Questions/discussions to have at home: (updated 04/06/26)
How does energy flow through a food chain?
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
What is 2/3 x 4/5 ?
What did you do in Music this week?
Tell me about your memoirs!
What we are currently studying in 5S (Updated April 6th)
Math- Unit 7: Races, Arrays, and Grids-multiplying and dividing rational numbers, which includes extending students’ understanding of the meaning of those operations and of place value. Students use contexts and representations (fraction bars, arrays, and grids) to solve problems involving multiplication and division of fractions and decimals. Students also apply their understandings of multiplication and division to solve measurement conversion problems.
Science- Ecosystems - Students will learn about ecosystems and how energy flows through a food web
Social Studies- Reconstruction and Jim Crow- “How has the enslavement of people shaped the history of the United States, and how does that history impact life today?” Is separate ever really equal?
Reading- Unit 4- Fantasy -Identifying multiple themes, symbolism, metaphors, tangled plot lines, character change, nuanced settings, patterns across multiple texts
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.