Welcome Back!!

Battle of the books information:

  • Students can access audio recording on a grade level specific iLearn course using the enrollment codes provided by the teacher
  • The Battle will take place on Friday, May 15th.

Spelling Words: assistant, brilliant, compliant, extravagant, ignorant, intolerant,vacant, instant, constant, Merchant, erosion,, acid rain, Weathering.

Social Studies test in on Friday, study guide will go home Wednesday.

March is reading month is coming, please encourage students to read. You are more than welcome to come and read to our class. Please e-mail/call if you can come to read to schedule an appointment.

Math test is coming up as well.

Week of February 10th

Hope you had a restful weekend!

M-STEP practice

Please encourage students to practice everyday.

Reading: RI5.1Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. 
Spelling:

recession, concession, vision, comprehension, conclusion, possession, permission, profession, dimension, suspension

Content words: Triangular Trade, enslave, West Africa, West Indies

Math:

Lesson 8

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Lesson 9

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Lesson 10

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Lesson 11

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Google Slides

Social Studies:

Test Next Week

Week of February 3rd

Hope you enjoyed the weather !

Testing: We will begin testing WIDA this week. Please make sure students sleep early and eat a healthy breakfast. Please encourage your child to read every night and practice math facts.

Reading: RI5.1Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. 

Writing: 

Informational WRITING: We are writing our first draft.

Math: 

Lesson 6

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Lesson 7

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Mid Module Review

Mid-Module 3 Review

Science:

  • Distribution of water on Earth’s surface 
  • The ocean supports a variety of ecosystems and organisms, shapes landforms, and influences climate. Winds and clouds in the atmosphere interact with the landforms to determine patterns of weather. (5-ESS2-1)
  • ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes
  •  Nearly all of Earth’s available water is in the ocean. Most freshwater is in glaciers or underground; only a tiny fraction is in streams, lakes, wetlands, and the atmosphere. (5- ESS2-2)

Human activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life have had major effects on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space. But individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth’s Resources and environments. (5-ESS3-1)

Earth’s systems

Week 18: Multisyllabic words -tion words

Explanation: 

*If the ending is pronounced as in station, then it’s spelled -tion. For example:

addition; duration; nation; solution; ambition; edition; caution; position.

*If the noun is related to a word ending in -ate, then the ending will be -ation, e.g. donation (from donate) or vacation (from vacate). 

Here are some more examples:

accommodation; location; creation; rotation; education; mediation.

*If the ending comes after any consonant apart from -l, -n, or -r, then the ending is spelled -tion:

action; connection; reception; affection; interruption; description; collection; infection; deception.

*After -n and -r, the ending can be -tion or -sion. It’s more likely to be -tion if the word’s related to another one that ends in -t or -tain, e.g. assertion (from assert) or retention (from retain). Here are some more examples: exertion; distortion; abstention; invention.

Word Bank: (Choose 5 hot words and 5 cold words)

prescription, subscription, introduction, tradition, condition, description, reception, communication, application, subtraction,

Content Words: Economics, Location, human, region, interaction, 


Week of January 13!

Hope you had a relaxing weekend!

We will continue with NWEA testing.

Math test Tuesday

Social Studies test on Thursday

1/2 a day and Spelling test on Friday

Spelling Words:

forgetting, expelling, transferring, equipping, regretting, flipping, wrapping, planning,

Content words: compact, agriculture, profit, New England


Reading: RI5.1Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. 

Writing: Writing an informational piece on one of the Planets.

Science: Distribution of water on Earth’s surface 

  • Earth’s major systems are the geosphere (solid and molten rock, soil, and sediments), the hydrosphere (water and ice), the atmosphere (air), and the biosphere (living things, including humans). These systems interact in multiple ways to affect Earth’s surface materials and processes. The ocean supports a variety of ecosystems and organisms, shapes landforms, and influences climate. Winds and clouds in the atmosphere interact with the landforms to determine patterns of weather. (5-ESS2-1)
  • ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes
  •  Nearly all of Earth’s available water is in the ocean. Most freshwater is in glaciers or underground; only a tiny fraction is in streams, lakes, wetlands, and the atmosphere. (5- ESS2-2)

Human activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life have had major effects on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space. But individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth’s Resources and environments. (5-ESS3-1)

Week of January 6th

Welcome Back !! I hope you had a wonderful vacation !!

NWEA testing starts this week!

Please make sure students practice using prepdog.com

Please ensure that students are getting enough sleep and eating healthy breakfast.

Week of December 16th

Hope you had a restful weekend!

Reminders:

Late Start Wednesday!

Spelling Test Friday!

 RI5.1Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. 

Prepdog by RIT Please have students practice daily!

Spelling Words: afternoon, lagoon, fireproofing, raccoon, proofread, blooming, schooling,  doorknob, flooded, football

Content words: solar, planets, rotations, orbit, tilt

Math

Lesson 20

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Lesson 21

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Lesson 22

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Lesson 23

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Science:

  • year. (5-ESS1-2)
  • Earth’s major systems are the geosphere (solid and molten rock, soil, and sediments), the hydrosphere (water and ice), the atmosphere (air), and the biosphere (living things, including humans). These systems interact in multiple ways to affect Earth’s surface materials and processes. The ocean supports a variety of ecosystems and organisms, shapes landforms, and influences climate. Winds and clouds in the atmosphere interact with the landforms to determine patterns of weather. (5-ESS2-1)


Week of December 2nd

Welcome Back!

Please continue to remind students to read and practice math facts.

Math test on Thursday December 5!

Math night Thursday December 5th from 5:00-6:30

Spelling Test is on Friday December 6th

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

RI.RI.5.1Focus: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly

Spelling Words: article, shuffle, vehicle, fragile, lexile, turtle, bundle, pickle, mobile, hostile, clan, Africa, Europe, voyage.

Math: Standards 5.MD.A.1 | 5.NBT.B.5 | 5.NBT.B.7

Science: Food chain and Food Web

Week of November 18th

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.