Thursday, October 28, 2021

What's Up in 5th Grade?

 Early Release Monday, Nov. 1st at 10:35 am

No School for students--Friday, November 5th

 Picture Make-Up Day is November 18th

Math                                                                                

  • fiinding common denominators to add and subtract
  • ratio tables
  • order of operations using parentheses
  • finding the "best deal"
  • working with creepy carrots --weighing and graphing
  • working with mystery buildings (deciphering front view/side view/top view)
  • Unit 2 assessment
  • Unit 3 will be about Place Value and Decimals
Social Studies
  • Reading and research on Indigenous tribes
  • Project work (ask your 5th grader to show you their progress so far)
Literacy  
  • "ar", "er" and "or" words
  • answering questions explictly while quoting accurately from a text
  • backing up inferences with evidence from text
  • practicing paragraph writing
  • essay writing
  • reading and writing around non-fiction texts
  • narratives and creative writing
  • independent reading with reading responses

SELS/Health
  • Empathy
  • Multiple Intelligences
  • Effective Communication

Book It With Bucky--2 hours