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Your query is structured a little weird.

$my_query = new WP_Query( array( 'posts_per_page' => 5 ) );

if ( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
   while ( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      $the_query->the_post();

      // Your desired template code

   } // Close while()

   // Restore original Post Data
   wp_reset_postdata();

} // Close if()

This should be all you need to set it up since WP_Query pages by default unless you override it by setting 'nopaging' => true in your arguments for it.

Note that after the while() loop ends, the statement wp_reset_postdata(); is used. This resets the original post data to the defaults.