Don't forget about the class Valentine exchange at 2:45 p.m. on Wednesday. Please have your student bring a Ziplov bag that contains a Valentine card for each classmate PLUS a separate bag or box to collect them. This facilitates quick distribution and keeps the chaos to a minimum. :-) Here is the list of names:
- Laney
- Ella
- Georgia
- Gavin
- Judah
- Lydia
- Zoe
- Gage
- Jacob
- Willa
- Benaiah
- Kendall
- Jaxon
- Alyson
- Granger
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:
- Divide a whole number by a decimal.
- Assess mastery of the four decimal operations.
- Know that "percent" means "out of 100."
- Express percentages as simplified fractions.
- Improve speed and accuracy of math facts.
SPELLING:
- Assess mastery of the sound of /ŭs/ spelled US.
- Learn to spell the sound of /ŭs/ spelled OUS.
GRAMMAR:
- Recognize, classify and diagram pattern four sentences: SNLVPrN.
- Know what an antecedent is, and understand that all pronouns must have a clear antecedent.
- Know what indefinite pronouns are.
- Know how to make indefinite pronouns agree with verbs.
WRITING/VOCABULARY:
- Learn four new vocabulary words and be able to properly use them in a sentence.
- Learn to use a word web as a brainstorming and organizational technique.
- Review thre structure of an essay.
- Write strong topic sentences.
- Develop ideas and arguments that support topic sentences.
FREEDOM OF RELIGION ESSAY: This assignment is from an earlier version of IEW. Because of that, we will use the essay planning guide, rather than the book for this composition. Parents, please make sure that your student writes quality topic sentences and that he/she actually uses those sentences when writing the rough draft.
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:
- Assess mastery of previously learned vocabulary words and maxims.
- Learn that the accusative case includes direct objects and some prepositions.
- Learn ten new vocabulary words.
- Know the meaning of the word "abolitionist."
- Understand the purpose of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
- Be familiar with the conditions present on the Trail of Tears.
SCIENCE:
- Know the four main blood types.
- Know that people with type O blood can be universal donors and that people with AB blood are universal recipients.
- Know what the Rh factor is.
- Understand the role of the heart in the body.
- Begin to memorize the anatomy of the heart.
- Know how to keep your heart healthy.
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.