January 30-February 3

NOTE--

Confusion regarding the school calendar---

Friday, February 17, was originally scheduled as a Teacher Institute-- that is not the case any longer.  We will be in school that day.

Teachers' Institute on Tuesday, March 20.

Also, Friday, May 18, (not Thursday, May 17th) is another Early Dismissal/SIP Day

Please refer to:

The correct calendar is on the website on the left under "calendars"  -- "11/12 School Year" ;

this is the calendar that was adopted & revised on June 14, 2011

Field Trip-

We are going to Argonne National Labs for a field trip on Wed. Feb. 15th from 9:00-1:00.

Thanks to our two chaperons:

Mrs. Tshulos

Mrs. Soderholm

Reading Program-Not Optional
Book 1 - Newberry Award Winner and summary sheet
Book 2-Mystery -at least 100 pages and mystery poster colored and filled out
Book 3-Biography-at least 100 pages-character wheel sheet filled out


Kane County Cougars-Ozzie's Reading Club-Optional
The first base to this optional reading program is due Monday, January 30th!
Don't forget a parent signature!


Six Flags Reading Program sheets-Optional
The sheets are to be signed and are due Feb. 1st!

Important Dates:

January 30th-Ozzie's Reading Club-Cougars-first base due with parent sign. (optional)
February 1st-Six Flags' Read to Succeed forms due (optional)

February 15th-Field Trip to Argonne
February 27th-Reading Program sheets for 2nd trimester are due!!!

Next week in fifth grade we will: 

Math:  Geometry

*lines, angles, points

*triangles

*polygons

TEST on chapter 18 is Tuesday, Jan. 31st!

Here is the website that helps demonstrate rotational symmetry.  The students wanted to show it to you at home:

http://www.teacherled.com/resources/symrotation/rotationsymload.html



Spelling:

L 18-Pretest will be Monday!

Work due on Thursday!

Test on Friday! 

English

We will be moving on to the unit on pronouns.  In this unit we will cover:

*subject pronouns

*object pronouns

*using I and me

*possessive pronouns

*contractions with pronouns

*double subjects

*using we and us with nouns

*homophones

The unit 6 English Test is on Friday, Feb. 3rd!!
 

Science:

Chapter 15 -ENERGY!

In this chapter we will learn about:

*Lesson 1-Kinetic and Potential Energy

*Lesson 2-Forms of Energy

*Lesson 3-How heat is transferred

*Lesson 4-People using energy resources

Social Studies:

Chapter 8 is next in SS.

Reading:  

We will begin a new reading strategy next week.  We will work on determining what the cause and effect is, as we read a variety of material.  We will begin the week by reading a story called, Katie's Trunk.  We will focus on vocabulary at the beginning of the week and then move to the story.