October 20-24

Reminders

-Tuesday is Picture Retake Day

-Boosterthon, a new fundraising program for the school, is starting this week. Kids (and staff) will be learning more about this, this week. There is an assembly on Monday to explain the program.  
-Please return conferences slips as soon as possible. If you cannot make the day/time listed, please list alternate days/times that are better for you- thanks! 

-Friday is the end of the 1st Quarter

5H Math:

Students will get their Unit 2 tests back on Monday and will fill out the unit reflection for homework. This "reflection" is a grid of the questions on the test; it helps students evaluate how they did on the test, and which skills they are doing well with and what they need practice. Students should share this reflection with you. 

Then students will complete the Unit 2 Transfer Task which is a word problem that combines several skills from the unit. Later in the week we will revisit two standards from unit 1: NBT1 and NBT2- 

5.NBT.1. Recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left.

5.NBT.2. Explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10, and explain patterns in the placement of the decimal point when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10. Use whole-number exponents to denote powers of 10.

Students will take a quiz on these two standards on Friday. We may begin Unit 3 on Friday; unit 3 focuses on division- I will post the standards in next week's message. 

Language Arts 

This week we work on finishing our "Where I'm From" poems and putting together our digital project to accompany the poem. Kids will create a Google slideshow using the program "slides". Students will take the text of their poem and separate the stanzas to include a couple lines on each slide. Students will then incorporate images that help the "audience" understand the poem. 

We have two sessions in the computer lab to work on this, but students may be working on this at home as well. Students' written poems and Google slides are due by Friday. Students will present their slideshows to the class the week of 10/27.

We continue to read Naomi and work on strategies for understanding new vocabulary as well as continue to work on summarizing both fiction and nonfiction. Students will also practice quoting from the text to support their answers to text-dependent questions. 

Social Studies

We will be reading from our social studies texts this week to learn why European explorers ventured west across the Atlantic (their purpose) as well as the effects of this exploration. 

Citizenship

This week we will discuss ways to respond to disrespectful behavior.