Here is what we have been learning in
fifth grade:
Daily 5/CAFE:
This week students will complete the menu entitled: “Fantasy Texts”. Students will analyze characters and add a new
chapter to their fantasy text. They will
compare and contrast fantasy stories on their approaches to similar themes and
topics.
Writing: Students
will work on writing the body and conclusion to their fantasy story. They will use dialogue, description, and
pacing to show the responses of their characters to situations.
Math: We are continuing
to work on our fractions unit. Students are learning to interpret a fraction as division of the numerator by the
denominator (a/b = a ÷ b) also solving word problems involving division of
whole numbers leading to answers in the form of fractions or mixed numbers,
e.g., by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem.
The students are also adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators
(including mixed numbers) by replacing given fractions with equivalent
fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum or difference of
fractions with like denominators. For example, 2/3 + 5/4 = 8/12 15/12 = 23/12.
(In general, a/b c/d = (ad bc)/bd.) Next week, we will be moving into
multiplying fractions by whole numbers and fractions by fractions.
Science: We are finishing up our human body unit this
week with a webquest. Students are becoming an expert on a body system and
finding out the important organs and
functions of the system, how it works with other systems and what steps they
can take to keep their system healthy. Students will be presenting their finish
products of this information, later this week. Their study guide was due today
for the unit. Their classroom test over the human body unit will be this Friday,
the 30th. The Case 21 test for this unit will be on Tuesday, Feb.3rd.
They then will be starting their Government and Westward
Expansion unit with Mrs. Beyer next week.
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