December Newsletter Graham/ Beatty
5th Grade Adventure 2019- 2020
What's Going On?!
12/11- Beatty- Gingerbread Workshop (more info to come)
12/12- Christmas PTO Program 6:30-8:00 pm
12/13- Graham- Gingerbread Workshop (more info to come)
12/14- Busy Patch Give-Back Night
12/16- Kids Hope Christmas Party 1:30 pm
12/19- Class Party 12:45-1:30
12/23- 1/10- Winter Break
1/13- School Starts Back
1/9- Patch’s Playhouse Give-Back – all day
Holiday Cheer
ELA/Social Studies
Novel Study on, Owls in the Family, by: Farley Mowat
Google Slides Presentation
Informational Essay
W.5.2 Write informative /explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
a. Organize information and ideas around a topic to plan and prepare to write.
b. Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; include formatting, illustrations, and
multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension
W.5.5 Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
Math
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.
NC.5.NBT.3
Read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths.
● Write decimals using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
● Compare two decimals to thousandths based on the value of the digits in each place, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.
NC.5.OA.2
Write, explain, and evaluate numerical expressions involving the four operations to solve up to two-step problems. Include expressions involving:
● Parentheses, using the order of operations.
● Commutative, associative and distributive properties.
Science
Graham's Class: Science with Mrs. Herron
5.P.2 - Understand the interactions of matter and energy and the changes that occur. (4 weeks)
Explain how the sun’s energy impacts the processes of the water cycle
Compare the weight of an object to the sum of the weight of its parts before and after an interaction - Law of Conservation of Matter.
Summarize properties of original materials, and the new material(s) formed, to demonstrate that a change has occurred.
5.P.3- Explain how the properties of some materials change as a result of heating and cooling. (4 weeks)
Explain the effects of the transfer of heat that occurs between objects at different temperatures. (conduction, convection, radiation)
Explain how heating and cooling affect some materials and how this relates to their purpose and practical applications.
Beatty's Class: Science with Ms. Crammer
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.