Dear Fifth Grade Parents,
We have had a very successful week in 5A! Students are really trying to do their best work and I see great growth with materials management and organization since the beginning of the year!
Reminders:
- Oct 4th – Glow Bowl (5pm)
- Oct 11th – 8th Grade Pizza Lunch
- Oct 16th – Parents Club
- Oct 18th – 5A Leads Prayer Service in School Hall (8:40am)
- Oct 19th – Fall Open House
- Oct 22nd – Picture Retakes
The following is a curriculum update for the week of September 30 – October 4, 2024:
Religion
This week we began Chapter 2, Made to Be with God. In this Chapter students will learn that true happiness can come only through communication with God. Religion expresses our relationship with God through beliefs, prayers, and practices. Students will be working on the Chapter 2 Study Guide (Reading Notes) as well as begin to create a Google Slideshow which will communicate how they seek out God in the world.
Second Step
Lesson 7: What Is Stress?
Objective: Students will be able to identify signs of stress in themselves and what causes them to feel stress.
Math – Ms. Semandiris
Chapter 2 Multiply Whole Numbers
Monday (9/30) – Ch. 2 Lesson 1, Prime Factorization
Tuesday (10/1) – Ch. 2 Lesson 3, Powers and Exponents
Wednesday (10/2) – Ch. 2 Lesson 4, Multiplication Patterns, Check My Progress
Thursday (10/3) – Quiz Lessons 1, 3 & 4.
Friday (10/4) – Aleks Practice
Math- Ms. McGuigan
Monday (9/30):2.4 Multiplication Patterns
Tuesday (10/1): 2.6 Use Partial Products and the Distributive Property
Wednesday (10/2): Mid Chapter Quiz
Thursday (10/3): 2.7 The Distributive Property
Friday(10/4): 2.8 Estimate Products
Math – Mrs Heuer
Students got their unit 1 tests back. You can look over it with them. (Students can hold onto the test in case they want to show it at conferences.)
Monday: *(9/30) 2.4 Divide by 2-Digit Divisors
Tuesday: *(10/1) 2.5 Multiply Decimals by Whole Numbers
Wednesday: *(10/2) 2.6 Multiply Decimals
Thursday: *(10/3) 2.7 Multiply Decimals by Powers of 10
Friday: *(10/4) 2.8 Divide Decimals by Whole Numbers
Science
We are finishing up our first Unit talking about variables and our immune system. Students have been extremely interested in learning and discussing bacteria and viruses and how our body reacts! We have been having great conversations! We are moving onto our next unit on Environmental Engineering and will work through a hands-on experiment “Cleaning an Oil Spill”. They will learn about how pollution affects ecosystems, how ecosystems are all connected;therefore any problem affects the whole system, and finally they will learn about the engineering process and learn how different plans and materials work within the engineering design process to solve problems.
Social Studies
We are finishing our study of Chapter 1, The Geography of the United States. Students completed Geo-Challenges A & B and we reviewed all the answers in class.
Students were asked to correct their work as we went through the questions. We also completed the maps on pages 18 and 21 in class today.
Blank Maps on Google Classroom:
- The questions and answer key for A & B are also on Google Classroom. I have also attached a blank world map.
- Blank copy of Geo-Challenge Maps A & B
- I also handed a hard copy of all of these maps in class.
The study guide for this chapter is on Google Classroom as of today 9/27. I have reviewed the study guide in class and the test will be on 10/4. Students should be taking their Social Studies book home each night to study for this test.
States Location Test & Capitals Test in June
We will have a States and Capitals test in the beginning of June. Students will begin to review for this in October and then it will be an on-going assignment to work on at home. I will also give morning time to practice on their Chromebooks!
ELA – Check the Matrix on Monday