Dear Fifth Grade Parents,
Happy Valentine’s Day! A big thank you to all the parents who helped with the awesome party today. The kids had a blast!! I hope you have a wonderful Mid-Winter Break!
Save the Date:
Camp Seymour Parent Informational Meeting: March 12th, 6pm in the HRS School Hall. (Parents Only Please!) Camp Seymour is April 30 – May 2, 2025.
Camp Seymour Chaperones – We are actively looking for Parent Chaperones to come to camp with us from April 30 – May 2, 2025. Please email us if you are interested!! *To be a Chaperone you need to be up to date on all your Safe Environment classes.
Bingo Bash, Last Chance
Drop the kids for two hours (6-8pm) on Friday, February 21st for a fun evening of Bingo. This is for KIDS ONLY, so parents make dinner reservations and enjoy a dinner at one of our local eateries. This is our wonderful teachers’ donation to the auction. It’s a guaranteed good time for all.
Kindergarten – 4th graders take over the gym. Sign up your K-4th grader!
5th – 8th graders will have the run of the school hall. Sign up your 5th-8th grader!
Students are treated to pizza before playing bingo. Prizes are won and every student walks away with a free dress pass at the end of the night. Don’t let your kids miss out, this is the EVENT OF THE YEAR at HRS…for the kids anyway!
Cost: $60 per student
Space is limited and this event WILL SELL OUT, so sign up today! Deadline February 14th.
- Feb 17th – No School, Presidents Day
- Feb 18th – No School, Winter Break
- Feb 20th – Vision & Hearing Screening
- Feb 21st – Bingo Bash
- Feb 28th – 8th Grade Pizza Lunch
- Mar 8th – Auction
- Mar 21st – Noon Dismissal, Staff In-Service
The following is a curriculum overview for the week of February 19 – 21, 2025:
Religion
Next week Father Phuong will visit our 5A classroom on Thursday. On Friday (2/21) students will take the Chapter 16 Test.
Math – Ms. Semandiris
Wednesday (2/19) – Ch. 6, Lesson 11, Divide Decimals by Whole Numbers
Thursday (2/20) – Ch. 6 Lesson 13, Divide Decimals
Friday (2/21) – Ch. 6, Lesson 14 Divide Decimals by Powers of Ten
Math Ms. McGuigan
Monday (2/17)-No school
Tuesday (2/18)- No school
Wednesday (2/19)- Review part 2
Thursday (2/20) Chapter 7 Test
Friday (2/21) Chapter 7 Test (if needed)
Math – Mrs. Heuer
We will skip chapters 3 and 4 because we covered them in our 5th grade units.
Monday (2/17) *No school
Tuesday (2/18) *No school
Wednesday (2/19) *5.1 Integers and Graphing
Thursday (2/20) *5.2 Absolute Value
Friday (2/21) *5.3 Compare and Order Integers
Science
Students will be returning from break to a new unit- How can you identify materials based on their properties? We will be exploring how to make observations about properties, next week students will use appropriate methods and tools to identify similarities and differences between sugar and salt, they will represent their ideas in box and t- charts to identify a pattern.
-Last week students discussed important Black scientists like George Washington Carver, Mae Jemison, Gladys West and the barriers faced for these individuals to be recognized as important members of the science communities. We will continue these discussions next week with short videos of scientists talking about their experiences.
Social Studies
Next week we will move on to Lesson 8. In Lesson 8 Slavery in the Americas students will dive deeper into the history of slavery in the Americas by analyzing primary sources, images, and literature from different parts of the journey enslaved Africans experienced by visiting 6 learning stations. Essential Question: What was the impact of slavery on African people? In this lesson students will be able to describe life in West Africa in the 1500s and how the trade of enslaved people began. Identify the components of triangular trade. Analyze how Africans survived the Middle Passage and responded to a life of slavery in the colonies.
Black History Month
We will be learning about 6 important people during Black History Month by reading the biographies of James Weldon Johnson, Maya Angelou, Marian Wright Edelman, Mary Mcleod Bethune, Carter G. Woodson and Alex Haley. Students will have a chance to learn about some of the positive impacts these people made in history.
ELA
Hello and happy weekend! We will be done with Part Two: Via on Wednesday after break. double-entries will be due on Thursday of next week. The grading scale for these is on the top of the document on Google Classroom. If students prefer to hand-write these, they may work on notebook paper or print out the double-entry (They may need to increase the spaces to fit their entries). I do ask that they use a ruler to make a neat T-chart so that it’s easy to read. We will do another character emotions chart for Via, just like the one we did for Part One. No spelling and vocab words next week. Have a great weekend!