Here is what we have been learning so far in fifth grade:
Daily 5/CAFE: This week students will complete their Daily 5 Menu entitled: A Boy Called Slow. They have been working to determine the theme of the story and how characters respond to challenges. They have also worked on story vocabulary and comprehension skills. Students will learn how to “Track” articles and reading passages in small group.
Writing:
This week students will continue working on narrative writing but the focus shifts to memoirs later in the week. Students will explore mentor texts that discuss features of a memoir and begin to think like a writer as they prepare to write their own memoir.
Math: We just finished our multiplying and dividing multi-digit whole number unit. We took an assessment over this on Monday. Tues. we will start our decimals unit. We will be reading, writing, and comparing decimals to thousandths place. We will be moving into rounding decimals and powers of 10. The students will be recognizing that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left.
Science: The students have been working hard on researching terrestrial and aquatic biomes. They will be putting all this information into a flip book that they can use as a tool for review. The last project of the 4 1/2 weeks that they will be completing is to research and present a poster illustrating an ecosystem that is being negatively affected by humans. This will complete the Ecosystems Unit. The students were given a study guide Monday to be completed by Friday. They will have some time in class to complete this. We will go over it Friday and review more on Monday. Their test will be Tuesday, Aug. 9th.
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