This week in Room 33! Nov. 11-15

This Week in Room 33! Nov. 11-15

Reminders this week: 

This week is paper products for Helping Hands.

Wednesday is our site visit to BizTown, each student will need to bring their lunch.

The students may dress up according to their job, if they wish.

What to expect this week in 5th grade...

ELA: Students will begin researching causes of the Civil War for our next writing unit. We will be spending the beginning of our unit  learning about the people and events that impacted the Civil War. We are learning how nonfiction texts are getting more complex as we are moving up in reading levels- the main ideas are implicit and the vocabulary is more difficult. We are learning strategies to overcome these challenges! 

STEAM:  We are about ready for the big site visit to BizTown! The students our focusing on filling out their checkbooks, figuring out the payroll tax on their paychecks at BizTown, and making sure their business are ready to open up! On Friday, we will start chapter 6,  multiplying and dividing decimals! We will first be multiplying decimals by whole numbers and then by  decimals by decimals.

In science, In this unit, students will learn about Earth’s systems and natural resources, ways that humans use natural resources, human impacts on Earth systems, and how humans can change behaviors to reduce impacts on the environment. We are testing our wind turbines, and redesigning our prototypes to establish a wind turbine that raises our weighted buckets  the fastest.