Sunday, March 26, 2017

Week of March 27th-31st




















Welcome back!  We hope everyone got some rest and is ready to finish the last quarter of 5th grade strong!  We only have 9 weeks until these kids are officially middle school students! :)

Academics:
ELA:  We will spend the next three weeks working with FSA academic vocabulary. Test on Friday with these words.


New RRJ will be due in two weeks on April 7.
Natural Disaster booklets will be due on Friday.  We will be reading Eight Days: A Story of Haiti and other literary accounts of natural disasters.
We will also be practicing FSA style passages, questions and a daily poetry analysis for our upcoming FSA test on April17th.
Short reading quiz on Friday!

Keep working in Achieve to meet that 100 point for the year goal in lexile improvement!  Many students have gone beyond this!  Way to go!


Math:  We will continue to work through Module 6 and discuss graphing, line plots, and coordinate grids.  We will also take an FSA practice test on the computer so students can become familiar with the software and how to use all of the different tools.

Monday: Lesson 10: Comparing patterns by using addition and multiplication
Tuesday: Lesson 11: Analyze number patterns created from mixed operations
Wednesday: Lesson 12: Create a rule to generate a number pattern, and plot the points
Thursday: Lesson 13: Construct parallel line segments on a grid/ FSA practice Test on computer
Friday: Lesson 14/ Daily Math Quiz/ Mid Module Assessment (if time permits)

Science:
We will review the spring assessment students took before spring break and begin reviewing areas of weakness.  We will also look at food webs.  Students will have a test on adaptations (Chapter 9) on Friday!!

Resources:
Monday- Music
Thursday- P.E.
Friday- Art

Upcoming Events:
Wednesday, April 5th: Early Release
Friday, April 14th: No School: Good Friday
FSA Testing will begin April 17th & 18th for FSA Reading
April 26th & 27th: FSA Math
May 2nd & 3rd: Science Assessment

May 31st: 5th Grade Promotional Ceremony 9:00 am

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