5th Grade
Keefe, Kingsley & Ward
Upcoming Events
January 11th: Culver's Night
January 12th: Permission slips to Holes are due
January 12th: Unit 4 Quiz 1 on Multiplying Two-Digit Numbers
January 13th: Math MAP Test
January, 19th: First Stage's production of Holes - Bring a cold lunch
January 20th: Reading MAP Test
February 24th: Six Flags Reading Logs are due
March 23rd: D.A.R.E. Graduation
D.A.R.E.
It's that time of year....D.A.R.E.! Classes began this week and will continue for a total of 10 weeks. Once a week, for 45 minutes, the students will receive instruction on how to make wise and healthy choices. This includes dealing with peer pressure, drugs, and alcohol.
Your child should have brought home a contract for you to sign, informing you of what content will be taking place during D.A.R.E. Please sign this form and return it to school with your child.
Each D.A.R.E. class will include homework, which is due at the next D.A.R.E. class. A schedule of when we have D.A.R.E. is listed below. We have added a D.A.R.E. section on our homework page to inform you of weekly homework.
At the end of the ten weeks of D.A.R.E, each student will need to write a one page essay explaining what they learned through D.A.R.E. and how it will effect their lives. This is a great experience our class is able to have.
D.A.R.E. Classes:
January 7thJanuary 14th
January 21st
February 2nd
February 9th
February 18th
March 2nd
March 8th
March 15th (Speech winners will be announced)
March 23rd - D.A.R.E. Graduation
Six Flags
Horizon is participating in an exciting program that encourages our students to read for fun. Read to succeed is a free program sponsored by Six Flags Theme Parks. Every student who completes six hours of recreational reading before the school's deadline (February 24th) is eligible for a free admission ticket valid at one participating Six Flags Theme Park.
Here is a link for more information and reading log sheet.
Culver's Night
PTO Culver's Night
2600 N. Grandview, Waukesha
The flavor of the day is Cookies and Cream.
So stop by and support your PTO! Culver's gives back 10% of all sales during these hours. Hope to see you there!
Holes Field Trip
We head to First Stage in two weeks for Holes. If your child has not yet returned their permission slip and money, please have them do so next week.
We will be leaving for the play at 9:00 am and return to school around 12:00 pm. Students will be having lunch in the classroom when we return, so please have your child brings in a cold lunch. Since we will be eating after our normal lunch period, students will not be able to purchase milk or a la carte.
Writing
Students have been given new spelling packets, due January 14. They have received an optional 4 opportunity to go along with each new packet called word study. To earn a 4, they will need to achieve a 3 on their regular spelling test on Friday and complete the word study page effectively. This requires knowing 5 challenge words - their spellings, definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and be able to use them in a sentence.
We are nearly done with our informational essays! The final touches are being added as we speak! Next week, sixth grade classes will be modeling editing circles and helping lead them for our classes and then we will be ready to publish. The following unit will begin the later half of next week and will be persuasive essays.
Math
Although students were taught multiple methods, in fifth grade they need to use the standard algorithm, the way most of us learned how to multiple. Learning multiple methods and how they relate will equip your child with the knowledge to get a 4 on the Unit Test.
Students will have a quiz on multiplying two digit numbers on Tuesday, January 12th.
Science
Next week your child will discover if changing the shape of a solid or liquid, effects the solid's mass or volume? Students will use displacement to find the volume of irregular shaped objects.