Link to Google Folder: 5th Grade Documents
Anything in blue should be turned in as homework on the next school day.
Anything in purple denotes a formal assessment.
Anything in magenta is optional (at the discretion of the co-teacher).
BLOG KEY
Language Arts:
AAS - All About Spelling
KWO - Key word outline
- Solve multi-step word problems involving rate.
- Practice rate concepts.
- Review previously learned concepts.
- Improve speed and accuracy of math facts.
SPELLING:
- Assess mastery of words words containing the sound of /awt/ spelled AUGHT and words containing hard and soft c.
- Learn to spell words containing the sound of /awt/ spelled OUGHT and words containing two hard c's.
GRAMMAR:
- Know the structure and purpose of a formal outline.
- Write a formal outline.
WRITING/VOCABULARY:
- Know the structure and purpose of a formal outline.
READING:
- Increase vocabulary through exposure to unfamiliar words.
- Improve reading comprehension skills.
- Summarize a reading passage accurately and with adequate detail.
LATIN:
- Learn new vocabulary words and a chapter maxim.
- Know what the ablative case is, and learn some of the ablative-case prepositions.
HISTORY/BIBLE:
- Be familiar with the events of the apostle Paul's life.
- Know the contributions, virtues, and vices of Marcus Aurelius, Constantine the Great, St. Valentine, and Diocletian.
- Know what happened at Pompeii.
- Know who Bar-Kokbha was.
- Continue memorizing the Nicene Creed and history jingles.
SCIENCE:
- Understand the role of trees in creation and gain an appreciation for their majesty and beauty.
- Know that a fruit is the mature ovary of a plant that contains seeds.
- Develop a heart of compassion for the peoples of the world who don't yet know Christ.
- Continue learning the names and locations of the countries of Africa.
A Day of Sunshine
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O gift of God! O perfect day:
Whereon shall no man work, but play;
Whereon it is enough for me,
Not to be doing, but to be!
Through every fibre of my brain,
Through every nerve, through every vein,
I feel the electric thrill, the touch
Of life, that seems almost too much.
I hear the wind among the trees
Playing celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument.
And over me unrolls on high
The splendid scenery of the sky,
Where through a sapphire sea the sun
Sails like a golden galleon,
Towards yonder cloud-land in the West,
Towards yonder Islands of the Blest,
Whose steep sierra far uplifts
Its craggy summits white with drifts.
Blow, winds! and waft through all the rooms
The snow-flakes of the cherry-blooms!
Blow, winds! and bend within my reach
The fiery blossoms of the peach!
O Life and Love! O happy throng
Of thoughts, whose only speech is song!
O heart of man! canst thou not be
Blithe as the air is, and as free?
Nicene Creed
We believe in one God,
the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
begotten from the Father before all ages,
God from God,
Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made;
of the same essence as the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven;
he became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary,
and was made human.
He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered and was buried.
The third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures.
He ascended to heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again with glory
to judge the living and the dead.
His kingdom will never end.
And we believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the giver of life.
He proceeds from the Father and the Son,
and with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified.
He spoke through the prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church.
We affirm one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look forward to the resurrection of the dead,
and to life in the world to come. Amen.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The Nicene Creed is the defining statement of belief of Nicene or mainstream Christianity and in those Christian denominations that adhere to it. The original Nicene Creed was first adopted at the First Council of Nicaea in 325. In 381, it was amended at the First Council of Constantinople.
1. Creation – The Beginning
In the beginning, God was there
Crafting the heavens and earth from thin air.
Firmament, sun, moon, and stars, plants and trees,
Birds, fish, and animals, Adam and Eve.
In His own image He created man,
And because of their fall He concocted a plan
To rescue mankind by His infinite love:
Purchase salvation through the blood of his Son.
2. The Sumerians – 2300 B.C.
From the rich fertile crescent in Mesopotamia,
Came a people group known to us as the Sumerians.
With cuneiform writing and a ziggurat, too,
Near B.C. 2300, this civilization grew.
3. Abraham - 1922 B.C.
In 1922 B.C.
The Lord called Abraham to leave
The land, called Ur, he’d always known
to head for a land he’d soon be shown
4. Hammurabi – 1792 B.C.
In the year 1792 B.C.,
A Babylonian king named Hammurabi
Developed a now-famous code of law
With 300 rules to help men get along.
5. The Exodus – 1491 B.C.
God’s chosen people, the Hebrews, had lived
In Egypt as slaves, for 400 years.
So God raised up Moses, an exile, to lead them
Ten awful plagues later, Pharoah granted their freedom.
Then into the desert, the Israelites fled,
But the king changed his mind and pursued them instead.
With a sea up ahead and Pharoah’s army behind,
The Hebrews were in an impossible bind.
But then God miraculously parted the sea,
And showed his great power in 1491 B.C.
6. King Tut – 1333 B.C.
In 1333 B.C.,
Young Tut became Pharaoh, you see.
He briefly ruled Egypt before he died,
And was laid in a tomb with great wealth at his side.
7. David - 1055 B.C.
David, a man after God’s own heart,
Killed Goliath with only a stone, for a start,
He became king of Israel in B.C. 1055,
And though he made some mistakes, served the Lord all his life.
8. Israel Divides - 975 B.C.
After King Solomon, David’s son, died,
The kingdom of Israel was forced to divide.
Benjamin and Judah split from 10 other tribes,
In the very sad year of B.C. 9-7-5.
9. Homer - 800 B.C.
Sometime around 800 B.C.,
Homer composed the Iliad and the Odyssey.
These epic tales of gods and men
Have been retold and shared again and again.
10. Israel Falls to Assyria - 721 B.C.
In the fateful year of 721 B.C.,
The strong and powerful Assyrian army
Was sent by God to punish the sin
Of the Northen Kingdom who had strayed far from Him.
King Sargon deported the people and then
Invited some others to quickly move in.
11. Babylonian Captivity - 605, 599, 588 B.C.
Because of the people of Judah’s great sin,
God’s prophets had warned them again and again,
That a very strong nation would take them away.
So Nebuchadnezzar from Babylon came.
And in 605, 599, and 588 B.C.
He carried them off into captivity.
12. Buddha – c. 563 B.C.
In B.C. 563, a prince was born,
Earthly desires he decided to scorn
They called him the Buddha: “enlightened one”
And a new Eastern religion had soon begun.
13. Confucius - 547 B.C.
In China, around B.C. 547,
Confucius began teaching about things such as heaven
And how to live moral and upstanding lives,
To be kind to others, and how to be wise.
14. Golden Age of Athens – 478-399 B.C.
After the Greeks drove their enemies out,
A new age of culture in Athens did sprout.
478 through 399 B.C.
Was a time of great learning and prosperity.
15. Peloponnesian War – 431-404 B.C.
In B.C. 431-404,
Two city-states fought the Peloponnesian War
While Athens loved culture, the Spartans were tough
And tensions erupted when they’d both had enough.
Sparta finally prevailed and sent Tyrants to rule.
But their leadership style was incredibly cruel.
16. Alexander the Great - 336 B.C.
In B.C. 336, after being crowned king,
Alexander the Great conquered most everything
from Macedonia to India and some of Africa, too.
His enormous empire continually grew.
17. Hannibal - 218 B.C.
During the Punic Wars in 218 B.C.,
One man decided to make history,
When Carthage and Rome went to war over trade
Hannibal’s plan was to bring a parade
Of elephants over the Alps--not by sea—
To shock and amaze all the Romans, and we
Remember that though just one elephant survived,
He made quite the impression when he finally arrived!
18. Julius Caesar - 49 B.C.
The Romans decided they wanted no king,
So instead, a triumvirate ruled everything.
In the Roman Republic, three men shared the power
But Julius Caesar was the man of the hour.
In B.C. 49, he became the sole leader,
An ambitious, yet somewhat effective dictator.
19. Augustus Caesar and the Roman Empire (“Pax Romana”) - 27 B.C.
Like his uncle before him, Augustus led
The people of Rome as its only head.
He ushered in 40 years of peace
When the Empire began in 27 B.C.
He also decreed that a census be taken
Before Jesus was born and the whole world was shaken.
20. Jesus Christ - 4 B.C.
Jesus Christ, born was He,
In Bethlehem in 4 B.C.
The Son of God, Messiah, too,
Savior of both me and you.
21. Pentecost – 29 A.D.
On Pentecost A.D. 29,
The Holy Spirit arrived divine,
To fill the disciples for their work,
Of spreading the gospel to the ends of the earth.
22. Jewish Temple Destroyed – 70 A.D.
Jesus had warned that the temple was doomed,
And in 70 A.D., his prophecy came true.
The Romans destroyed it and took all its treasure
Parading it all through the streets with great pleasure
23. Pompeii – 79 A.D.
When a massive volcanic eruption occurred
Spewing ashes and fumes from the depths of the earth.
Pompeii was covered in A.D. 79.
Yes! The whole Roman town was just buried alive!
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24. Constantine and the Edict of Milan - 313 A.D.
In February, A.D. 313,
The Roman Emperor Constantine,
Agreed in the Edict of Milan,
To treat Christians kindly from that day on.
25. Fall of the Western Roman Empire – A.D. 476
A.D. 4-7-6 was a very bad year,
For the once-great and powerful Romans, I hear.
When tribes from the north invaded the land,
The Western Roman Empire could no longer stand.