Mrs. Lansville's Updates: 

Rotations will be approximately 3 weeks.  By the end of 9 weeks, all fifth-grade students will have completed the same assignments, projects, and novels.  It is expected that each child read 20 minutes a night.  There will be times that chapters will be assigned from the class book.  If a fifth grader has an independent novel, he/she can read from that book.  If your child is in a writing rotation, he/she may read a free choice book for the nightly reading.  

Block 1 - Language Arts - 9:00-10:10 

We will focus on Written Responses, paragraph writing, nonfiction, and vocabulary.  The students have been working on Wordly Wise.  They will begin writing their Animal Battle essays. 

Block 2 - Language Arts - 12:10-1:20

Each student in this block will select an independent novel.  In these books, a character has a challenge or disability to overcome.  They will work to write thoroughly constructed responses and complete a "One Pager" project. 

Block 3 - Language Arts - 2:10-3:20

The fifth graders will read the class novel, Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls.   

Geography - 

All three academic blocks are learning the locations of the countries of South America

Mrs. Dinkel's Updates

We are starting Topic 2 and some students will begin Topic 3. 

Topic 2: Adding and subtracting decimals

Topic 3: Multiply Multidigit whole numbers

I encourage you to help your child practice their multiplication facts.

Mrs. Mozelewski's Updates 

Social Studies: We are currently working on physical science units. The unit we are on now is Conservation of Mass and next will be Gravitational Forces.