Feb. 5-9: Upcoming Events

• Tuesday: BizTown Fieldtrip 9-2.  Students may be out of uniform.

5th Grade NewsletterFebruary 5th-February 9th

Religion –We are continuing with our unit on the seven sacraments. Students have been working on their google slide presentations and will hopefully finish these presentations next week. We will be presenting these in class upon completing them. We are asking that students include personal photos of themselves or family members receiving the sacraments. Any photos you may have can be uploaded directly to your child’s google account. If it is easier to email them directly to your child’s teacher, please feel free to do so. If your photos are hard copies, simply take a photo of the photo with your cell phone and email or upload it. Thank you! We will also have generic photos of the sacraments for any student who does not have a picture for any particular sacrament. Following our Sacrament work, we will spend time learning about Lent and pairing it with the Works of Mercy.

Reading/Language Arts – We are continuing to work on our MLK unit/informative writing pieces. We hope to have these completed writing pieces in the hallway during conferences. After our MLK unit, we will move back into our routine of independently reading, conferencing, and journal writing about current reading selections. Following Spring Break, we will take some time to read in Literature Circles.

Math – We will be picking back up with Chapter 5 now that we are done with BizTown. Studylink homework will resume. Please encourage your child to continue to work on his/her basic facts to increase accuracy and speed. Thank you!

Social Studies - Students are ready for their work at BizTown! Each business has chosen together what to wear and students may be out of uniform for this field trip Tuesday. We will spend the rest of next week debriefing from our experiences at BizTown.

Language Arts – We have completed our lessons on action verbs this week. Next week, we will discuss helping and linking verbs. We will also continue with our unit on informative writing. This unit will help the students write their MLK papers in their Reading class. We will practice with punctuation as well.

Spelling – Next week’s spelling list will consist of words that have the Greek and Latin roots mega, thermo, ped, man, cycl. We will also re-visit synonyms and antonyms.