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__**Welcome to Room 10! **__

I look forward to working with you as fifth grade students! Throughout the year we will be using this wiki as an interactive tool for group work as well as as individul learning. We will be covering many concepts, so here is a brief look at what we will be doing for the first quarter. You will notice that there are several highlighted links below, and at times in the quarter you will need to click on them to complete assignments and group work.

This is one of the most important subjects you will have this year. Literacy is incorporated into every aspect of our daily lessons so please choose a good book that you will enjoy reading on your own. It is important that you read each night for at least 20 minutes along with the allocated class time you will have each day. You will also be placed in a reading group where you will work with classmates on comprehension and other activities on a given chapter book. As a class we will work together with the __Reading Street__ series. The first unit focuses on stories dealing with challenges. Soon you will refer to the links below for upcoming activities and group work. The Pinballs Riding Freedom Maniac Magee
 * __Reading__**

We will be working on different types of sentences in grammar. Our writing pieces will be connected to the 6 Traits+1 of writing. Our main focus will be on narratives. Your first piece will be explaining a personal challenge you have and how you deal with it daily. [|6 Traits of Writing]
 * __Language Arts__**

We will continue to use the Investigations Series, along with a new book called Envisions. You will learn several approaches to practicing math skills and new strategies as well. Our first unit will be a review of Place Value while incorporating multiplication and division skills. __Please click link below to practice math skills through fun and interactive games!! Enjoy!!__ [|Math Games]
 * __Math__**

The first unit of study will be on the Aztecs and the Mayans. You will assigned to a research group in which you will be expected to research, create and present a poster to the class. I will hand out a criteria chart and rubric before you begin the project. __This wiki is where you will gather your information from the links provided below.__ [|Mayans Info] [|Aztec Info]
 * __Social Studies__**

Living Things and Systems will be our first area of study this quarter. We will make discoveries through "hands on" learning and experiments.
 * __Science__**


 * I look forward to working with you this year as we journey through the fifth grade together!**