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).
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
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
COMING SOON...
Monday, November 28 - Ladies Book Club, 9 a.m.
Wednesday, November 30 - Pizza, DOGS, and Spirit Day
Friday, December 2 - Theater Production of the Wizard of Oz, 7 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Saturday, December 3 - Theater Production of the Wizard of Oz, 2 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Monday, December 5 - Moms in Prayer, 9 a.m.
Monday, December 5 - "No Uniform" Day: Pay $5 at the front desk and wear whatever you want (within dress code) as a fundraiser for the rhetoric trip to NYC and D.C.
Wednesday, December 7 - Class Christmas Party/Classical Book Exchange. Students may wear a Christmas sweater.
December 10-January 8 - Christmas Break
"Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and establish the work of our hands..." Psalm 90:17
MATH:
- Improve speed and recall of subtraction facts.
- Find the length of a missing edge of a cuboid given the volume and the length of the other two sides, or the area of the corresponding base.
- Practice volume concepts.
- Relate volume to capacity.
- Find the capacity of a container, or the volume of water in a cuboid-shaped container, and express it in L and mL.
- Find the volume of a solid by displacement.
- Review all previously learned concepts.
SPELLING:
- Assess mastery of words with the sound of /ul/ spelled EL.
- Learn to spell words with the sound of /ul/ spelled AL.
GRAMMAR:
- Classify and diagram pattern two sentences.
- Compose a pattern two sentence.
- Make nouns possessive.
- Write topic sentences and clinchers.
- Identify key facts in a passage and use them to write a summarized report.
- Use pictures as prompts for writing.
- Create a key word outline from a series of pictures.
- Learn four new vocabulary words,a nd be able to properly use them when writing.
READING:
- Summarize a passage through oral narration.
- Summarize a book through written narration.
- Identify virtues, as well as elements of truth, beauty and goodness, in reading passages.
- Expand vocabulary and improve reading comprehension.
- Memorize the imperfect-tense verb endings.
- Learn ten new vocabulary words.
- Translate Latin sentences that include predicate nouns.
- Learn ten new vocabulary words and a Latin maxim.
HISTORY:
- Be aware of some of George Washington's and John Adams's most significant accomplishments during their presidencies.
SCIENCE:
- Know the basic anatomy of the heart.
- Know the significant role that blood plays in the Bible.
GEOGRAPHY:
- Develop a heart of compassion for the peoples of the world who don't yet know Christ.
- Memorize the names and locations of the countries of South America.
MEMORY WORK:
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 24 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.
KEY DATES (quiz on 11/30)
1. Leif Ericsson Explores America - 1000
2. Columbus Sails to the Americas - 1492
3. Lost Colony of Roanoke - 1587
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
PREAMBLE TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. Students will recite or sing this to the class on 12/5. In the video link (Schoolhouse Rock "The Preamble"), the actual Preamble part of the song starts at 1 minute. Please note that the song is word-for word except that it does not include "of the United States" in the first line.
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Poetry: Our second-quarter poem is The New Colossus:
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!”
Link to "New Colossus" YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0B9CitsfU0