{"id":949,"date":"2018-11-30T08:55:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/chamseddine\/?p=949"},"modified":"2018-11-30T08:55:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:55:27","slug":"week-of-december-3-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/chamseddine\/2018\/11\/30\/week-of-december-3-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of December 3, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This week in 5th grade we will be learning&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Language Arts:<\/u><\/strong> This week students will learning about informational\/expository writing.\u00a0While, they are reading each student will focus on a specific reading strategy (main idea, story elements, sequence of events, and parts of speech). \u00a0During Daily 5 students will continue practicing Daily 5 procedures and focus on learning about various strategies that will help make them better readers. \u00a0We will be focusing on QAR strategies to help them answer comprehension questions. \u00a0In writing we will be focusing on writing an informational\u00a0piece about an explorer in history. \u00a0Students will have to read\u00a0an informational article set to their level on Freckle.com (same login and password as the math) with guided reading questions everyday.\u00a0 Students will be completing prepdog practice everyday at home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vocabulary\/spelling Words-\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/chamseddine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1897\/2018\/11\/Spelling-and-Vocabulary-Test-12_7.docx\">Spelling and Vocabulary Test 12_7<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><u>Math:<\/u><\/b>\u00a0 This week we will continue learning about multi-digit multiplication and using area models to show our product.\u00a0 Students will practice in class and at home.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Science:<\/u><\/b> We will be learning about life Science and focusing on organisms and food chains.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is a food chain?<\/li>\n<li>What does an organism eat?<\/li>\n<li>What is the organism eaten by?<\/li>\n<li>Why do scientists use the scientific method?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b><u>Social Studies:<\/u><\/b> We will begin learning about Colonial America.\u00a0 Research these questions with your child.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What were the 13 colonies?<\/li>\n<li>Why were they founded and who ruled them?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Important Dates<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>December 12, 2018 Late Start<\/p>\n<p>December 24, 2018-January 6, 2019 No school Winter Break<\/p>\n<p>January 7, 2019 School resumes<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Important Remi<\/strong><strong>nders<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please send a healthy snack with your child every day we have a late lunch.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me at anytime (<strong>chamsef@dearbornschools.org).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<\/p>\n<p>Fatima Chamseddine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in 5th grade we will be learning&#8230; Language Arts: This week students will learning about informational\/expository writing.\u00a0While, they are reading each student will focus on a specific reading strategy (main idea, story elements, sequence of events, and parts of speech). \u00a0During Daily 5 students will continue practicing Daily 5 procedures and focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/chamseddine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/chamseddine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/chamseddine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/chamseddine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/chamseddine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/chamseddine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/chamseddine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/chamseddine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/chamseddine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}