Updates and announcements
I hope everyone had a restful 3-day
weekend! Unfortunately, I was out with a sinus infection that I let go a little
too long. I am grateful for antibiotics and happy to be on the mend!
Our field trip to the
Renaissance Faire is one week from today, February 25th! I will send
out a more detailed email this week.
You may see that there is a cap
and gown picture day. This is only for Kindergarten and NOT for fifth grade. We
do not take cap and gown pictures.
Our week in learning
Students will learn about the idiom “Vice Versa.”
Students will learn about the roots gradus, plus,
akros, and kata. Students will be quizzed over these next week. Students should
expect a similar quiz every week.
Students learned about the poem “Battle Hymn of the
Republic” on 2/12 and will recite it on 2/27.
In Literature, students will read through chapter
24. There are periodic journal entries which are numbered, but do not happen
after every chapter. Students will do journal entry 15 this week. Please send
in the book as soon as possible.
In Grammar, students finish their essays on music
and conference with teachers on their work. We will do the same activity again
starting Thursday with a different article and students will get the opposite
style prompt than last week.
This
week in Science, we will start a writing project focusing on George Washington
Carver. Students will dive into his life and scientific achievements, with the
goal of producing a well crafted paragraph that is either persuasive or
informative based on which prompt they pick. Students will have time in class
to read the primary and secondary sources, and will begin writing in class next
week.
This week in History, we will
finish our unit on Westward Expansion Before the Civil War. Tuesday will be the
last day of formal instruction, when students will discuss the Mormon Trail and
the California Gold Rush. On Wednesday, students will discuss readings (read in
class) on President Andrew Jackson’s message on Indian Removal in 1830. Study
guides are due on Thursday, when we will review the unit, and our test will be
administered on Friday. 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 our unit on
percentages. We will work on a foldable with helps students convert between
fractions, decimals, and percent. There will be no math groups this week.
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).
