Fifth Grade News
August 10 - 14, 2020
WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL: Week 1 in Fifth Grade with Mrs. Anderson
Language Arts
Reading and Writing:
Unit 1: Meeting Challenges.
Completed Red Kayak; realistic fiction genre; how-to text; sequence; dictionary/glossary; plot and main characters;
4 kinds of sentences; Short vowel VCCV and VCV.
Wk. 1 Spelling test and Spelling bingo.
Wordly Wise Vocabulary
Lesson 1 Friends for Live; vocab bingo
Next Week: Thunder Rose; tall tale genre; cause and effect; context clues; subjects and predicates; Long Vowel VCV; almanac. Create reading interactive notebook.
Wk. 2 Spelling test.
Wordly Wise Vocabulary
Continue Lesson 1
Independent Reading: 20 minutes at home each day
Math
Understanding Place Value
Patterns with Exponents and Powers of 10
Understanding Whole-Number Place Value
Next Week:
Continue Understanding Whole-Number Place Value
Decimals to Thousandths
Understanding Decimal Place Value
Science and Social Studies
Science:
STEAM introduction and meaning
Scientific Method and experiment with penny, nickel, and dime using the scientific method.
Started building STEAM/Science Interactive Notebook.
Next Week:
Experiment results with penny, nickel and dime.
Unit 1: Live Sciences
Classifying Organisms: experiment
STEAM Engineering Design Process
Social Studies:
Democracy (direct and republic) and the 3 Branches of Government. Social Studies Interactive Notebook.
Studies Weekly: United States Government; 3 Branches.
Next Week:
American People/immigration. Constitution. Citizenship. Free Enterprise. Continue Interactive Notebook.
Parent - Student Handbook Acknowledgement Form
Your child was given the Parent - Student Handbook Acknowledgement form today. Please review the handbook at the link above with your child and return the acknowledgement form on Monday, August 17, 2020.