January 25th - 29th

Upcoming Events

February 1st - Yearbook Orders Due

February 5th -  Early Release @ 1:08  
        Feb. 11th & 16th  - Parent Teacher Conferences  4-7:30 PM
        February 19th - NO SCHOOL

Scrabble Competition after MAP testing... :)

5th grade Fashion... :)

This week in our learning adventures...

Resource Language Arts-

Students will be reading a non-fiction story titled LET'S GO ROCK COLLECTING, which includes many details and facts.  They will be completing a chart about what they know, what they want to know, and what they learned.  In addition, they will be studying vocabulary words that are in the story and their weekly spelling words.

Resource Writing-

Students will continue to draft their autobiography based on information in their graphic organizer and add transitions to their paper.

Advanced Math - 

Students will begin to work with the distributive property.  They are also working to simplify and combine like terms and using the order of operations to solve expressions.  The students have continued to work on understanding multiplication and division goes whatever comes first from left to right and the same for addition and subtraction whatever comes first left to right.  We are working toward being able to write expressions using variables.  

2nd/3rd Math - 

We are continuing to work on decimals.  Students will finish the week working on dividing decimals.  By the end of the week, we will begin reviewing how to multiply and divide decimals prior to our chapter 4 test.

Science - 

Students are continuing to work on and complete their Biomes projects.  They will present either on Wednesday or Thursday.  

Language Arts

Students will continue to work through The Fighting Ground to practice summarizing, inferencing, and identifying the meaning of vocabulary and figurative language.  Book clubs will be on their third week of reading and will practice online etiquette, opinion writing, as well as grammar and spelling while responding to discussion post questions about their books.  A Moby Stories lesson, book club reading, and book club post are all due Friday, while fluency practice is due Monday.

Writing

Focus: Research-based Argument Essay

This week students will be guided to conduct more research and provide evidence that supports their claim on the topic of chocolate milk that we started last week.  Students will practice adding relevant quotes to make arguments more powerful.  As time allows, students will redraft their original persuasive letter to add more evidence.  In addition to this unit, students will be completing grammar review pages on capitalization this week.

Social Studies

This week students will be starting at new unit to study the events that led to the American Revolution.  Students will create a packet that includes an illustration as well as a main idea summary of each event and how it led to the war with Britain.  We will cover salutary neglect, the Proclamation of 1763, taxation without representation, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Intolerable Acts.  We will also use several video resources to help cover the material, including a historical fiction cartoon called Liberty’s Kids.  This unit will span the next few of weeks of SS.