October 31, 2019
Dear Fifth Grade Parents and Students,
The Halloween party was a blast-thank you parents!
Math:
Mr. Schreck
Friday: All Saints Day Mass
Chapter 4, Divide by a Two-Digit Divisor
Monday: Lesson 1, Estimate Quotients
Tuesday: Lesson 3, Divide by a Two-Digit Divisor
Wednesday: Divide by a Two-Digit Divisor Part II
Thursday: Quiz, Lessons 1 & 3
Ms. Semandiris
11/4 L. 9, Place the First Digit
11/5 L. 10, Quotients with Zeros
11/6 L. 12, Interpret the remainders
11/7 Chapter Review
11/8 Pre-Test
11/12 – Ch. 3 Test
Mrs. Heuer:
We will be completing our third fifth grade unit next week, which is adding and subtracting fractions. We have been slowly building the skills starting with like fractions and ending with unlike mixed numbers. The kids are getting very comfortable with renaming fractions with an LCD. They are also working on reading story problems very carefully to ensure that they are doing the correct operation, that their answers are reasonable, and that they include a unit on their answers. After completion of this unit next Tuesday, we will move into our fourth 5th grade unit, which is multiplying and dividing fractions and mixed numbers.
Religion: Students will discuss how the Seven Sacraments are signs of the new covenant made through the life and sacrifice of Jesus. They point to God and to his love. Students will take a quiz on Chapter 3, Signs of God’s Presence next Tuesday.
Science: Students are creating diagrams of plant and animal cells to discover what they have in common and to identify different parts (organelles) that plant cells have. Students will take a quiz from their Science textbook on Lesson 1 (Is it Living?) next Friday, Nov. 8th. They will complete a study guide in class to help them prepare.
Social Studies: We are moving on to Chapter 5, Routes of Exploration to the New World. In a Social Studies Skill Builder, students use an illustrated classroom matrix to organize information about 8 European explorers. Students will work in pairs to become an “expert” on one of the explorers. Then students will play a game in which they answer questions about the explorers. The test for this chapter will be on November 19th. The study guide will go out one week prior to the test.
Language Arts: Happy Halloween! We made sure to dedicate class time to prepare for tomorrow’s Spelling Quiz. I know it will be a crazy night of Trick-Or-Treating! They will also have an opportunity to review for a few minutes before the quiz, tomorrow, as well. Words can be found on my website for a quick review before heading out tonight: https://6b.holyrosaryws.org/5th-la/. Students are in the organizational phase of their Opinion Essay, they will begin their rough draft next week and begin to edit. Safe travels tonight!
Reading: We’ve been splitting our time this week between reading Hatchet, mostly at home, and practicing the skills needed to read informational text. These skills include learning content-specific vocabulary, responding to Close Reading questions using complete thoughts and text evidence and analyzing text features. You can support your child’s reading by talking to them about the events unfolding in Hatchet, as well as spending time in a magazine or newspaper with your child, noticing the charts, maps, photos and captions.
Happy Halloween!