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

Chocolate sales closed LAST FRIDAY! If you have a box out still, money was due before the end of the school day on Oct 4th. We have about 10 boxes left to sell to reach our goal! Please let your homeroom teacher know if you would like another box. 

We have had some great success this year! We are so proud of everyone's contribution!

Reading: Last week students completed their Report Card Assessments for our Fiction Unit. This week we are previewing our Nonfiction/Informational Unit with some fun activities and wrapping up our WIN (What I Need) time cycle for reading. We are so excited to see their growth in vocabulary and phonological awareness strategies. 

Writing: Students are drafting, editing, and submitting an essay this week on resilience. Teachers will then pick the top 3 from our campus to submit to the district to compete against other campuses! 

Grammar: This week students begin learning about using neither and nor to make two negative statements. 

Math: This week started our TEKS 5.2 ABC, 5.3 ADEFGK, and 5.4 F Decimal Operation unit! The focus of this unit is on place value of and operations with decimals to the thousandths place. The student will be responsible for identifying the place value of decimals, comparing and ordering decimals, and rounding decimals to the tenths and hundredths place. The student will represent the multiplication and division of decimals using objects and pictorial models, as well as, solving for the product and quotient of decimals to the hundredths place. The student will continue to work on simplifying expressions that now include decimal numbers. This unit will last 6 weeks.

Science: Your child is now beginning TEKS 5.7, “Forces and Motion."  By the end, your child will be able to explain how equal and unequal forces acting on an object cause patterns of motion and transfer of energy. They will also be able to design a simple experimental investigation that tests the effect of force on an object in a system such as a car on a ramp or a balloon rocket on a string

Social Studies: Students are finishing their Colonization project!