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5th Grade Overview
September 21 - 25, 2026
DATE CHANGE!! – Mom’s Night Out – Sunday, September 27: 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 Mansion Field Trip – Friday, October 2: Students will enjoy this hands-on field trip to historic Civil War sites to make 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!
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. Vocabulary Test is Thursday, October 1, Skills Tests is Monday, October 5; Performance Test is Tuesday, October 6.
English: In Writing, we are continuing to work on our “All About Me” projects, poetry, and fictional narratives. In ELA, we finished our unit on Subjects and Predicates and are studying types of sentences, including the differences between simple, compound, complex, and run-on sentences.
Math: We will wrap up Unit 1 reviewing division, volume and multiplication strategies, including the standard algorithm, partial products, the over strategy, and doubling & halving. Homework will be a practice test and is due Thursday. Our Unit 1 Test will be on Friday, September 25.
Science/Social Studies: We will finish fighting the Civil War next week and take a brief look at Reconstruction. Our test over this unit will be on Thursday, October 1st. Students will receive review sheets on Friday, September 25th, that we will complete in class and talk about how to study for the test.
Spelling: List 3 and its Spelling Activity Sheet will be in binders next week. The Spelling Activity Sheet is due Wednesday, September 30. Due to the 5th grade field trip, Spelling Test 3 will be on THURSDAY, October 1.
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”