Red House 5th Grade
MS.MITCHELL'S CLASSROOM NEWSLETTER 2020-2021
Week Eighteen: January 6th -January 8th
LEEDER OF THE WEEK: Shrimat Koti
Our Leadership Quality of the week is "Commitment."
CHARACTER TRAIT OF THE WEEK
LEEdership Quality of the Week:
Commitment- keeping a promise or a pledge
Lee Quote of the Week:
“We are all face with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” -Charles Swindoll
Lesson in Leadership:
You should never complain if the line is too long, the food isn't good or there is a wait. You don't want to be negative to the point where you spoil the enjoyment of the event for others.
WHAT WE ARE LEARNING
READING & WRITING
Reading and writing this week, we began our class read aloud My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George and created a one word gallery to define our New Year's Resolution.
Math
In Math, learners began unit 6 on coordinate planes. They were able to describe key attributes of a coordinate plane and graph ordered pairs in the first quadrant.
SCIENCE
In Science, learners explored the process that forms sedimentary rocks.
SOCIAL STUDIES
In Social Studies this week, we learned about the events that led the United States expansion into the West on the Oregon Trail.
Schedules:
Important Times
- Morning Meeting 7:50-8:10
- Specials: 8:30-9:15
- Recess: 11:30-11:00
- Lunch: 1:00-1:30
Conference Time:
- Daily: 8:30-9:15
Specials Rotation
- Day 1 - P.E.
- Day 2- Music
- Day 3 - Design
- Day 4 - P.E.
- Day 5 - Art
- Day 6 - Create