February 27-March 2

Reading Program-Not Optional-All Sheets due Feb. 27th

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

Third base to this optional reading program is Feb 25th!

Fourth base is due March 10th!

Don't forget a parent signature!

Important Dates:

Monday, February 27th-Reading Program sheets for 2nd trimester are due!!!
Tuesday, February 28th-Early Release 11:00AM
Wednesday, February 29th-Social Studies American Revolution Project due!!!
Friday, March 2nd-End of 3rd Trimester
Monday, March 5th-No School
Week of March 5th -ISAT's BEGIN :)

Next week in fifth grade we will: 

Math:  Number Theory-Chapter 11

*WE WILL:

-Multiples and LCM
-Divisibility
-Factors and GCF
-Prime and Composite Numbers
-Exponents
-Prime Factorization

Spelling:

L 23-Pretest will be Monday!

Work due on Thursday!

Test on Friday! 

English-Adjectives-Unit 4
Ask your child what an adjective is? 
What is an article and how is it used in a sentence?

Science:

Chapter 11-Weather
In this chapter we will learn about:

*Lesson 1-What Causes Weather?

*Lesson 2-What Conditions Affect the Water Cycle?

*Lesson 3-How Can Patterns in Weather Be Observed?

 

Social Studies-Chapter 9

*Winning the Revolution
1776-The Declaration of Independence
1778-Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey
1781-Yorktown, VA-The British Surrender to the Americas

Social Studies project is due Wednesday, Feb. 29th!!!

Reading:  

We will be doing literature circles for the next few weeks. There will be four different groups and they will be having lively discussions about their books.  Each night they will have a written task to do with the chapters that they read.

Feb. 20-24

Thanks to :

Mrs. Tshulos

Mrs. Soderholm
for attending our field trip!

Mrs. Soderholm
Mrs. Zimmerman
Mrs. Williams for running our Valentine party!

Reading Program-Not Optional-All Sheets due Feb. 27th

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

Third base to this optional reading program is Feb 25th!

Fourth base is due March 10th!

Don't forget a parent signature!

Important Dates:

Monday, February 20th-No School-President's Day
Monday, February 27th-Reading Program sheets for 2nd trimester are due!!!
Tuesday, February 28th-Early Release 11:00AM
Wednesday, February 29th-Social Studies American Revolution Project due!!!
Friday, March 2nd-End of 3rd Trimester
Monday, March 5th-No School
Week of March 5th -ISAT's BEGIN :)

Next week in fifth grade we will: 

Math:  Algebra-Chapter 4

*WE WILL:

-Write numerical and algebraic expressions.

-Evaluate numerical and algebraic expressions using order of operations.

-Identify the properties of addition and multiplication.

-Write equations for words and word problems for equations.

-Represent a function with a table and an equation.

-Find whole-number solutions of inequalities.

The chapter 4 test will be Wed. Feb. 22nd!!!!

Spelling:

L 22-Pretest will be Tuesday!

Work due on Thursday!

Test on Friday! 

English-Adjectives-Unit 4
We have begun our adjective unit. 
We are making an ABC Adjective book.  The pages should be colored and finished by Tuesday, Feb. 21st.

Science:

Chapter 11-Weather
In this chapter we will learn about:

*Lesson 1-What Causes Weather?

*Lesson 2-What Conditions Affect the Water Cycle?

*Lesson 3-How Can Patterns in Weather Be Observed?

Social Studies-Chapter 9

*Winning the Revolution
1776-The Declaration of Independence
1778-Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey
1781-Yorktown, VA-The British Surrender to the Americas

Reading:  

We have begun our Novel.  The students have read chapters 1-12.  They have to read chapters 13, 14, and 15 this weekend.  We will have a quiz on Tuesday over these chapters.

Valentine Pictures---ENJOY!

Happy Valentine's Day from the PV Staff!!!

February 13-17

3rd and 5th grade reading buddies!

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-All Sheets due Feb. 27th

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

Second base is due Friday, Feb. 13th!

Third base to this optional reading program is Feb 25th!

Fourth base is due March 10th!

Don't forget a parent signature!

Important Dates:

February 14th-Valentine Party-bring a Valentine for each student in class :)
February 15th-Field Trip to Argonne
February 27th-Reading Program sheets for 2nd trimester are due!!!

Next week in fifth grade we will: 

Math:  Algebra-Chapter 4

*WE WILL:
-Write numerical and algebraic expressions.
-Evaluate numerical and algebraic expressions using order of operations.
-Identify the properties of addition and multiplication.
-Write equations for words and word problems for equations.
-Represent a function with a table and an equation.
-Find whole-number solutions of inequalities.

 

Spelling:

L 21-Pretest will be Monday!

Work due on Thursday!

Test on Friday! 

English-Adjectives

Science:

Chapter 11-Weather
In this chapter we will learn about:

*Lesson 1-What Causes Weather?

*Lesson 2-What Conditions Affect the Water Cycle?

*Lesson 3-How Can Patterns in Weather Be Observed?

 

Social Studies-Chapter 8
-Lesson 1-Britain's Parliament taxes the colonists.
-Lesson 2-Protesters dump British tea in the harbor.
-Lesson 3-Fighting begins between Britain and the colonists.

Test will most likely be on Thursday, February 16th!!!

Reading:  

We will begin a two novel studies to review our reading strategies.  The first novel we will do as a class.  It is called, Sign of the Beaver.  We will be working on literature circle sheets and other skills sheets!

 

February 6-10

King Nora and her Parliment have sent their tax collectors to collect taxes on the colonists who have brown eyes--2 gold pieces!!!

Cancer Smashers in front of our Collection Wall!!!

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

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 second base to this optional reading program is due next!
Don't forget a parent signature!

Important Dates:

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

Next week in fifth grade we will: 

Math:  Algebra-Chapter 4

*WE WILL:
-Write numerical and algebraic expressions.
-Evaluate numerical and algebraic expressions using order of operations.
-Identify the properties of addition and multiplication.
-Write equations for words and word problems for equations.
-Represent a function with a table and an equation.
-Find whole-number solutions of inequalities.

 

Spelling:

L 20-Pretest will be Monday!

Work due on Thursday!

Test on Friday! 

English-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

The test on ENERGY is Tuesday, February 7th!!!

Social Studies-Chapter 8
-Lesson 1-Britain's Parliament taxes the colonists.
-Lesson 2-Protesters dump British tea in the harbor.
-Lesson 3-Fighting begins between Britain and the colonists.

Test will most likely be on Thursday, February 16th!!!

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, James Forten.  We will focus on vocabulary at the beginning of the week and then move to the story.