Fifth Grade News
January 8th, 2019
WELCOME BACK!
We hope everyone had a wonderful break! We are so happy to see our students and get this second semester started. As a reminder, please make sure you are checking the weekly update and Bloomz often!
Important Dates and Upcoming Events
January 10th-Report Cards
January 21st- No School
February 7th- Progress Reports
February 8th- Parent Teacher Conferences (no school for students)
February 15th- Club Day
Literacy
This week in Literacy students will begin a new unit. This unit will focus on theme, point of view, characterization, and author's craft. Students will read the fable "The Fox and the Lion", and think about how acquaintance softens prejudice.
*Students will receive new spelling words on Monday January 14th. Their test will be Thursday January 24th.
*Students need to choose a new book to complete for their nine week book project. We've discussed that it should be something that they have not already read.
*Nine week book project will be due March 13th.
Social Studies- Mohler Homeroom
This week students will be looking at the Industrial Revolution and important/famous inventors and entrepreneurs. They will choose an inventor that has interested them the most and create a "fakebook" page. This will give students the opportunity to complete further research and cite their sources.
Math
This week in math, students are multiplying fractions and mixed numbers. Towards the end of the week, students will be working with dividing a whole number by a fraction and a fraction by a whole number.
Starting next Friday, students will be taking a spiral review quiz weekly. The questions are the quiz are the same ones from the week with the numbers changing. Students may take their weekly spiral reviews home to study for the quiz.
Science-Reeves Homeroom
This week in science, our focus will be on heredity. Students will be looking at the amaryllis flower and determining what kind of offspring can be created from a red amaryllis and a white amaryllis. Students will actually make the flower and look at all the different combinations they could possibly end up with. By the end of the week, students will be able to answer this question: "Will all offspring of the same parents look exactly alike?"