5TH GRADE NEWS
March 2nd - 6th
IMPORTANT DATES
Friday, 3/6 -- House Competition: Wear your HOUSE COLORS!
Friday, 3/13 -- End of 3rd Nine Weeks
Monday, 3/16 -- No School
Tuesday, 3/24 -- Report Cards Go Home
Monday, 4/6 - Friday, 4/10 -- Spring Break (No School)
ASSESSMENTS
Wednesday, 3/4 -- Reading Test (Standards: RI3, RI5, & RI8)
THIS WEEK'S CONTENT & SKILLS
ELAGSE5RL1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
ELAGSE5RL6: Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.
GRAMMAR
5L4c: Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
WRITING
5W1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
SOCIAL STUDIES
SS5H5: Discuss the origins and consequences of the Cold War.
a. Explain the origin and meaning of the term “Iron Curtain.”
b. Explain how the United States sought to stop the spread of communism through the Berlin airlift, the Korean War, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
c. Identify Joseph McCarthy and Nikita Khrushchev.
EXHIBITION
ANNIE MUSICAL
SUTTON COUGAR PREMIER
LET ME RUN
READING TEST
ELAGSE5RI3: Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
ELAGSE5RI5: Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts
ELAGSE5RI8: Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence supports which point(s).
Students have examples of questions they might see in their Reading notebooks and in their Tuesday Folders. They can also refer to the text structure chart below.