Mrs. Gartha's 5th Grade Blog

This week, M-Step testing will continue this week. This is the last week of M-Step testing! Once again, be sure that your child has a good breakfast and a good night’s sleep.

This week:

Wednesday- Late Start

Thursday- Celebration Assembly

Friday- Care to the Core

Homework

Spelling– Write your words 2 times each in cursive on paper. Sign and correct your test.

Read your pledge minutes and write in your log.

This Week’s Objectives

Literacy

-The students will continue working with Greek and Latin affixes.

Writing

– The students will begin writing a narrative following the appropriate steps.

Science

-The students will finish looking at what causes nighttime and daytime. Then they will look at shadows and what creates them. Finally, graphing their length at various times of the day.

Social Studies

– The students will study the French and Indian War. Then we will look at how the colonists were treated by the King of England and how they stood up to him.

Math

-The students will work on the measurement word problems with whole number and decimal multiplication by using fraction and decimal multiplication to express equivalent measurements. Then we will revisit division.

Spelling Words #1

1. autograph
2. biography
3. photography
4. infraction
5. fracture
6. graphic
7. phonograph
8. fraction
9. pictograph
10. homograph
11. graphite
12. telegraph
13. polygraph
14. paragraph
15. affixes
16. prefix
17. suffix
18. citing
19. magnitude
20. shadow

 

Spelling Words List #2

 

1. graphic
2. graphite
3. fraction
4. paragraph
5. biography
6. photograph
7. phonograph
8. autograph
9. fracture
10. affix
11. prefix
12. suffix