Fifth Grade Times
Conference Time is Coming!
Conferences will be held this year the weeks of November 3rd and November 10th. The students have half days on Monday, November 10th
and Tuesday, November 11th to accommodate the timing of multiple conferences. Conference reminders will be coming home soon!
Oct. 2014
Important Dates:
 10/13- Open House
 10/16- Individual Student
Pictures
Main Office Phone Number
 10/17– No School
301-840-8165
Erin Kleinman
 10/20-10/24– Fall Festival
Week (Party-10/24)
[email protected]
Jennifer Peterman
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Betsey Wildey
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Fall Festival Week
This year we will again be celebrating Fall Harvest for an entire week!
The events will include spirit days where students will dress in a different color every day, and participate in activities such as listening
to a fall themed book, creating a piece of work to be displayed on the
bulletin board, taking a gallery walk to view other bulletin boards in
the school, buddy reading with other students in 5th grade, and participating in a Fall Festival party.
Curriculum 2.0
The 5th grade students will continue working on the skills of
flexibility and collaboration for the remainder of this Marking Period.
Please encourage your child to use flexible thinking by being willing to
change their ideas and show what they know in multiple ways, particularly when they are collaborating with other students in the class.
Homework
Students will continue to receive homework nightly. They are
expected to read 30 minutes per night and collect a parent’s signature, complete 6 spelling activities in 2 weeks, and complete math
homework as it is assigned. Students should also be practicing their
basic facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) each
evening. Please encourage your child to memorize all of their facts!
Thank you for your support!
 10/21 – Field Trip to Strathmore Music Center 11:00am 2:00pm. Bring a bag lunch
and snack to school.
 10/30– End of 1st Marking
Period
 10/31- No School
Inquiry Project
Students will complete their
analysis of an energy source.
They will then determine
which energy source is the
most efficient, and justify
their decision. Each student
will create an original PowerPoint presentation on the
computer sharing knowledge
about an energy source. They
will also take what they have
learned in science about
force and motion, and collaboratively design an original
amusement park ride. Ask
your child about this project
as they develop
their ideas!
Math
Reading
In October, students will work with decimals. They will read decimals appropriately, write
decimals in expanded form, recognize relationships between place values within decimals as
powers of 10, compare and order decimals, and
add and subtract decimals. They will also begin
working with division at the end of the month,
and will be encouraged to use multiple strategies
to divide large numbers.
Students will continue to look at figurative language
in tall tales and further their study of literature by
reading a novel and discussing aspects of the novel
in literature circles. Students will begin analyzing
informational texts by finding key details, summarizing, and making inferences. They also work with
content vocabulary words by using strategies to
make meaning from the word.
Science
Writing
Students will use detailed notes they have gathered
Students will continue working with forces and
through research in order to write an informative
motion. They will explore how the forces of
piece about an energy source. They will then write
gravity and friction impact masses, and make dis- an opinion paragraph describing which energy source
coveries about energy by determining how it is
they feel is the most efficient. Students will pay
transferred and the differences between kinetic close attention to spelling, commas, and sentence
and potential energy. They will then apply what
fluency.
they have learned by designing multiple experiArt
ments to test hypotheses about different forcStudents will observe Victorian Architecture in a
es.
series of photographs and posters that help us learn
Social Studies
the names of many Victorian features. Students will
Students will determine if events leading to the
have the opportunity to create a drawing of a VictoRevolutionary War were turning points for our
rian inspired house and add a theme if they choose.
nation. They will also examine the events during Students will also experience a variety of media
the Revolutionary War, and analyze which perwhile creating their houses including colored pencils,
spective they agree with; the Loyalists or the
sharpie pens, watercolor paints, and chalk.
Patriots. Students will then explore the economic
PE
impact of the War on the country. Students will
Grade 5 will be focusing on the fundamentals of
end the Marking Period by discussing the negative effects of alcohol and drug use, and how the shooting with the hands and feet. Additionally, they
media portrays these behaviors.
will learn the phases of an aerobic workout and explain the effects of exercise on the heart.
Information Literacy (Media)
Students will use the information they have
gathered during the note taking process to produce a PowerPoint presentation. The presentation will include information about the cost, availability, and logistics of their energy source, and
it’s impact on the environment. The presentation
will also include graphics, and citations to show
where students found their visual representations.
Music
Fifth grade is learning about the blues in preparation for our field trip to Strathmore. We will also
focus on appropriate audience behavior. In the next
few weeks students will be writing their own blues
lyrics and putting them to music. Students will continue to work on creating chords to accompany songs
and will begin to work on conducting.