Mrs. Gartha's 5th Grade Blog

This week we will begin our NWEA testing. We will start with language and reading. This will begin on Tuesday in the morning. Make sure that your child has plenty of sleep this week.

Book orders are going home today and are due by next Wednesday, May 22nd.  This will be the last order for the year!  Shop now for some good summer books for your child.

Wednesday is a Late Start! School begins at 9:35.

Homework

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

Math– Learn page 269

Read your pledge minutes and write in your log.

This Week’s Objectives

Literacy

-The students will continue working with Greek and Latin affixes and author’s purpose.

Writing

– The students will be focusing on editing skills and then begin on an opinion paper..

Science

-The students will wrap up shadows and then, we will look at energy animals receive from the sun and will begin looking at ecosystems.

Social Studies

– The students will continue studying the events that led up to the American Revolution.

Math

-The students will continue working on multiple digit division in the divisor and dividend.

Spelling Words List #1

1. bicyclist
2. semicircle
3. cylinder
4. cyclone
5. encyclopedia
6. semifinalist
7. semisweet
8. recycle
9. semicolon
10. tricycle
11. semiattached
12. motorcycle
13. semimonthly
14. semidry
15. semiformal
16. discourse
17. public
18. ecosystem
19. rebel
20. taxation

 

Spelling Words List #2

 

1. cycle
2. tricycle
3. bicycle
4. recycle
5. cyclone
6. semisweet
7. semisoft
8. semifinal
9. semipro
10. semicircle
11. semidry
12. semicolon