Friday, December 10, 2021

What's Up in 5th Grade?

 



Pajama Day-Friday, December 17th  

Winter Break--December 20-31st

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


Math                                                                                

  • We will be starting Unit 4 next week on Multiplication and Division Strategies for multi-digit numbers
Science
  • We started a new unit this week on Matter
  • Overarching question: What happens when two substances are mixed together?
  • All molecules and substances have properties that you can observe and infer
Literacy  
  • silent letter pattern words for "kn" and "wr"
  • 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