Here is what we have been learning in fifth grade:
Daily 5/CAFE:
This week students will complete their Daily 5 Menu entitled: “And then What
Happened, Paul Revere?”; a
biography. We will be concentrating on
nonfiction this quarter. Students will spend time learning to compare and
contrast the text structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two
or more texts. Examples of text
structure we will cover include: chronology, comparison, cause/effect, and
problem/solution.
Writing: In Quarter 2, students will write an opinion piece on a topic supporting a point of view with
reasons and information. They will strive to provide logically ordered reasons
that are supported by facts and details.
Math: Students
are finishing up their geometry unit, where they have been working on
understanding that attributes belonging to a category of two dimensional
figures also belong to all subcategories of that category. For example, all
rectangles have four right angles and squares are rectangles, so all squares have
four right angles. They have also been learning to classify two-dimensional
figures in a hierarchy based on properties. Next, we will be moving into using
and understanding coordinate grids. They will be representing real world and
mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the
coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of
the situation.
Science: We have
started our Force and Motion unit. The students are beginning to understand the
concepts of force and motion and the relationship between them. They are also
inferring the motion of objects in terms of how far they travel in a certain
amount of time and the direction in which they travel.
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