Conferences continue tonight!

Spelling test and Social Studies test on Friday

Spelling:

fountain, invoice, announcement, empower, voyage, coward, boycott, appoint, impound, avoid,

Content words:  Gravity, magnetism, Theme, inference, drama.

ELA: RL 5.2.RL5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text

Writing: W.5.2 Argumentative Writing-continued 

 Session 10 Writers use powerful quotations to make their essay persuasive.

Session 11 Teacher’s choice based on student’s needs.

Session 12 Writers draft by organizing their Boxes and Bullets into paragraphs.

Concept IV: Writers revise and edit to make their persuasive essay more effective.

Session 13 Writers use a student checklist to set goals.

Session 14 Writers revise by cross-checking for structure and basic elements of a text type.

Session 15 Writers create a counterargument, by presenting the opposing point of view and telling why it is wrong.

Session 16 Writers revise their introductions to hook their readers.

Math: Standard5.NBT.B.5: Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.Standard: 5.OA.A.1 Use parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions with these symbols.Write simple expressions that record calculations with numbers, and interpret numerical expressions without evaluating them. For example, express the calculation “add 8 and 7, then multiply by 2” as 2 × (8 + 7).

5.OA.A.2  Recognize that 3 × (18932 + 921) is three times as large as 18932 + 921, without having to calculate the indicated sum or product.

Science:

• Students will understand how gravity works/magnetism
• Students will understand the process of how plants make their own food through the process of photosynthesis. 
• Students will understand that energy is transferred from one organism to the next through a food chain and food web.