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: This week
students are composing a New Year’s
Resolutions essay and goal setting for Quarter 3. Next week 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
are finishing up our evaluating expressions and numerical patterns unit. We
will soon be starting our fractions unit and will be covering fractions for
most of third quarter. Students will learn to interpret a fraction as division
of the numerator by the denominator (a/b = a ÷ b) also solve 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 will also be 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 from parents to offspring and that
siblings may or may not receive the same traits from their parents. Later this
week, students will create and decode a "DNA recipe" for a dog to
observe how variations in DNA lead to the inheritance of different traits. They
will also be comparing and contrasting plant and animal cells and learning the
organs and functions of the human body systems.
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