We had a great week in 5A! Can you believe that midterm is this weekend?

Wonderful Wildcat:  Killian

Brag Tags: Ryder, Lainne, Aidan, Avery

Quarter 2 Goals: 

Reading: Complete your AR goal- check AR to find your goal for Q2- to pass an AR quiz, you must receive 80% or higher

Math: Pass xtra math this quarter (multiplication and division). Work at least 20-30 minutes a week on Freckle base 10 and fractions.

Behavior: Make good choices and make it to fun Friday!

Reading:

Important: Students need to be reading each night for at least 20 minutes. Goal: 100+minutes of reading from a book of their choice. They then need to fill out the reading log (on google slides) for the week. The reading log is due each Friday morning. This can be located on their Canvas homeroom page under assignments. All students know how to find this. 

• We will continue reading Took. It is a ghost story! The students love a good mystery right around Halloween. We will finish it by the end of the week.
• We are going to read a book as a class, The War with Grandpa. This is a 5th grade level book. It is also a book that will be a movie this fall at the theaters!
  • Skills: plot diagram,  comparing settings and characters, character traits, comprehension, summarizing, and responding to what you write.
  • Each Friday, we are taking a quiz over the skills we’ve studied for the week and the making sure we can comprehend the story.

Homework: Students will log 100 minutes per week on their reading log, complete 4 different reading strategies on the google slide and submit through canvas. This is due on October 30 .

Grammar:

• We will continue to study parts of speech.
  • focus: prepositions and pronouns
  • Continue mastering: Subject nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, simple and complete subjects & predicates
• Our daily language skills
  • focus: figurative language: simile, metaphors, alliteration, hyperbole, personification interjections
• We are also focusing on learning different homonyms and how to spell and use them correctly in sentences.
• We will also be working on learning how to correctly use contractions in a sentence.
• Every other week we will take a DL quiz to see what they have learned in grammar. It is usually 5 questions and as long as students pay attention in class, they will do great. (The study guide would be their DL sheet.)

Homework: Students may have to complete DL if they don’t finish it in class. This is due each Friday. 

Writing:

• Journal entry: found on Canvas assignments- submitted by Friday on canvas
  • Prompt :autobiography – our first for our expository study
  • Encourage students to write complete sentences with lots of supporting details.
  • We will also be making cards for our veterans that I will deliver to the VA at the end of the week.
• Our main unit for Q2: expository writing- this is nonfiction writing- Our journals will be expository this time.
  • Focus:  Writing a short story- (picture book)
  • We will finish up our short story and create our books. Students will also get to illustrate them.

Homework: Students have to complete their journal and submit it on canvas by Friday, November 13

Math:

Skills to continue to practice:

NBT 1–7:

• • multiplying 2 and 3 digit factors
  • dividing with 1 digit divisors
  • place value to the thousandths
  • rounding numbers to the thousandths
  • multiplying and dividing powers of 10
  • comparing numbers using the powers of 10
  • adding, subtracting, and multiplying decimals
  • dividing with 2 digit divisors with decimals
• New standards for quarter 2: 5NF1-7: These are the standards that teach fractions
  • this week our focus will be on adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators
  • simplify the fractions in the answer when necessary

Homework: (Most if not all will be completed in class.)

1. math muscle– we will do this in class this week so that students understand how to complete it correctly.
2.  math review- this is a worksheet with problems on it that reviews everything we have learned this year in math
3. math quiz- we will take a quiz each Friday over the skills we learned for the week. If students can do the math review, they will do well on the quiz. The math review acts as a study guide for the quiz. *** This week our quiz will be on Friday, November 13 .

Science:

• Science experiments are due this week
• We will work to record our presentations so that parents and other students can see what we have learned
• New Unit: Space– we will continue to study about the sun, the moon, and the planets
  • We will use mystery science to answer a question, conduct hands on experiments, and learn about space
  • Social Studies
    • We will begin Chapter 3: The Civil War