Ms. Szalai's 5th Grade

Hello Everyone – Howard School has decided to participate with Dearborn High and other schools in a “virtual” spirit week. There is information on the school’s blog for your parents, here is the flyer. Please ask your parents to read this and the Howard Blog.

I know that you might be getting tired of doing the school work at home – but you have to keep doing it. All schools are doing “at home learning”. In districts where the kids don’t have computers or internet they are delivering paper packets of work the kids need to do. I know it is hard to sit at a desk or table but you need to. If I were you I would “pretend” you are at school and sit for 45 minutes to an hour working and then give yourself a 20 minute break then back to 45-60 minutes of work then a 20 minute break. Keep repeating this until the work is done (pretend I am there with you giving you the “eye”). Our new principal and the “big bosses” are looking at our blogs and assignments and asking if the students are completing them. Don’t fall behind. Be tough. Be smart. Have self-control. Doing the work is still your job. Unfortunately this is not a vacation and we need to stay focused. You guys are great – remember all the times I said, “Hey guys, even if I’m not in the classroom – you guys know what to do.” You got this – school work before video games, Netflix, Utube….You got this. Now get busy….

MATH-

Watch the video-

Do Zearn lesson 11

Read and hi-light the homework helper – please make sure a parent sees that this is done.

Do Succeed lesson 11 – (just so you know when we meet again and we will – I will be checking these to make sure they are done)

SCIENCE

If you did not do the “field trips” I posted yesterday then go to yesterday’s post and do it. Make four flashcards put the words on one side and the definition on the other side. The words are – geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere. The definitions are on yesterday’s post. You need to know these terms for next year. Remember that all four earth’s systems work together.

If you did not watch all three videos on the side under “Earth’s Systems” then you need to do that also.

I am still waiting to see many of the atmosphere pictures you did.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Go to the online book – again. Read pages 109-113 and really read it for sure. Take notes form each page – type those notes into google classroom (just open another window with google classroom). You must type in three thing you learned from EACH page 109, 110, 111, 112, 113 – that is 15 well written facts please. Make sure you know a lot about the French and Indian War and the Treaty of Paris.

Tomorrow you will need to do the assignment on The French and Indian War in Flocabulary. Please check today and make sure you can login – if not please email me today.

https://www.flocabulary.com/join-class/

password is KSN7SR

READING

Of course read your chapter book for thirty minutes – but no assignment on that because…. today you MUST GO TO READWORKS and read the assigned nonfiction passage, “Solar Absorbers and the Future of Electricity”. You must answer the questions and submit the work. This topic goes along with science – how humans interact with the Earth’s Systems.

SPELLING –

please please please take out your planners and have your parents or older siblings test you on the 30 commonly misspelled words. Please keep practicing to you get 100%. You MUST know all of them before you go to 6th grade. You’ll feel silly if you don’t.

Sorry about no poems today – they will be back tomorrow – my phone is dead so I can’t send the pictures.

OK DAILY ADVICE. TODAY IT IS SERIOUS – AND I AM SORRY IT IS. SUNDAY YOUR PARENTS HEARD THAT THE SOCIAL DISTANCING IN OUR COUNTRY HAS TO GO TO THE END OF APRIL. IT IS NOT FUN NEWS BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO LISTEN SO LESS PEOPLE GET SICK. YOUR PARENTS MAY LOOK STRESSED OR SAD. THAT IS NORMAL – ALL GROWN-UPS AND KIDS ARE GOING TO FEEL THIS SOMETIMES. BUT LISTEN YOU GUYS – YOU HAVE STRENGTH AND POWER. WHEN YOU FEEL THIS WAY OR YOUR PARENT LOOKS THAT WAY – HELP YOURSELF OR YOUR PARENT – TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE OR GO IN YOUR BACKYARD OR MAKE SOMETHING WITH STUFF YOU HAVE AT HOME OR LISTEN TO HAPPY MUSIC. YOU ARE STRONG, YOU ARE SMART, YOU ARE MATURE, YOU ARE HELPFUL. WE CAN GET THROUGH THIS (AND THEN HAVE A REALLY BIG PICNIC WHEN THIS IS OVER).