Here is what we have been learning in fifth grade:
Daily 5/CAFE:
This week students will complete the menu entitled: “The Case of the Runaway Appetite” which is a fantasy and a play. Students will explain how scenes from the
play fit together to provide the overall structure of this particular play. We
will spend time reviewing the characteristics of a fantasy from different texts
and video clips.
Writing: In the next
few weeks students will generate ideas for conflicts or themes in fantasy
stories. They will also begin to plan a
fantasy story using a graphic organizer.
Math: We have started our fraction unit and will
be covering fractions for most of third quarter. Currently 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.)
Science: We have
started our human body unit. We have
been discussing genetics and inherited traits and how traits are passed down
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