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5th Grade Overview
May 11 - 15, 2026
CAT Day - Friday, May 15: This special small group, hands-on learning day will offer a multitude of options. Selection sheets outlining the choices will be coming home in Tuesday folders. Spaces fill up fast and are limited. Please be sure to send the form and any money back quickly once you receive the form.
5th Grade AR/End-of-Year Bash – Tuesday, May 19 – local restaurants & McCallie Lake: Students will be taken out in small groups for lunch at local restaurants. We will need parent drivers, so please fill out the form that will be coming home soon. Following lunch, we will have a pool party at McCallie Lake from 12 to 2 PM. Students may then go home with parents or return to school for dismissal.
5th Grade Summer Birthday Party - Wednesday, May 20 – Upper Playground: Summer birthday students will join for one big celebration. A food/drink sign-up sheet will soon be sent to parents of students with summer birthdays.
Mandatory 5th Grade Graduation PRACTICE – Thursday, May 21 at 1 PM (students only)
5th Grade Talent Show – Thursday, May 21: *Pre-registration required* - This “For Students Only” event will feature our talented students. Practice that musical piece, brush off those dancing shoes, get out the magic tricks, and show us what you’ve got! All performances must register with Mrs. Cole by May 19. Any songs must be vetted by 5th grade teachers prior to the talent show. Registration will close Monday, May 19 at 3:30 PM. No new acts will be admitted after that date.
5th Grade Graduation - Friday, May 22 at 10 AM: Join us in the church sanctuary for this memorable ceremony honoring your children. A cupcake reception will be held on the portico following the event. See below for clothing details:
Boys: long-sleeve white button down shirt (tucked), plaid BBS tie, khaki pants, belt, clean shoes
Girls: knee-length or longer white dress (NO strapless or thin spaghetti straps), low to mid-heel shoes (we don’t want anyone falling in new shoes), sweater (optional)
F&F: We will finish our Problem Solving unit and book this week. Homework is given multiple times a week. Please be sure your child is reading and making notes. Vocabulary and Skills tests will be on Monday, May 18.
English: In ELA, we will tie up miscellaneous ELA topics. In Writing, we will continue to work on our poetry projects for our Poetry Cafe at the end of the year.
Math: We will complete Unit 6 classifying geometric shapes, graphing on a coordinate plane, & reviewing volume. Last homework of the year is the Practice Test. It will go home Monday and be due Tuesday. I will give class time to complete it. Wednesday will be Jeopardy Review. Test Thursday, May 14.
Science/Social Studies: Next week students will be working on what I hope will be a fun end of the year group project. Groups will be assigned a decade from the 50’s forward and research the important events, fashions, fads, entertainment of their assigned decade. They will be doing this during class at school, but I think it will make for interesting dinner conversation!!
Spelling: No more spelling lists this year!!!
Bible: We have entered the exile of Israel and will be discussing the stories of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and then Daniel and the lion’s den before finishing up the year with Israel’s return to the Promised Land from exile.
Memory Verse for Graduation: Romans 12:2 - “Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.”