Feb. 26-March 2: Upcoming Events

• Monday: Lent Prayer service @9:10
• Tuesday: 
• Wednesday: Auction Pizza Party, Students may bring a healthy drink and snack to eat with Pizza.
• Thursday: 
• Friday: 
• Monday March 5th: Field Trip to Historical Museum Vault 9-11:30 am (students need to be in uniform) 

February 26th-March 2nd

Religion –We have finished our Google Slide Presentations on the 7 Sacraments. Students will be presenting these to the class over the next several weeks. We encourage you to take a moment and view these presentations at home. We have started our unit on the Works of Mercy. Students will be responsible for knowing all of the Works of Mercy as well as how a 5th grader can serve others following the Works of Mercy. 5th grade will be leading the Lenten Prayer service on Monday at 9:10 in the church. The theme will be Path to Sacrifice.

 Reading/Language Arts – We are continuing to work through our MLK unit/informative writing pieces. We will move back into our routine of independently reading, conferencing, and journal writing about current reading selections after MLK. Following Spring Break, we will take some time to read in Literature Circles.

 Math – We spent time working on improper fractions, mixed numbers, and parts/whole. Next week, we will spend time converting fractions to decimals and percents.

 Social Studies - Students have continued work on their timelines. They look amazing! Students will be presenting their timelines to the class and receive a grade on presentation. We will begin our unit on Iowa History next week with a visit from Leo Landis, Curator for the Historical Museum on March 1st. He will talk to our students and we will visit the museum and vault on March 5th. Please look for the permission slip that came home today.

 Language Arts – We spent time working on verb tenses this week. Next week we will look at irregular verbs and verb tense consistency. We will continue with our Informative Writing unit next week as well. We have spent some time researching topics we’re curious about and want to learn more about. Next week, we’ll narrow down our topic choices and ensure that there is plenty of information on our topic-then dig into the actual research. We’ll learn how to take notes, how to look through information, how to cite sources etc.

 Spelling – Our Spelling list next week will consist of words that are homographs. Your child will need to know how to spell the words as well their multiple meanings and how to determine the correct meaning in context.

Feb. 12-16: Upcoming Events

• Monday: Conferences 4:30-7:30
• Tuesday: Valentine Parties *students may bring a box or bag to collect valentines.  
  
  

  Anderson Party 1:15-2:00 (27 students).  

  Alsin and Schaffer party-2:15-3:00 (28 students)
  Conferences 4:30-7:30
• Wednesday: Ash Wednesday Mass
• Thursday: NO SCHOOL - Conferences 8:30-12:30
• Friday: NO SCHOOL
• Monday 19th: Lenten Prayer service 9:00

February 12th-February 16th

Religion –We will be finishing up our Google Slide Presentations on the 7 Sacraments. Students will be presenting these to the class over the next several weeks. We encourage you to take a moment and view these presentations at home. Next up will be our unit on the Works of Mercy. Students will be responsible for knowing all of the Works of Mercy as well as how a 5th grader can serve others following the Works of Mercy.

Reading/Language Arts – We are continuing to work through our MLK unit/informative writing pieces. 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 – You will be receiving your child' Financial Literacy assessment at conferences. We are working on converting fractions, percents, and decimals now.

Social Studies - What an exciting time we had at BizTown this week. Students did an amazing job running their businesses, I’m sure they have told you all about the day.

Language Arts – We have worked through action verbs and helping verbs in our Verb Unit. We will continue with linking verbs, verb tenses, and verb tense consistency. On the 14th, we will have a special Valentine lesson working on Puns in class. We will need ads from the Sunday paper for this lesson. If you receive this paper and are willing to donate the ads to our class-that would be great! Please send them with your child to school on Monday! Thanks! We will continue with our Informative Writing unit next week as well.

Spelling – Due to the short week, we will not have a Spelling list/test next week. After the conference break our list will consist of words with the prefixes uni, bi, tri, quad, and pent.

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.