Red House 5th Grade
MS.MITCHELL'S CLASSROOM NEWSLETTER 2020-2021
Week Sixteen:December 7th -December 11th
Red House famiLEEs, here is our weekly newsletter filled with news you can use!
LEEDER OF THE WEEK: Vihan Gundlapalli
Our Leadership Quality of the week is "Generosity."
CHARACTER TRAIT OF THE WEEK
LEEdership Quality of the Week:
Generosity- freely giving of time or resources
Lee Quote of the Week:
“We make a living by what we get and a life by what we give!” -Winston Churchill.
Lesson in Leadership:
“Surprise others by performing random acts of kindness. Go out of your way to do something surprisingly kind and generous for someone at least once a month.”
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Istation: Every learner is responsible for reading 45 minutes per week using Istation. Please remind your learner to complete their minutes daily.
Dreambox: Every learner is responsible for completed 5 lessons per week in Dreambox.
School URL: https://play.dreambox.com/login/xtcm/e857School Code: xtcm/e857Classroom Code: 58570
WHAT WE ARE LEARNING
READING & WRITING
Reading this week, we will continue our poetry unit by analyzing poems. We also will continue our read-aloud book, Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park. In Writing, learners are creating poetry anthologies.
Math
In Math, learners continue our unit on operations with fractions. Learners explored different web sites to work interactively with fractions. They practiced representing different problems that included multiplication and division of fractions.
SCIENCE
In Science, learners are exploring an Argument Driven Investigation on Potential and Kinetic Energy.
SOCIAL STUDIES
In Social Studies this week, we learned about the events that led the United States expansion into the West.