Updates and announcements
I hope everyone had a wonderful
and restful Thanksgiving break! I had the wonderful opportunity to host my
husband’s family, so my weekend was full of wonderful food and wonderful shopping.
As a whole, we have had a lot
of absences in 5A in the past few weeks. It would be incredibly helpful if I could
get a quick email letting me know if the absence is planned. Especially with
the end of the quarter coming up, we need to stay on top of our make up quizzes
and tests so my grades are accurate for writing evaluations, and I currently
have 19 missed assessments to administer from the two days of school last week.
The spelling bee will take
place on Thursday, November 29th. Information went home a couple
weeks ago.
Our week in learning
This week, students will learn about the idiom
“It’s never too late to mend”.
Students will recite “The Snowstorm” on 12/5. We
extended the due date due to the complexity of the poem and our Thanksgiving
break in the middle. PLEASE NOTE: though it is not long, this is a tricky poem
to memorize last minute because it does not rhyme. Students should work a
little every night to memorize this beautiful poem.
The roots quiz for last week’s roots will take
place on Wednesday. Students will learn about the roots humus, folium, sal, and
mare. There will be a roots quiz over these next Wednesday, following the same
schedule as last year. Students should expect a similar roots quiz every
Wednesday over the roots learned the previous week.
In Literature, we will continue reading “Where the
Red Fern Grows”. Students will continue their journal entries. For every
chapter, students will write one 5-6 sentence paragraph about a virtue a
character showed during that chapter. We will read through chapter 17 by the
end of the week. We will be looking out for foreshadowing and figurative
language.
In Writing and Grammar, students will learn about
dependent and independent clauses. We will pass our their mid-year grammar test
study guide this week and their test will be on Tuesday, 12/4. On Friday, we
will begin learning about persuasive essays and the difference between fact,
opinion, and propaganda.
This
week in science, students will have the opportunity to present their science
fair projects to their peers. Students are expected to give a 3-5 minute
presentation explaining the major components of their project to their class, as
well as taking questions from their classmates. We will spend the rest of
Quarter 2 studying differents types of cells, which will begin next week. Don’t
forget to mark your calendars for the 5th Grade Science Fair, which is December
12th in the Arete Gym from 5:00-6:15PM. It will be a wonderful opportunity for
students to showcase their hard work to their family and friends!
This week in History, students
will finish their unit on England: Golden Age to Glorious Revolution. We will
learn about the rule of Charles II of England, the “Merry Monarch”, and his
brother, James II of England, as well as the Glorious Revolution. Thursday will
be a review day, with study guides due that morning, and the test will be on
Friday.
In
math, we will finish our unit on Multiplying and Dividing Fractions. Students
will work on word problems that deal with fractions and review for their test
on Thursday, 11/29. We will begin our unit on area, perimeter, and surface area
on Friday. Please note that we will have frequent quizzes in math. When a “b”
quiz comes home for homework, that means there will likely be a quiz the next
day. This means there will be frequent, low stakes math quizzes. We will
continue our normally scheduled math groups on Wednesday, 8:00-9:15.
