January 14-18

Welcome back to another week in Discovery School Grade 5! Thanks for checking back in with us!

Notes for the week...


** This Friday will be an early dismissal in order to leave space for parent/teacher conferences if they are necessary. There will be NO SCHOOL on Monday, January 21, due to the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.

** This Wednesday at 10:10, 5th graders will have their pictures taken for the yearbook.  Students should not wear white or green due to the backgrounds that will be used. The all-school picture will be taken on Thursday at 8:10am.

This week in class...

Language Arts

In Language Arts this week, we'll continue practicing our reading fluency and expression by presenting our picture books to kindergarten and 1st-grade students.  Then we'll begin our new class novel Holes, by Louis Sachar.

We will continue using "mentor sentences" to observe and practice grammar skills. We will also continue working on our research as we build background for our science project about decomposition.

Math

This week we will continue to study how to multiply fractions with whole numbers. We will continue to use visual models and our understanding of division and multiplication to solve these problems in an abstract manner. We will also touch briefly upon division of fractions. On Thursday we will have a short quiz to galvanize our understanding of equivalent fractions and how to add and subtract with like denominators.

Homework:

Monday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL M.2

Tuesday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL M.3

Wednesday:One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL M.4
Thursday:One Xtramath.org lesson

Science

This week we'll study the intricate systems of food chains and food webs, as well
as what can happen when an invasive species is introduced to another ecosystem.

Understanding Food Chains
Food Chains Game

Thank you for all of your support, parents! Please feel free to email us if you have
any questions.

Ms. Amy and Mr. Andrew