5th Grade Weekly News

January 7, 2019 – January 11, 2019

Vocabulary Words: This Week’s Objectives

Please know spelling and definitions
of the words below: Reading/Writing: In this very short unit, students will
build their background knowledge about the science
1. plate: a piece of the earth’s crust made of behind natural disasters. They will read two informational
articles, one about hurricanes and the other about
earthquakes. Students will focus on the relationships
masses of rock.

 between scientific concepts in these informational texts,
specifically how hurricanes and earthquakes form and
2. fault: where plates join what happens when they occur.

Grammar: Sentence punctuation

3. pressure: a force against another force


Math: This week in math we will begin Module 4. This
4. seismic waves: shock waves that come from the module explores multiplication and division of
fractions and decimal fractions As always, we are
center of an earthquake continuing to work on writing about math and
thoroughly explaining our steps when solving.
5. energy: power, force Please encourage your child to persevere when they
come upon a problem that is difficult at first. As
6. radiate: energy that spreads out in the form of always, we are continuing to work on writing about
math and thoroughly explaining our steps when
waves 
 solving.

Science: Chemical Magic

Social Studies: Intro. to the American Revolution

Reminders/Upcoming Events
Health: Managing Anxiety
• Tuesday, January 15th – Committee Meetings
• Wednesday, January 16th – PTSA Meeting
• Thursday, January 17th – New TK/Kindergarten Student Shout Outs
Orientation
• Friday, January 18th – 
Coffee with the Principal We hope everyone had a wonderful break!
• Monday, January 21-- No School - Dr. Martin Luther Happy 2019!
King, Jr. Day
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