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, 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:
- Assess mastery of subtraction facts.
- Review previously taught concepts.
- Assess previously learned concepts.
SPELLING:
- Assess mastery of some words with the sound of /ul/ spelled AL.
- Learn to spell more words with the sound of /ul/ spelled AL.
GRAMMAR:
- Classify and diagram pattern three sentences.
- Compose a pattern three sentence.
- Know the pronoun cases.
- Write a story using pictures as prompts.
- Know what the past perfect tense is and be able to use it in writing.
READING:
- Summarize a passage through oral 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.
- Conjugate verbs using the imperfect tense.
- Practice parsing.
- Learn ten new vocabulary words and a Latin maxim.
HISTORY:
- Understand how Daniel Boone's adventures helped fuel interest in land west of the Appalachians.
SCIENCE:
- Assess mastery of concepts related to the blood and the circulatory system.
- Know the components and main functions of the nervous system.
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
13. Constitution is Ratified - 1787-88
14. Industrial Revolution Begins - Late 1700s
15. Louisiana Purchase - 1803
16. Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1804
17. War of 1812
18. The Monroe Doctrine - 1823
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