Happy Birthday to our February “Pandas”! Inside this Issue: Mr. Serra’s Math News Ms. Eggleston’s Updates Ms. Stevenson’s Updates ESS 5TH GRADE NEWSLETTER Welcome to a new year! The fifth grade team is excited for what the new year will bring. With the start of a new year, comes the start of a new marking period. Check out the marking period three updates throughout this month’s newsletter. Homework Reminders : Read each night for 20 minutes Practice math skills/homework learned in your daily classes February Calendar Date Reminders: Celebrating “Black History Month” 14th Happy Valentine’s Day 20th Presidents’ Day- No School Happy Birthday to our February “Pandas”! Contact us at: carol_d_eggleston@mcpsmd.org patrick_j__serra@mcpsmd.org ann_b_ stevenson@mcpsmd.org

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Reading and Writing Roses are red, violets are blue, the fifth grade loves reading, how about you? This month we are focusing on poetry. Use the following online poetry resources to support your child’s education: Giggle Poetry to read and create poems with figurative language. (http://gigglepoetry.com/ ) Poetry 4 Kids to build vocabulary. (http://www.poetry4kids.com/games ) The Poetry Archive to listen to poets read their own work. (http://www.poetryarchive.org ) Our purpose for reading will be… summarize a story or poem by determining the theme from details in the text. explain how a series of stanzas fit together to provide poetic structure Source: Created by MCPS Teachers at the C 2.0 Summit 2013 REMEMBER to keep reading for your Book It!