Welcome to Fifth Grade!
April: What is Grade 5 studying?
ELA:
Module 3: Athlete Leaders of Social Change
Module Summary: In this module, students consider the factors that contribute to the success of professional athletes as leaders of social change. They read about a number of professional athletes who have been leaders of social change, beginning with Jackie Robinson. In Unit 1, students read the book Promises to Keep, identifying factors that led to Jackie’s success in breaking the color barrier in baseball as they read.
Unit Tasks:
- Students read and summarize an informational text and determine main ideas
- Students listen to and summarize an informational text, and explain the relationship between key ideas in the text.
Eureka Math:
Module 5: Addition and Multiplication with Volume and Area
Students will...
- calculate volume
- find the total volume of solid figures
- find the area of rectangles with whole-by-mixed and whole-by-fractional number side lengths
- draw, analyze, and classify two-dimensional shapes
Helpful Websites
The web sites below are fun and educational. Please encourage your child to practice math in a fun and creative way. We hope you will explore these websites, which will be helpful for you and your children:
Great and safe search engines for children:
Helps children practice and strengthen math skills:
Wonderful sites to research social studies and world events:
Reading sites:
- http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/marketing/sfesl/practicereading.html
- http://www.ncsu.edu/project/lancet/fifth.htm
Math Site:
Fifth Grade Homework, What to expect?
Homework is a crucial part of your child's active learning process and essential to their academic progress. Please make sure that all homework is completed daily.
Tips: "Use these examples to help you check your writing."
* The first letter of each sentence should begin with a capital letter.
Ruth bought new blue sneakers. The sign blew away in the storm. Did she try out for soccer last year?
* The pronoun / is always spelled with a capital letter.
Ahmed and I ate lunch together.
Sheila and I went swimming.
I feed my goldfish every morning.
* If the subject of a sentence is a singular noun, the verb should also be singular.
Jeremy bakes oatmeal cookies. Tonya paints with watercolors. The chair rocks back and forth.
* If the subject is plural, the verb should also be plural.
Vidya and Joanna study science. Women play the drums in our band. The planets rotate around the sun.
* Every sentence ends with punctuation in the form of a period, question mark, or exclamation point.
My friend is a good baseball player. Where did Jamie find her keys? Don't run across the street!
* Commas separate words in a series.
We like to swim, hike, and play basketball. The farmer raises goats, sheep, and chickens. Customers can choose water, milk, orange juice, or apple juice.