Mrs. Sanford's EXTRAORDINARY 5th Grade Class

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Our class Code-  TDDMT8

The week of August 26...

I need 6 -8 water bottles for class Monday.  Could you help me out? They must have caps!

 

What will we be doing in class this week?

Math

Monday-  Division of whole numbers (Working up to 4 x 2 digit)

Tuesday-   Division of whole numbers (Working up to 4 x 2 digit)

Wednesday-  Divide by powers of ten (and incorporate PV understanding)  EARLY RELEASE DAY

Thursday- Divide by powers of ten (and incorporate PV understanding) 

Friday- Assessments on Division and multiplying and dividing on powers of ten

(TEST NEXT WEDNESDAY ON THIS UNIT!)

 

Reading:  It's THEME Week!

Download Digging Deeper Theme Anchors

Monday-  I can infer the deeper life lessons that emerge in the fiction stories I read. 

 Tuesday-  I can write a theme statement to represent the big ideas in the fiction stories I read. 

Wednesday-   Centers and independent reading                    EARLY RELEASE DAY

Thursday- Theme continued

Friday-  Find Clues About Theme in the Blurb  

 

Writing:  

Monday- constructed response

Tuesday-  Story Arc  (We completed this with Mason Buttle.)

Wednesday-  How do stories tend to go?          EARLY RELEASE DAY

Thursday-  Elaborating on Important Parts (Session 9)

Friday- Elaborating on Important Parts (Using Charlotte's Web)

 

Science: 

Monday-  Plate Techtonics ( Text pgs 128-129)    (Who came up with this theory?!?!?!)   Flocabulary- Earth's layers

Need help with vocabulary?  Practice these as a game!  Quizlet

Tuesday-  Earthquakes

Wednesday- There are many STEM fields to go into and seismology is just one of them!  STEM Fields  -EARLY RELEASE DAY 

Thursday-   There are many STEM fields to go into and seismology is just one of them. 

Friday- Seismographs

SWAY

Textbook Sway

Readworks

Readworks

Code-

DQHJJ6

 

 

Go Formative Expressions

Go Formative multiplication

Order of Operations

 

Week of August 19...

Weekly Tracks 8 16 19

 

Padlet for Book Recommendations

 

What will we be doing in class this week?

Math

Monday-  Expressions

Tuesday- Place Value Relationships

Wednesday- Place Value Relationships

Thursday- Place Value Relationships

Friday- Assessments:  Multiplying multi-digit numbers and Expressions

 

Reading:

Monday-  Learning to Think Analytically

Tuesday-  LIBRARY TIME!!!!  10 am!

Wednesday- Having Second Thoughts

Thursday- Launching Interpretation Book Clubs

Friday- Characters and Readers Find Meaning in the Midst of Struggle

 

Writing:  

Monday-  Discuss RACE/RACER/RACES strategy 

              Video Clip

Tuesday-  Taking Stock and Setting Goals

Wednesday- Flash Drafting

Thursday-  What’s the story really about?

Friday- Bringing Forth the Story Arc

            Download Ppt

 

Science: 

Monday- Look over the 6 Units we will discuss this year in Science

Tuesday-  Constructive and Destructive Forces

Wednesday- Constructive and Destructive Forces

Thursday-  What is Sway? How is it used?

Friday- Weathering and Erosion 

A few notes about next week!!!

The county's policy is that transportation changes must be made via:

1.  a note from the parent

2.  in person in the front office

3.  by fax

But, never through email!

I know it may sometimes be inconvenient, but it's a rule to support the safety of the children.  Thank you in advance for helping me with this!

Penny Wars to support Relay is ongoing Monday- Friday!!!  I've got a mason jar of change ready to help us get started!  Don't forget why we are doing this! PW supports a great cause!

The Week of August 12...

Weekly Tracks

Download August 9 2019

Parents, Thank you so much for your wonderful response to communication this year!  I appreciate the feedback about the remind app, but am unable to see the comment when you reply on the remind app itself.  I believe I have disabled replies on Edmodo, as well. The county has asked that we not communicate through texts.  I am always happy to answer your questions!  The best way to reach me is always going to be email:  pamela,[email protected]   If you have a more urgent situation, please feel free to call.

 

THANK YOU PARENTS!!!!!  Our T-shirt orders are all in!!!!

Library

Students are welcome in the Library Learning Commons in the morning before school starting Monday (7:15-7:45)

Pictures

Picture day is scheduled on Friday, August 23rd, at 10:23!!!!  Order forms will be send them home on Tuesday.  Students will give their order forms directly to the photographer on picture day.   (These were supposed to come home Monday, but we had a Fire drill that threw me off my game!!!!)

 

What will we be doing in class:

Math-Powers of 10, Multiplication of Multi-Digit Whole Numbers

Every Monday your child will receive a spiral review sheet.  This page will be due each Friday.  I often give a short quiz over the concepts reviewed on these sheets. Your child will have time to work on these problems  in class, but it would be helpful if you could go over them with your child at home.  They are foundational skills mastered in 4th grade that will help your child be successful with the new skills we are learning.

Last week we studied Order of Operations.  You should have a study guide in your binder.  Here is a chart from the journal, and some additional sample problems.  The answer sheet follows each set of problems, so you can check your work.  Here are some additional resources for practicing this skill:

Chart-

Sample Problems

     Quizlet

     

 

THAT QUIZ

Monday- Powers of Ten

     Chart

     Sample Problems

    Quizlet

Tuesday- Multiplying by powers of ten

    Video- Tuesday and Wednesday's lesson

Wednesday- Multiplying whole numbers 

Thursday- Review

Friday- Quiz & Touchstone

 

Reading: Writing About Reading with Voice & Investment

Monday- Goal Setting

    Grammar- Types of Sentences

Tuesday- Writing About Reading 

Wednesday-  Writing About Reading Means Reading With a Writerly Wide-Awakeness 

 Thursday- Grounding Your Thinking in the Text

Friday- Whose story Is This, Anyway? 

 

Writing:  Narrative

Monday- Strategies

Tuesday- Turning Points

Wednesday- Dreaming the dream of the story/ Resolutions

Thursday- Using Authors for inspiration

Friday- Telling the story from the inside out

 

Social Studies: Rights & Responsibilities of Citizens, Amendments

Test Friday

Monday- Due Process

Tuesday- Amendments

Wednesday- Voting Rights

Thursday- Review

Friday- Test

 

Field Trip Update:  We are so excited to be looking at a new Field Trip option!!!  The Atlanta Field Trip would take us to the Civil Rights Museum, as well as several local civil rights sites.  We would eat lunch at the Varsity, and head to The World of Coke to see how the themes we learned in our economics unit work in the real world!  We'd end the day at the Georgia Aquarium, and return to school as soon as the dolphin show ends for the day.   We'd love your feedback regarding this trip!  Please look for a link to a survey in our Weekly Tracks email from last Friday.

Welcome to 5th Grade!!!!