Mrs. Hickson's Class

Feb. 5- Book Fair Preview
Feb. 6-8 Book Fair Open
Feb. 7- Late Start
First Class & Assembly
Jan. Reward

Remember that on any given day your fifth grader should be able to tell you what we did in school. The planner is a good reminder for them to help with this narrative. Sharing what they have learned each day is an excellent way to help students review.
The planner should be signed by a parent or guardian every day.

Homework might not always be a worksheet!!!!!
**Students should be working on multiplication facts every night.
**They should be working on Spelling City 10-15 minutes per night Monday – Thursday.
**Students should be reading 30 minutes each night. Their comprehension can be checked using the question sheet given to parents at conferences.
**Moby Max or Khan Academy- at least 20 minutes should be done each night.
**Students can use Ducksters or History.com to review social studies and/or science topics covered in class.
**Students will have assignments which need to be completed on Readworks.
**Content binders should come home every night so students can study and review that day’s lessons.
Math, social studies and science material in the binder should be studied each night to prepare for upcoming tests.

Math Unit 8-
In this unit, students will review the concept of renaming fractions and begin formal work of adding and subtraction fractions with uncommon denominators. They will be introduced to various strategies to multiply fractions and mixed numbers. They will be introduced to division of fractions with visual models and interpret the reasonableness of their answers through visual models.

Social Studies-****Unit 5 Road To Revolution******
Test Date: March 22
Unit Description: In this unit, students explore the causes of the American Revolution. Focusing on the period from the Seven Years’ War to the battles at Lexington and Concord (1756 to 1775), students trace the disputes between the British government and her colonies. They examine the British Parliament’s attempts to tighten control from the early Navigation Acts and the Proclamation of 1763 to the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, the Townsend Acts, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts. Students explore how colonists responded to the increasing control by Britain and analyze conflicting accounts of a variety of events such as the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. In doing so, students analyze how colonial and British views on authority and the use of power without authority differed. They read biographies of significant colonial leaders and compare their contributions during the Revolutionary War era. Students also focus on the role of political ideas, such as liberty (unalienable rights), representative government, and consent of the governed (social compact) as they analyze colonial disputes with Great Britain. They assess how colonial experiences with self-government, including the Committees of Correspondence and the First Continental Congress united many colonists from different colonial regions. Students also explore loyalist and patriot perspectives as the colonies moved closer towards declaring independence. The unit culminates with students constructing a chronology of events. Students then analyze the causes and effects of these events and assess their significance in leading to armed conflict at Lexington and Concord.