Grade 5 with Mr. Rusk

Dear Parents,

Fifth grade has settled in nicely after the long summer vacation. We are very busy as you can see from the following:

Religion: we will learn about the Paschal Mystery and Evangelization.

Social Studies: we will be learning about the explorers, colonies, Dutch New York (New Amsterdam)

Science: NY Life Science, the penny experiment and begin classification of organisms

Grammar: editing complete sentences

Composition: we will write stories like The Time Machine and If I were President

Reading: a book report of the mystery genre and continue with stories like "The Gold Coin"

Handwriting: brush up on our script.

Field trips are planned for October 1st to the Hudson River Museum and October 9th to the Ossining Museum and the Aqueduct.

Mr. Rusk