Hello 5th Grade Families,

Announcements:

• Yearbook order forms went home on Friday. If you would like to order a yearbook, please fill out the order form and send it to school with your child!
• Upcoming Half Day, Fri, May 22 (day before Memorial Day Weekend

This week in 5th grade:

• Language Arts
  • Vocab Week 6
  • Nonfiction week 6 (NewsELA and thinkCERCA)
  • The Narrative and the Life of Frederick Douglass – Reading excerpts from ch. 6 and 7. & continuing to fill in our file folder timeline of his life from slavery to freedom.
  • Civil War Essay- This week we will brainstorm and research for our civil war research essay. We will write the intro and first 2 body paragraphs as well.
  • Reading Club
• History
  • We finished Project 5 today! Our life-size images of women, soldiers, and generals of the Civil War turned out amazing. (Pictures coming soon)
  • We will take notes and start project 6 tomorrow. (Confederate Struggles Newspaper)
  • Geography- States and Capitals (students should have passed the following regions to be on track- Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest! This week they are focusing on the Midwest!)
• Math
  • Lesson 96, 97, 98, and 99
  • ST Math
  • Target Scores (Students should be on ‘Variables’ this week if they are staying up to date

We have 3.5 weeks left of Quarter 4! Let’s finish strong!