Wow! I hope everyone has enjoyed their snowy weekend! We have an exciting week ahead before we head into our Thanksgiving break. We will be celebrating our Blue Ribbon award this week! See below for each day's theme.
Monday- We are FLYERS! Wear GREEN and GOLD!
Tuesday- HATS off to Concord! Wear a HAT to school!
Wednesday- Show your BLUE ribbon PRIDE! Wear BLUE!
Thursday- Concord is a COMFY place to learn! Wear your PJS!
Friday- We are a 2014 BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL! We will wear new blue ribbon t-shirts!
Here's what else to expect this week in 5th grade:
Science- We are studying our new chapter on classifying organisms. We will be focusing on lesson 1- How do we classify living things? Students will be able to understand how to develop and use a dichotomous key to classify plants and animals.
Writing- We are diving into our research for our 2nd informational piece! Students were put into research teams based on their top 3 choices of historical events they were interested in researching and writing about. Students are excited to work together to research new information that will help them write powerful informational pieces to make their readers go "Whoa!" Here are our research teams:
The Great Depression- Grace, Lainie, Julia, Emma
Titanic- Adam, Makenzi, Willie, Joey, Blake, Jackson
D-Day- Aidan, Tommy, Chris, Jake
Gold Rush of 1849- Abbi, Marissa, Tanish, Jaiden
Boston Tea Party- Ava, Sophie, Carrigan, CiCi
Math- Students did a fantastic job on their chapter 5 test! These will come home on Monday! This week we are starting chapter 6 on multiplying and dividing decimals. Once again, students will benefit from knowing their basic multiplication and division facts. Please continue to practice them at home!
Reading- We will be working closely with our writing curriculum by working on reading nonfiction texts to help us with our research. We will use boxes & bullets to pull out main ideas and supporting details, use and understand technical vocabulary, determine the difference between first and second-hand accounts, determine the author's bias, and see how the text brings about the reader's emotions.
Social Studies- Within social studies we will also work closely with our reading/writing curriculum as we are reading and writing about historical events! We will continue our text mapping project as we preview our text for text features to help see the big picture of our next chapter on the age of exploration!
Reminders-
Mon. 11/17- Concord's Academic All Stars @ 6:00 in LHS Auditorium
Tue. 11/18- PTG Meeting (7:00) & Party Planning (6:00)
11/26-28 Thanksgiving Break
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