5th Grade Newsletter
Week 15 (November 16-20)
Important Dates
- Monday 11/16/15- SS 5 Chapter 5 Test
- Tuesday 11/17/15- ELA 6 Vocabulary Quiz, A Wrinkle in Time : Chapters 7-9.
- Friday 11/20/15- Reading 6 Spelling Quiz #13, Math - Chapter 4 Test
- Thanksgiving Break, week of November 16-20.
Math 6
- Lesson 4.2.1 How can I enlarge a shape? - Enlarging two-dimensional shapes
- Lesson 4.2.2 How does it change? - Enlarging and Reducing figures
- Lesson 4.2.3 How can I compare them? - Enlargement and Reduction ratios
- Lesson 4.2.4 How can I use ratios? - ratios in other situations
- Chapter 4 Closure , Study Guide
- Chapter 4 Test on Friday, Nov 20th.
Reading 6
Unit 2 Week 3 of Reading Street Textbook: Expository Text.
Main Reading, "Stones, Bones, and Petroglyphs."
Spelling Words:
- archaeologists
- mesas
- anthropologist
- potsherds
- dwelling
- preserved
- irrigate
- inquisitive
- earthenware
- reconstruction
ELA 6
Unit 4 Modifiers...
- Tuesday 11/17/15 Vocabulary Quiz Ch. 7-9,
- Word list may be found here: http://www.vocabulary.com/lists/293978#view=notes
- Unit 4 Modifiers will actually begin this week. *Last week, ELA time was utilized completing the response to literature writing assignment. Reminder: Essays are due at the beginning of class on Monday 11/16.
- Students will gain experience identifying articles and demonstratives, writing proper adjectives, comparing with more or most, and discerning between adjectives and adverbs.
Science 5
- Starting on Physical Science
- Electric House rubric will be given to the students. Due January 11th.
- What is Matter made of?
- Atom
- Element
- Molecule
- In class Project - Elements
Social Studies 5
Chapter 5 Concludes...
- Chapter 5 Test, Monday 11/16/15
Students will write and produce a news broadcast reflecting the news of the time: The Civil War.
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