February 17 - February 21
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Please read through for important upcoming events, curriculum and 5th grade news! Please let your homeroom teacher know if you have any questions!
-Mrs. Cruz, Mrs. Jarosz, Mrs. Nagy, Ms. Rutledge and Ms. Tesar
Monthly Overview and Reminders
Skyranch final payment due thursday!
Skyranch final payment due thursday!
All of our fundraisers have ended and we have secured our invoices for camp, shirts and transportation, so we have calculated the final camp cost!
The final camp payment for both chaperones and students will be $235 (if deposit has been made). Total cost: $310 per child - $75 deposit = $235
If you have not yet paid your chaperone or your student's deposit (most families have), please send a payment for the full $310.
If you paid more money through the payment plan subtract that from $310 and that will be your final payment. You can send cash or check made payable to Savannah Elementary by Thursday, February 20th. Unfortunately this is a hard deadline as we must pay for camp, buses and shirts.
Thank you for your patience while we finished calculating the costs and booking our charter buses. Please direct any questions about this payment to your homeroom teacher. We are so excited!
Sincere thanks,
The Fifth Grade Team 😊
Snack & Water
Please remember to send your student with a snack every day along with a spill proof water bottle.
Water bottles will be sent home every Friday for cleaning.
If you would like to donate class snacks, we are always in need and so appreciative!
Curriculum
Reading, Writing, Grammar
Reading: Students will be working on completing their district assigned, Standard's Mastery Check on text structure, a topic that was covered in the first semester. Students will also use their reading block to complete the accompanying Extended Construction Response on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday, we will wrap up with reviewing synthesizing information from multiple sources.
Writing: Students are going to choose a topic for their own argumentative essay and start the writing process, using the steps that were completed during our class example of an argumentative essay.
Grammar: Students are reviewing adverbs and capitalization.
Math, Science, Social Studies
Math: Your child is about to explore graphing in the first quadrant. To master this skill, they will build on their knowledge of graphing on number lines from fourth grade. In fourth grade, your child learned to graph fractions and decimals to the tenths and hundredths as distances from 0 on a number line. As your child extends their
knowledge of this concept throughout fifth grade, they will learn the following concepts:
Describe key attributes of the coordinate plane
The x-axis runs horizontally, and the y-axis runs vertically. Both axes are number lines, in this case with a scaled interval of one.
An ordered pair (x, y) provides the location for a specific point. The first number within the ordered pair tells how far the point is located along the x-axis, and the second number tells how far the point is located along the y-axis.
The origin is the point where both axes intersect, at (0, 0).
Science: This week we wrap up our "Earths Rotation" unit and being our new unit of weather and the water cycle.
Social Studies: We will wrap up our unit on Westward Expansion: Manifest Destiny and the effects it had on different groups of people in America at the time.
Library Days
Mrs. Tesar & Ms. Jarosz
Monday
February 10th and 24th
Ms. Rutledge
Tuesday
February 11th & 25th
Mrs. Nagy & Mrs. Cruz
Wednesday
February 12th & 26th
i-Ready
Wondering how to support your student in reading and math?
Wondering how to support your student in reading and math?
Have you explored iReady yet with your child? This is a FANTASTIC resource that your student can access at home via the Denton ISD Single Sign On Portal (SSO). Your child has customized pathways designed to help them grow on their just right next step. Click the iReady logo to the left for a quick video explaining the benefits of iReady for your child.
Background Check
Please fill out a background check. You must fill it out every year. This will allow you to enter campus for school events and lunch.
It can take up to 2 weeks to process, so don't wait!
January Breakfast & Lunch
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