NEWS FROM FIFTH GRADE
WEEK OF NOV. 9-13
We are thankful for the many veterans in our families who have served our country in the armed forces. I’m looking forward to talking with you as parents next week to discuss your child’s progress. It truly is one of my favorite times. Your kids are amazing works in progress and I cannot wait to see what God has in store for them.
Monday is all day with school beginning and ending on normal schedule.
Tuesday - Friday are HALF DAYS until 12:00 pm. Please call the school office to let them know if you will need childcare those days. BLBC before and after care does not start until 3:00. 7th/8th Grades will be helping their parents supervise Cornerstone kids in the gym for suggested donations of $3.50 per hour to support their DC trip in March.
Send a snack if your child will be picked up at noon; send a lunch and snack if they will be there all day. I've highlighted things to study or work on after school.
READING
Students are reading a novel of their own choosing for silent reading.
Poppy will be finished next week with an open book test just before Thanksgiving depending on when we read the final chapter and it goes over a bit.
Homework: READING 20 minutes per night. Students should still have a goal of reading 20 minutes or more even if they are tracking books read or pages. Your student may be aiming for 4 books.
LANGUAGE ARTS
We just finished our Scar Stories this week. They’ll be up in the class for a couple of weeks before coming home. Your students liked this assignment! Next is Story Trees, or “Treemendous Stories.” It’s our book report for the quarter. We mostly do it inhouse. Some of the students might bring theirs home for special touches.
SPELLING LESSON 9 Due Friday. Next week we have a lesson, too; it is the infamous ei/ie lesson that might need a little more attention than usual.
SCIENCE
We’ll finish our flight unit just before Thanksgiving and hopefully faster. I don't want to rush the process. Students are learning a great deal about engineering design. This has been a fun new unit. We will switch to an animal study and do owl pellets just after that.
US HISTORY and SOCIAL STUDIES
We will be picking our states at the end of the month and we’re starting to memorize states and capitals as well. I’d recommend the app Stack the States as well as Drive Through USA to help with practice at home if your student needs a little extra time on this. States this week are WA, OR, ID, HI, AK, CA. Students must locate and spell correctly.
We recently got our social studies main text, which actually looks a lot like a newspaper. It’s much cheaper than a textbook and gets updated every year. It also has an online component that allows students to interact with primary source materials in the form of recordings, art, and artifacts via photos. There are quizzes and the articles are audio recordings.
Every student will be signed up with Studies Weekly and can extend their learning or review by logging in. Occasionally they can retake quizzes if they had a bumpy event. I will send you their login as soon as it’s set up.
Bible Verse: 1 Chronicles 17:20
We continue to study God’s relationship with us and how we can be good stewards of that relationship, His world, His gifts, and our families and communities. This week we’re studying what it means to worship a God we can’t see and how He reveals Himself to us.
GENERAL INFORMATION
CONFERENCES next week See you there!
NO SCHOOL this WEDNESDAY!
NOON DISMISSAL T, W, TH, F next week. Send a hefty snack!
PE is Monday, Tuesday, and Friday-- please help your fifth grade student remember athletic shoes and good clothes for running and jumping. Showering nightly is a great idea at this age and deodorant is a critical school supply. Water bottles are a good thing to have as well.
ART starts week after next!
No chapel this week.
PIZZA FRIDAYS! $2 per slice. ORDER by Wednesdays.
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