Not many reminders for this week:
-Chorus Concert Tuesday at 7:00
-Service Club (for those students involved) Wednesday until 4:45
Also, the Service Club will be starting a food drive later this week, more information to come!
5H Math:
Many students still need to complete the Unit 3 math assessment, so kids will do this Monday as well as take a pre-test for Unit 4-Geometry. We will probably not have math Tuesday, because we have an assembly during this time. Then we will spend a couple days working on a math transfer task (multi-step problem that combines multiple skills from unit 3). By Friday, we should be actually starting the unit 4 skills; we will start with geometry vocabulary- there is quite a lot!
Standards for unit 4:
Language Arts:
-Last week we worked on quoting from the text to support our answers as well as explaining how our quote supports our answer. This week, we will look at a couple successful student samples and students will revise their written work if necessary. Of course, we continue to read The Liberation of Gabriel King, discuss and respond to questions in writing.
We are starting some grammar work this week. Kids will be editing sentences (Daily Oral Language= DOL) and we will discuss the skills needed to edit each sentence- the goal is to do this 2-3 times a week. This will be ongoing.
Please continue to encourage your child to read their partner novel at home; we are trying to finish before winter break begins!
This week we will start talking about the quarter 2 performance task. This task will involve students researching a person of their choice that they believe has shown courage. I will show kids the components of the task and we will brainstorm a list of possible people, start reading about a variety of people and kids will possibly pick a person they want to research by the end of the week.
While in the computer lab this week, we will look at the PARCC practice test for English Language Arts. I want to show students the format of the test on the computer, the different features they will be able to use as well as the layout and types of questions. We will look at the practice tests more than once, focusing on different goals each time. I do not want to overwhelm the kids, and I want them to be prepared for when they do take the PARCC, so we will just look at it a little at a time. I encourage you to take a look at the practice test (http://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/english/), but please do not have your child spend a lot of time looking at or attempting to take the practice test at home- especially not before we look at it at school.
Science:
Well, we really will finish the Magnet and Electricity unit this week. Students will have science reading homework a couple nights this week. This week students will learn what a simple circuit is, as well as make one. Students will also learn the difference between series and parallel circuits, and again get to make each type of circuit. Our science test will be Friday. We will go through our notes and class papers and mark areas to study.
Topics to study:
For citizenship for the next couple weeks, students will be participating in digital citizenship lessons to think about respectful, responsible and safe behavior online/with any technology.
-Chorus Concert Tuesday at 7:00
-Service Club (for those students involved) Wednesday until 4:45
Also, the Service Club will be starting a food drive later this week, more information to come!
5H Math:
Many students still need to complete the Unit 3 math assessment, so kids will do this Monday as well as take a pre-test for Unit 4-Geometry. We will probably not have math Tuesday, because we have an assembly during this time. Then we will spend a couple days working on a math transfer task (multi-step problem that combines multiple skills from unit 3). By Friday, we should be actually starting the unit 4 skills; we will start with geometry vocabulary- there is quite a lot!
Standards for unit 4:
- 5.MD.C.3. Recognize volume as an attribute of solid figures and understand concepts of volume measurement.
- 5.MD.C.4. Measure volumes by counting unit cubes, using cubic cm, cubic in, cubic ft, and improvised units.
- 5.G.B.3. Understand that attributes belonging to a category of two-dimensional figures also belong to all subcategories of that category. For example, all rectangles have four right angles and squares are rectangles, so all squares have four right angles.
- 5.G.B.4. Classify two-dimensional figures in a hierarchy based on properties.
Language Arts:
-Last week we worked on quoting from the text to support our answers as well as explaining how our quote supports our answer. This week, we will look at a couple successful student samples and students will revise their written work if necessary. Of course, we continue to read The Liberation of Gabriel King, discuss and respond to questions in writing.
We are starting some grammar work this week. Kids will be editing sentences (Daily Oral Language= DOL) and we will discuss the skills needed to edit each sentence- the goal is to do this 2-3 times a week. This will be ongoing.
Please continue to encourage your child to read their partner novel at home; we are trying to finish before winter break begins!
This week we will start talking about the quarter 2 performance task. This task will involve students researching a person of their choice that they believe has shown courage. I will show kids the components of the task and we will brainstorm a list of possible people, start reading about a variety of people and kids will possibly pick a person they want to research by the end of the week.
While in the computer lab this week, we will look at the PARCC practice test for English Language Arts. I want to show students the format of the test on the computer, the different features they will be able to use as well as the layout and types of questions. We will look at the practice tests more than once, focusing on different goals each time. I do not want to overwhelm the kids, and I want them to be prepared for when they do take the PARCC, so we will just look at it a little at a time. I encourage you to take a look at the practice test (http://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/english/), but please do not have your child spend a lot of time looking at or attempting to take the practice test at home- especially not before we look at it at school.
Science:
Well, we really will finish the Magnet and Electricity unit this week. Students will have science reading homework a couple nights this week. This week students will learn what a simple circuit is, as well as make one. Students will also learn the difference between series and parallel circuits, and again get to make each type of circuit. Our science test will be Friday. We will go through our notes and class papers and mark areas to study.
Topics to study:
- The basic parts of an atom and how they relate to magnetism and electricity
- Properties of magnets
- Circuit electricity: parallel and series circuits (what is a circuit? what are the parts of a circuit? what is the difference between these two types?)
- The 2 types of electricity (static and current) and their similarities and differences
For citizenship for the next couple weeks, students will be participating in digital citizenship lessons to think about respectful, responsible and safe behavior online/with any technology.
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