Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Donation Sign Up
The Fortis Student Council is hosting a schoolwide Operation Christmas child service project. Our class will be putting together two shoeboxes: one for a boy and one for a girl (ages 10-14). If you feel led to participate, please click on the link above to sign up to bring an item.
Link to Google Folder: 5th Grade Documents
Anything in blue should be turned in as homework on the next school day.
Anything in magenta is optional (at the discretion of the co-teacher).
5th Grade
Week 12 | Monday
10/24/2022 | Tuesday
10/25/2022 | Wednesday
10/26/2022 | Thursday
10/27/2022 | Friday
10/28/2022 |
| Discipleship | SELF-CONTROL: "Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control." (Proverbs 25:28)
COMPASSION: “The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. (Psalm 103:8)
THOROUGHNESS: "He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion." (Philippians 1:6) |
| Bible | Read and discuss Psalm 28-29 | Psalm 30-31. Complete homework activity sheet. | Read and discuss Psalm 32-33 | Psalm 34. Complete homework activity sheet. | Virtue Reflection |
| Math | Addition Facts Test.
Multiplication of Fractions Quiz.
Ch6 - Chapter opener - TG p193; TB p147 | FP-D. Ch6, L1 - TG p194-195; TB p148-150; WB Ex1, p137-138. NOTE: Before teaching the "invert and multiply" trick, make sure the students understand why it works. (e.g. A fraction divided by 2 is the same as 1/2 OF the fraction, and OF means multiply.) | FP-D. Ch6, L2 - TG p196-199; TB p151-154; WB Ex2, p139-140. | FP-D. Ch6, L3 - Practice A. TB p155 | FP-D. Ch6, L3 - Practice A. WB Ex3, p141-142. |
| Spelling | | STEP 11: Review card box. Dictate sentences 5-8. | STEP 11: Test | STEP 12, p65-67: New teaching. Dictate words. | STEP 12: Dictate sentences 1-4. |
| Grammar | Ch11, L1 - Friendly letter punctuation and formatting | Ch11, L2 - Jingle Time, Grammar Time, Skill Time, and Practice Time | Ch11, L3 - Grammar Time. Write friendly letter to a classmate. | Ch11, L3 - Jingle Time and Test Time (Skip Ex4&6), Ch11, L4 Test Time. (Students may use the references in their workbooks.) | |
Writing/Vocab | No new vocab words this week |
| L9 - Read source text. Complete KWO and brainstorming pages. Write topic sentences. | L9 - Write Ben Franklin paragraph. See note below. | Writers' Conferences. Distribute final checklists. | Write final draft of Boston Tea Party story. Make sure all dress ups and openers are properly labeled and underlined. | |
Reading | Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia |
| Read Johnny Tremain aloud | Read Ch7-8. Orally narrate and discuss. | Read "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" poem. Complete reading activity. | Read Ch9-10. Orally narrate and discuss. | Read Ch11-12. Orally narrate and discuss. |
| Latin | Ch11 Vocab Quiz. Practice exercises. | Ch12 - Listen to CD and recite memory chart twice. Make vocabulary cards for the first five words. | Ch12 - grammar lesson | Ch12 - Listen to CD and recite memory chart twice. Make vocabulary cards for the remaining words. | |
| History | Present Founding Fathers posters. | Read Ch13 - The British are Coming! Color the timeline card for Paul Revere's Ride and glue into your journal. Copy the jingle below the card. | Read And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? | HISTORY JOURNAL: Do some brief internet research about one of the members of the Sons of Liberty (Sam Adams, Joseph Warren, Paul Revere, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, etc.) Pretend that he was "wanted" because of his treasonous secret meetings and activities. Make a full-page "wanted" ad in your journal that includes the member's picture, a reward notice, and a few bullet point facts about him. |
| Geography | Missionary Stories from Guatemala | Central America | Missionary Stories from El Salvador | Central America | |
| Science | Complete the respiratory system mini books (pA25-28 in the back of the NBJ). | Read TB p109-112 (Begin at "Trachea Track"). Skip Try This Activities. Take notes on p82-83 of your NBJ. Answer WDYR questions #8-11 on p84 as you go. | Diaphragm model, lung capacity experiment. | Read TB p112-115. Skip Try This Activities. Take notes on p82-83 of your NBJ. Answer WDYR questions #12-13 on p84 as you go. | |
| Memory Work | POETRY: The New Colossus, Due for Recitation on 12/5
MATH FACTS: Addition Facts Test on 10/24
GEOGRAPHY: Central America Test on 11/7
HISTORY: Declaration of Independence Recitation on 11/9
KEY DATES: 1-12 Quiz on 11/28
SCIENCE: My Plate, Respiratory System Test on 11/4 |
BLOG KEY:
General:
Act – Activity
Ch – Chapter
Ex – Exercise
L – Lesson
p – Page(s)
Math:
TG – Teacher’s Guide
TB – Textbook
WB – Workbook
FP – Facts Practice (A, S, M, or D denotes which sheet to use)
Writing:
IEW- Institute for Excellence in Writing
KWO - Key word outline
Science:
TB – Human Anatomy Textbook
NBJ – Notebooking Journal
WDYR - What Do You Remember?
TLFS – Trees, Leaves, Flowers and Seeds
Wednesday, October 26 - Pizza/DOGS/Spirit Day
Wednesday, October 26 - Picture Retake Day
Friday, October 28 - Fall Festival
Monday, October 31 - Historical Figures Dress-Up Day
Saturday. November 12 - Lap-a-Thon -- NEW DATE
"Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and establish the work of our hands..." Psalm 90:17
- Investigate division of fractions.
- Divide a unit fraction by a while number.
- Divide a fraction by a whole number.
- Assess mastery of addition facts.
- Improve speed and accuracy of division facts.
SPELLING:
- Assess mastery of words containing the sound of /g/ spelled GU.
- Learn to spell words containing the sound of /cul/ spelled CLE.
- Properly format a friendly letter.
- Correctly address an envelope.
WRITING/VOCABULARY:
- Write topic sentences and clinchers.
- Identify key facts in a passage and use them to write a summarized report.
- Summarize a passage through oral narration.
- Identify virtues, as well as elements of truth, beauty and goodness, in reading passages.
- Improve reading comprehension.
LATIN:
- Learn ten new vocabulary words and a maxim.
HISTORY:
- Be familiar with the main causes of and key figures involved in the American Revolution.
- Know the main contributions of the Founding Fathers.
SCIENCE:
- Know the major components and functions of the respiratory system.
- Develop a heart of compassion for the peoples of the world who don't yet know Christ.
- Continue memorizing the names and locations of the countries of Central America.
Geography: A hard copy of the maps can be found behind the "memory" tab in your child's binder. Additional maps, as well as MP3s of the song, are available at this link: Geography Resources. History: Students will memorize a portion of the Declaration of Independence (bolded portion only) and 21 key dates. The key dates have accompanying jingles that do not have to be memorized, but will help students memorize the dates and retain details about the events to which they correspond.
BEN FRANKLIN PAPER:
Parents, please read p82 with your child to review summaries, topic sentences, and clinchers. We discussed this in class last week and will again on Monday of this week. Your student should have generated some ideas for topic sentences during class yesterday (bottom of p85). This will be a one-paragraph paper. Remember that this is NOT a sentence-for sentence retelling of the source text. Students should have included the facts they want to use on their outline and should write only from the outline. Remember to have students highlight 2-3 KEY WORDS that appear in both the topic sentence and the paragraph clincher.
KEY DATES (quiz on 11/30)
1. Leif Ericsson Explores America - 1000
2. Columbus Sails to the Americas - 1492
3. Lost Colony of Roanoke - 1583
4. Founding of Jamestown - 1607
5. Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth - 1620
6. Salem Witch Trials - 1692
7. First Great Awakening -1740s
8. French & Indian War - 1754-63
9. Boston Tea Party - 1773
10. Paul Revere's Ride - 1775
11. Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1776
12. American Revolution - 1775-83
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE EXCERPT (Recitation on 11/10):
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Poetry: Our second-quarter poem is The New Colossus. Students will recite it for a grade on 11/17:
The New Colossus
Written by Emma Lazarus in 1883
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.
From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”