5th Grade Weekly Newsletter
March 6, 2020
FRIDAY FIVE
Here are five questions you can ask your child about a specific activity or learning content that took place this week. We are encouraging our students to become effective communicators and to share new knowledge and insights.
- Describe the relationship between an antecedent and a pronoun.
- Describe how inventions like the Spinning Jenny helped the economy grow after the Revolutionary War.
- Why was George Mason an important figure in the history of the United States?
- What is a stem and leaf plot?
- What did you learn when we worked on our chemical change lab?
Crazy Sock Day
Learning Objectives and Assignments for the Week of March 9, 2020
Math Objectives:
*Student uses various tools to measure, collect, organize , and analyze data.
- Student makes a line plot to display a data set of measurements.
- Student labels and uses different parts of a graph accurately.
- Student uses technology to compute, represent, and evaluate.
- Student predicts, tests, and represents all possible outcomes for a simple probability situation in an organized way and uses appropriate mathematical language.
- Student uses statistical data to identify trends and to make and justify generalizations.
*Math Class Assignments:
-Statistics and Probability Test next Mon., Mar. 16
-Statistic Project due Mon., Mar. 30
*Math Homework:
-Packet due Fri., Mar. 13
Science Objectives:
*Student applies understanding matter and how it changes through chemical and physical processes
- Student knows all matter is formed from atoms which may combine to form molecules.
- Student understands methods that can be used to separate mixtures into their component parts.
Student identifies and labels the parts of an atom.
Student describes the difference between the states of matter of atoms.
*Science Class Assignments:
- Conservation of Matter Lab paragraph due Mon., Mar. 9
ELA Objectives:
*Student demonstrates command of language and its conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Student spells grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed.
*Student writes various pieces for a variety of purposes.
Student writes routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Student writes opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
Student introduces a topic or text clearly, states an opinion, and creates an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
Student provides logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts/details.
Student links opinion and reason using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., consequently, specifically).
Student provides a concluding statement related to the opinion presented.
*Student identifies key ideas and details in literature.
Student quotes accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Student summarizes the text.
Student determines the theme of a story from details in the text, including how characters respond to challenges.
Student compares/contrasts two or more characters, settings, or events in a story, drawing on specific details in the text.
Student determines the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language.
Student determines or clarifies the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on reading and content.
Language Arts Class Assignments:
-Daily Grammar Activities (Grammar Notebook) - Possessive Pronouns
-Grammar Assessment - Fri., Mar. 13
-Daily Word Study Activities (Word Study Notebook) - Homophones
-Word Study Assessment - Fri., Mar. 13
-Debate #4 Fri., Mar. 13
-The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg Ch. 26-30 Dictionary Det. due Tues., Mar. 10
-The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg Ch. 26-30 Vocab. Study due Wed., Mar. 11
-The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg Ch. 26-30 Questions due Fri., Mar. 13
Language Arts Homework:
-Read 20 minutes nightly
Social Studies Objectives:
Student uses primary and secondary sources to understand history.
Student explains how and why groups of people and governments make rules or laws to create responsibilities and protect freedoms.
Student defines a constitution and discusses its purposes.
Student describes how concerns about individual rights led to the inclusion of the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution.
Student explains how popular sovereignty, rule of law, separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism, and individual rights limit the powers of the federal government as expressed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Student understands how economic patterns and principles impacted the development of the U.S.
Social Studies Assignments:
-Week #18 Read “City Mouse Country Mouse.” Identify the purpose of George Washington’s Cabinet.
Weekly Social Emotional Learning Activity (S.E.L.)
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Website: Cary.ChesterbrookAcademy.com
Location: 130 Towne Village Drive Cary, NC 27513
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Specialty Schedule
2:35 pm Spanish
Tuesday - 10:20 am Technology
2:35 pm Art
Wednesday - 10:20 am Music
2:35 pm PE
Thursday - 10:20 am Spanish
2:35 pm Technology
Friday - 10:20 am Art
2:35 pm Music
*Each specialty class is 45 minutes long.