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:
Next week we will focus on note-taking strategies and be looking into the lessons you had due the week of the 20th and upcoming lessons for ELA.
Many of your assignments began on Monday the 20th. Please make sure that you are following the assignments listed on your daily plan. If you have any questions, please let me know.
Literature assignments on the Daily Plan
On your Daily Plan for 8/31/18 (once you complete unit 1 in Literature) it will list your Literature assignment as the Novel Choice unit. please DO NOT do this unit. We will do our Novel Units later in the year. For literature, we will continue to work through Unit 1 and then start unit 2 on September 10th. If you have any questions please let me know.
Literature Unit 1 Lessons 1-10 from August 20th until September 7th.
Literature Unit 2 Lessons 1-11 September 10th- October 5th
Teacher Graded Assignment:
Literature Q1 TGA1 (quarter 1 teacher graded assignment number 1) will be due on 8/24/18. This can be found in USA Test Prep. Please do not worry that your grade does not update automatically as I manually enter your grade from TGAs.
Upcoming TGA: Composition Unit 1 Writing a Memoir Check-in will be assigned in USA Test Prep and due on 8/29/18. Please make sure you are completing the lessons in the book, but also completing the check-in in USA Test Prep when they are assigned.
Resources:
Please make sure that you have your books organized as we will go through some of them in class next week.
Below is a helpful video about Memoirs:
https://safeshare.tv/x/ss5b7b327230297
Last Week's Riddle:
I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A Candle!
Weekly Riddle:
Each Friday I will send out a Riddle. Please come to class the following week with your answer
In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink! What color were the stairs?
I will share the answer next week in class! Have an amazing weekend!
5th Grade Math with Mrs. Vandever
You will continue to work in Unit 1 Lessons 5-8 next week involving multiplication and division. If you are struggling with either, I have attached a list of multiplication and division resources. I’m looking forward to our class connect sessions on Monday. Be sure you have completed your math readiness assessments in USA Test Prep by Tuesday, August 28th. This will be the first TGA (Teacher Graded Assignment) in the grade book. Remember, this is to be done by yourself. It is okay if there were things you didn’t get right or understand. See you in class.
5th Grade Science with Mr. McIntosh
Looking Back –
Hey, 5th Grade Science Superstars! We had a tremendous start to the new year with our discussion of the Scientific Method and what that means for our problem-solving in the sciences. This week, you jumped into the ways that all living things are organized, and you learned some very challenging information about all of the single-celled organisms that can help (or hurt) us.
Assignments for the week of Aug. 20-24: Unit 12, Lesson 1: Naming and Organizing Life, & Lesson 2: Prokaryotes
Looking Ahead -
You will expand on the first two lessons next week as we talk about protists, fungi, and viruses. We will have the Unit 12 Review and Assessment due at the end of next week, but I will make sure that we cover what that will look like in next week’s Class Connect.
Assignments for the week of Aug. 27-31: Unit 12, Lesson3: Protists and Fungi, & Lesson 4: Viruses
Unit 12 Review and Assessment due on 8/31
Special Note - Besides the reading and lesson activities for next week, please make sure that you are able to sign into Office 365 when you come to next week’s CC. I will email you with information to make sure that you’re able to do so. This will be very helpful as we complete our short surveys at the end of class and also as we tackle bigger projects during the first quarter of the year.
What is it? Have you ever heard the word "umami"? What do you think it might mean? Read more about this mysterious phenomenon in this article.
5th Grade Social Studies with Mrs. Lipscomb
Hello 5th Graders! I so enjoyed working with you all in class on Wednesday. I can tell we are going to have a fun year! This week you will be completing unit 2, lessons 3 and 5. During Class Connect we will discuss the Columbian Exchange as well as the explorations of Coronado and Ponce de León. Please come to class with your notebook and a working headset with microphone.
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 U1 L1 in the OLS and click the link to take you to Music Studio!
Music Studio lessons for the week of 08/27:
- In the Spotlight, Lesson 3 - Big Yellow Taxi
- In the Spotlight, Lesson 4 - Patriotic Medley
- Music Studio Assessment
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:
*Note: If you're having trouble loading Music Studio and it just freezes, please contact K12 customer care:
866-512-2273
5th Grade Health/PE/Art with Ms. Buchanan
Happy Friday!!! I hope you enjoyed your first full week at TOPS. I know yall have been busy working hard in your lessons this week. Many of you have sent pictures of your self portrait already. I am still looking through them all. They are amazing!!! In Health next week you will continue learning about the body. In PE you will continue using your pedometer.
Lessons for this week:
Art: Unit 1 Lesson 3 & 4
Health: Unit 1 Lesson 3 & 4
PE: Unit 1 Lesson 2
TGAs: Due 8/31
Art: U1L1 Self Portrait (take a picture of your drawing and email it to me)
Health & PE: Log Survey includes a Health question.
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
