The School Scoop
All Things Fifth Grade!
- Upcoming Dates -
Shopping for Gifts- 4th/5th Graders: December 6th
- Onalaska Target @ 12:30 pm.
SOAR Cycle 2 Starts: December 10th
Nutcracker Ballet at Viterbo: December 11th
Classroom Holiday Party: December 23rd
No School: December 24th- January 1st.
- PENNY WAR -
THANK YOU for all your generosity. We had a ton of fun collecting, competing and raising money for a great cause. Together, we raised over $2,000! Don't forget to meet us this Sunday at Target to help purchase gifts for those families in need.
Bookish News
Writer's Workshop
The Lens of History: Research Reports
Early American Settlers.
- Flash Drafting and brining it all together
- Assembling and Thinking about Information
- Redrafting
Science:
Unit 2 - Variables
Investigation 1: Swingers
- Observe and compare the behaviors of pendulums
- Gain experience with the concept of variable
- Conduct controlled experiments to find out what variables affect
- Use scientific thinking process to conduct investigations and build explanations
Math
Unit 5: Addition and Subtraction with Fractions
- Fractional Addends of One
- Relate Fractions to Wholes
- Mixed numbers and Improper Fractions
Reader's Workshop
Reading the Weather, Reading the World: Nonfiction
- Whole class research projects- Space
- Synthesis
- Reading various types of texts