January 20-23

Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day! This week we’ll talk a bit about Dr. King, his accomplishments, as well as how he ties in with our theme of courage. We will learn more about Dr. King later in the year when we’re learning about the civil rights movement.

This week:

-report cards can be accessed on HAC Thursday at 4:00

-Remember to have your child turn in their Hill Middle School form by January 30^th

-The Robert Crown permission slip also needs to be returned at your earliest convenience

-5H will also be having a pizza “party” this Friday with cheese pizza from Papa Johns, provided by the school. A form is coming home Tuesday and will need to be returned by Friday.

-Open House is coming up! Next week! January 28^th 6:30-7:30. We hope you can make it, we’ll be working on some special things for you!

-Have any extra quarters laying around? The service club is holding a “quarter drive” for a service project called “Race to 1,000 meals” for Feed My Starving Children. Just 22 cents can pay for a meal for a starving child. This fundraiser runs until February 4th when the service club will be donating their time to pack food and the funds donated by the school.

5H Math:

This week we will review how to find area of a rectangle as well as how to find volume of rectangular prisms. We will end the week by learning about the different types of triangles- we did not get to this last week.

Language Arts:

We’ll wrap up the performance task this week. Kids should have their opinion papers done, although we will take some time to revise and edit. Then kids will work with a partner to compare the people they researched and create a short presentation to share their comparison. Kids will present Friday.

This week we’ll also finish our anchor text, The Liberation of Gabriel King. I’ll have kids bring home their reading notebooks Wednesday this week, so you can see the work we’ve been doing with the text.

Word study- we’re starting a new syllable type this week: Consonant- le (examples: stable, portable) Kids will learn these types of syllables are typically at the end of words. We’ll be working with these words this week, separating them into syllables and more importantly understanding their meanings.

Social Studies:

We are focusing on the 13 colonies this week. Kids will be learning what types of jobs people had in the colonies and why…how did the geography or the resources affect the types of jobs people had? In addition to reading, we will watch parts of Colonial House a PBS show to better understand what colonial life was really like.