5TH GRADE NEWS
November 4th - 8th
IMPORTANT DATES
Friday, 11/1 - Friday, 11/8 -- Book Fair @ Main Campus
Wednesday, 11/13 -- Atlanta Food Bank Field Trip
Friday, 11/15 -- College Football Day (House Competition)
Wednesday, 11/20 -- 5th Grade Thanksgiving Lunch
Monday, 11/25 - Friday, 11/29 -- Thanksgiving Break
Monday, 12/23 - Friday, 1/3 -- Winter Break
Monday, 1/20 -- MLK Jr. Day - No School
ASSESSMENTS
Wednesday, 11/6 -- ELA Quiz: Figurative Language (Metaphors, Similes, Idioms, Adages, & Proverbs) & Word Relationships (Synonyms, Antonyms, & Homographs)
Thursday, 11/7 -- SS Test: Immigration, WWI, & 1920's
THIS WEEK'S CONTENT & SKILLS
ELAGSE5RL2: Summarize the text.
GRAMMAR
ELAGSE5L5c: Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words.
WRITING
ELAGSE5W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
SOCIAL STUDIES
SS5H2: Describe U.S. involvement in World War I and post-World War I America.
b. Describe the cultural developments and individual contributions in the 1920s of the Jazz Age (Louis Armstrong), the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes), baseball (Babe Ruth), the automobile (Henry Ford), and transatlantic flight (Charles Lindbergh).