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).
5th Grade
Week 28 | MONDAY
3/31/2025 | TUESDAY
4/1/2025 | WEDNESDAY
4/2/2025 | THURSDAY
4/3/2025 | FRIDAY
4/4/2024 |
| Virtues | WONDER: "Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!" Psalm 33:8 - ESV
ORDERLINESS: "But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way." I Cor. 14:40
LOVE (CHARITY): "If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." I Cor. 13:2 |
| Bible | Read and discuss Psalm 143-144. | Read and discuss Psalm 145-146. Complete questions in homework packet. | Read and discuss Psalm 147-148. | Psalm 149-150. Complete questions in homework packet. | Virtue Reflection. Complete questions in homework packet. |
| Math | FP-D. Data Analysis and Graphs Quiz. Review 3 - TG p162-163. TB p155-158. The following problems are required. TB p155-158 #1-3. | FP-M/SS. Review 3 - TG p162-163. TB p155-158. The following problems are required. #4, #5, #6, #8, #9, #11, #12, #15. All other problems are optional for extra practice. | FP-X. Begin Cumulative Review Packet | FP-A/SS. Complete cumulative review packet that was started yesterday. Parents, please grade all (key in documents folder) and have students make corrections to all problems. Completed packet will be due on Monday. | TG p170-171. The following problems are required. WB p123-130: #1-7, #10-15. All others are optional for additional practice.
Cumulative Test on Monday. |
| Spelling | | STEP 26: Review card box. Dictate sentences 5-8. | STEP 26: Test | STEP 27: New teaching. Dictate new words. | STEP 27: Dictate sentences 1-4. |
Writing/Grammar | RESEARCH PAPER: Teach students how to make note cards using books about George Washington. | RESEARCH PAPER: Begin reading source texts and making note cards. You will have two weeks to complete this. | Skills and editing practice | RESEARCH PAPER: Continue reading source texts and making note cards. | |
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Reading | Poetry Packet |
| Read Aloud | Read and complete p12-13. | Read aloud | Read and complete p14-17. | Write your own poem on p18. Turn in completed poetry packet on Monday. |
| Latin | Ch27 Quiz. | Ch28 - Listen to CD/audio of memory page. Make vocab cards for all seven adjectives. | Ch28 - Practice exercises | Ch28 - Listen to CD/audio of memory page. Recite the eo charts several times. Commit them to memory. Study this week's words and maxim for next week's quiz. | |
| Geography | | Complete half of blank U.S. States & Capitals map to practice | | Complete blank U.S. States & Capitals map to practice | |
| History | Texas Timeline. Work on skit. | Read Story of Texas, Part 2 - p85-107. Answer questions 24-26.
TL Card and jingle: Texas Becomes a State
Locate Make Way for Sam Houston. We'll begin reading this on Thursday. | Texas Timeline. Work on skit. | Read Make Way for Sam Houston, Ch1. In your history journal, write a narration (7-10 sentences) that summarizes what happened in this chapter. You must utilize proper mechanics. Parents, please check all work and have student make corrections. | |
| Science | Explore the relationship between sight, smell, and taste with taste-test activity. | Read p185-191. Skip "Try This" activities. Stop before WDYR. Take notes on NJ p141. Answer questions #9-15 on p142. | Vision-related Try This activities. | Read p195-200. Skip Try This activities. Stop before "The Dermis." Take notes on p153-154 of the NJ. Answer questions #1-5 on p155. | |
| Memory Work | MATH FACTS: Division Facts Test on 4/9
POETRY: Day of Sunshine recitation on 4/30
GEOGRAPHY: U.S. States and Capitals test on 4/14
HISTORY: Preamble to the Constitution oral recitation on 4/28
KEY DATES #1-28: Test on 5/12
SCIENCE: Five taste sensations and skin anatomy - Test on 3/24 |
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)
SS - Singapore Sprints
WR - Weekly Review
Language Arts:
AAS - All About Spelling
IEW- Institute for Excellence in Writing
KWO - Key word outline
History:
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:
Wednesday, April 9 - Lap-a-Thon, immediately after school
Wednesday, April 9 - Spirit Day
MATH:
- Assess mastery of concepts related to average and data analysis.
- Review previously learned concepts for upcoming test.
- Improve speed and accuracy of math facts.
SPELLING:
- Assess mastery generalizations for adding the -ly suffix.
- Learn to spell words with the sound of /ār/ spelled ER.
GRAMMAR:
- Review previously learned skills.
- Find and correct errors in reading passages.
WRITING/VOCABULARY:
- Identify important information in source texts.
- Use note cards to record information from source texts.
READING:
- Read and appreciate poetry.
- Be familiar with the different types of poetry, as well as some of the most common literary devices and poetic hallmarks including similes, metaphors, personification, rhythm, meter, figurative language, rich imagery, etc.
- 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 maxim.
- Learn ten new vocabulary words and a new chapter maxim.
- Continue memorizing the the forms of the irregular verb eo, ire.
- Recognize that Latin verbs can be formed using some prepositions.
HISTORY:
- Be familiar with the events of Sam Houston's youth.
- Know what the culture was like for both men and women in the early days of Texas.
- Know that Houston was elected for a second term in 1841, as well as some of his accomplishments and reforms during that time.
- Be familiar with the events of the Mier Expedition into Mexico.
- Know that Texas ended up as a U.S. Territory because American leaders were fearful that Europe would try to acquire it.
- Gain an appreciation for the complexity, beauty, and wonder of how our eyes work.
- Know that skin is an organ, and begin learning its anatomy.
- Understand the purpose and benefits of skin.
- Know that carotene and melanin are two skin pigments.
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 50 states.
- Memorize each state capital.
Geography: We are currently memorizing the names and locations of the U.S. states and capitals. 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.
History: Students should currently be working to memorize the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution and the first 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 - 1587
4. Founding of Jamestown - 1607
5. Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth - 1620
6. Salem Witch Trials - 1692
7. First Great Awakening - 1740s
8. French and Indian War - 1754-1763
9. Boston Tea Party - 1773
10. Paul Revere's Ride - April 18, 1775
11. Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1776
12. Revolutionary War - 1775-83
13. U.S. Constitution Ratified - 1787 and 1788
14. Industrial Revolution - Late 1700s
15. Louisiana Purchase - 1803
16. Lewis & Clark Expedition - 1804
17. War of 1812 - 1812-1814
18. Monroe Doctrine - 1823
19. Underground Railroad - Early 1930s
20. Trail of Tears - 1830-1838
21. Fall of the Alamo - 1836
22. Republic of Texas - 1836-1846
23. Texas becomes a state - 1845
24. Mexican War - 1846-48
25. California Gold Rush - 1849
26. Cattle Industry - post Civil War
27. 1900 - Galveston Hurricane
28. 1901 - Spindletop Gusher (oil boom)
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.
Schoolhouse Rock Preamble
POETRY:
The fourth quarter poem is "A Day of Sunshine":
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?