Week of October 3rd

NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY! I HOPE THE KIDS HAVE A GREAT FALL BREAK!

21st Cent. Class: Sustainable

Specials:

Monday-Wednesday: Art

Thursday: PE

Misc:

*Design Thinking Challenge: Special Olympics

Purpose: Specifically foster students' developing sense of empathy, and overall to learn about design thinking. Students will learn to immerse themselves in learning from experts.

*STAR Reading Test on Monday

*STAR Math Test on Tuesday

Math:

*Math's Mate Term 1 Sheet 8 is due Thursday

Chapter 3: DIVIDE BY A ONE-DIGIT DIVISOR

*Review for Test on Monday

*Test on Tuesday

Chapters 4-6 Pretest on Wednesday

No Math on Thursday

Reading:

*Unit 3 Vocabulary Test will be on October 5th

- Practice activities are in their Flocabulary site

*We have finished reading Out of My Mind and will begin working on summative projects based on their personal reading goal along with having a choice from multiple reading skills the students have worked on while reading this novel to show their comprehension.

- Projects will be due October 6th

Critical Thinking:

*Students were given a question last week - "Does the education you receive affect your future?"

- On Thursday, we will finish having a mini-debate to show their thinking. The students show whether they can back their thinking up with evidence from multiple articles that could sway them either way based on the schema they came to 5th grade with.

Writing:

*DLI Week 5 practice (Compound Subjects/Predicates) will be due on Tuesday - October 4th

- DLI Quick Write 5 will be due Wednesday, October 5th

Science:

*Students will continue their Matter Unit with Mrs. Howard and will have their test with her on Thursday