November Newsletter Graham/ Beatty
5th Grade Adventure 2019- 2020
What's Going On?!
11/1 Two Sons Giveback (lunch and dinner)
11/8 Veteran's Day Program 8:30 am11/11 Veteran's Day- NO SCHOOL
11/12 Q2 Progress Reports
11/14 Fall Picture Makeup Date
11/18 Chorus trip to Christmas Show
11/19 Wendy’s Giveback 5-8pm
11/26 Human Growth & Development Class (info coming soon)
11/27-29 Thanksgiving Break- NO SCHOOL
Updates and Reminders
- As the weather is getting colder, please remember to dress your child to go outside. If the temperature is above 40 degrees and not raining, we will go out! 5th grade has recess every day.
- Please encourage your child to do his/her very best. Celebrate successes and discuss areas for improvement. If you are ever concerned about your child's academics, we can arrange a conference.
- Thank you for your participation in the FUN RUN! We appreciate your support to our school! We will be able to get some much needed technology improvements.
ELA/Social Studies
Wordly Wise
Scholastic News
Ready Reading Program
Complete study of the Revolutionary War
Math
NC.5.NF.4
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction, including mixed numbers.
● Use area and length models to multiply two fractions [a fraction by a whole number], with the denominators 2, 3, 4.
● Explain why multiplying a given number by a fraction greater than 1 results in a product greater than the given number and when multiplying a given number by a fraction less than 1 results in a product smaller than the given number.
NC.5.NF.7
Solve one-step word problems involving division of unit fractions by non-zero whole numbers and division of whole numbers by unit fractions using area and length models, and equations to represent the problem.
NC.5.NBT.1
Explain the patterns in the place value system from one million to the thousandths place.
● Explain that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left.
● Explain patterns in products and quotients when numbers are multiplied by 1,000, 100, 10, 0.1, and 0.01 and/or divided by 10 and 100.
Science
Graham's Class:
Cells:
- Unicellular Organisms
- Multicellular Organisms
Human Body Systems:
- Skeletal
- Muscular
- Respiratory
- Circulatory
- Nervous
- Digestive
Beatty's Class:
- Weather verses Climate
- Global Weather
- Global Winds
- Gulf Stream
- Jet Stream
- El Nino/ La Nina
- Severe Storms
- Hurricanes
- Tornadoes
- Blizzards