Reminder: Friday, January 26th is a 1/2 day!!
Here is what is happening this week in 5th grade:
ELA
- Language Usage and Reading NWEA test.
- Reading about colonization and finding the cause and effect.
- Spelling words: forgetting, diagram, beginning, planning, upsetting, regretting, quizzing, venn, wrapping, parenthesis, transferring, compelling, axis, omitting, operation, Loyalist, referring, Patriot, begging.
Math
- Review simplifying fractions.
- Adding fractions.
- Subtracting fractions.
Science
- Exploring water on planet Earth.
- Where does fresh water come from?
- Is there more fresh water or salt water on Earth?
Social Studies
- Starting our new unit on colonization settlement.
- Push and pull factors for leaving one area and moving to another.
- Primary and secondary sources of information.