What is Up in 5th Grade?

Winter Break--December 20-31st

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

accepting applications       English     Spanish

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

Division Using Base Ten

 Many parent wonder about how math is done now days, so we wanted to take a minute to show you how we use base ten to meet the fifth grade standards for understanding division. The following is a video of how base ten is modeled to solve three digits divided by a two digit number. 

We use base ten blocks in class to do this, but it gets pretty laborious. Here are some examples of that: 

So in order to make the Base Ten Model more efficient, we use base ten grids instead. 

This is how that looks: 

Ask your child to explain to you how this works, they've really got the hang of it.