First Quarter Book Projects

(pamphlets and interviews)

Great job, 5th graders!!!

Thurs., 10/25-PV Early Dismissal 11:00AM
Fri., 10/26-First Quarter Ends
Mon., 10/29-Conferences
Tues., 10/30-Conferences
Wed.,10/31-Halloween Parade 1:00 and Parties follow

Good Basket donations----Thanks to ____________ for donating this week. (items or monetary donations excepted)

Coming up this week:

Spelling: Lesson 8:

Monday-Pretest

Homework due Thursday

Test Friday


English: Chapter 5-"Capitalization and Punctuation"
We will be studying:
*Correct Sentences
*Proper Nouns and Adjectives
*Commas in a Series
*Interjections
*Quotations
*Abbreviations
*Titles

English-Unit 5 test will be on Friday, Nov. 2nd!

Reading: Drawing Conclusions and Analogies
We will begin learning about how to draw conclusions as we read.  The first story we will read is called, "A Boy Called Slow."  This story is in our anthology.

We will also do some mini-lessons on analogies.

Social Studies: Chapter 5-"The Struggle to Found Colonies"

We will learn about :

Lesson 1-"Hard Times in Virginia"-Jamestown and how colonies survived

Lesson 2-"New European Colonies"-Searching for the Northwest Passage

Lesson 3-"The First Colonies"-New England Colonies

Lesson 4-"The 13 Colonies"-William Penn and Roger Williams

Science: Chapter 5-Energy and Ecosystems
Lesson 1:  How Do Plants Produce Food?
Lesson 2:  How is Energy Passed Through an Ecosystem?

Chapter 5-Science Test will be on Friday, October 26th!

Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class: Chapter 3-Divide by 1 and 2 Digit Divisors

Lesson 1-Estimate with 1 Digit Divisors

Lesson 2-Divide by 1 Digit Divisors

Lesson 3-Interpreting the Remainder

Lesson 4-Zeros in Division

Lesson 5-Patterns in Division

Lesson 6-Estimate with 2 Digit Divisors

Lesson 7-Divide by 2 Digit Divisors

Lesson 8-Correcting Quotients

Lesson 9-Practice Division

Chapter 3 -Math Test on Division---Wednesday. October 24th!