Download December, 2015

From the Desk of: Ms. Mayhew, Miss Niehenke, and Mrs. Zitrick
5th Grade: News to Know
Parent Reminders:
 Students should be
reading 20-30 minutes
a day or 2 hours a
week.
 Parents should be
checking assignment
notebooks nightly.
 Students should be
practicing their basic
facts nightly in order
to facilitate learning
new math concepts.
 Interims go home with
select students on
December 11th
December 2015 Newsletter
Reading

We will focus this month
on informational texts
(reading to be informed).
Investigate parallel
circuits
Thinking and Academic
Success Skills (TASS)

Study magnets and
their effect on other
objects

Investigate relationships between electricity and magnetism
This quarter students will
be building skills of synthesis– putting parts together to build understanding of a whole concept or to form a new or
unique whole, and metacognition (knowing and
being aware of one’s own
thinking and having the
ability to monitor and
evaluate one’s own thinking
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Read technical texts
to identify relationships between main
ideas
Identify evidence to
support author’s perspectives
Compare and contrast
text structure
Social Studies
The students are continuing to learn:

The significance of
democratic principles
in development of the
U.S. Constitution

Examine how federates and antifederalists influenced
the government

Analyze the evolution
of the American government after the
Revolutionary War

Identify rule of law ,
due process, and the
Bill of Rights
Math
 Winter break December 24th-January 3rd
The fifth grade math classes will:

Use visual fraction
models to identify
equivalent fractions

Use benchmark fractions to estimate answer to addition and
subtraction of fractions

Create number lines
to represent addition
and subtraction of
fractions with unlike
denominators
Science
In science all classes will:

Redesign circuits address technological
issues
Writing
Students are working on
the Inquiry Research Project about a movement of
change in the American
history. They will be
completing an informational and an opinion
pieces based on research