From the desk of: Ms. Mayhew, Miss 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
Dates to Remember:
 February 4th– Winter
Concert 7:00 pm
 February 15th– No
school President’s Day
 February 19th- Valentine’s Day party at
2:20
 February 26th– Early
release day
February Newsletter 2016
Reading
Students are working on
the unit of the poetry genre. They are reading a variety of poems using different literary devices such
as metaphors, similes, and
personifications. Students
will also be determining
the theme and point of
view of different poems
and short stories. Students will begin looking at
how the visual elements of
a graphic novel contribute
to meaning, tone and
beauty.
Example of a poem by
Langston Hughes that students will be interpreting
and analyzing.
Dreams Deferred
THANK YOU
PARENTS FOR...
Donating, supporting,
and volunteering at the
Valentine’s Day Party!
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Writing
every athlete receive a trophy, should cursive be
taught in schools, should
recycling be mandatory.
Students will include a rebuttal paragraph to explain
the opposing viewpoint.
Students will begin to
work on informative writing where they will analyze
poems. Students will look
at how authors combine
ideas and elements to
communicate meaning.
Students will continue to
work on sentence structure, topic sentence and
details to support the topic
sentence.
Math
Students will continue to
build their understanding
of multiplying their fractions by reasoning about
products. Students should
be able to determine if a
product will be greater
than, less than or equal to
one of the factors in the
given problem. They will
also understand that multiplication is resizing.
Students
write opinion
pieces using
short research to support a Science
personal belief. Topics of
Students will learn how
choice include: should
light travels and how light
interacts with
different materials (opaque,
translucent and
transparent).
Students will then look at
a celestial bodies that are
visible from earth and differentiate between rotations and revolutions of
the earth.
Social Studies
Students will describe
similarities and differences
of regions by using geographic characteristics.
They will also analyze
population growth and
settlement patterns in
Maryland and other regions located in the United States. Students will
learn how people adapted
to and modified the natural environment.
Learning Skills:
1. Intellectual risk taking:
Accepting uncertainty or
challenging the norm to
reach a goal; Make adjustments to meet challenges
to advance skill levels.
2. Elaboration:
Adding details that expand, enrich or embellish
ideas.