TOPS 5th Grade Weekly Newsletter

January 9, 2019

Course Specific Information for Week of January 9

5th Grade Reading with Mrs. Karl

Welcome back! I'm looking forward to a fabulous week.

Please make sure you are working through your Daily Plan. This week you will start a new unit in Literature (8) Unit 7, Composition Unit 5, GUM Unit 6, Spelling Unit 17, and Vocabulary (9) Unit 8.

Preparing for next week:

Next week will continue in all of the units except in Spelling we will start Unit 18. If you have any questions or need help checking the grade book, please let me know.

Literature assignments on the Daily Plan

On your Daily Plan once you complete the open Literature unit, it will list your Literature assignment as the 19. You Need To Make A Choice unit. please DO NOT do this unit. We will do our Novel Units later in the year. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Literature Lesson Dates:

Literature (8) Unit7 Early American Lives Lessons 1-9 January 10-25

*After you complete Unit (8) Unit 7 in Literature please do not move on.

Literature (9) Unit 8 Stories of Washington Irving Lesson 1-7 January 28-February 8

Literature (10) Unit 9 Passing Moments Lesson 1-5 February 12-22

Weekly Riddle:

Each Friday I will send out a Riddle. Please come to class the following week with your answer.

Name the most recent year in which New Year’s day came before Christmas?

Please send me your answers or share in class next week! If you have a riddle you would like to share in the newsletter, please email it to me.

Have an amazing weekend!

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5th Grade Math with Mrs. Vandever

Welcome to our second semester. We are jumping right into Unit 10 on Algebra. I have included some notes with additional tutorials and resources to help. See you in class connect on Friday. As always, if you have any questions or need help, please be sure to reach out.

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Unit 10 Lesson 1: Grouping

Unit 10 Lesson 2: Understand Variables in Algebra (A)

Unit 10 Lesson 3: Understand Variables in Algebra (B)

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No TGAs this week

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Practice 3 Times a Week

Be sure to complete the practice to the very end until you see the results page. There are 50 facts. Knowing multiplication facts with quick recall is vital. Here is the login information.

https://mathfactspro.com/
Teacher Username: TOPSMath
First Name and Last Name with space in-between (as it appears in your OLS)
Password: Student ID

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5th Grade Science with Mr. McIntosh

Welcome Back, 5th Grade! Let’s do some science!

Happy New Year and welcome back! I am so glad to be with you as we start this new semester of science investigation and research. We’ll slowly get back into the swing of things with some reading that will set us up for our Friday CC session. Because the reading passage is in Grolier’s Encyclopedia online, I have included the reading sections in the file sharing located in the OLS. If you need a reminder of how to get to those files, watch this video that explains it. I will also email the article to each of you so that there will be a couple of ways to access it. There is a short quiz in USA Test Prep that will cover the content of that reading. Next week we will look more closely at the Earth and moon as planet and natural satellite. Be sure to check out the information below about the Chinese spacecraft that just landed on the moon.

News of Astronomy for the Week: As we discuss the moon in more depth this week and next, an exciting development occurred last week in astronomy. For the FIRST TIME EVER, a spacecraft has landed on the dark side of the moon. Check out more information about this historic event in this article from Earthsky.org. Also of interest – there is a total lunar eclipse later this month (the night of Jan. 20-21) with the year’s first supermoon. Research what a supermoon is before our next class.

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OLS Lessons for Jan. 9-11

Unit 7, Lesson 1: Day, Lunar, and Seasonal Cycles– Grolier's article reading in OLS File Sharing and sent by email

Assessment: Six question multiple choice/performance task quiz in USA Test Prep (Due 1/16)

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Unit 7 Lesson 1 Formative Assessment

5th U7L1 Form. Assess. Jan. 11 in USA Test Prep

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Unit 7: Lesson 1 - Day, Lunar, and Seasonal Cycles

Key vocabulary – earth science, rotation, revolution, orbit, elliptical, satellite

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5th Grade Social Studies with Mrs. Lipscomb

HAPPY NEW YEAR, 5th graders, this week we will meet on Thursday. We will review what we have learned in semester one and prepare to switch to our new 5th-grade social studies course. There are no social studies lessons assigned this week.

I’ll see you in class on Thursday!

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No OLS lessons assigned this week.

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5th Grade Music with Mrs. Bass

Happy 2019! :) I hope you all had a wonderful and restful Winter Break.

Every week you will check the grade level newsletter to see which Music Studio lessons to complete. Just open Unit 1, Lesson 1 in the OLS and click the link to take you to Music Studio! (This is why everything in the OLS for Music EXCEPT for Unit 1, Lesson 1 has been marked skipped.)

This week you will watch the Music Studio tutorial video: https://tinyurl.com/elem-MusicStudio

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This week you will watch the Music Studio tutorial video: https://tinyurl.com/elem-MusicStudio

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No Music Studio assessment this week. :)

Quarter 3 Extra Credit - all extra credit points will be entered into the gradebook at the end of Quarter 3.

Need help finding the assessments?: https://tinyurl.com/elem-MusicStudioAssessments

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5th Grade Health/PE/Art with Ms. Buchanan

Happy New Year!!!!

Welcome back everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful break. I look forward to hearing about all of the fun you had. Lets blast into 2019.

Recording directions for TGAs in gradebook:

https://tinyurl.com/Gradebook-TGA-directions

The Hive:

We will continue to have Kahoot in the main room. Thank you LCs that have helped monitor chat and the rooms. I know it is wild in there but, it's recess. I hope everyone has had a blast!!!