Wednesday, December 15, 2021

What is Up in 5th Grade?


Winter Break--December 20-31st

Wright Middle School --the window is open for applications using these links.


Math                                                                                

  • We started Unit 4 this week.  We are looking at how to use ratio tables to help us solve muti-digit multiplicaiton and division problems.  
Science
  • We continued our unit this week on Matter.
  • Overarching question: What happens when two substances are mixed together?
  • Chromatography models and scientific explanation writing
Literacy  
  • working with pattern words involving  "au", "aw", "oi", "oy", "ow", "ou", and "oo"
  • finding main idea and supporting key details
  • finding theme of a fiction story and supporting details
  • answering questions explictly while quoting accurately from a text
  • backing up inferences with evidence from text
  • practicing paragraph writing
  • reading and writing around non-fiction texts
  • fantasy narrative writing and revisions
  • independent reading with reading responses
  • vocabulary work
  • text dependent questions

SELS/Health
  • Personal lesson on how to stay safe  and recognize unsafe/unwanted touches