Nov. 7th –11th
5th Grade News
Snowy Range Academy * 4037 E Grand Ave * 745-9930
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From the Teachers’
Desks
Report cards were sent home Friday. Please
sign your student’s envelope and return it to school
with him or her by Wednesday. We do not need
the report card itself back. If you have any
questions about grades, please do not hesitate to
ask.
The honor roll assembly is Wednesday at
8:15 a.m. Students who have straight A’s qualify
for the Principal’s Honor Roll, and students who
have any combination of A’s and B’s qualify for
the First Honor Roll. Parents are welcome and
encouraged to attend!
Throughout the month of November, student
council will host several events to support the
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The money will
be donated to help blood cancer patients and
their families. For additional information, see the
school wide newsletter and the important dates
section of this newsletter. Other than for Jeans
Day, students need to wear uniform bottoms.
If you have questions about anything,
please do not hesitate to e-mail or call us!
Important Dates
Nov. 8
No school
Nov. 9
Honor roll assembly
In class recitation –
“I Hear America Singing”
Nov. 14-18
Book Fair Week
Nov. 11
Red, white, and blue shirts 25¢
Nov. 16
SRA Board meeting
Nov. 17
Family Night at Book Fair
Nov. 18
Team Spirit/Jeans Day $1.00
Nov. 23-25
Break
Nov. 30
Progress reports
Dec. 3
Happy Holidays, Laramie!
Science
We will continue discussing unicellular
organisms. We will also discuss Earnest Just. If we
have time, students will start a muscle cell lab.
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Language Arts
Students will recite “I Hear America
Singing” by Walt Whitman in class on November
9th at 12:30. Students will be reciting this poem
with partners or small groups in the classroom.
You are invited to attend if you would like.
Students will be brining home a list of this
week’s spelling words. Corrections from last
week’s test are due by Wednesday morning. If
you are studying these words at home, please
have your student practice breaking down the
individual sounds in the words, rather than
saying the letter names. This is how we practice
them in class.
This week we will be covering chapters
22-24 of The Secret Garden. Our book groups
will be meeting on Thursday for discussion and
reading together. We will be finishing the book
next week!
In writing this week, students will be
learning about hyperboles and how they can
enhance our writing. Once we complete
The Secret Garden, students will use what they
have learned about summary writing to answer
a question about the story in the form of a
summary. Students will be bringing home
information about second quarter book reports
mid-week as well.
Math
Section Three test corrections are due by
Monday, November 14th. Please remind your 5th
grader to show steps on their corrections and to
complete their corrections on a separate piece or
paper or in a different color. This week, students will
learn about decimal pace value, subtracting fractions
and mixed numbers from whole numbers, and adding
and subtracting decimal numbers. Please remind your
5th grader to reduce fractions when possible. If they
are not simplifying their fractions, they will soon be
marked as incorrect.
Homework:
Monday: Lesson 34: Practice Set b-e; Written Practice
1-8, 10, 14. 18-20, 23-25, and 27
Tuesday: No school
Wednesday: Lesson 35: Practice Set c-e, h-k, and n;
Written Practice 1, 5, 10-13, 20, 21, 24, 25, and 29
Thursday: Lesson 36: Practice Set b-g; Written
Practice 1-5, 8, 12-16, 23, 25, and 30
Social Studies This week we will continue
learning about the Renaissance. Students will continue to
learn about the Italian city-states, the Medici Family, and
the Popes of the Renaissance.
Technology
This week we will be working on our
typing skills in TTL4 as well as practicing our
coding skills at Code.org. Students are highly
encouraged to practice their typing skills at
home using typing games or TTL4. Students will
have two 15-minute typing sessions due on
Friday. Our current goal is a class average
lesson of 24.5 by the end of November. The
current class average is 22.54.
Study Skills This week students will be using
our Social Studies book to locate answers to specific
information about the Renaissance. We will be practicing
our navigation of informational text. We will also be
discussing the various components of informational text and
how to use them effectively.
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I Hear America Singing
by Walt Whitman
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe
and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off
work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the
deckhand singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing
as he stands,
The wood-cutter’s song, the ploughboy’s on his way in the
morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at
work, or of the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young
fellows, robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
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