What's Up in 5th Grade?
Calendar
- Wednesday, November 16th--Picture Retake Day
- Wednesday, November 23rd -Friday, November 25th-- No school for Fall Break
- Monday, December 5th--No school for students--(staff pd)
- Wednesday, December 21st-Tuesday, January 3rd-- No school for Winter Break
- School resumes Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
- Monday, January 16th-No school for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Friday, January 20th--No school for semester grade reporting
- Monday, January 23rd--beginning of 3rd quarter
New News......
- Don't forget!! Turn those clocks back one hour Saturday night/Sunday morning for Daylight Savings!!!
- Thank you all for attending conferences and allowing us to share this year with you and your 5th grader!
Oldie, but goodies .....
- Remember, no school on Friday, November 4th for Parent/Teacher Conferences.
5th Grade Math this week....
- November Number Corner-- This month we will be looking at how to classify triangles based on lengths of sides and angles. In addition we will be locating the position of these triangles on a coordinate grid to learn about ordered pairs. Finally, we will also be using the metric system and comparing how meters relate to centimeters, decimeters, decameters and kilometers.
- Unit 2 in our Bridges Curriculum was completed this week. We wrapped up this week by taking a few days to look at GCF and LCM.
- Next week we will begin Unit 3 where we will be working with whole numbers and decimal place values.
Literacy this week....
- This week we continued to work on composing a literary essay based on Esperanza Rising as we finish up Unit 2 in our Module 1.
- Unit 3 will focus on our final presentation for Module 1 that will involve monologues and group work.
- Our theme for this first quarter is Human Rights.
Science this week....
- Our new unit is: Modeling Matter
- Our guiding question for this unit is: What happens when two substances are mixed together?
- For our first chapter we are examining: Why did the food coloring separate into different dyes?
SELS this week...
- Empathy and Perspective
- Randall's behavior incentive goal for November
- November's Goal for the whole school: 1,500 Paws
- November's Incentive: Movie Day
Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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