Miss Fender's 5th Grade Class

9/4 Happy September! I hope that your families had a wonderful and restful Labor Day weekend! The long weekend flew by for me! This week is a 4 day week for us, so it will be a quick one. Here are some things to look forward to this week :) Math: We are finishing up some work on multiplication and starting division this week. The students took a mid unit assessment last week that will come home on Wednesday. Reading We are reading a book called Esparanza Rising. We are having a lot of fun learning the characters, trying to fidn the figurative language and working hard responding to literature in our reading journals. We are working on kicking off our Daily 3 stations: Read to Self, Word Work, and Writing about Reading. This week I am going to focus on responding to the independent books that they get from the library- hopefully providing some accountability for what they are reading during our Read to Self time. Spelling Onto Unit 3 this week. I used the first 2 weeks as practi