5th Grade newsletter
Highlights and events!!!
Hello to all of our families at BMES! We are excited to continue the learning process for our students and are
making lots of preparations for the end of the year. We w ill need LOTS of parental input and participation. Here
are some important dates to remember:
 February 1st- Candy Gram Fundraiser Begins
 February 11th- Family Life & Human Sexuality Parent Info. Meeting 8am-9am (Media Ctr)
 February 12th- Valentine’s Day Party (2:30-3:30) in homerooms, details to come
 February 18th- End of the Year Parent Committee Meeting 4:15pm (Media Ctr)
In reading, students focus on reading literary text, specifically poetry and realistic fiction. Students
summarize a poem by determining theme and meaning of figurative language, describe how the speaker
in a poem reflects upon a topic, and how their point of view influences events. Students quote accurately
from poems and realistic fiction when explaining what a text says explicitly, and when drawing inferences.
Using realistic fiction, student will compare and contrast two stories in the same genre on their
approaches to similar themes and topics. In writing, students will create their own opinion pieces.
Students are researching their opinion topic and creating an argument as to why their opinion is the best.
Students continue to work with multiplication of fractions in Marking
Period 3 by using area and array models to represent multiplication of a
fraction by a fraction. Students will work with problems in which both
factors are less than 1, multiply a fraction by a fraction with one factor
greater than 1 and multiply fractions greater than 1. In progression,
students will apply their understanding of the area of a rectangle with
fractional side lengths to solve problems.
In Social Studies, students will describe how geographic characteristics of a place or region change
over time and affect the way people live and work. Students will also describe and analyze population
growth, migration, and settlement patterns in Maryland and regions of the United States.
In Science, we are going to begin discussing the pattern of the moon. We will observe and describe
patterns of stars and other objects in the night sky, describe the characteristics of stars and explain
that the Sun is a star, and describe the movement of star patterns throughout seasons.
The Fifth Grade Team
Ms. Brooking
Ms. Brown/Ms. Jones
Ms. Cain
Ms. Stuart