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“a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
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MATH -MRS. CAMPBELL
Week of 9/21/26 - 9/25/26
5TH GRADERS WILL RECEIVE THEIR GRADED UNIT 1 TESTS BACK ON TUESDAY. WE ARE CONTINUING TO WORK WITH DECIMALS IN OUR NEXT UNIT: MULTI-DIGIT WHOLE NUMBERS & FRACTION OPERATIONS. WE WILL START WITH MULTIPLYING BY MULTIPLES OF TEN USING THE DISTRIBUTIVE AND ASSOCIATIVE PROPERTIES
THERE IS NO SPIRAL REVIEW THIS WEEK SINCE THERE WILL BE NO 5TH GRADE MATH ON WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY DUE TO BIZ TOWN AND SINCE IT IS AN "A" WEEK.
Social
Social
Studies -
Studies -
Ms. Holt
Ms. Holt
Week of 9/21/26 - 9/25/26
This week, students will complete their Business Costs Sheets and transfer the information to the Loan Amount Requested Form. They will also prepare for their JA BizTown experience by learning how to receive paychecks, complete bank transactions, and make purchases while shopping at BizTown. Throughout these activities, students will reflect on their individual job responsibilities while practicing important skills such as financial management, decision-making, and time management.
Science -
Science -
Mrs. Adlich
Mrs. Adlich
Week of 9/21/26 - 9/25/26
This week students will continue to explore physical and chemical changes, differentiating between alterations like melting ice and substance-creating chemical reactions. We will look deeper into the Law of Conservation of Mass to understand that the total amount of matter remains constant during these transformations.
Reading & Writing
Reading & Writing
Week of 9/21/26 - 9/25/26
Reading:
Students will finish reading Rosa Parks: My Story - "Not Just Another Little Girl," "We Fight for the Right to Vote," and "Your Under Arrest." Finally, at the end of the week we will read Step by Step-A Boy Goes to Washington (pages 46-49) and A View of Earth (pages 51-55).
Students will complete Activity 11.2 as they learn how to make inferences while reading the rest of the story of Rosa Parks. They will use clues from the text, along with what they already know, to better understand the characters, events, and meaning of the story.
Students will also work in groups to complete Activity 13.1, Author’s Perspective: A View of Earth. They will determine whether the passage presents a positive, negative, or neutral perspective on the topic and use examples from the text to explain how the author’s word choices and details reveal that perspective.
Writing: Students will complete Activity 12.2 by writing a paragraph about the worst meal they have ever experienced. They will use sensory details to describe what they saw, smelled, tasted, heard, and felt during the experience, helping them practice creating vivid and descriptive writing.
Homework:
Read 20 minutes of a book of your choice. Please be sure to bring a book to school every day!
Language Usage
Language Usage
Week of 9/21/26 - 9/25/26
Language Usuage:
Students will also explore sensory details from A View from Earth. They will use adjectives and nouns to describe two things the characters may have heard, touched, seen, smelled, and tasted in the story. This activity will help students better understand how sensory details and descriptive language can bring a story to life. Activity 12.1 Writing Sensory Details.
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