Questions/discussions to have at home: (updated 05/18/26)
Tell me about your monument.
What are you most excited about for middle school?
Is a square always a rectangle? How do you know?
Tell me about your ELA electives course!
What did you do in music this week?
Explain the country project!
What we are currently studying in 5S (Updated May 5th)
Math- UNIT 5: Temperature, Height, and Growth - Analyzing Patterns and Rules
This unit focuses on using coordinate graphs, ordered pairs, tables, and symbolic notation to model real world and mathematical situations. Students analyze arithmetic patterns in tables and the shapes of graphs to describe and compare these situations. Students work both with situations that follow patterns, allowing predictions of future values (e.g., how the area of a square varies as the length of a side increases) and situations based on data (e.g., temperature over time).
Social Studies- The Making of the Civil Right's Movement- This unit seeks to answer the question, “Why and how did activists take action to advance civil rights for all in the 20th century?” It begins with an exploration of multiple historic events that led to the CIvil Rights Movement. As students synthesize these events, they gain civic knowledge about the motivations for civic action.
Reading- Fiction Mini Units: Greek Mythology, Poetry, and Historical Fiction- Students will spend 2 weeks in each session, led by a different 5th grade teacher. In each mini-unit they will learn the elements of a fiction genre through both reading and writing.
Writing- Unit 5-The Lens of History: The fight for civil rights for all- Researching the Civil Rights movement and modern day rights movements in the United States.
SEL-Second Step- Unit 4- Problem-Solving
Students learn how to apply their emotion management, communication, and perspective-taking skills to solve interpersonal problems and demonstrate strategies for effectively dealing with interpersonal conflict.