April 1 - 5

Welcome back to another great week in Grade 5!

Notes for the week...

** This Friday, April 5, we will have our Elementary and Early Childhood Science Fair.  Students will be visiting the Early Childhood Science Projects 10:50-12:20, and then will begin presenting their own projects at 1:20.  Parents are welcome to come, but must not be present during judging. We will pack things up at 2:30 and have our final awards presentation at 2:45.

** Third quarter report cards were sent home the Friday before last.  Please sign and return the envelope to school as soon as possible.  Thanks!

This week in class...

Language Arts

In Reading, we will continue with our Book Club routines.  We will have last week's Book Club Meeting on Tuesday, and then the following meeting on the following Tuesday. 

In Language Arts and Writing we will be finishing up display boards and practicing our oral presentations for the Science Fair this Friday, April 5.  



Math

We will take a short quiz to measure our understanding of solving simple equations and solving operations involving negative numbers. We will also begin our next unit on geometry. Students, please be sure to watch the MathAntics videos to prepare for our new unit.

Homework:

Monday: One Xtramath.org lesson, complete the digital Greece & Rome study guide
Tuesday: One Xtramath.org lesson, complete the test prep study guide for Greece & Rome

Wednesday: One Xtramath.org lesson, watch the Kahn Academy video above

Thursday: One Xtramath.org lesson, take the Google Forms Greece & Rome Unit Test

Friday: Relax!

Science

We will spend Science periods this week finishing up preparations for our Science Fair on Friday.  We hope to see you there!

Ms. Amy and Mr. Andrew