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)
MATH:
- Read and write decimals to thousandths.
- Express fractions with denominators that are factors of 1000 as decimals.
- Express decimals to thousandths as fractions in simplest form.
- Express numbers to thousandths by expressing the value of each digit.
- Write decimals to thousandths in expanded form.
- Compare and order decimals.
- Round decimals to the first decimal place, to the second decimal place, and to a whole number.
- Improve speed and accuracy of math facts.
- Practice previously learned skills.
MATH FACTS/SINGAPORE SPRINTS/WEEKLY REVIEW: This semester, students who are still working to master all of their math facts operations will continue to do those daily just as they did last semester. In class, students will continue to practice the operation they will be assessed over next. At home, they will alternate between the other operations. Aim to have your students be able to complete the sheets in 4 minutes (rather than 5) this semester. They will still have five minutes to complete the assessments, however.
The Singapore Sprints will be assigned on home days to students who have already mastered their math fact operations. Please remember that students will still be assessed over the math facts this semester, so it is important that they practice them from time to time to keep skills sharp. We will work on them in class, but if your child tends to struggle with retention, you may want to throw in a sheet or two of practice every now and then. You will receive an email from me letting me know whether your student should still be working on facts or if he/she has graduated to the sprints. The goal of this week's sprint is to have students complete the second column faster than the first. These completed sheets are due on Mondays and do NOT need to be turned in on Wednesday. Answer keys are in the documents folder.
The Weekly Review will be a brief, one-page review that all students will do on Fridays this semester in lieu of math facts. These are designed to keep previously learned skills fresh in students' minds. Keys are in the documents folder.
SPELLING:
- Learn to spell more words that end with the sound of /ŭl/ spelled LE.
GRAMMAR:
- Know how to properly format beginning, end, and split quotes.
WRITING/VOCABULARY:
- Learn four new vocabulary words and be able to properly use them in a sentence.
READING:
- Be able to summarize a passage using oral narration.
- Expand vocabulary.
- Improve reading comprehension.
- Identify virtues, as well as elements of truth, beauty and goodness, in reading passages.
LATIN:
- Review for upcoming test.
HISTORY:
- Know that the acquisition of the Lousiana Territory, which Thomas Jefferson purchased from Napoleon for only $15 million, nearly doubled the size of the United States and paved the way for Westward Expansion.
- Know that Lewis and Clark were commissioned to explore the newly purchased Louisiana Territory and find a route to the Pacific Ocean.
SCIENCE:
- Learn concepts related to electricity.
- Know what a charged atomic particle is.
- Know what static electricity is.
- Know what an electrical current is.
- Know the difference between conductors and insulators.
- Know that electric currents are measured in volts.
- Know what Archimedes thought about the size, scope, and workings of the heavenly bodies.
- Know Archmedes' main contributions to geometry.
GEOGRAPHY:
- Develop a heart of compassion for the peoples of the world who don't yet know Christ.
- Continue memorizing the names and locations of the countries of South America.
Geography: We are currently memorizing the names and locations of the countries in Central 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
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution
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: This quarter, we'll work on memorizing and reciting Psalm 139:1-18 (NIV):
Psalm 139:1-18
For
the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1
You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.
2
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4
Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.
5
You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
6
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you
are there.
9
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10
even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around
me,”
12
even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the
night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your
works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place,
when
I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all
the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to
be.
17
How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
18
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when
I awake, I am still with you.