Updates and announcements
I hope everyone had a lovely
three day weekend! We had some fun professional development on Friday. My
husband and I chose soccer…and both realized our ages for the rest of the
weekend with how sore we were.
Great Hearts Day is this Friday.
Please review past blog posts on guidelines for the day (no store bought
valentines, etc.).
Our week in learning
Students will learn about the idiom “Tom, Dick, and
Harry.”
Students will learn about the roots nonus, decimus,
and electron. Students will be quizzed over these next week. Students should
expect a similar quiz every week.
Students learned about the poem “I Hear America
Singing” on 1/29 and will recite it on 2/12.
In Literature, students will read through chapter
21. There are periodic journal entries which are numbered, but do not happen
after every chapter. Students will do journal entry 14 this week. Please send
in the book as soon as possible.
In Grammar, students will practice reading AZMerit
style writing prompts and thesis statements, determining the type of essay
required. It is incredibly important that students know how to identify and
write the correct type of essay! As explained in class, if the prompt asks for
a persuasive essay and the student writes an informative essay, they will
likely fail that portion of the assessment. Starting Thursday, students will
read and outline an article about music education. Friday, we will split the
class and half will start an informative essay and half will start a persuasive
essay, using the same article.
This
week in science, we will conclude our study of botany. Students will review the
answers to the study guide in class on Monday, and on Tuesday will take the
unit assessment. On Thursday, students will have the opportunity to disect a
flower and identify the different parts as a hands on way to cap this unit.
This
week in History, students will get close to finishing our unit on Westward
Expansion Before the Civil War. They will understand the various adaptations of
transportation that took place, the idea of America’s Manifest Destiny behind
their westward march, and the accumulation and exploration of territories such
as Texas and the Oregon territory. Students were given study guides for the
unit on Thursday, January 30th. These will be due on Thursday, February 20th,
with the test on Friday, February 21st. Students may access our textbook online here: https://www.coreknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CKHG_G5_U10_WestwardExpBefore_SR.pdf
In math, students will start a short unit on
volumes. This week, students will focus on converting liters and milliliters
from cubic centimeters, and solve word problems involving volume. We will test
on this very short unit on Thursday, 2/13. There will be math groups this week,
Wednesday, 8:35-9:45.
When a “test b” (multiplication test) is assigned
for homework, it contains questions very similar to a quiz the following day.
We take a lot of low-stakes math quizzes in fifth grade. All math workbook assignments
are half of every type of problem. Please keep in mind that students may do
test corrections on any math quiz for partial credit (fill in the blank sheets,
not multiple choice homework sheets).
