5th Grade Weekly News

Weeks: 1/16/2023 and 1/23/2023

Math

The students will

Here is a link to help with math at home: https://embarc.online/ There is a video for each daily lesson you can click on. The videos are extremely helpful with understanding the new concept in the math lesson.  I highly recommend watching these videos with your child.

Language Arts

Students will be going to our 5th module that has stories that tell us projects that help our planet. We will be focusing on central ideas and how we should be asking questions in order to understand concepts in what they are reading.  They will also be synthesizing and understanding the elements of drama. In writing  we will continue our in depth focus on how to write essays while we learn. Please make sure that students are completing their daily reading logs. This log supports their daily 20 -30 mins reading requirement. Logs are now available for students to complete though canvas. This is a great way for you to see if students have completed their logs. All logs still need to be completed by Friday. Students can now read their two weekly stories and other assigned level stories through H&H as part of their weekly reading requirement. Don’t forget if your child needs practice at home please have them go to their Amplify, https://www.noredink.com/ , or https://readtheory.org/auth/login. They all know how to access the programs.

Social Studies

The students will continue learning about Westward expansion for the next month. This week and the next, we will focus on the Industrial Revolution. The students will complete an around the room activity where they learn about inventions from the Industrial Revolution. We will finish up the lesson by writing about one of the inventions. We will continue to dig a bit deeper into industrial revolution inventions as well.

Science

This week, students will learn why our ancestors divided the day into hours and how clocks measure the Sun’s apparent movement. In the activity, Make a Shadow Clock, students make their own sundials. First, students use flashlights indoors to understand how the position of the light affects the time shown on the clock. Then, students take their shadow clocks outside to see how the position of the Sun can tell them the time of day. Next week, students discover how the Sun’s path changes with the seasons. In the visual activity, Guess the Season, students figure out the season of the year by studying a photo. Students come to realize that they can use the time of day and length of shadows to figure out the season in different photos.

Important Dates

Early Release Friday, January 21, 2022 and January 28, 2022

Notes from the Teacher(s)

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE ASK YOUR CHILD IF HE/SHE HAS HEADPHONES WITH THEM AT SCHOOL. Many students need to be using headphones to hear text read aloud to them but are unable to do so because they are not prepared for class. As a grade level we gave out over 50 sets of headphones this year and we are out of them now. Many students lost or broke the ones they were given. They are ESSENTIAL.

Be sure your child is reading at least 20 minutes each night.

And, of course, we need more Chlorox wipes. Thank you in advance!