Happy March!
Thank you to anyone that helped provide dinner to the staff Thursday night during conferences. The food was wonderful, as were the desserts and the room looked great!
As you know, this week the kids will be taking the PARCC assessment. Students will take one session of the test each morning this week. Monday-Wednesday will be ELA (English Language Arts) and Thursday and Friday will be math assessments.
A couple reminders/new pieces of information:
-please have your child bring headphones if they are able and haven't already brought them in
-kids will need to have a book to read when they finish the test each day, and they can't read off their devices (of course they can get a book at school if needed)
-because of testing, 5th grade and 2nd grade will be switching lunch times- this means 5th grade will eat lunch at 12:20 instead of 12:00
5H Math:
The plan is to have math Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week, since we will be short on time due to testing, we will not have math every day. Math will take place in the afternoon.
Kids will get their unit 5 math tests back on Monday, and we will start unit 6- standards below. We will start by reviewing how to multiply and divide by powers of 10, because students need to be able to do this in order to convert between measurements within the metric system. Our next two math days will be focused on understanding the metric system in order to convert measurements.
Thank you to anyone that helped provide dinner to the staff Thursday night during conferences. The food was wonderful, as were the desserts and the room looked great!
As you know, this week the kids will be taking the PARCC assessment. Students will take one session of the test each morning this week. Monday-Wednesday will be ELA (English Language Arts) and Thursday and Friday will be math assessments.
A couple reminders/new pieces of information:
-please have your child bring headphones if they are able and haven't already brought them in
-kids will need to have a book to read when they finish the test each day, and they can't read off their devices (of course they can get a book at school if needed)
-because of testing, 5th grade and 2nd grade will be switching lunch times- this means 5th grade will eat lunch at 12:20 instead of 12:00
5H Math:
The plan is to have math Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week, since we will be short on time due to testing, we will not have math every day. Math will take place in the afternoon.
Kids will get their unit 5 math tests back on Monday, and we will start unit 6- standards below. We will start by reviewing how to multiply and divide by powers of 10, because students need to be able to do this in order to convert between measurements within the metric system. Our next two math days will be focused on understanding the metric system in order to convert measurements.
Unit 6 Standards
5.NBT.A.4. Use place value understanding to round decimals
to any place. (REVIEW)
5.MD.A.1. Convert among different-sized standard measurement
units within a given measurement system (e.g., convert 5 cm to 0.05 m), and use
these conversions in solving multi-step, real world problems.
5.MD.B.2. Make a line plot to display a data set of
measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8). Use operations on
fractions for this grade to solve problems involving information presented in
line plots
Language Arts:
Every day this week, we will have a writing lesson on research/informational writing to help us write our paper about the liver. First, we will write an outline for our introduction. Second, we'll write an outline for each body paragraph. Then we'll have a lesson on how to move from an outline to paragraphs (adding information and transition words as needed). Finally, we'll have a lesson on writing a conclusion; kids will write an outline and then use all of their outlines to write their paper. Throughout each lesson, we'll be comparing research/informational writing to opinion writing- there are many similarities in the structures and components.
We will read some of Red Kayak each day- this week we will work a bit on character analysis through the eyes of the main character. So, this will require kids to take the perspective of Brady and analyze the text to determine his thoughts about the other main characters.
Science:
Kids will take part in a nutrition activity the first couple days of this week. With a partner, kids will write a two-day menu. They will need to include the 6 types of nutrients in each day, and work on including appropriate amounts of each. I'll be bringing in some magazines with recipes and cookbooks kids can look through. Kids can bring some from home too :).
We'll have our last quiz on the digestive system this Friday. Kids will need to tell what each part of the digestive system does (mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, anus) - they have notes on this that I have returned.
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