FIFTH GRADE NEWS
January 16-19, 2018
Happy New Year
All three of us would like to wish each of you a Happy New Year!
YEARBOOKS ON SALE!
Get your Glenhope yearbook TODAY! Yearbooks are on sale for $25 until January 31st. If you are interested in buying a yearbook, please view your options below:
Go to: bit.do/ghesyearbook Place your order and pay online OR Send in $25 via cash or check (made payable to Glenhope Elementary). Be sure to add your child's name, teacher's name, and grade level!
Baby Pictures Needed
If you would like your child's baby photo to be included in the yearbook, please send it in or email as soon as possible. The yearbook will be finalized soon and after that time, we will be unable to add any more photos. Thank you!
There are many who are missing. Each teacher will send out an email to those missing a picture!
Spelling Bee
Congratulations to Connor in Aspire for becoming our 1st place winner.
Also, Congratulations to Ryan in Traditional for being our Runner Up.
We are SO proud of you!
Homework is HERE!
In our 5th Grade traditional classrooms, we are going to start adding homework to our weekly routines. As of now, homework has been on an as needed basis. We know this will be a transition for our students but we ask that you communicate with us and support us through this endeavour. Each subject area will have a different type of homework. It could be online work, an article to read with questions, worksheets, reading for 20 min or writing. The homework will be sent out weekly on Monday and will be due by Friday morning at the beginning of school.
The homework will be listed in Google Classroom. The students must turn it in digitally on either Google Classroom or Stemscopes by clicking on “Mark As Done” or “Turn In”. Each classroom will be given instructions on how our homework will be given and turned in. We hope that by using a similar method, we can help our students be accountable.
Look for this homework sheet today!
Student Teachers
What Are We Learning?
Now playing in Humanities!!
Social Studies
Units 6 and 7: Government and Westward Expansion (6 weeks)
We will further explore the Constitution and the three branches of government: Legislative, Executive, and Judcial. We seek to understand how they work together and also keep each other in check, and we will explore this through simulating the three branches in the classroom. Part of Unit 6 will once again focus on the Bill of Rights, especially when we carry out our simulation, and the importance of the rights we are guaranteed as citizens.
Westward Expansion will focus on the idea of manifest destiny, the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, and the Gold Rush. We want to understand the variety of reasons people began to move West. This occurred early in our country’s history and we want to understand how this helped the United States expand beyond being only 13 states.
Reading
We will focus some of our reading time to biography’s and autobiography’s in search of figurative and sensory language devices. Inferencing, drawing conclusions, and providing text evidence will continue to be important as we work through these units as well.
Students will continue to work with their Book Clubs to discuss the books they are reading. They will continue to share their impressions, insights, and general thoughts about the books. They will also continue to track their discussion points and their overall progress using their reading journals.
Writing
Students will continue to utilize the writing process (brainstorm, draft, revise, edit, publishing) when developing expository essays, personal narratives, and persuasive essays, or informational essays. In addition, students will be working on writing informal and formal letters making sure to incorporate figurative and sensory language. We will spiral back to punctuation and remind ourselves how important proper punctuation is to our comprehension of any text. We will also begin to focus heavily on the revision and editing steps of the writing process.
Math:
We have started FRACTIONS! For the next two Units, we will be exploring addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions with unequal denominators. To be successful with fractions, students really need to have a strong foundation for recalling math multiplication facts, and being able to make connections from the math to the real world. You can help at home by taking time to review multiplication facts, equivalent fractions, understanding the decimal equivalent for our benchmark fractions of 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4. Have your student help with recipes, measurements and food that is easily divided into groups. These real world connections will help in a HUGE way!
5.3H: Addition/Subtractions of fractions with unequal denominators
5.3K: relate decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals (ex. 2/5 = 4/10 = 0.40)
5.4H: Algebraic Reasoning
5.4F: Simplify a numerical expression (PEMDAS)
5.3I: Multiply a fraction and a whole number using models
5.3J/K: Divide a whole number by a unit fraction and a unit fraction by a whole number using models and the traditional algorithm.
Username for ixl.com is the first letter of first name and whole last name @glenhope and the password is gators.
Example: John Smith
gators
Science Matters:
Space Science is our focus for the next few weeks. We begin with Characteristics of Sun, Earth, Moon followed by Day and Night. We will end this study with Weather and Climate. As with Earth Science, we will utilize models to simulate the real world.
Earth Science TEKS 5.8ABCD:
TEKS 5.8AB Weather and Climate
TEKS 5.8C Day and Night
TEKS 5.8D Characteristics of Sun, Earth, Moon
What can you do to help your child at home? Talk about differences between the Sun, Earth, and Moon; watch a weather forecast with your child; help them notice shadows at different times of the day. Also, please utilize Stemscopes learning resources, games, and video glossary for review at home.
You will find vocabulary Quizlets, Blendspace activities, Slideshows, and Menu Plans in Google Classroom Mannen Science 2017-18 that will also be good for your child to review at home.
Upcoming Dates
1/26: Gatorville
1/29: STUCO Meeting 3-4pm
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