March 26, 2020
Dear Parents and Students,
I hope you are all well. Here’s a look at the week ahead.
Math:
Mr. Schreck
Chapter 9, Add & Subtract Fractions
Friday: Take short quiz on lessons 7 & 9 in 5B Math Google classroom. Log on to ALEKS for 30-45 minutes
Monday: Lesson 10, Use Models to Add Mixed Numbers
Tuesday: Lesson 11, Add Mixed Numbers, Part 1
Wednesday: Lesson 11, Add Mixed Numbers, Part 2
Thursday: Lesson 12, Subtract Mixed Numbers
Ms. Semandiris
Ch. 9 Add and Subtract Fractions
3/30 – Ch. 9 Lesson 1, Round Fractions
3/31 – Ch. 9 Lesson 2, Add Like Fractions
4/1 – Ch. 9 Lesson 3, Subtract Like Fractions
4/2 – Ch. 9 Lesson 4, Hands On: Use Models to Add Unlike Fractions
4/3 – Aleks for 30 minutes
Mrs. Heuer
Thanks for all of your hard work, 5th grade!! Next week, we will complete our sixth chapter on expressions. The kids have worked with order of operations, writing expressions, properties, and simplifying algebraic expressions through the Distributive Property and combining like terms. Here is a look at next week:
M – Additional videos and practice with lesson 6.7 (combining like terms)
T – Ch. 6 Review
W – 7.1 Equations
Th – Graded quiz – I will add this on Thursday morning, and the kids should submit by Thursday afternoon. This grade will go into PowerSchool and is open book. They should complete on their own. This will be a review of Ch. 6, so Tuesday’s video will be very helpful!
F – ALEKS Day – 30+ minutes
Reading: This week we have enjoyed reading the first 6 chapters of Frindle, a Realistic Fiction novel. We’ll be focusing next week on identifying Character Traits and analyzing the setting. Since reading informational text remains an important skill in 5th grade, we have mixed in the Scholastic News magazine dated March 30. Accompanying this reading are some Close Reading activities and a Quiz Whiz, all found in my Google Classroom. These are due on Monday. I am so proud of our 5th graders as they were met with the challenge of a quick transition to At Home Learning. They have shown patience and respect as they reach out via email with questions and challenges. All important information should be coming to them via Google Classroom. A sincere thank you to all of you for your support during these past weeks.
Social Studies: Students will be reviewing the information I gave them on the Ch. 11 Lesson for Loyalist vs. Patriots. I will create a study guide with the same information from that lesson and that is what I will quiz the students on. The short quiz will be multiple choice and it will be next Friday 4/3.
Next week I will assign short Social Studies lesson/videos from Brain Pop for students to watch on the days they have Social Studies class. This will be listed on the Matrix and then students will be directed to the SS Google Classroom for the lesson.
Science: Students will make a short presentation of a planet of their choosing in Google Slides. See Science Google Classroom for instructions.
Language Arts: Week 3 of “At Home Learning”, we will continue to learn about figurative language by exploring alliteration! I am once again going to assign two assignments due at the end of next week. Students will have all week to learn about alliteration by completing 1) an alliteration worksheet and then 2) a writing prompt. Both assignments should be submitted via Google Classroom by Friday April 3rd at midnight. I will post both assignments on Monday so students can access materials all week and go at their own pace. A reminder, all Week 2 assignments are due by Saturday March 28th. I am still waiting on quite a few students to submit both of their assignments via Google Classroom.
Religion: Students are reading Chapter 18 to discover why the Eucharist is a sacrifice. At the Last Supper, Jesus’ words and actions changed the traditional Passover meal into something new. It became a living memorial of the sacrifice Jesus was about to make by his death. Students will take an open book quiz next Tuesday.
Come to the Scholastic Book Fair … Online!
Even though our school is not open, we want the Book Fair to be available for our students and parents to get great books!
Online shopping is available from Thursday, March 26th through Wednesday, April 8th and our school benefits from every online order. All orders will ship directly to you, and book-only orders over $25 will ship free to the shipping address that you designate.
So please support the Book Fair and our school. You can start shopping by clicking on the link to our book fair homepage and then clicking on the SHOP NOW button.
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Stay safe!