Hope everyone had a restful break!
M-STEP starts tomorrow for 5th Grade!! Tuesday we will be tested on Science and Wednesday we will be tested on Social Studies. Please make sure that you child is getting lots of rest and eating a healthy breakfast before school those days.
ZOO FIELD TRIP will be on Friday, April 27th. If you are interested in chaperoning on the field trip, please make sure that you have all of the necessary paperwork filled out in the office as soon as possible. We need at least 4 to 5 chaperones for our class to attend. Thank you in advance!
ELA
- Spelling words for this week are:
flame rebel production consumption genetic divide variable admiration criminal televise admire produce dividend flammable gene television crime consume irony rebellion - We will be focusing on writing an essay, called a Text Dependent Analysis, that will be done on the M-Step next week. Students need to practice their analyzing skills to be able to write an essay using information that they have read from a text.
Math
- We are beginning unit 9 on coordinate planes, area, perimeter, and volume.
- Today we took the pretest and this week we will begin working on coordinate planes with positive and negative numbers.
Social Studies
- We began talking about the French and Indian War today.
- We will continue to discuss all of the events that led up to the American Revolution.
Science
- We will begin our new unit in science about food chains and food webs later this week.