Friday, December 3, 2021

What's Up in 5th Grade??

 


Reminder: Advanced Learning Opportunities

  • will be posted in SeeSaw every week for your child if they are interested in some more academic challenges.  

No school next Monday, December 6th
 for teacher professional development work.

Math                                                                                

  • metric conversions
  • place value patters
  • multplying and dividing decimals by powers of 10
  • Unit 3 test next week on Decimals
  • Interim Math Assessment next week on 5th grade standards so far
Science
  • We started a new unit this week on Matter
  • Overarching question: What happens when two substances are mixed together?
Literacy  
  • "-air, -are, -ear", "-ore, -our", "-eer, -ear", "-ure" pattern words
  • 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
  • essay writing
  • reading and writing around non-fiction texts
  • narrative and revisions
  • independent reading with reading responses

SELS/Health
  • Goal setting

Book It With Bucky--2 hours