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5th Grade Overview
September 8th - 11th, 2026
Labor Day Holiday – Monday, September 7: No school!!!
Shakespeare Practice – Tuesday, September 8: 3:30 - 4:45 PM: Room 249
Fall Pictures – Thursday, September 10: Students should wear regular uniforms with belts and tucked shirts.
Spartan Race – Friday, September 18: 5th grade will be serving our entire school on this day. They will be on the field all day. Students should wear their Spartan t-shirt, length appropriate shorts, sneakers, and hats. Please make sure your child puts on sunscreen BEFORE arriving at school; also send it along for re-application. Students should bring a water bottle. For those who choose a BBS lunch that day, sack lunches will be brought to the BX and we will eat inside.
Mom’s Night Out – Sunday, September 20: Invitation will be in Tuesday folders. We hope to see all our 5th grade moms at this relaxing dinner gathering, al fresco.
Chickamauga Battlefield/Gordon Lee Manion Field Trip – Friday, October 2: Students will enjoy this hands-on field trip to historic Civil War sites to help their unit study come alive. Parents are welcome on this all day field trip. We will need parent drivers. An information flyer will be in Tuesday folders soon along with parent driver sign up sheets. During the field trip we will enjoy a class lunch picnic, so be sure to pack a good one for your child!
Chapel Uniforms: Boys will be required to wear a button down and BBS tie starting after Labor Day on Wednesday, September 9.
AR T-shirts: 5th grade students will be able to wear their AR shirts (once they earn it) on Fridays (with the exception of House Games, on which they should wear House shirts).
Late Homework: Just a reminder that in 5th grade, late homework is accepted; however, every day it is late is minus 10 points.
F&F: We will continue the Sequence of Events unit. Reading homework (with 5+ notes) assigned 2-3 days a week, on average. Encourage students to check agendas daily to remind them of homework.
Students should take reading notes based upon their process questions. Students may read on their own, with a parent, or with Audible. Study materials are now in student binders. I recommend studying 1-2 vocabulary and process questions a week with your child so they will not feel overwhelmed 1-2 days before the test. Testing TBA.
English: In Writing, our Writing Workshop is underway! We continue generating ideas to support creative writing and build our writing stamina. We also continue to take an idea, put it on paper, and arrive at a finished product. We are also working on “All About Me” projects and introducing poetry. In ELA, we are nearly done with our sentence structure unit (sentences, fragments, subjects and predicates) and will begin identifying types of sentences.
Math: We are continuing Unit 1 covering volume and multiplication strategies, including the standard algorithm, partial products, the over strategy, and doubling & halving. Homework will go home Tuesday and is due Friday.
Science/Social Studies: We will continue our fighting of the Civil War, looking at particular battles and their effect on the outcome of the war. When we return on Tuesday, students will be given the person and guidelines for their google slides presentation which they will work on in technology class and Social Studies class, if needed. They can access their presentation at home but should not need to work on it at home; however, it would be great if you could let them practice their presentation and look it over for grammatical errors. We will be talking in class about not simply reading what is on the slides. Slide shows are due on Monday, September 21st.
Spelling: List 2 and its Spelling Activity Sheet will be placed in binders Tuesday. The Spelling Activity Sheet is due Wednesday, September 16. Due to the Spartan Race on the 18, Spelling Test 2 will be on MONDAY, September 21.
Bible: Memory Verse: The first memory verse we’re going to work on this year is our verse for the school year, Hebrews 10:24-25. “Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds…encouraging one another”