What's Up in 5th Grade?

Celebrate Smiles  

 This week we sent home information on  Celebrate Smiles that included a form for every family to fill out indicating YES or NO if you would like to participate.  If you have not returned the form, please do so. 

Hamilton Middle School 

Please return you Hamilton registration forms to school as soon as possible!!   Thank you!

Ice Skating 

Please return these permission slips to school as soon as possible!!  Thank you!

Read Aloud with a Badger

This week our classes were gifted a read aloud from a Badger athlete to help celebrate Black History Month.  What a special treat!  Thanks so much, Bucky!!

Math                                                                                

• We continued our work with  worked on various strategies for multiplying whole numbers with fractions using geoboard models and a variety of arrays.
• We worked with modeling fraction multiplication story problems.
• We worked with area of objects with fractions for dimensions.
• We worked with conversion of liquid measurements. 
• Continue to work on those math facts at home if your 5th grader is not fluent.  This is critical at this point in their math progression.  

Science

• What Can Determine How Much Water Is Available For Human Use?  This is the question for our next unit in science on Earth Systems.
• Specifically this week we are trying to answer the question "Why is East Ferris running out of water while West Ferris is not?
• Ask your 5th grader to share their thoughts on the question(s) so far....

Literacy  

• Word Work this week included working with making  plural nouns, possessive nouns and possessive pronouns.   
• Whole Group Reading involved all the 5th grades continuing with--Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge .  This is a true story of a slave who escaped from George and Martha Washington.  Ask your child to share this story with you.
• We continued to read and respond to our Survival books. 
• Students were assigned their Black History Month project.  Each 5th grade may be doing this different.  Ask your 5th grader what they will be researching, writing, and creating for this project. 

SELS/Health

• Stress management strategies