Announcements and Reminders
- Friday, February 23 Thursday Folders will be sent home. (Sorry!)
- Friday, March 2 Classroom Visit from a National Geographic Explorer!
- Friday, March 2 2 Hour Early Dismissal/ Quarter 3 Mid Term
- Week of March 5 State Science Testing (MISA) in the morning on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
Math
Focus Standards:
- 5.NF.B.4a - Interpret the product (a/b) x q as a parts of a partition of q into b equal parts; equivalently, as the result of a sequence of operations a x q / b. (In general, (a/b) x (c/d) = ac/bd)
- 5.NF.B.4b - Find the area of a rectangle with fractional side lengths by tiling it with unit squares of the appropriate unit fraction side lengths, and show that the area is the same as would be multiplying the side lengths. Multiply fractional side lengths to find areas of rectangles, and represent fraction products as rectangular areas.
Writing
Focus Standards:
- Provide logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details
- Link opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., consequently, specifically).
We have written our introductions to share our opinions about whether the United States should continue to celebrate Columbus Day. We will move forward with our writing as we work on our reasoning to support our opinions.
Reading
Focus Standards in Informational Reading:
- RI1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- RI2 Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
- RI4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
- RI8 Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).
- RI9 Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
- RI2 Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
Small Group directed Instruction will focus on short informational text. We are also starting a new round of book clubs featuring the following books:
Ask your child which book they selected! Talk to them about it.
Science/Social Studies
We are busy with our new Chemistry unit in Science. Our end objective is to create a strong, pliable play-dough that conducts electricity. Today we generated questions that we will need to answer in order to complete the end task. We will begin instruction by learning about matter and the properties of matter. Look for some fun Tweets from our class in the next week!
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