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
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--Upcoming Events--
World's Finest Chocolate Fundraiser- 8/30-9/30
World's Finest Chocolate Fundraiser- 8/30-9/30
Our World's Finest Chocolate fundraiser has kicked off and we are doing amazing! Our goal is to raise enough money to bring every student's camp cost down by $50! To do this we need an average of 2 boxes sold per student! We are well on our way to this goal and look forward to see how close we can get by the end of the month!
Student Early Release- 9/20
Student Early Release- 9/20
Friday, August 30th is a half day for our students. Students will be dismissed at 12:00pm.
Curriculum Night- 9/26
Curriculum Night- 9/26
Join us on September 26th for our 5th Grade Curriculum Night! Each grade level will conduct two identical sessions: one from 6:00-6:30 and one from 6:30-7:00. This will help parents who have students in multiple grade levels attend. Come see what your students will be learning this year!
Curriculum
Reading, Writing, Grammar
Reading: This week readers will learn all about theme as we deepen our understanding in our Interpretation Book Clubs unit! We will consider universals themes and compare and contrast those themes across text sets.
Writing: Students are being walked through the final stages of writing a literary essay. Next week, students will create their own thesis statements and work through the writing process to develop a final draft of a literary essay.
Grammar: This week students will continue learning about subject verb agreement.
Math, Science, Social Studies
Math: We will start four digit dividend by a 2 digit divisor long division. Students can use either long division standard algorithm, or what we call the box method.
Science: This week we continue with Matter and Energy; Conservation of Matter (5.6C)
Social Studies: Lesson 5 Routes of Exploration to the Americas. What were the effects of European Exploration in the Americas?
Standard Algorithm
Standard Algorithm
Box Method
Box Method
Routes of European Explorers
Routes of European Explorers
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