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5th Grade Overview

September 13 - 19

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Thursday, September 18 – Fall Pictures: Students wear school uniforms.

  • Friday, September 19 - StuCo Pink Out Dress Down Day - $2.00

  • Friday, September 26 – Spartan Race: 5th graders should wear their free Spartan shirt (will be delivered soon) and athletic bottoms. Students will be on the field all day long serving at event stations and assisting the lower grades. We will break for lunch and then enjoy our own race at 2:30 PM. Please apply sunscreen to your child BEFORE arriving that morning and send extra. Please send students to school with a water bottle on this day. They will need it!

  • October 3 - Field Trip to Chickamauga Battlefield - More information to come when date is closer. We will be asking for parent drivers on this all day learning experience.


F&F: Our F&F unit, Sequence of Events, ends this week with testing. The unit’s study materials are in the F&F section of binders. Hopefully you and your child have been studying a bit as the unit has progressed. To help your child to study vocabulary you might quiz them on the word meaning, and how they might use the word in a sentence in which the meaning is conveyed. All study materials should be in the F&F section of binders. Graded SPEC Logs will be sent home Wednesday. Please help your child review progress and mistakes for Day 8, 9, and 10.


Vocabulary Test is Tuesday, September 16. Skills Test (knowing pattern statement and process questions) is Wednesday, September 17. Performance testing is Thursday, September 18. 


English: In Writing, we are beginning to build our writing stamina and generate ideas in our Writer’s Notebooks, continuing to discuss and implement the Writing Process (from Pre-Writing to Publishing). In ELA, we continue to investigate subjects and predicates.


Math: We will wrap up Unit 1 covering multiplication and division models & strategies. Key vocabulary includes factors, multiples, and volume. Homework will be to review the Practice Test, which we will take in class Monday and go over Tuesday. Wednesday will be a Jeopardy review game. The Unit 1 Test will be Thursday, September 18th. 


Science/Social Studies: Slide shows are due next Tuesday - they will email them to me during class that day. We will have a few presentations each day - it would be a good idea to let your child practice their presentation to make sure they can pronounce all the words and know the meaning of what they have written. If they need additional notes they can bring them to class. We will also be working through the important battles of the Civil War and spend a day on Chickamauga to prepare for the field trip. 


Spelling: Spelling list 3 will be placed in binders on Monday. Please help your child study using their homework assignments on the Spelling Activity Sheet (also in binders). Activity Sheets are due Wednesday, September 24. Test 3 will be on Thursday, September 25 (due to the Spartan Race that Friday).