5th Grade Newsletter
October 12 - 16, 2015
Upcoming Events ...
October 12: Student Holiday
October 16: Carnival; Star Zone during lunch; Reading Rainbow
October 19 - 23: Scholastic Book Fair
October 20: Book Fair Family Night 6:30 - 8:00
October 21: Lunch with a Loved One - for students whose last names begin with A-L
October 21: Fall Pictures
October 22: Lunch with a Loved One - for students whose last names begin with M-Z
November 21: Coyote Chase Race
Red Ribbon Week October 26 - 30
ELA/SS
ELA
- Start literary non-fiction and drama section
SS-
- Starting Lesson 7 on Comparing the Colonies
Spelling
List 6
Long a, Long e words- Unit 1 from Spelling Connections
- operate
- claim
- needle
- beneath
- foggy
- gasoline
- eighty
- freight
- complete
- scary
- neighbor
- daily
- screen
- police
- explain
- feature
- straight
- memory
- contain
- populate
Spelling
List 7
Long i, Long o words- Unit 2 from Spelling Connections
- arrive
- slope
- growth
- locate
- design
- supply
- chosen
- type
- froze
- polite
- spoken
- tone
- describe
- silent
- thrown
- deny
- excite
- bowl
- style
- decide
Math/Science
Math
- volume of rectangular prisms
- adding and subtracting with whole numbers
Science
- Forms of Energy - mechanical, electrical, light, sound, thermal (heat)