Since 5th grade has an emphasis on United States history, we thought it would be fun to put on a Patriotic Program for our family and friends. As a grade, we have been working hard on many fun patriotic songs. We will be having our program on Friday February 18th at 9:15am in the Gym. The students in our class will be wearing solid blue shirts and jeans or dark pants. If you have any questions please feel free to call or email us. Thank you for your support and we will see you on the 18th!!
We have been hard at work experiencing the "Westward Movement." In our class we have written pioneer diaries that you can read on our bulletin board. We have had many sad, happy, difficult and exciting adventures! As we conclude with the pioneers and trappers we begin the Civil War by first talking about the pre-civil war United States and the Industrial Revolution. Don't be surprised if your students comes home to talk about child labor laws and the textile mills that had such long hours, strict procedures and gave very little compensation. Once we get into our Civil War unit, ask your students how they feel about the issue that divided our great country: slavery.
The students did a great job on their fraction unit and we even had some get 100% on their math unit test - GREAT JOB!!! We have now moved onto solid figures and surface area. They have gotten quite good at figuring the "net" of some very ordinary household objects. Next we will be figuring out the measurements, including perimeter, of these same objects.
As always, please have your student practice their times tables. Some students are still having trouble with the basic multiplication problems, which can slow their progress with some of our new 5th grade concepts.
In Science, our class is rotating to Mrs Moore and are learning about Heredity. Ask them about some of your family traits and see if they can figure out where they got the trait from. This unit will finish next week with a test on Thursday the 10th. We will be rotating to Mr Harris beginning February 14th for 3 weeks learning about Matter. We do need some parent volunteers for this unit so if you are available, please send a note with your student.
We will be coming to the close of the quarter on March 4th. We will be sending out student Progress Reports on Friday February 11th with all missing assignments listed. These assignments will need to be completed and turned in no later than Friday February 25th at 8:30am. We also ask that you look over the report and sign it before it is returned. If you have any questions about missing assignments, please feel free to contact us.
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