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 begin our regular schedule. Please make sure you take time today, while planning for next week, to look over your Class Connect schedule as it will have changed.
Next week you will work on:
Literature Unit 1 Lesson 8-10.
Composition Unit 1 Lessons 7-8
GUM Unit 1 Lessons 7-9
Spelling Unit 3 Lessons 1-5
Vocabulary Unit 2 Lessons 1-2
By Friday 9/7/18 you should have completed
Literature Unit 1
Reading Q1 TGA1- USA Test Prep
Composition Unit 1
Composition Unit 1: Writing a Memoir Check in USA Test Prep
GUM Unit 1
Spelling Unit 1 and 2
Vocabulary Unit 1
All grades will be updated in the grade book by 3 PM on Friday 9/7
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 You Need To Make A 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) 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.
*If your start date was on 8/29, please complete the alternative TGA listed in USA Test Prep. If you have any questions please let me know.
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:
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?
Answer: a one-story house does not have stairs
Weekly Riddle:
Each Friday I will send out a Riddle. Please come to class the following week with your answer
What has hands but can not clap?
I will share the answer next week in class! Have an amazing weekend!
5th Grade Math with Mrs. Vandever
I look forward to seeing you in class connect. Below I have listed what you will be working on next week. If you have any questions or are struggling, please email me or stay after class connect to ask questions. I’m here to help.
OLS Lessons: Unit 1 Lesson 9 and 12
5th Math TGA 1: Found in USA Test Prep, be sure to complete the entire assignment.
Multiplication Fact Practice: We will be going over a new resource called Math Facts Pro. Students will be expected to login and practice at least 3 times a week. Knowing multiplication facts with quick recall is vital as students continue to move forward in math as well as use in everyday life. We will go over information during class connect, but attached below are the Math Facts Pro Requirements and login information.
5th Grade Science with Mr. McIntosh
Please be aware that your daily and weekly plan may not be accurate right now. Use the schedules listed below instead.
Looking Back –
We completed the last lessons of Unit 12 (one of the hardest that you will have all year!), and you should now be ready for the Unit 12 test (due 9/4). Please let me know if you have questions about this unit test because I want everyone to master it. After studying the tiniest of organisms and where they fall into the big picture of living things, we should be in good shape to start looking at how living things work together in making the world the amazing place we know it to be. If you continue down to the Looking Ahead section, you will see exactly what I mean.
Last week’s lessons: Unit 12, Lesson3: Protists and Fungi, & Lesson 4: Viruses
Looking Ahead -
After our study of how we classify living things and how the billions and billions of microscopic organisms can help and hurt us, we will now turn to the ecosystems and organisms that affect how populations of plants and animals will grow or die out. These are important questions for science to consider, and we will try to use our observations of how living things interact to solve problems for the world and for ourselves as human beings (Homo sapiens). We will learn how the changes in living things and their environment have ripple effects for an entire ecosystem. Let’s think BIG now!
Unit 12, Lesson 8: Review and Assessment due on 9/4
Assignments for the week of Sept. 4-7: Unit 2, Lesson 1: Ecosystems and the Environment, & Lesson 2: Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
Creature of the week – We will look at an animal called the scheltopusik because I think they’re cool. Research them between now and class time to see what you can tell the rest of the class. What is it? Where does it belong in the classification of animals that we discussed last week?
5th Grade Social Studies with Mrs. Lipscomb
Hello 5th graders, Your Class Connect schedule for Social Studies will remain the same. This week you will be completing unit 2, lesson 8 - From England to America. We will identify the major historical English figures that helped settle America. We will be learning about Sir Francis Drake and other “Sea Dogs”. Come early to find your pirate name.
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! (This is why everything in the OLS for Music EXCEPT for U1 L1 has been marked skipped.) :)
Music Studio lessons for the week of 09/03:
- Section 1, Unit 1, Lesson 1 - Sing Together in Rhythm
- Section 1, Unit 1, Lesson 2 - Pitch Power
- 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:
I have previously sent in email a PDF file about Music Studio (it is also available in the file share in the OLS). There are also directions in the Music Reference Guide book you received in the mail with your materials.
5th Grade Health/PE/Art with Ms. Buchanan
Happy Friday!!! 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 practice your ball handling skills.
Lessons for this week:
Art: Unit 1 Lesson 5
Health: Unit 1 Lesson 5
PE: Unit 1 Lesson 3
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
