I hope you all enjoyed the beautiful weather this weekend!
This week:
Monday: ECO club meeting for those kids that participate
Tuesday: Jump Rope for Heart during school- kids should be prepared to be outside for a couple hours. Fifth grade jumps in the morning. If your child is collecting pledges, money is not due until April 27th, but they can bring in envelopes any time.
Wednesday: Service Club meeting until 4:45 for kids that participate.
Mrs. May will be talking to the kids about an upcoming author visit; you can look for information to come home this week. The author visit is next Tuesday.
5H Math:
Kids will most likely get their tests back on Monday (still working on them!). We are starting unit 7, but this will be a quick unit. The only two standards in the unit are about adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers, which we worked on during unit 5. We will go further with these skills in this unit. Kids will learn how to add and subtract mixed numbers as well as how to subtract mixed numbers when you have to "borrow" or regroup. When solving fraction problems we will be working on using benchmark estimates to help us determine if our answers are reasonable, and we will work on making visual models to represent the problems.
Language Arts:
We're starting our 4th quarter theme, "Moving Forward" this week. We'll be thinking about the below essential questions as we read different texts this quarter:
1. How do individuals and groups move forward in their lives?
2. What is the value of reflecting and acting on knowledge gained from past experience when trying to move forward?
Our next anchor text will be Maniac Magee, which we will start later in the week. To begin the week, we will think back to the main characters of our previous texts, and think about how each theme from the year applied to each character...for example, "Who was Naomi?" (Identity), "How did Naomi show courage?" (Courage), "What choices did Naomi have to make?" (At a Crossroads), and "In what ways did Naomi move forward?" (Moving Forward). After we've reviewed the main characters we've read about this year, kids will write short memoirs for each character...very short in fact, they'll write a "Six Word Memoir" for each character. This will require students to think carefully about the 6 best words that represent each character.
I love this theme because it connects so well with our social studies concepts and to the students as they "move forward" from elementary school! We're just wrapping up learning about the American Revolution, and soon we'll learn about how the people of the new United States moved forward after the war.
For word study this week, we'll learn about the suffixes -ine, -age, and -ege. Kids will learn the meanings of these suffixes and we will then study a list of words, learning about their meanings and how to spell them. Kids will have a quiz Monday, April 20.
Social Studies:
In small groups, kids have been learning about important events that happened during the American Revolution. On Monday, groups will finish creating posters for their events and preparing for their presentations on Tuesday. On Tuesday we will review what kids need to know for their second quiz on the American Revolution. Kids will be helping create the quiz questions! The quiz will be Friday.
Science:
We are beginning our Astronomy unit! This week we'll learn what a star is and start to learn more about our closest star, the Sun, through readings and a video. Here are the essential questions for the unit, although we will learn much more than this:
This week:
Monday: ECO club meeting for those kids that participate
Tuesday: Jump Rope for Heart during school- kids should be prepared to be outside for a couple hours. Fifth grade jumps in the morning. If your child is collecting pledges, money is not due until April 27th, but they can bring in envelopes any time.
Wednesday: Service Club meeting until 4:45 for kids that participate.
Mrs. May will be talking to the kids about an upcoming author visit; you can look for information to come home this week. The author visit is next Tuesday.
5H Math:
Kids will most likely get their tests back on Monday (still working on them!). We are starting unit 7, but this will be a quick unit. The only two standards in the unit are about adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers, which we worked on during unit 5. We will go further with these skills in this unit. Kids will learn how to add and subtract mixed numbers as well as how to subtract mixed numbers when you have to "borrow" or regroup. When solving fraction problems we will be working on using benchmark estimates to help us determine if our answers are reasonable, and we will work on making visual models to represent the problems.
Language Arts:
We're starting our 4th quarter theme, "Moving Forward" this week. We'll be thinking about the below essential questions as we read different texts this quarter:
1. How do individuals and groups move forward in their lives?
2. What is the value of reflecting and acting on knowledge gained from past experience when trying to move forward?
Our next anchor text will be Maniac Magee, which we will start later in the week. To begin the week, we will think back to the main characters of our previous texts, and think about how each theme from the year applied to each character...for example, "Who was Naomi?" (Identity), "How did Naomi show courage?" (Courage), "What choices did Naomi have to make?" (At a Crossroads), and "In what ways did Naomi move forward?" (Moving Forward). After we've reviewed the main characters we've read about this year, kids will write short memoirs for each character...very short in fact, they'll write a "Six Word Memoir" for each character. This will require students to think carefully about the 6 best words that represent each character.
I love this theme because it connects so well with our social studies concepts and to the students as they "move forward" from elementary school! We're just wrapping up learning about the American Revolution, and soon we'll learn about how the people of the new United States moved forward after the war.
For word study this week, we'll learn about the suffixes -ine, -age, and -ege. Kids will learn the meanings of these suffixes and we will then study a list of words, learning about their meanings and how to spell them. Kids will have a quiz Monday, April 20.
Social Studies:
In small groups, kids have been learning about important events that happened during the American Revolution. On Monday, groups will finish creating posters for their events and preparing for their presentations on Tuesday. On Tuesday we will review what kids need to know for their second quiz on the American Revolution. Kids will be helping create the quiz questions! The quiz will be Friday.
Science:
We are beginning our Astronomy unit! This week we'll learn what a star is and start to learn more about our closest star, the Sun, through readings and a video. Here are the essential questions for the unit, although we will learn much more than this:
- What is the life cycle of a star?
- What are the names of some of the basic star patterns? (constellations)
- What are the basic parts of a star?
- What are the 4 basic types of galaxies?
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