Happy Friday 5th Grade Parents!
It’s been a great first full week of school. We are starting to get into the swing of routines while moving classes and taking lots of materials around the school! Your students have been adjusting well and working hard! Today was donut day for those who completed the Summer Reading and Math challenges! Many 5B students got celebrated!!
As always if you have any questions or concerns please let me know!
Best Wishes,
Anna McGuigan
Tuesday 9/16 is picture day
Friday 9/19 is a noon dismissal and the start of West Fest!
5th Grade Learning Matrix 2025/2026
Math – Mrs. Heuer
We will be completing our work through Unit 1 – Adding and Subtracting Decimals.
Monday – (9/15) MAPS Testing
Tuesday – (9/16) 1.5 Adding Decimals
Wednesday- (9/17) 1.6 Subtracting Decimals
Thursday (9/18) Review – Students will complete a review to prepare for tomorrow’s test.
Friday – (9/19) Unit 1 Test
Math- Ms. McGuigan
Monday(9/15)- MAPS Testing
Tuesday (9/16)- 1.6 Place Value Through Thousandths / Check My Progress
Wednesday (9/17)- 1.7 Compare Decimals
Thursday (9/18) 1.8 Order Whole Numbers and Decimals
Friday (9/19)- Review Work Time
Math – Ms. Semandiris
We have had a great first full week of math class! Students are learning the routines of our math class. Our homework each night is usually one page (two-sided) from the math book called “My Math Homework”. I encourage the students to tear it out of the book and place it in their homework folder during class. Then they do not have to bring their book home each night. Also, next week they will be given their “On-line” login information for the text book as well as the Aleks program. Therefore, if they need to reread the content of the lesson they can log on to the online book. This helps with the carrying of books to and from school each day.
Monday – Maps Testing
Tuesday – Check My Progress p. 35
Wednesday – Quiz: Lesson 1,2 & 3 Check My Progress
Thursday – Chapter 1, Lesson 6, Place Value Through Thousands
Friday – Chapter 1, Lesson 7, Compare Decimals
ELA- Mr. Williams
Hello HRS families. Students have been doing a great job getting into the routine of language arts. Students can expect some homework in their vocab book next week. Vocab books should come to and from school everyday, and they fit nicely in students’ filers. Spelling and vocab tests are done on the Friday two weeks after I introduce words. This year, students will need to spell the words correctly and match them to a short definition on the test.
Also this week, students will finish their found poems, which are created using magazine clippings. Full credit requires at least five lines (complete thoughts) glued onto construction paper. Check the matrix for due dates on assignments and projects. We will also start unit one with writing theme statements using the short stories “The Giving Tree” and “The Fun they Had.” I will also hand out copies of our first class novel, Number the Stars. I will post assigned reading on the matrix and request that students do not read ahead. Thanks, and have a great weekend!
Social Studies- Ms. Semandiris
We are continuing our study of Chapter 1, The Geography of the United States. The “Essential Question” we will be asking is: What can geography teach us about the United States? Students will be using geographic skills to find places on Earth’s surface during the fast-paced Geography Challenge A. Students will also create political and physical maps and then compete in Geography Challenge B. Looking ahead, the study guide for this chapter will be on Google Classroom on 9/19. The test will be on 9/26.
Science- Ms McGuigan
Students will continue to look at how changing independent variables can affect the outcome of an experiment. We will use data we have collected as a class making pendulums to make a graph that will show how our independent variable affects the dependent variable. Students began a working glossary in their notebooks that we will continue to add throughout the year.
Religion
Students will continue their work on this year’s theme, Be Love, Be Truth, Be Light. Students will make posters to represent through art how they understand the theme. We will begin Chapter 1 in our textbook God’s Plan for All Creation, in this chapter we will talk about how to be stewards of the earth and each other.