Updates and announcements

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend! We got a head start on pulling weeds from our yard-which will be our exciting ongoing spring break plans.

With the upcoming standardized tests our class will be taking, it is incredibly helpful to know about planned absences in advance. This is especially true if your child will be absent on the day of a test or for multiple days surrounding a test.

We have our Secret Garden party on Friday!

Our week in learning

Students will learn about the idiom “Well begun is half done.”

The roots test over #51-75 will be on 3/4. 

Students learned about the poem “Jabberwocky” last week. Students may learn the poem and recite it for extra credit before the end of the quarter.

In Literature, students will finish the Secret Garden! There are periodic journal entries which are numbered, but do not happen after every chapter. Students will do journal entry 18 this week. We will begin the fourth quarter with “A Wrinkle in Time”.

In Grammar, students have a writing workshop all day Monday, then we will evaluate their essays as a class using an AZMerit style rubric on Tuesday. Students will be led through guided lessons on reading comprehension regarding poetry, drama, and finish by analyzing fiction.

We will finish up the quarter with students presenting their George Washington Carver paragraphs to their classmates. This will be a great chance for students to practice their public speaking skills, as well as for students to deepen their knowledge by hearing responses to the prompts they didn’t choose to write on.  They will be given a separate grade for presentation and for their writing.

This week in History, students will finish learning about the precursors to the American Civil War. Topics include the political differences that began separating the United States into North and South and the life of Abraham Lincoln before he was President. Students have a quiz on Friday covering the material for chapters 1-8. This quiz will cover items related to the American Civil War before the War began. You and your child may access our textbook online at https://www.coreknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CKHG_G5_U11_CW_SR.pdf

In math, students will finish our unit on percentages. We will catch up on our AZMerit packets as needed through the end of the 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).