Forth 5th Grade - Week 30 (April 14-18, 2025)

Link to Google Folder5th 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 30
MONDAY
4/14/2025
TUESDAY
4/15/2025
WEDNESDAY
4/16/2025
THURSDAY
4/17/2025
FRIDAY
4/18/2025
VirtuesWONDER: "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
BibleRead and discuss Ecclesiastes 5.Read and discuss Ecclesiastes 6. Answer questions in homework packet.Read and discuss Ecclesiastes 7.Read and discuss Ecclesiastes 8. Answer questions in homework packet.
Good Friday
NO CLASSES OR HOMEWORK
MathCh13, L5 (Word Problems) - TG p191-192; TB p177-180; WB Ex5, p146-149SS. Ch13, L6 (Practice) - TG p193-194; TB p181-182; WB Ex6, p150-153; 154. Ratio Quiz tomorrow. NOTE: We are finished with math facts for the year, so all students should do the Singapore Sprint today. Hooray!FP-S. Ratio QUIZ. Ch14, L1 (Finding the Rate) - TG p208-210; TB p183-186; WB Ex1, p155-157WR. Ch14, L2 (Rate Problems) - TG p211-213; TB p187-189; WB Ex 2, p158-160
SpellingSTEP 28: Review new teaching. Dictate sentences 5-8.STEP 28: TESTSTEP 29: Dictate new words. Dictate sentences 1-4.
Vocabulary
VOCAB WORDS: narrative, intrigue, recount, triumph
L28 - Complete vocab activities for "narrative" and "intrigue."L15 - Complete vocab activities for "recount" and "triumph."
Language ArtsRESEARCH PAPER: Teach OutliningRESEARCH PAPER: Write outline for research paper. If you haven't already done so, plan out the costume you will wear for the living history museum.RESEARCH PAPER: Topic sentences.

Final drafts of
Tuck essay.
RESEARCH PAPER: Write topic sentences for each of your body paragraphs. The topic sentences for body paragraphs 2 and 3 should include good transitions to connect them to the previous paragraph. Parents, please help students refine them.
Reading
Little Britches
Read aloudRead Ch7-8. Answer questions on homework sheet.Read aloudRead Ch9-10. Complete homework sheet.
LatinCh29 Quiz.Ch30 - Listen to CD/audio of memory page. Make vocab cards for first five wordsCh30Ch30 - Listen to CD/audio of memory page. Make vocab cards for last five words. No quiz next week.
GeographyU.S. States and Capitals TESTIntroduce Mexico map
HistoryTexas timeline.

Work on skit, props
Read Make Way for Sam Houston, Ch4. HISTORY JOURNAL: Write a narration (7-10 sentences) that tells what happened in this chapter. You must utilize proper mechanics. Parents, please check all work and have student make corrections.Texas Timeline.

Practice skit with props.

Review key dates.
Read Make Way for Sam Houston, Ch5. HISTORY JOURNAL: Write a narration (7-10 sentences) that tells what happened in this chapter. You must utilize proper mechanics. Parents, please check all work and have student make corrections.
ScienceDistribute and review study guide.Use study guide to prepare for tomorrow's test.L11&12 TestRead TB p215-221 (stop before "Immunity"). Take notes on p172-173 of the NBJ. Answer questions #1-4 on p171.
Memory WorkPOETRY: Day of Sunshine recitation on 4/30
GEOGRAPHY: U.S. States and Capitals test on 4/14
HISTORY: Preamble to the Constitution recitation on 4/28
KEY DATES #1-28: Test on 5/12
SCIENCE: Five taste sensations and skin anatomy - Test on 4/16

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:
Friday, April 18-Monday, April 21- Easter Break - NO SCHOOL OR HOMEWORK
Monday, April 28 and Wednesday, April 30 - CLT (AKA "Bubble") Testing

MATH:
  • Solve multi-step word problems involving ratios up to three quantities.
  • Practice ratio concepts.
  • Assess mastery of concepts related to ratios.
  • Interpret rate as one quantity per unit of another quantity.
  • Find the unit rate given a non-unit rate.
  • Find the total amount given a non-unit rate.
  • Review previously learned concepts.

SPELLING:

  • Assess mastery of words ending in ATE.
  • Learn to spell words containing the sound of /awt/ spelled AUGHT.

GRAMMAR/WRITING/VOCABULARY:

  • Know the structure and purpose of a formal outline.
  • Organize information using a formal outline.
  • Write topic sentences that tell what a paragraph is about and include transitions to the previous paragraph.

READING:

  • Improve reading comprehension and fluency.
  • Expand vocabulary.
  • Identify virtues, as well as elements of truth, beauty and goodness, in reading passages.
  • Formulate questions from reading passages.

 LATIN:

  • Learn ten new vocabulary words and a new chapter maxim.
  • Know that some compound words can be made in Latin by combining prepositions with verbs.
  • Continue memorizing the conjugations for the irregular verb "eo."
 HISTORY:
  • Be familiar with the events of Sam Houston's life.

SCIENCE: 

  • Use a study guide to prepare for a test.
  •  Asess mastery of concepts related to the senses and the integumentary system.

 GEOGRAPHY:

  • Develop a heart of compassion for the peoples of the world who don't yet know Christ.
  • Assess mastery of the names and locations of the 50 states.
  • Assess mastery of the names of the state capitals.
  • Begin learning the names of the Mexican states that border the Unittee States of America.

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?