Greetings, everyone! I hope your families have had a restful break and a promising start to the new year. I am so excited to begin teaching your students again.
Believe it or not, there are only about two weeks left of the second card marking! See below for details about what we will be doing in class this week.
ELA
In reading, we will tie up our work on text structures and begin considering point of view in our texts. I will also begin doing student’s mid-year DRA tests to determine their current reading levels.
In writing, we will finish up our persuasive writing. Our goal is to have our persuasive writing pieces fully published by the end of the card marking.
Math
5th Grade Math
Students will receive their module 3 math tests early this week. Please sign them and have your student return them. We will begin studying a new unit in math about using fractions and decimals in multiplication and division. Our goal is to complete lessons 1 through 5 in the unit this week.
Please note that all homework for this week is from lessons in Module 4.
Monday – Module 4 Lesson 1 all (number line, then a, b, c, d)
Tuesday – Lesson 2 #s 1 all, 2, 3 all
Wednesday – Lesson 3 #s 1 d, 2, 3
Thursday – Lesson 4 #s 1 b, 1 c, 3, 4
Friday – Lesson 5 #s 1 all, 2 all
4th Grade Math
Fourth graders will resume their introductory study of remainders in division. Our goal is to complete lessons 16 through 19 this week.
Please return a signed copy of your student’s mid-module math test to school with them if you have not already.
Monday – Lesson 16 #s 1, 3, 5
Tuesday – Lesson 16 #s 2, 4, 6
Wednesday – Lesson 17 #s 2, 3, 4, 5
Thursday – Lesson 18 #s 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12
Friday – Lesson 19 #s 2, 3, 4 (all)
Science
We will start this week investigating the relative distance of the planets in our solar system. We will take the quiz about this investigation on Wednesday. Here is the link to the lesson so that students can prepare:
https://mysteryscience.com/astronomy/mystery-6/planets-solar-system/78?code=NjI3MDM1MjE&t=student
Later in the week, we will begin our final investigation about life on other planets. We will take the quiz on this lesson next Monday once we review. Here is a link to the lesson so that students can refresh themselves before the quiz.
We only have two more investigations to complete before we take our science test. Our science test will be next Thursday. I will pass out the review sheet on Wednesday, but I have attached it below.
Page one will be due Tuesday the 14th, and page two will be due Wednesday the 15th.
Social Studies
5th Grade
We will begin our new social studies unit on settlement and colonization in the Americas. Our goal is to complete the first lesson in the unit this week.
4th Grade
In our new lesson in our human geography unit, we will be studying the impact immigrants have had on the culture of the United States.
Spelling
Spelling words for this week will be posted on my Spelling City page: https://www.spellingcity.com/users/JuntunenA