A Peek at Next Week

A Look at This Week:

Science- Students will research and present their findings on an element from the Periodic Table.

ELA
Reading- Students will continue to practice writing reading response answers using our R(restate)A(answer)C(cite evidence)E(explain) strategy.  Students will take a Selection Quiz over "Mother to Son" and Teammates on Friday.  

Language Arts- We will continue to come up with ideas for our Narrative Writing unit.  We will be discussing how other writers can inspire us to become better writers, and how to read like a writer.  For our grammar unit, we will be taking an assessment on commas on Thursday. It will be on commas in a series, commas in introductory words and direct address, and commas in tag questions.  Notes should be in the back of your student's writing notebooks and students may also look back at their assignments on Google Classroom.  

Word Work- Students will will take a Unit 2 Assessment on Wednesday.  Unit 2 word parts: alter, anti, bi, geo, ology, and script.

Math-  Students will continue to discuss volume, and we will begin Unit 1, Module 2 on numerical expressions.

Important Days:
Monday- No School, Columbus Day

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

A Peek at Next Week

A Look at This Week:

Science- Students will take an open-note quiz on Lesson 14.3 on Tuesday.  Then we will review the rest of the week and take a Chapter 14 Test on Friday.

ELA
Reading- We will begin reading Teammates, which is a story about Jackie Robinson.  Students will practice writing reading response answers using our R(restate)A(answer)C(cite evidence)E(explain) strategy.  
Language Arts- We will continue to come up with ideas for our Narrative Writing unit.  Then in grammar, we will also continue to use commas in a series correctly in our writing.  

Word Work- Students will finish working on their Unit 2 word parts and slides that have been assigned to them in their Google Classroom.  They will take a Unit 2 Assessment on Thursday.  Unit 2 word parts: alter, anti, bi, geo, ology, and script.

Math-  Students will take their Unit 6 test on Monday.  Then we will begin Unit 1 "Expressions, Equations, and Volume."

Important Days:
Tuesday-  Picture Retakes
Thursday- Soccer Assessment in PE

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

A Peek at This Week

A Look at This Week:

Science- Students will take an open-note quiz on Lesson 14.2 on Monday.  Then we will begin Lesson 14.3 on chemical changes.

ELA
Reading- We will finish answering comprehension questions and making inferences based on the poem we read in class, "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes.  Then we will introduce our next story, Teammates, (about Jackie Robinson,) and go over perspective.  
Language Arts- We will work on coming up with ideas for our Narrative Writing unit.  We will discuss small moments, or turning points in our lives that can make a good story.  Then in grammar, we will continue to use commas in a series correctly in our writing.  

Word Work- Students will begin working on their Unit 2 word parts and slides that have been assigned to them in their Google Classroom.

Math-  Students will continue to learn about volume and review for their Unit 6 test, which is scheduled for this Friday.

Important Days:
Tuesday-  Magazine Turn-in Day
Wednesday- Early Dismissal at 11:00AM
Friday- Movie Night (Sing!) 6:30-8:30


Have a wonderful week!!!

A Peek at Next Week

A Look at Next Week:

Science- We will begin discussing and taking cornell notes on Lesson 14.2, "What are Physical Properties and Changes?"  

ELA
Reading- We will continue to learn our classroom routines and expectations, as well as writing discussion questions, and annotating texts during close-reads. We will begin Unit 1 "Overcoming Challenges" on Wednesday.  Students will also review figurative language, they will be working with similes and metaphors. 
Language Arts- We will continue to build our writing stamina in our Writer's Notebook.  We will also introduce our unit on narrative writing.  

Word Work- Students will take their first Word Work Unit 1 assessment on  Wednesday.  The Unit 1 words are in students' Reading notebooks and in their Google Classroom.
Unit 1 word parts are:  aqua, bio, man, phon, pre, and uni.

Math-  Students will take a Shape Classification Checkpoint (Unit 6, Module 2 open-note quiz) on Tuesday.  They will then begin Unit 6, Module 3, "Volume."  

Important Days:
Tuesday-  Magazine Turn-in Day
Thursday-  Magazine Turn-in Day


Have a wonderful weekend!!!

A Peek at This Week

A Look at This Week:

Science- We will finish discussing Lesson 14.1 "What is the structure of Matter?"  Students will take a 14.1 open-note quiz on Wednesday.  

ELA
Reading- We will continue to learn our classroom routines and expectations, as well as writing discussion questions, and annotating texts during close-reads. 
Language Arts- We will continue to build our writing stamina in our Writer's Notebook.  

Word Work- We will continue to study our first Word Work unit and station expectations.

Math-  We will continue to study Unit 6, Module 1,  "Graphing Ordered Pairs" and take our first checkpoint, or open-note quiz, on Tuesday.  We will then begin Unit 6, Module 2, "Classifying Polygons."

Important Days:
Monday- Magazine Drive Kick-off

Have a wonderful week!!!

Welcome Back!

Welcome to a new school year!  I hope everyone is finally settling in.  Thank you to all that came out for Curriculum Night, it was great to see everyone.  

A Look at Next Week:

Science- We will begin Chapter 14 "Properties of Matter."  We will be working on taking Cornell Notes while we read Lesson 14.1 "What is the structure of Matter?"  Students will be learning about atoms, molecules, elements and the periodic table.  

ELA
Reading- We will continue to learn our classroom routines and expectations, as well as working on inferencing, and differentiating between the main idea and a summary. 
Language Arts- We will continue to build our writing stamina in our Writer's Notebook.  

Word Work- We will introduce our first word work unit and station expectations.

Math-  We will begin Unit 6, Module 1:  "Graphing Ordered Pairs."  We will be discovering, describing and graphing different patterns.

Important Days:
Monday- No School, Labor Day

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

The Last Week of School!

In ELA we will be finishing our argumentative papers that are either for or against Manifest Destiny.  We will also be learning the preamble and about our Constitution in Social Studies. We will end the week with scrap-booking and finishing up odds and ends.

Monday- Memorial Day, No School
Tuesday- PRIDE! Assembly
Wednesday-11:45 Bowling, and Chromebooks turned in
Thursday- 8:45-11:30 Field Day, and the Talent Show is at 1:00
Friday- Last Day of School!  11:35 5th Grade Clap-out!

Have a wonderful summer!