Week of February 6, 2017
This week in 5th grade we will be learning…
Language Arts: This week students will continue learning about point of view in reading and 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 finishing a story in narrativve and informational. 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–
History Vocabulary
- Colony – an area of land controlled by another, usually distant, country.
- Economic characteristics – traits that are used to describe the way people use their resources to meet their wants.
- Ethnic group – a group of people who share a language and similar customs.
- Migration – the movement of people from one country or region to another with the intent of staying at that place for a long period of time.
- Native societies – the first peoples living in a particular region, for example the Eskimos and the Indians were the first to inhabit North America.
- Political characteristics – looking at the way people form government policy, choose to govern themselves and work within the political arena to get and hold office.
- Settlement – a place where people make a permanent new home.
- Settler – a person who makes a permanent home in a new place. Settlers from many countries built homes in the English colonies.
- Social characteristics – traits that are used to describe how people live together in a society, including their traditions, housing, diet, religion, language, education, and the development of their art and music.
- Society – a group of people bound together by the same culture or way of life.
Spelling Words-
Apples: Vowel pairs ill family- same, shake, stage, whale, grape, snake, him, his
Bananas, carrots, egg plants, dragon fruits: Suffix able- desirable, excitable, variable, notable, tolerable, lovable, remarkable, predictable,
Math: This week we will continue learning about Unit 6 Organizing Data and measurement. Everyday 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 begin learning about Life Science Survival of Organisms. Research with your child about the Solar system and find out these questions…
1.) How are the traits of species influenced by genetics and the environment?
2.) How do the behavioral and physical characteristics of organisms help them survive in their environment?
3.) How do we distinguish between inherited and acquired traits?
4.) How do fossils provide evidence about how species and environmental conditions have changed?
5.) How can species extinction be related to catastrophic events and environmental change?
6.) How do the similarities in traits help us classify organisms?
Social Studies: We will begin learning about the Road to the Revolution. Research with your child about how and why different colonial regions developed in North America and find out these questions…
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Why did some colonists from different regions join to create an independent nation? How did economic issues and political experiences and ideas affect the relationship between Great Britain and the colonies? Why were some colonists unhappy with British rule after the French and Indian War? |
Important Dates
Mid-winter break 2/20/17-2/24/17
Important Reminders
Please send a healthy snack with your child.
We are in need of tissue boxes, it’s that time of the year where noses will run. Please send them in with your kids.
If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me at anytime (chamsef@dearbornschools.org).
Thank you,
Fatima Chamseddine