Week of October 10, 2016

This week in 5th grade we will be learning…

Language Arts: This week students will continue learning about narrative stories and focusing on Historical Fiction. 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 a Historical Fiction piece about life as a Native American.  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 3

Apples– Red book 

Bananas & Carrots– Orange Book

Dragon Fruit & Eggplants– Blue Book

Spelling Words-

1. Apples group– did, rip, fin, ripe, pick, dog, tell, hut (CVC a, e, i, o, u)
2. Bananas & Carrots group- flight, slight sigh, fright, bright, might, climb, twice (long i vowel sound)
3. Dragon fruit & Eggplant group- punish, until, disrupt, disgust, subtraction, reluctant,valuable,excuse (short and long u vowel sound)

Math: This week we will continue learning about Unit 2 Place value, decimals, and using base ten blocks. Starting this week your child should go on frontrowed.com every night 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.  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 Three Worlds Meet.  Research with your child about the worlds America, Africa, and Europe and find out these questions…

1. How were the worlds of America, Africa, and Europe alike and different?
2. How and why did the three worlds meet?

Important Dates

10/14/16 1/2 Day & Social Studies district Assessment 

 Important Reminders

Please send a healthy snack with your child.

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

Thank you,

Fatima Chamseddine