December 22, 2016

We have had an awesome week planning our school on MARS. Take a look at our final products:

5C News              

December 16

We are learning about:

• Three ways to utilize a remainder: ignore, report as a fraction, round up
• Dividing with zeros
• two digit divisors
• Language used in different text structures to help identify the text structure being read
• Taking notes from complex text and recording on computer documents
• Researching Roanoke, Jamestown and Plimoth
• Discerning implicit main ideas
• How morphology can help with specialized vocabulary

Some activities we did:

• Began a 5th grade MARs project where we research and design a school on Mars
• Got our scooter licences
• Read about animal defenses and found text structure of each chapter
• Worked on our Movie Math project

Notes and Reminders:

• MARS project 12/21 1:30
• Vacation 12/26-1/3

Dear Families,

The fifth grade has taken on the challenge to build a school on Mars. We are sharing out with the school next Wednesday at 1:30. Today we discovered a miscommunication on our team about inviting parents. So, I am sorry this is so late; please come and join us to view the MARS schools with the rest of SMS on Wednesday at 1:30.

Time Flies by in 5C. We have been very busy reading, writing, solving problems, learning and creating. Take a peek:

Words

• completed all the syllable principals
• looking at prefixes and suffixes to encode words

Multiplication

• estimating
• using estimates to find reasonable answers in multiplication
• multiplying multi-digit numbers
• multiplying by decimals
• learning to read, solve and explain word problems with multiplication

Science

• Why does the sun rise and set?
• Who set the first clocks?
• Why do stars change with the seasons?

History

• 5 themes of geography
• What was happening in Europe, Africa and the Americas prior to 1490's
• How the three continents engaged with each other
• The Columbian Exchange and the impact it had/has on Europe, Africa and the Americas

Reading

• Finished Pax and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
• defined theme
• learned how to develop new ideas from multiple plots
• took quality notes to generate new ideas, explore and develop themes
• expanded these ideas in writing supported with evidence from the text
• participated in two book groups

Writing

• wrote two personal narratives
• wrote 1 fiction story
• developed ideas using
• snapshots
• thoughtshots
• flashbacks
• shrinking time
• exploding the moment
• dialogue
• figurative language
• worked on the conventions of
• paragraphing
• commas
• using quotations in dialogue

Other

• innovation day
• First Festive Friday