"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
General Announcements:
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We hope you all had a wonderful break and were able to enjoy good times with family and friends!
- We are excited for all this new year holds!
We can't thank you enough for the amazing Christmas/holiday gifts you gave us! It is so fun to experience the excitement and joy when your children hand us their gifts. Each and every gift is very special, and we appreciate so much your thoughtfulness to us!
- We would greatly appreciate if you can replenish your child's pencils, glue sticks, colored pencils, markers, eraser caps, and scissors as we begin this 2nd semester of 5th grade!
- Report Cards come home this Wednesday, January 6th! Please review, sign, and return Thursday, January 7th.
- Brock's Gap Career Fair is coming up, if you are interested in helping please fill out this form.
- Looking ahead: PTO Parent Academy is Tuesday, January 26th 6:00-7:30 P.M.
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Language Arts:
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We will be talking about text structure this week. We will focus on the following types of nonfiction text: comparison, cause and effect, problem and solution, and chronology. The students will have to identify and create some examples of their own! There will be a quiz on the text structure types on Friday, January 8th.
There will be no reading log this week. We are making an exciting new change this semester. We will be using a website called Tween Tribune, instead of using reading logs. The students will be responsible for reading the article we assign from this website and taking a short quiz each week. We still expect them to be reading a book of choice, bringing it to and from school, and prepared to talk about it on Fridays. We will choose different students at random to show their book, talk about the plot/characters, and answer questions for a portion of their homework grade. Look for more information next week when we get started!
The kids were given a Word Wizard crossword puzzle to review vocabulary words from the past few stories. It is due Thursday, January 7th.
Grammar IXL skills O.1, O.2, O.3 are due on Google Classroom by Friday. This another exciting new change. Ask your child to show you the 2 virtual classrooms they are a part of. It has so many neat features and will now host links, classwork, homework, documents, and study guides. In a lot of ways it will take the place of the blog for language arts and social studies. They can do work when they are out and don't have to worry about losing papers!
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Social Studies:
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We are beginning our study of the creation of the United States government this week with the Articles of Confederation.
I have posted two discussion/reflection questions on the social studies google classroom for the kids to respond to as a participation grade. I am looking for the kids to answer and give a reason for their opinion. I want to see critical thinking!
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Math:
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- We will do a couple of days of fraction review: comparing and ordering, adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators, improper and proper fractions, and fraction equivalents.
- We will also begin our new Unit which focuses on Place Value and Adding/Subtracting Decimals.
- Cumulative Review # came home today and is due Wednesday. There will not be a Cumulative Review quiz this week.
- Math IXL contract came home today and is due NEXT MONDAY.
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Science:
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- We are going to be working on an "Impact on the Environment" research project this week. The information for this project is posted on the Science page of this blog-Link to project directions.
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