Calendar Dates:

-11/18- Wellness Walk at school during Specials/ Penguin Patch preview

– 11/22-11/26- Thanksgiving Break- No School

-11/29-12/3- Penguin Patch Holiday Shop

-11/30- Last day to place 5^th grade yearbook ad

-11/30-12/6- Book Fair begins

-12/2- Cookies with Santa & Chorus Performance 6:00-7:15 pm

– 12/16 & 12/17- Early Release at 12:30

– 12/20-1/4- Winter Break

– 1/5- Back to School!

 

Topics of Learning for Week After Break:

–ELA: Students will be researching the rainforest. They will be gathering evidence on why scientists study the rainforest and ways you could save the rainforest. This research will be in preparation for writing an informational brochure regarding the rainforest.

 

–Grammar: The students will learn about using commas with introductory phrases. Quiz on December 8^th.

 

–Social Studies: The students will study the following people from post-World War I in America.

Standard:

SS5H2: Describe post-World War I America.

1. Describe the cultural developments and individual contributions in the 1920s of the Jazz Age (Louis Armstrong), the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes), baseball (Babe Ruth), the automobile (Henry Ford), and transatlantic flight (Charles Lindbergh).

 

–Math: The students are continuing to learn how to add and subtract fractions. We will use a number line strategy, box method, tape diagrams, and fraction models to solve fraction equations with unlike denominators. Below are the standards we will cover and the objectives. All math assessments are administered on Wednesday. Please ask your student to review the notes in their journal, complete the assigned Dreambox lessons, and attempt the problem sets in their math folder.

Standard:

MBSE5.NF.2: Word problems, add and subtract fractions

MGSE5.NB.1: Add and subtract fractions

 

Objective:  Add fractions to and subtract fractions from whole numbers using equivalence and the number line as strategies.

Objective:  Add fractions making like units numerically.

Objective:  Add fractions with sums greater than 2.

 

-Science: We will continue our lesson covering inherited and acquired traits. So far, the students have really enjoyed the unit and have offered great stories concerning their inherited traits. I hope you have had a chance to ask them about what they are learning. I really think you will enjoy hearing how they view their personal family traits.

In this unit, students will:

 

Ask questions to compare and contrast what’s known instinctually and what can be learned.

Question in order to compare and contrast inherited and acquired physical traits.

Standard:

S5L2. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information showing that some characteristics of organisms are inherited and other characteristics are acquired.

 

Ask questions to compare and contrast the characteristics of instincts and learned behaviors.

Ask questions to compare and contrast inherited and acquired physical traits. (Clarification statement: Punnett squares; genetics are taught in future grades.)