Week of October 31, 2016

This week in 5th grade we will be learning…

Language Arts: This week students will continue learning about informational/expository writing. While, they are reading each student will focus on a specific reading strategy (main idea, story elements, sequence of events, and parts of speech).  During Daily 5 students will continue practicing Daily 5 procedures and focus on learning about various strategies that will help make them better readers.  We will be focusing on QAR strategies to help them answer comprehension questions.  In writing we will be focusing on writing an informational piece about life in colonial America.  Students will have to read an informational article set to their level on Frontrowed.com (same login and password as the math) with guided reading questions everyday.

Vocabulary Words– vocabularyworkshop.com Unit 6

Apples– Red book 

Bananas, Carrots, Dragon Fruit, & Eggplants– Blue Book

Spelling Words-

1. Apples group– hut, shut, cut, bug, hug, rug,  live, would (-cvc-u)
2. Bananas, Carrots, Dragon fruit & Eggplant group- demonstrate, vanishing, prevent, defending, protest, devoted, define, bonus (In words with the VCV spelling pattern, a consonant between two vowels tends to go with the second vowel unless the first vowel is accented and short (open syllable: bro-ken; closed syllable: wag-on).

Math: This week we will continue learning about Unit 3 Geometry.  Everday students should go on frontrowed.com for extra math practice.  They log in using their first name and their last name.  The class code is k9kyvt.

Science: We will continue learning about forces and motion focusing on Newton’s Laws of Motion.  This week and next week we will begin building and testing our distance car and our egg/inertia car to demonstrate Newton’s Laws of Motion.  Research with your child about Forces and Motion and find out these questions…

1. How is the motion of an object described relative to its point of reference?
2. How do forces affect the motion of objects?

Social Studies: We will continue learning about Colonization and Settlement.  Research with your child about how and why different colonial regions developed in North America and find out these questions…

1. How did the push and pull factors of migration influence the settlement of different colonial regions in North America?
2. How did the geography of North America affect settlement patterns and the economic, political, and cultural development of different colonial regions?

Important Dates

11/4/16 1/2 day dismissal at 11:15

11/4/16 Newton’s distance and egg car due 

11/8/16 No School for students 

 Important Reminders

Please send a healthy snack with your child.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me at anytime (chamsef@dearbornschools.org).

Thank you,

Fatima Chamseddine