Dear Parents,
This week marks the beginning of a school wide cultural study of the Maasai. We have started off in the fifth grade with a geography and mapping project and we have begun reading Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton's biography Facing the Lion - Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna.
In science, students are testing newspaper bridges for strength. Today, we took a trip to The Creamery Bridge in Brattleboro to set the stage for our work designing and building wooden bridges. Students made sketches of the interior structure and of the bridge in profile. We climbed across, around, and under the structure in an investigation of how a truss is made.
In math, we have been looking at place value and learning to divide by powers of ten. Tonight's homework is a place value puzzle that is tricky but not impossible. You might want to look over your child's shoulder as he or she completes the exercise.
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