From the desk of: Ms. Mayhew, Ms. Niehenke, and Mrs. Zitrick
5th Grade: News to Know
Parent Reminders:
 Students should be
reading 20-30
minutes a day or 2
hours a week and
recording minutes on
Biblionasium
 Parents should be
checking assignment
notebooks nightly
and Google Classroom for homework
assignments
May Newsletter 2016
Reading
Social Studies
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Students will read and compare multiple
texts in a variety of genres about the same
topic.
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Identify the theme and summarize key
details in poems and plays.
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Analyze the character’s or narrator’s point
of view and how it influences events in a
poem or play.
In social studies we will be retracing the
footsteps of our forefathers as the settlers move west. Students will then study
how and why pioneers began their journey’s westward and overcame the obstacles of the physical features present in
the United States. This will prepare students for our field trip.
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Examine how scenes in a play fit together
to create text structure.
Students will continue to learn about
financial literacy, and differences between jobs and careers that is linked the
career inquiry writing project.
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Students will compare the relationship
among education skills and career choices.
Writing
Dates to Remember:
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Career Day 5/4
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Racing West Field Trip
5/12
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Patrol Picnic 516
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PARCC testing
5/9,5/10, 5/11, 5/18,
5/19, 5/20, &5/23
Please make sure your
child gets plenty of
sleep and eats a nutritious breakfast
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Students will write an opinion writing
piece on the future of a career.
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Career day will help to support student
understanding of what a career entails
(salary, education, skills, technology, will
the career exist in the future, etc.)
TASS in MP4
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Evaluation: weighing evidence , examining claims, and questioning facts to
make judgments based upon criteria.
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Effort/Motivation/Persistence:
working diligently and applying effective
strategies to achieve a goal and solve a
problem even in the face of obstacles
and pressure.
Math
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Graph and label ordered pairs.
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Use ordered pairs to solve problems.
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Classify 2 dimensional shapes as polygons
or non polygons.
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Classify, describe, explain, and draw quadrilaterals based on properties.
Science
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Observe, describe, and compare unicellular organisms using a microscope and
prepared slides.
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Identify characteristics in animal and
plant cells.
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Study how genetic traits are inherited