5th Grade Newsletter
September 21 - 25, 2015
We would like our students keep a pair of ear buds in their toolbox/bag for use with the laptops in our classroom. If you an extra set at home or could purchase a set that would be great.
Upcoming Events
September 22: Flu Clinic
September 24: Chick-Fil-A Night
September 25: Reading Rainbow
September 26: PTA Pizza Eating Contest Palieo's
October 2: Reading Rainbow
ELA/Social Studies
ELA:
- 8 types of Figurative Language
- Identify Myth, phenomena, and folktales
- narrative writing.
Social Studies:
- Focus on Routes of Exploration to the New World
- Analyze the 8 different European Explorers.
Spelling List #4
Using the Right Word
- soar
- sore
- stationary
- stationery
- steel
- steal
- then
- than
- threw
- through
- their
- they’re
- there
- capital
- capitol
- close
- clothes
- dye
- die
- desert
- dessert
- course
- coarse
Extra Credit:
1. do
2. due
3. dew
4. scent
5. sent
6. cent
Spelling List #3
Test Tuesday (Dickehut)/Thursday(Snyder)
Using the Right Word
- pain
- pane
- past
- passed
- principal
- principle
- pair
- pear
- pare
- plane
- plain
- peace
- piece
- doesn’t
- don’t
- fewer
- less
- good
- well
- heel
- heal
- here
- hear
Math/Science
Math:
- Order of operations
- Division
- continue studying multiplication facts
Science:
- water: boiling point, freezing point and melting point
- mixtures and solutions