From the desk of: Ms. Mayhew, Miss Niehenke, and Mrs. Zitrick
5th Grade: News to Know
Parent Reminders:
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Students will
start practicing
for PARCC testing which will
take place in the
spring.
Record minutes
nightly on Biblionaisum and
make one comment
Continue to
practice basic
facts
January 2016 Newsletter
Reading
Students will be learning
how to take quotes from
a text and develop an inference. Students will
explain how to use reasons and evidence to support particular points in a
text. We will also be
starting poetry which will
focus on Langston
Hughes, interpreting figurative language and determining the point of
view that is portrayed in
poems.
resizing. Students will be
solving word problems
which will help with
PARCC practice.
Science
Students will learn how
energy transfers from one
source to another and
describe how light interacts with different materials. Students will carry
out an investigation to
answer a testable question
about transparent, translucent and opaque materials.
Writing:
Dates to Remember:
January 8th– Science Fair
investigation should be
complete
January 19th– Science Fair
presentation
January 18th– No school
January 22nd– Science Fair
January 22nd– Last day of
marking period
January 25th– No school
for students
February 3rd
– Report car
distribution
Students will write a narrative based
on a goal
they have
achieved
over the
course of
their life. They will also
learn how to introduce a
topic, state their opinion
and support their reasoning with facts.
Math
Students will continue to
multiply fractions, they
will continue to use area
models and understand
how multiplication can
also be thought of as
Social Studies
Students will compare
human characteristics of
different places & regions
of Maryland. Students
will also explain how re-
cent changes in transportation led to the growth
and development of
towns and cities in Maryland and the USA
Learning Skills:
Students will work on
the academic learning
skill of intellectual risk
taking which is accepting
uncertainty or challenging the norm to reach a
goal. They will attempt
novel tasks, make adjustments to meet challenges, & challenge themselves & others to advance skill levels.
The second learning skill
that students will focus
on throughout the
month is elaboration.
Elaboration is adding
details that expand, enrich or embellish.