TOPS 5th Grade Weekly Newsletter

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 go through the grade book and make up any Ms. If you have any grades that are lower than you would like, please work through the lesson again to improve your grade. Remember you can take your TGAs multiple times (this is a great way to expand your comprehension, practice your skills, and increase your grade). If you have any questions or need help checking the grade book, please let me know.

Please ensure that you complete your Reading Benchmark located in USA Test Prep.

If a subject says Catch Up please check the grade book to ensure you do not have any Ms and complete any overdue assignments. Please log in to USA Test Prep and ensure that you have completed all of your TGAs.

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.

Next Semester Literature:

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

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

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

Reading Benchmark In USA TP- February 25-March 1

Literature: (17) Unit 13: I Didn't Know That: Lesson 1-6- March 4-22

*After you complete Unit (17) Unit 13 in Literature please do not move on.

Riddle Answer:

Sarah’s mom had 4 kids, June July and May. Who was the fourth child?

Answer: Sarah

Thank you, Caleb Dintelman, for an amazing 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 Mohammed Koudy!!!

I like to swim, I’m always on time, I’m very strong, in fact, I am time! What am I?

Hint: think of a word with two different meanings

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!

This week is benchmark week. Please be sure to take your time, give your best effort and complete the benchmark by yourself. We will be using the information from the benchmark to help get you ready for the STAAR test in April. It must be completed by Friday. This is the priority of the week. You have a lighter work load this week. This will give you the opportunity to catch up. Be sure you are working in STRIDE.

Join the GREEN TEAM!! Your report in Math Facts Pro shows all the facts you have memorized (quick recall) in green. Let's make all of your facts green. I already have 2 students who are on the GREEN TEAM. The week after we return from Spring Break, week of March 18th, we will have something special for those students who are on the GREEN TEAM and know all of their multiplication facts. Some of you are only 1 to 3 facts away from joining the team. Keep practicing!

GREEN TEAM MEMBERS

Isaiah B.

Noelle E.

Looking Back -

We examined some of the fundamental laws of physics in our first two lessons of Unit 9. These helped us understand force, motion, mass, gravity, and inertia. Next, we will explore how energy can be taken out of storage (sort of) and put to work in lots of ways.

Looking Ahead –

We store energy in a variety of ways without ever really thinking about it. Even your breakfast is stored energy that you will put to work later to get stuff done (like mowing the lawn or taking out the trash). How does this stored energy become something that moves or works?

Next week is Benchmark week! Make your completion of Reading, Math, and Science benchmark tests a priority!

Extra Credit is available next week as we write in our CC’s!

We are enjoying some writing time next week in our Friday Class Connect. This is an opportunity for extra credit just for participating in our writing activity. Please join us!

Continue to devote one hour (or two 30 minute sessions) to Stride Science lessons each week.

Science News for the Week: We’ve been discussing forces and inertia in 5th grade physics. One of my favorite tricks that demonstrates motion and force is the amazing way that dominos can create a chain reaction with other dominos (or other objects). Check out this insane video of physics at work.

Hello 5th graders,

This is the week we will begin unit 6 – Civil War Times. During class on Wednesday, February 27th, we will review what we have learned about the meaning of Manifest Destiny. We will spend most of our class time writing and imagining what life may have been like during westward expansion.

Please complete these 4 lessons this week:

• Lesson 4: Civil War

• Lesson 5: The Road to Union Victory

• Lesson 6: Remembering

• Lesson 7: Reconstruction

I’ll see you in class on Wednesday!

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.)

I update the gradebook on Friday afternoons. Check the gradebook on Monday morning to see your updated Music grade.

Happy Friday!!!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful week. Have a great weekend!!!

I will keep the Health Activity Book attached so that you use with some of your OLS lessons.

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 this week. I know it is wild in there but, it's recess. I hope everyone has had a blast!!!

Email: bwatt@texasonlineprep.org
Phone: 682.593.1514
Twitter: @TOPSMrsWatt