March Newsletter Graham/ Beatty
5th Grade Adventure 2019-2020
What's Going On?!
3/3 SJES is a polling location- No school for students!
3/4, 11 18, 24 – Casa Garcia Giveback
3/6 Spring Pics
3/12 NLMS 6th Grade Transition Night 6:00 pm
3/13 5th to ELMS (Graham stays with NLMS students)
3/13 T-shirt contest deadline
3/14 Royal 5K Race
3/23 Box Tops Collection
3/23-27 Spirit Week (details to come)
3/27 4-5 School Store
3/28 K-2 and 3-5 Talent Shows
3/30 DQ Giveback 4-8pm
ELA/ Social Studies
Scholastic News
Focus on Social Studies and informational text.
5.G.1 Understand how human activity has and continues to shape the United States.
Explain the impact of the physical environment on early settlements.
Positive and negative effects of human activity.
Technological advances.
Migration and immigration in the United States.
Math
NC.5.NBT.7
Compute and solve real-world problems with multi-digit whole numbers and decimal numbers
● Multiply decimals with a product to thousandths using models, drawings, or strategies based
on place value.
● Divide a whole number by a decimal and divide a decimal by a whole number, using
repeated subtraction or area models. Decimals should be limited to hundredths.
● Use estimation strategies to assess reasonableness of answers.
NC.5.G.3
Classify quadrilaterals into categories based on their properties.
● Explain that attributes belonging to a category of quadrilaterals also belong to all
subcategories of that category.
● Classify quadrilaterals in a hierarchy based on properties.
Science
5.L.2.1 - Compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems, including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes & ponds, forests, and grasslands.
5.L.2.2 - Classify the organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, and decomposers.
5.L.2.3 - Infer the effects that may result from the interconnected relationship of plants and animals to their ecosystem.
Beatty: Science with Herron-
5.P.1.1 - Explain how factors such as gravity, friction, and change in mass affect the motion of objects.
5.P.1.2 - Infer the motion of objects in terms of how far they travel in a certain amount of time and the direction in which they travel.
5.P.1.3 - Illustrate the motion of an object using a graph to show a change in position over a period of time.
5.P.1.4 - Predict the effect of a given force or change in mass on the motion of an object.