5H Math: I have updated the links in the math tab under "unit 1". You can find games and videos that will help review skills. I will update the links under each unit, as we move through the year.
This week in math we will practice showing numbers in expanded form and comparing decimals. Students will also practice rounding decimals and multiplying whole numbers and decimals by the powers of 10. Students will have homework Wednesday and Thursday night.
The students are using one of their notebooks for math this year, which we will use for taking notes and practicing skills.
Language Arts: The fifth grade team has begun incorporating the Common Core State Standards for Language Arts into our teaching this year. Throughout the year, we will teach these standards through 4 different themes. Our first theme of the year is Identity. The themes help us to intertwine the different subjects; we can find commonalities in different written pieces as well as in current events, social studies and science topics as well. Our day, as well as our minds, will become less compartmentalized :).
This week as well as the next, we will be reading and writing with the theme of identity in mind. This includes thinking about the identity of the characters in our read aloud, as well as our own identities and writing about both..examining what makes us who we are.
I will also give kids a bit more information about our Word Study program this week, before we start up next week. No quiz this week!
Finally, I hope your child mentioned our fifth grade reading requirement of 40 novels... Yep, we're going to read, read, read this year! I take this pledge with my students, and I know we can do it! Students will have independent reading time every day, and often this will be their only homework. Students will get to read from a variety of genres, as there is a genre requirement. More information to come! Please encourage your child to read, and they're not too old to be read to either!
"Me: in a bag" presentations were awesome! We all learned a lot about one another! Thank you for helping your child be responsible and come prepared for this presentation!
Social Studies: Last week we learned a bit about the "real" Christopher Columbus...ask your child their thoughts on this historical figure. We started with Christopher Columbus after a discussion about where we should start when referring to American history. This week, I will ask students if they believe this was the "right" place to start, i.e. is Christopher Columbus the beginning of our country? We'll come up with questions we have about Columbus as well as the beginning of the country to guide our study. Through this process we will also learn about how to take notes and how to find answers in non-fiction texts.
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