I am so thankful for our class and thankful for the time we have spent together this year. Who would’ve thought we would have made it through week 15? I am so proud of all of our students. We are working hard to stay safe and we have learned so much!

Wonderful Wildcat:  Lincoln

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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. 

• Weare reading a nonfiction text, Small Steps. This is a great example of nonfiction, the genre we are studying during quarter 2.
  • The theme of the book is perseverance. The author of the book is a famous 5th grade author who has overcome polio.
  • We are learning about how when things are difficult, we can still live a great and happy life.
  • This book has been a great way to make connections to our current world.
• We are going to return to studying nonfiction texts in our Storyworks magazine. We will complete two of these before Winter break.
• Students will work on vocabulary, comprehension skills, and the big focus is parts of nonfiction texts.

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 November 20 .

Grammar:

• We will continue to study parts of speech.
  • focus: pronouns, possessive nouns and possessive pronouns
  • focus: subject verb agreement
  • 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

• 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 : NONFICTION prompt— procedural
  • Encourage students to write complete sentences with lots of supporting details.
• Our main unit for Q2: expository writing- this is nonfiction writing- Our journals will be expository this time.
  • Focus: Research project
  • We are going to choose a subject or person that we are interested in learning about
  • We are going to learn about how to research and take notes on our research without copying
  • Create a slide show to show what we have learned

Homework: Students have to complete their journal and submit it on canvas by Friday, December 4

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
  • focus: multiplying and dividing fractions– word problems
  • continue to reinforce adding and subtracting fractions, mixed numbers, and improper 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, December 4 .

Science:

• We are studying Rube Goldberg
• Students will work with partner to create their own Rube Goldberg
• Please help your child get their supplies they need for their Rube Goldberg here each day
• They will create a slide show and get the chance to show the class their Rube Goldberg completed project.
• • Social Studies
    • We will continue  Chapter 3: The Civil War
    • Students will read and complete activities in class about the Civil War
    • We will also study a very famous president, Abraham Lincoln
    • I also use the CNN 10 news channel to talk about current events