Mrs. Kapsaskis’ 5th Grade
November 18, 2016
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Our 5th Grade Learning
Reading & Writing Workshop
This week’s focus has been on analyzing how visual and multimedia
elements contribute to the tone of the text. We practiced identifying
the mood and tone of short films and then moved into our mentor
texts. Ask your child to show you the Numbers’ spreadsheets on
their iPads of the two activities on Mood and Tone.
In writing workshop, we are continuing our Memoir Unit. Students
selected their topics. I had students meet in writing partnership
groups to discuss their experience and why the experience was
memorable.
Math
• No Student Attendance
This week students learned how to plot points in the first quadrant
• Happy Thanksgiving
of the coordinate plane by using ordered pair numbers called
coordinates. Students learned to interpret coordinate values of
points in the plane in the context of a real-world problem.
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Mrs. Kapsaskis’ 5th Grade
November 18, 2016
Science
What is the role of consumers in an ecosystem? We discussed the differences between producers and
consumers. Through the process of photosynthesis, producers make their own food for energy while
consumers get their energy by eating another organism. In a food chain, there are primary, secondary,
tertiary and quaternary consumers. Digestion breaks down food to release energy and nutrients are
distributed through the body by circulation. Consumers can use the stored food to repair body parts, move,
and stay warm. Animals always need a supply of energy, so they either must be eating or using stored food
all of the time. Finally, matter is recycled in an ecosystem. When students return from break, we will be
dissecting an owl pellet to identify what owls eat. Then we will create a diagram that models how the energy in
owls’ food was once energy from the sun.
Thank you to all the parents who came today for American Education Week to create our digital cornucopias
of thankfulness.
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