5th Grade Reading with Mrs. Karl
I hope you had a fabulous week! Before we all take off for the weekend I wanted to send out an overview of what to expect next week, some resources to help you, and a fun riddle!
Preparing for next week:
Please make sure you take time today, while planning for next week, to look over your Class Connect schedule to ensure you attend all required live sessions.
Please make sure you look through the grade book and work on any lessons in which you have an M. This means missing. Once you complete the OLS assignment the grade will automatically update. If it is a TGA in USA Test Prep, please email me and I will update your grade.
Next week you will:
Finish Literature Unit 2
Continue working on Composition Unit 2
Finish GUM Unit 2
Finish Spelling Unit 7
Begin working on Vocabulary unit 4
By 9/28/18 you should have completed the following assessments
Literature Unit 1Lesson 10 Part 1 and 2 (8/29 and 9/12 Start Date Excused)
Reading Q1 TGA 1- USA Test Prep
Reading Q1 TGA 2- USA Test Prep
Reading Q1 TGA 3- USA Test Prep
Composition Unit 1(8/29 and 9/12 Start Date Excused)
Composition Unit 1: Writing a Memoir Check in USA Test Prep
Composition Unit 2: Writing a Research Paper Check in USA Test Prep
GUM Unit 1(8/29 and 9/12 Start Date Excused)
Spelling Unit 1-6 (8/29 Excused from Unit 1 &2 and 9/12 excused from Units 1-5)
Vocabulary Unit 1-3 (8/29 Excused from Unit 1 and 9/12 Excused from Units 1-2 )
You need to have started:
Literature Unit 2
Composition Unit 2
GUM Unit 2
All grades will be updated in the grade book by 3 PM on Friday 9/28
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 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 Unit 2 Lessons 1-11: September 10th- October 5th
Literature Unit 3 Lessons 1-4: October 15th- October 19th
Teacher Graded Assignment: (Due dates in the grade book)
Reading Q1 TGA 1,2, and 3 are due and grades are updated in the grade book
Composition Unit 1& 2 Check-In- due and grades are updated in the grade book
5th Reading Readiness Assessment grades are updated in the grade book
Last Week's Riddle:
I do what I’m told in the morning, I do what I’m told at night, but I still can’t escape your scold.
Answer: An Alarm Clock
Thank you Isabella Bridges for the awesome riddle!
Weekly Riddle:
Each Friday I will send out a Riddle. Please come to class the following week with your answer.
This week's riddle is courtesy of Amazing 5th Grader Fatima Bagayoko!!!
There are 8 fish in a tank. 3 fish got taken away from the tank and 2 drowned. How many fish are left?
I will share the answer next week in class! If you have a riddle you would like to share in the newsletter, please email it to me.
Have an amazing weekend!
5th Grade Math with Mrs. Vandever
We will finish our unit on decimals this week and start working on fractions. If you have any questions or are struggling, please email me or stay after class connect to ask questions. I’m here to help.
- 5th Math Fraction PreTest in USA Test Prep, do your best by yourself, you will get a completion grade
- OLS Lesson: Unit 6 Lesson 13 Unit Checkpoint
- OLS Lesson Unit 3 Lessons 1 and 3
- Math Facts Pro Multiplication Fact Practice: Students are expected to login and practice facts at least 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
5th Grade Science with Mr. McIntosh
Looking Back –
We started Unit 3 by looking at the traits of individuals that are passed through genetic code. From hair color to height, from eyes to earlobes, we inherit so much from our parents. We looked at the ways that genes can combine to result in traits that might surprise us. In the Looking Ahead section, we will start to look at the behaviors of organisms and where they may come from.
Lessons for Sept. 24-28: Unit 3, Lessons 1 & 2: Inherited Traits
Key Vocabulary: inherited trait, dominant, recessive, gene, probability
Looking Ahead -
We will continue looking at how animal behaviors and how they develop through experiences and the environment in which they live. We will read about pioneering behavioral scientists such as Konrad Lorenz and Ivan Pavlov and their contributions to our understanding of animal behavior. We will begin our look at the critical cycles of three of our most important environmental ingredients: nitrogen, carbon, and water and how human activities have affected their balance.
Assignments for the week of Oct. 1-5: Unit 3, Lesson 3: Learned Characteristics, and Lesson 4: Cycles in Nature: Nitrogen, Carbon, Water, Part 1
TGA #2 will be assigned on Monday, Oct. 1st! Look for it in USA Test Prep.
Key vocabulary: heredity, genetics, carbon dioxide/oxygen cycle, combustion, condensation, evaporation, precipitation, respiration, nitrogen cycle
Creature of the week – Let’s check out another very unusual reptile this week. The leaf chameleon was only discovered in 2012 and is found in very few places in the world. Do some research before our next class and share what you have learned with your classmates!
5th Grade Social Studies with Mrs. Lipscomb
Hello 5th graders, this week we will wrap up unit 3. We will spend time in class on Wednesday reviewing everything we have learned about Jamestown, Pilgrims, Puritans and the early colonies. Please complete the following lessons this week:
· Lesson 9 – Review
· Lesson 10 – Unit Assessment
Be sure to check the gradebook to see if you have any missing assignments (M’s). I’ll see you in class on Wednesday!
5th Grade Music with Mrs. Bass
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.) :)
Music Studio lessons for the week of 10/01:
- Section 1, Unit 1, Assessment (This is a unit review at the end of the list of lessons in Section 1, Unit 1.)
- Music Studio Unit Assessment (This is located on the Assessments page.)
- Section 1, Unit 1, Music News
Video showing how to get into Music Studio and find the lessons and Assessments page:
Video showing how to find just the Assessments page in Music Studio:
Reminder - Mrs. Bass updates the gradebook every Friday afternoon. :)
5th Grade Health/PE/Art with Ms. Buchanan
Happy Friday!!! I know yall have been busy working hard in your lessons this week. In art next week we will continue learning about "Native Peoples of the North". In Health we will continue working in Unit 9. This is about “Emotional Well-Being”. In October we will talk about anti-bullying. In PE you will practice using the pedometer again.
Lessons for this week:
Art: Unit 2 Lesson 6 & 7
Health: Unit 9 Lesson 4 & 5
PE: Unit 1 Lesson 7
TGAs:
Health & PE log:
The Hive:
We will continue to have Kahoot in the main room. Thank you LCs that have helped monitor chat and the rooms this week. I know it is wild in there but, it's recess. I hope everyone has had a blast!!!
Blanda Watt, Elementary School Principal
Email: bwatt@texasonlineprep.org
Phone: 682.593.1514
Twitter: @TOPSMrsWatt
