Studies class we will be preparing for our journey into the After Life. Students will be creating a Book of the Dead which details several of the "cheats" an Ancient Egyptian needed to pass the assessor gods in the underworld and also will create several objects of things an Ancient Egyptian may have wanted to bring with them in the After Life. We will have a short quiz in which the students need to measure their worthiness before Anubis.

Thank you for all of your support, parents! Please feel free to email us if you have any

questions.

Ms. Amy and Mr. Andrew