Link to Google Folder: 5th Grade Documents
Anything in blue should be turned in as homework on the next school day.
Anything in red is a special note to the co-teacher.
Anything in purple denotes a formal assessment.
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, D, etc. denotes which sheet to use)
Language Arts:
AAS - All About Spelling
AAS - All About Spelling
IEW- Institute for Excellence in Writing
KWO - Key word outline
KWO - Key word outline
History:
TL - Timeline Card(s)
TL - Timeline Card(s)
Science:
PS - Physical Science
TB – Human Anatomy Textbook
NJ – Notebooking Journal
WDYR - What Do You Remember?
"Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and establish the work of our hands..."
Psalm 90:17
IMPORTANT DATES/COMING SOON:
Monday, August 26 - Picture Day!
Wednesday, August 28 - DOGS/Pizza Day. Students may wear a Fortis spirit shirt with jeans or uniform bottoms.
Friday, August 30 - Mrs. Allan's Birthday
Monday, September 2 - Labor Day. No school.
Monday. September 2 - Lydia's Birthday
BIBLE/VIRTUES:
This month, we'll be focusing on the virtues of wisdom and responsibility in our classroom. (Dependability is the schoolwide virtue.) As we study the Proverbs, we will gain an understanding of the value of wisdom for bringing blessing into our lives and the lives of those around us. Being responsible means doing the things you are expected to do and accepting the consequences--good or bad-- that result from your actions. The beginning of the school year is a great time to set an expectation for responsibility: for our choices, our assignments, our homework, our behaviors, and more! Additionally, our read-aloud for the first six weeks of school is a biography of George Muller, who relied solely on prayer to care for thousands of orphans in Bristol, England. The story of his conversion is one that always resonates with the students, as George goes from mocking God, making a series of terrible life choices, and refusing to take responsibility for any of them, to wholeheartedly repenting, trusting God to provide for his every need, and taking full responsibility for the thousands of children he rescued, nurtured, and taught about Jesus. He exemplifies wisdom, responsibility, and dependability!
MATH:
- Solve multi-step word problems involving whole numbers.
- Review use of bar models to solve word problems.
- Practice concepts related to order of operations.
- Assess mastery of concepts related to order of operations.
- Review multiplication of two-digit and three-digit numbers.
- Multiply up to a five-digit number by a two-digit number.
- Practice multiplying by a a two-digit number.
- Improve speed and accuracy of multiplication facts.
SPELLING:
- Learn to spell words containing the sound of /k/ spelled "ch."
- Assess mastery of words spelled with the sound of /ŭ/ spelled “a."
GRAMMAR:
- Know that adverbs do not always follow the verb and can be located in other parts of a sentence.
- Write sentences from labels.
- Classify and diagram pattern 1 sentences that include inverted word order and adverb exceptions.
WRITING/VOCABULARY:
- Learn the definitions of the four vocabulary words and be able to correctly use each word in an original sentence.
- Practice dictionary skills.
- Know what a who/which clause is, and be able to correctly use and punctuate one when writing.
- Write a pargraph from a key word outline.
VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES:
Please print copies of the vocabulary activities worksheet (you will find it in the documents folder using the link at the top of this page). This is a master copy. You will use these all year. You can also print one using the documents link at the top of this page.
Please print copies of the vocabulary activities worksheet (you will find it in the documents folder using the link at the top of this page). This is a master copy. You will use these all year. You can also print one using the documents link at the top of this page.
1. Cut out the blue cardstock PAGE (not the individual cards) in the back of the IEW book that corresponds to this week's lesson. Color the picture on the front and fill in the word in the blank on the back. Hole punch the page, and place it behind the "writing" tab in your binder. Study the meaning of each word.
2. Use the vocabulary activity homework sheet, and a hard copy of a dictionary, to complete the following for each word:
a. Cut out the page of vocab words from the back of the IEW book. Hole punch it, then neatly color each of the pictures.
b. Write the first workd on the activity sheet. Look it up in the dictionary.
c. Draw a line or dots between letters in the word to correctly divide the syllables (if applicable).
d. Write the part(s) of speech. NOTE: The acronym NVP AA PIC is used in Shurley grammar to help students remember the parts of speech. We will encounter it in a few weeks in our grammar studies, but it should be review for most students.
e. Write the definition(s) of the word from the back of the blue card.
f. Use the word in a sentence (other than the one on the back of the card).
g. Try to find at least one (more if you can) synonym and antonym for each word using the dictionary, a thesaurus, or an online source.
h. OPTIONAL: Using a dictionary (online or print copy), look up the etymology for each word. Write the oldest form of the word available and what the roots mean. Does it come from Latin, Greek, or some other root? What do those roots mean? Can you understand how the words got their meaning in modern-day English?
i. OPTIONAL: Write other forms of the word. For example: "prosper" (v) and "prosperous" (adj) would also be acceptable forms of the word for students to use, instead of "prosperity" in their writing assignments.
j. After you complete the tfour words assigned for this week, hole punch the page, and place it, along with the corresponding blue page of vocab words, behind the writing tab in the binder. I will periodically look in binders to check them for completion.
READING:
- Be able to summarize a passage through oral narration.
- Expand vocabulary.
- Identify virtues, as well as elements of truth, beauty and goodness, in reading passages.
LATIN:
- Assess mastry of previously learned vocabulary words and maxims.
- Learn ten new vocabulary words.
- Memorize the first conjugation "amo" chart and be able to use the chart to conjugate a verb.
- Practice verb conjugation.
- Begin memorizing the four principal parts of a Latin verb.
- Understand that the entire world changed as a result of Columbus's discovery of the Americas.
- Gain an understanding of Columbus's mixed legacy and the controversy that surrounds it today.
- Know the basic outline of the Lost Colony of Roanoke.
- Begin learning about what life was like in the English colonies.
JOURNAL: Remember to follow the instructions in the front of the history journal. You can find the jingles behind the history tab in the binder.
SCIENCE:
- Knowthe purpose of ligaments.
- Be familiar with different types of joints in the body.
- Understand how bones grow.
- Continue memeorizing the major bone sin the body.
- Identify key facts from a reading passage.
GEOGRAPHY:
- Develop a heart of compassion for the peoples of the world who don't yet know Christ.
- Know the names and locations of the world’s seven continents and five oceans.
- Understand how the northern and southern hemispheres are different, and how they work together to keep the planet in balance.
- Know the terms "equator," "prime meridian," "tropics of Cancer and Capricorn" and "Arctic and Antarctic circles."
- Know some characteristics of the tropics and the polar regions.
MEMORY WORK:
Geography: We'll be working on the continents and oceans for the first few weeks. A hard copy of the map 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 - recitation on 11/10) 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.
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
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
Poetry: This quarter, we'll work on memorizing and reciting Proverbs 2:1-11 (NIV).
My son, if you accept my words
and store up my commands within you,
2 turning your ear to wisdom
and applying your heart to understanding—
3 indeed, if you call out for insight
and cry aloud for understanding,
4 and if you look for it as for silver
and search for it as for hidden treasure,
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7 He holds success in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
8 for he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.
9 Then you will understand what is right and just
and fair—every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Discretion will protect you,
and understanding will guard you.