5th Grade News!: 3-6-15

3-6-15

Language Arts

We’re going to wrap up our Heroes and Helpers unit by exploring the question “How can stories be alike and different?” First, we’ll read the fantasy story Dex: The Heart of a Hero, about a dog that becomes a superhero! We’ll also learn about some real heroes in the informational text Heroes Then and Now.

Target Vocabulary: depended, overlooked, sprang, studied, gazing, hero, exercise, sore

Phonics Skills: Words with r-controlled vowels or (for), ore (bore)

Vocabulary Strategy: Prefix over- (means “above” or “beyond”)

Comprehension Skill: Compare and contrast—tell how two things are alike or not

Comprehension Strategy: Monitor/ clarify—find ways to figure out what doesn’t make sense

Social Studies

This week we traveled to South America and North America. That leaves Asia and Africa for next week and that should about wrap it up. I plan on assessing everyone next week. Everyone will be responsible for labeling the 7 continents and 5 oceans on a map. They also need to know that they live in the city of Portage, which is in the state of Michigan, in the country of the United States, which is on the continent of North America.

Field Trip

We will be attending Charlotte's Web at Shaw Theater on Friday, March 13th. We will be leaving Lake Center around 11:30 and returning around 2:15. I have everyone's permission slip so thank you for getting those back to me so quickly. Since we will be leaving during our lunch time, we will be eating lunch in the room that day. I will need everyone to pack their own lunch for that day. You can order a sack lunch from the cafeteria, just please let me know ASAP so I can tell Mrs. Gambill in the lunch room.

Math

Lesson 6

Objective: Use the associative property to subtract from three-digit numbers and verify solutions with addition.