Fifth Grade News
October 22, 2018
Students of the Week
Anderson Parks is our Reading Star of the Week: "Anderson has had such a great week. He asked great questions and participated multiple times with wonderful answers! I am so proud of him!" -Mrs. Mohler
PRIDE Award Winners for the First 9 Weeks!
Upcoming Dates and Important Events
November 15th: Progress Reports
November 19th: PRIDE Assembly and Club DayNovember 21st- 23rd: Thanksgiving Break
Literacy
Skills students will be learning throughout this unit.
-Re-telling main events
-Theme
-narrative techniques
-text structure
Social Studies- Mohler Homeroom
Math
The UNIT 4 Math Test will be on Friday, October 26th! The test will cover multiplication and division as well as multi step word problems.
Science- Reeves Homeroom
Students will create a pendulum to explore the following learning target:
Students will make observations and measurements of a pendulum in order to show that
graphs of an object’s motion can be used as evidence to predict future motion highlighting that the patterns seen when changing specific variables of the pendulum.
Students will be graphing their data and determining what to change to their pendulum in order to have it swing more. Students will be finding patterns in their data and what conditions affect those patterns.
There will be a test on Friday, October 26th covering balanced and unbalanced forces, motion, and application of our pendulum activity and patterns noticed.