Isabella Bird Community School 
Val Beckler
5th grade newsletter
Dear 5th grade families,
It’s hard to believe that we have just 5 weeks left of 5th grade! As we reflect on the year, we celebrate the incredible growth of your children. Each student, in their own way, has shown bravery, joy, respect, innovation, empathy and tenacity. We are so proud of them!
Action Items:
- Baby pictures!! And big kid pictures! As we get ready for our Continuation Ceremony on the last day of school, we are collecting pictures of your kids when they were little and a current photo to add to our Continuation slide show. Please send your homeroom teacher a baby/very adorable little kid and big kid picture to add to our celebration. Email or text:
Val: vbeckle@dpsk12.net or text 720-839-3422
Misty: misty_kicklighter@dpsk12.net or text 850-625-8685
Jen: jcourtn@dpsk12.net or text 720-840-7012
- Our 5th grade photos are housed here now…. (still updating) If you have any photos from the Shakespeare Festival, please add! https://photos.app.goo.gl/yGDNy1qFEpreafBp7
- Send in copy paper (Dear families, we are running out of copy paper. If you can donate some paper to 5th grade that would be great!) Thank you for the families that have already sent paper!
Important Dates:
- May 5 - 9:15-10:15 am - Students will perform Shakespeare for Izzi B. Students at the school
- May 5 - 5:30 pm - 5th grade ARTS Festival - All students attend
- May 8 - NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS
- May 24 - Invention Convention
- CONTINUATION!! The last day of school is Thursday, June 1, and we will have our 5th Grade Continuation Ceremony at 5:30 that evening. Lots of details to come!
From the Classrooms:
Math:
This week we worked on deepening our understanding of volume and how we can find the volume of a shape if we have enough information. For example, if we know the length and width of a shape and we know the total volume, we can use division to find the height. We previously learned that we can multiply the length x width x height to find volume, but we can also multiply the base x height. The base is the same as the length times the width and reflects the area of the bottom layer of a prism, or 3-dimensional shape.
Homework for this week:
Answer keys for guardians:
As always, reach out to me with any questions!
Jen
ELA:
What a week! We have become experts on our athlete of choice, and are pushing to the next step of finishing up our scripts and putting together our entire collage of photos with the info to make a docu-short. Today we were loaned ipads to start the film editing process through imovie. I can not wait to see the finished product of all of our students! We have until May 5th when we will showcase them at ARTS fest.
Enjoy your weekend and as always if there is anything you have questions or concerns about, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
~Misty
FLASH - Family Life and Sexual Health
This week we wrap up our learning! Your children have been mature, inquisitive, respectful and thoughtful. We have already learned about different types of families, self esteem, gender roles, decision making, consent and bystander skills, the reproductive system, and puberty. I have encouraged the students to talk with you and share their learning.
https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/locations/family-planning/education/FLASH/elementary-school.aspx
Shakespeare:
The Shakespeare Festival was an incredible success! We loved seeing our kids and families celebrating the arts! The students will share their scenes with all grades at Izzi B. on May 5 from 9:15-10:15 on stages throughout the school.
Social Studies: Colonial Era
Over the next weeks, students will be learning about the 13 colonies. Our inquiry question is "How can facing the complexities of America's past help us to meet the challenges of the present?" with the guiding questions of:
○ What did the colonization of the So-Called New World represent for Indigenous Americans, Africans, and Europeans?
○ How do cooperation and conflict affect the survival of a community?
○ How did culture, geography, and economics shape the development of different colonial regions?
○ How do social structures impact people?
The European settlement of North America created a collision of three worlds and led to profound global impacts. In this Inquiry, students go beyond a single narrative to explore causes of migration to the So-Called New World, and the consequences arising from contact and collision between cultures. They investigate how geography influenced the unique regional identities and economics of the colonies, which established a web of trade and gave rise to slavery.
We are excited to dive into this social studies content together!
If you have any questions, concerns or ideas, please reach out to Val. vbeckle@dpsk12.net
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