5TH GRADE NEWS
August 26th - 30th
IMPORTANT DATES
Tuesday, 8/27-- Curriculum Night: Main Campus Sessions 6:10-6:40 & 6:50-7:20 & 7:30-8:00
Monday, 9/2 -- Labor Day: No School
Thursday, 9/26 -- Picture Day
Monday, 10/14 -- No School
Tuesday, 10/15 -- No School
ASSESSMENTS
Tuesday, 8/27 -- WriteScore Reading - Pre Assessment
Wednesday, 9/4 -- Turn of the Century Quiz
THIS WEEK'S CONTENT & SKILLS
5RL1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Grammar
ELAGGSE5L1b: Form and use the perfect (e.g., I had walked; I have walked; I will have walked) verb aspects.
Social Studies
SS5E1b: Explain how price incentives affect people’s behavior and choices (e.g., decisions to participate in cattle trails because of increased beef prices).
SS5E3a. Describe how competition, markets, and prices influence consumer behavior.
SS5G2 Explain the reasons for the spatial patterns of economic activities.
a. Locate primary agricultural and industrial locations between the end of the Civil War and 1900 and explain how factors such as population, transportation, and resources have influenced these areas (e.g., Pittsburgh’s rapid growth in the late nineteenth century).
b. Locate primary agricultural and industrial locations since the turn of the 20th century and explain how factors such as population, transportation, and resources have influenced these areas (e.g., Chicago’s rapid growth at the turn of the century).
SS5H1b: Describe the impact on American life of the Wright brothers (flight), George Washington Carver (science), Alexander Graham Bell (communication), and Thomas Edison (electricity)