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
AAS - All About Spelling
KWO - Key word outline
TL - Timeline Card(s)
BIBLE/VIRTUES: This month, we'll be focusing on the virtues of compassion, self-control (classroom virtues), and fortitude (the schoolwide virtue.) Nearly every history lesson includes a focus on fortitude, either in the moral sense of standing up against injustice, or the physical sense of showing courage in the face of fear or difficulty.
MATH:
- Divide
a unit fraction by a whole number.
- Divide
a fraction by a whole number.
- Praactice
dividing a fraction by a whole number
- Improve speed and accuracy of addition facts.
SPELLING:
- Assess
mastery of words that contain the sound of /g/ spelled GU.
- Learn to spell words that end with the sound of /cŭl/ spelled CLE.
GRAMMAR:
- Identify,
classify, compose and diagram pattern 1 sentences that include all the
parts of speech.
- Know
how to properly format and punctuate a friendly letter.
- Review and reinforce capitalization and punctuation rules.
WRITING/VOCABULARY:
- Know
that non-fiction paragraphs should begin with a topic sentence.
- Identify
and write facts that relate to a topic sentence.
- Write
paragraph clinchers that repeat or reflect ideas from topic sentences.
- Learn
four new vocabulary words, and be able to properly use them when writing.
BEN FRANKLIN PAPER: This is a new unit on summarizing a reference. Please be sure to review p82-83 with your student before he/she begins writing. Check the topic sentence your student should have written yesterday (at the bottom of page 85) to ensure that it is not too detailed or too broad. I will try to check them all, but may not get to everyone's. Tweak it if necessary before the student begins writing. It should be the first sentence of the paragraph. At the end of the paragraph, students should write a clincher that repeats/reflects 2-3 of the key words from the topic sentence. These repeating/reflecting words should be highlighted in both the topic sentence and the clincher. All the facts in the paragraph should be related to the topic sentence. Have the student use the checklist to ensure that all requirements are met.
READING:
- Be
able to summarize a passage using an oral narration.
- Expand
vocabulary.
- Improve
reading comprehension.
- Identify
virtues, as well as elements of truth, beauty and goodness, in reading
passages.
LATIN:
- Learn
ten new vocabulary words and a chapter maxim.
- Learn
how to have the endings of adjectives match the endings of the nouns they
modify.
- Identify
predicate adjectives in Latin sentences.
HISTORY:
- Know
who the Sons of Liberty were, and understand their role in the Revolution.
- Know
the date and significance of Paul Revere's Ride.
- Know
that the first battles of the Revolutionary War happened at Lexington and
Concord.
SCIENCE:
- Use
a study guide to prepare for a test.
- Assess
mastery of material related to nutrition and the respiratory system.
- Know
that Archimedes was a Greek mathemetician and scientist.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE UNIT. This week, we will begin our physical science unit. (We'll be taking a break from A&P, but will return to it next semester.) In class, we will be reading some textbook-like materials and doing activities together to reinforce those lessons. At home, students will mostly be reading from Archimedes, which will complement both our phycial science unit and our math studies this quarter. We will use the packet both at school and at home, so please make sure it stays in the science tab pocket of the binder so that students always have it on campus days. I will periodically check the packets to grade the homework students have been doing, so please don't let your student get behind. The entire completed packet will be due at the end of the unit, in late January. Should your student lose his or her copy in the meantime, you can print additional copies from the documents folder, but students will be expected to fill in the information from the previous lessons. This may require borrowing my copy of the textbook materials in order to complete the information.
GEOGRAPHY:
- Develop
a heart of compassion for the peoples of the world who don't yet know
Christ.
- Be
familiar with the names of the 13 original colonies.
MEMORY WORK:
- Begin
memorizing "The New Colossus" poem.
- Continue
memorizing a portion of the Declaration of Independence and the first 14
key dates, as well as the currently assigned memory work for science.
Geography: We'll soon begin memorizing the names and locations of the countries in SOuth America. A hard copy of this map can be found behind the "memory" tab in your child's binder. Additional maps, as well as MP3s of the corresponding song, are available at this link: Geography Resources.
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
Poetry: This quarter, we'll work on memorizing and reciting The New Colossus, Here sis a link to a video of a woman reciting it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0B9CitsfU0
The New Colossus
By Emma Lazarus
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!”
Excerpt from the Declaration of Independence
"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."