March 18-22

Welcome back to another week of growth in Grade 5!

Notes for the week...

** This Friday, March 22 is a Half Day. Classes will dismiss at 11:45am.

**For the next few weeks, we will be using personal electronic devices regularly in class for Language Arts, Reading, and Math.  Please allow your child to bring his/her tablet or laptop to school. We will be using the applications Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Slides, so please ensure that these apps have been installed on your child's device.  We use these apps throughout the year for many different projects!

This week in class...

Language Arts

We will continue reading, summarizing, and responding to our Book Club books to prepare for the next meeting on Thursday.  We will also be finishing up our conclusions for our Science Fair projects and continue with analyzing poetry.  In addition, we will study the Greek and Latin prefixes mono, bi/di, tri, quat/quad, quint/penta.

Math

We finished up our unit on fractions last week. The kids did a great job on their final test for this unit. We will continue to practice many of these skills along with using the basic operations to solve more complex levels of mathematics. It is very exciting to know that the students are very strong in these skills which will be fundamental for the rest of their academic career. Great work everyone! This week we will begin a short introductory unit on algebraic equations and graphing.

Homework:

Monday: One Xtramath.org lesson, watch the MathAntics Videos above
Tuesday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL V.3

Wednesday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL V.1

Thursday: One Xtramath.org lesson, Math IXL V.5 and V.9

Friday: Relax!

Social Studies

This week we will finish creating our props and script, and begin rehearsing for our final presentation of our living museum. Students should complete their independent research of the Greeks and Romans by the end of the week if they have not yet. Our final performance will be next week. Stay tuned for the exact date and time. :)

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

Ms. Amy and Mr. Andrew