Mid-May: Reminder to bring bags for locker clean-ou

 

Dear Fifth Grade Families,

Please send in reinforced bags to school by Wednesday, 5/20, so your scholar can bring home locker shelves and decorations.  Learning will continue through the last day of school and some spirals and supplies will continue to be used, but the majority of it will come home this week.    Thank you so much for your support as we finish the year strong.

 

Students have begun bringing locker and school supplies home.  Please send a bag for decorations and locker shelves to go home on Wednesday, 5/20. If you have extra disposable bags, please send those in for extras.

May 22 Last Day of School:  House Banquet, students can wear house shirts

 

Q4W8 May 11-15

 

 Announcements:

Please note that Friday, May 15th, will now be a full school day at Great Hearts Northern Oaks. 

We will continue instruction through Friday, 5/22.  On 5/22 we will have a cumulative math assessment as well as a final Spalding test. These test will not be given early. Please plan to have your scholar present for these assessments.

Learning will continue through the last day of school and some spirals and supplies will continue to be used, but we are slowly beginning to send materials home this week and early next week. This will help avoid your students from having a huge, heavy bag on the last day of school.

• Friday, 5/7    Scholars brought home science and history spirals
• Monday, 5/11  Scholars are bringing home math spiral and blue and green math books
   
  (Students will keep in their take home binder packets of work for Math, Science, and History) 

The week at a glance: 

Math - quiz Tuesday, 5/12, over data visualization and analysis.  Wed - Friday: Consumer Math.

Science - Owl pellet dissection.  Lab packet is due Thursday, 5/14, as a test grade.

History  - Ancient Japan 

Literature - Phantom Tollbooth 

Grammar - Phantom Tollbooth Menu

Writing - Conventions of writing a social letter

Spalding - Spelling quiz Friday 

Q4W7 April 27-May 1

 Dates and Information:

• All library books were due Monday, 4/27, please return them as soon as possible
• Friday, May 1: Spring Concert at Trinity Baptist Church 
• We will continue lessons all the way through the last day of school, including a Spalding and Math test on Friday, May 22nd.   

Helpful Links: 

Civil War Textbook

https://www.coreknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CKHG_G5_U11_Civil_War_SR.pdf 

 

This Weeks Academics: 

Literature - Phantom Tollbooth Ch. 3-6.  "Oh Captain" poetry recitation quiz on Friday, 5/1 (entire poem).

Spalding - Quiz on Thursday.  

Grammar - Review of all parts of speech.

Writing - Writing Personal Narratives.

History - End of the Civil War. Beginning Civil War Unit review.  Test on May 7th.

Science - none

Math - line plots and graphing  

April 20-25

 Dates and Information:

• Phantom Tollbooth required Wednesday, 4/22 
• Friday, 4/24: No School; Enjoy Battle of Flowers  
• All library books are due Monday, 4/27
• Friday, May 1: Spring Concert at Trinity Baptist Church 

 

Important: Bring Phantom Tollbooth by Monday, 4/20.

Math - Quadrilaterals. Quadrilaterals Quiz on Thursday.

History - Life of a Civil War soldier, women and the war effort, Emancipation Proclamation

Grammar - Idioms and final review of parts of speech.  **Library books are due this week.**

Writing - Idioms

Spalding - Spelling Test on Friday

Literature - Where the Red Fern Grows closure.  Beginning Phantom Tollbooth. 

Q4W3 March 30 - April 3

Literature - Chapters 11-13 in Where the Red Fern Grows.  If the chapter is not finished during class, student are required to finish the chapter at home. 

Grammar - Relative Clauses. 

Writing -  Claim, Evidence and Reasoning.

Spalding - Section W words.  Test on Thursday.

Math - Test on Tuesday over word problems with decimals.  Remainder of the week will cover volume. 

Science - Test on Wednesday over Earth's Process (landform creation, fossilization, weather and climate).

 

Q4W2 March 23-27

 Dear Great Hearts Community,

The State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) is quickly approaching, and we would like to share the scheduled testing dates with you. We kindly ask that, when possible, you plan appointments around these dates to ensure your scholar is present for testing.

Providing a good breakfast and arriving at school on time ensures a positive start to the testing day. When students complete their testing, they may read a book of their choice, so please help your child remember to pack a book to read. As always, books should be from the classical cannon without reference to pop culture.

If your scholar is absent or arriving late on the day of their assessment, please notify their teacher by email.

STAAR Testing Dates  
Thursday, April 9      Reading STAAR
Tuesday, April 14      Science STAAR
Tuesday, April 21      Math STAAR

The week at a glance:
Math - decimal word problems using all four operations. Test next week.
Science - rapid and slow changes to Earth's surface.  Also weather and climate. 
Literature - Where the Red Fern Grows
Grammar - 
Writing - Analyzing expository text. 
Latin - Vocab quiz on 4/16. 

Q4W1 March 9 - 13

Math - Word problems using four operations of decimals.

Science - Sedimentation and weather *Fossilization essay due Thursday, 3/12.*

History - Civil War. 

Writing - Poetry Structure.

Grammar -  Indirection Objects. Quiz on Friday.

Literature - Reading Chapter 4-7 in Where the Red Fern Grows. 

Spalding -  Section W words.  Test on Friday. 

 

History Textbook:

https://www.coreknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CKHG_G5_U11_Civil_War_SR.pdf