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5th Grade Information

Welcome to 5th Grade! Below you will find subject specific information and announcements. You can also find out more about the 5th grade teachers by selecting the "Teachers" tab above and clicking on their names.

Important Dates:

10/9 - 10/16 - Spirit Week (Potter Palooza)
Monday, 10/12 - No School
Wednesday, 10/14 - Donut Day
Wednesday, 11/11 - Veterans Day Assembly
Wednesday, 11/18 - Donut Day
Mon. 11/23 - Fri. 11/27 - No School
- Mon. 11/23 & Tues. 11/24 - Conferences

Resources:

5th Grade Information Slides
How to Access Student Google Accounts from Home
Skyward - Check Gradebook Regularly
- - Set up Email Notifications through "My Account - Account Settings"

Math

5th Grade Imagine IM Math Units:

Finding Volume

Report Card Standards:

- - Count Cubes to Find Volume
  - Use Formulas to Find Volume

Fractions as Quotients and Fraction Multiplication
Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
Multiplication and Division with Multi-digit Numbers
Place Value Patterns and Decimal Operations
More Decimal and Fraction (Add & Subtract) Operations
Shapes on the Coordinate Plane

Highlighted are the current unit of study and the report card standards (concepts) currently being assessed.

HOW CAN I SUPPORT MY MATH STUDENT?

Click on 5th Grade Math Concept Resources to find IXL practice skills, links to CYU's and resources for our curriculum.
Encourage completion of the daily Check Your Understanding (CYU) problem. (Students should not work ahead!)
Check the Weekly Math Review (WMR) worksheet (linked in the calendar) before it is handed in.
- If students miss more than 2 on the WMR, they must make corrections.
Review feedback on prior Concept Checks to help correct misunderstandings and have students see me if they need help.
PRACTICE MULTIPLICATION MATH FACTS 1-12
- Amplify Math Fluency, IXL Fluency Zone, Flash cards, etc.

General 5th Grade Math Information

ABSENT STUDENTS - You must make up Weekly Math Review worksheets and concept checks. If there is a lesson that day, I recommend completing the CYU and asking for help if you need it. To learn skills from missed lessons, students can also access IXL to do the IM Skill Plan lesson.

Science

Unit 5.1 Ecosystems & Matter Cycling

Students will start to figure out these things during this unit:

Planning and carrying out investigations related to what plants need to grow and how animals use their energy.
Exploring places where they see producers, consumers, and decomposers.
Reading about the plants, animals, and decomposers that live and grow on a nurse log and about the scientists who research them.
Developing models that explain how matter and energy move through an ecosystem.

Guiding Questions

What questions are you trying to answer right now about nurse logs?
What have you figured out about how plants get matter and energy to grow?
Can we find other examples of plants, animals, or decomposers?
How did you or the class share ideas in science today?
What new words have you been using to talk about what you are doing in science?
How has your thinking changed as you have figured things out?

Anchoring Phenomena:

How does a nurse log help other things live and grow?

ELA

Unit 2 - Early American Civilizations

Unit 2 dives into Ancient American Civilizations and orients students to the geography and climate of the Americas while presenting an overall history and timeline of the rise and fall of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca Civilizations. Students review the stages of the writing process to create a Codex Project. This is modeled after ancient writings, but includes information about specific elements of civilizations for each of the three early American civilizations.

Spelling

Our Spelling Pattern and Words (Beginning on 10/13/26)

Agents and Comparatives

-People Who Do Things- -Words to Compare-

dancer actor bigger

dreamer juror fresher

swimmer visitor smaller

voter director smoother

driver governor older

jogger editor younger

farmer sailor stronger

shopper creator brighter

writer faster

longer