March 19-23

Straight A recognition for 5th grade--2nd trimester!!!

Congrats to ALL of our hard workers, straight A's or Not!!

Important Dates:

Tuesday, March 20-No School--Happy Spring!!!
SPIRIT DAY-Fri. March 23-Wear favorite vacation destination t-shirt!
Friday, March 23-Naper Settlement Field Trip

Monday, March 26-Spring Break begins
Monday, April 2-Classes resume
Friday, April 6-No School

Next week in fifth grade we will: 

Field Trip:  We will go to Naperville Settlement on Friday, March 23rd.  Please remember to dress appropriately for the weather.  We will be outside walking, most of the time.  Remember to send a sack lunch too.

Thanks to our chaperones for attending:  Mrs. Spicuzza, Mrs. Metherd and Mrs. Rollins

Math-Chapter 12 -Fractions

Next week:

L. 1-Understanding fractions

L. 2-Equivalent fractions

L. 3-Simplest form
L. 4-Improper fractions
L. 5-Compare and Order fractions

No math on Friday, due to Naper Settlement field trip.

Spelling:Lesson 25
Lesson 25 will be pretested on Monday. 
Only scores of 100% will be put into the challenge group for trimester 3!
Work due on Thursday!
Test will be on Friday!

English-Writing
We will be writing on China and we will be doing some more expository writing!

Science:

Chapter 12-Oceans
We will start this chapter after spring break!


Social Studies-Chapter 9----TEST -Thursday, March 22nd!

All books came home this weekend to use for studying :)

*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:  

你好

ni hao

"Hi," from China!!!

We will be "traveling" to China for the next few weeks!

In reading, we will be reviewing our reading strategies and skills with non-fiction readings of CHINA!!!

If you or your family have anything to share, please let me know!

Thanks!