February 2015

February 2015

Important Dates

Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015: Unit 6, (Moved from 2/3/15)
Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015: Chapter 10, Growing Tensions test, online
                                          Chapter 10, one act or event storyboard due in class

Forget-Me-Not Dates

Monday, Feb. 9, 2014: NAAPID, Parent Involvement day: All parents are welcomed.
Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015:Talent Show encore performance @1:00 PM
Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015: Parent Orientation @ Tappan, 6-7 PM, cancelled
Friday, Feb. 13, 2015: Valentine's Day Card Exchange/ Data Mid year Celebration @ 1:10 PM
Monday, Feb. 16, 2015: Mid Winter Break begins, No School all week
Monday, Feb. 23, 2015: School Resumes
Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015: Science Fair projects due, Science Fair 6:00- 7:30 PM

Subjects at a Glance

Math: 

Subjects at a glance

Math: Unit 7 is Exponents and Negative Numbers. This unit encompasses reviewing how numbers are written in 5 ways as well as adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers. Below this section are the report letter outcomes. 

After observing data from third, fourth and fifth grade report letter outcomes, our building will be working on increasing students' ability to comprehend and solve fraction word problems. Students will be given a pre and post test. Then separated into instructional groups.  

Reading: The fifth-grade team is doing a unit on historical fiction and biographies.

Word Study: (See reading teachers.)

Writing: We will be integrating Social studies with writing. Students will be reviewing historical editorials with 2 different

 perspectives on the same topic. After analyzing the editorials, student will write a response stating whether they are for or against.  

Poetry: We are studying poet, Langston Hughes and his use of figurative language. 

Social Studies: We are studying chapter 10, History Alive America's Past and Present, Growing Tensions. This chapter is primarily about the tension between Great Britain and the colonies after the French and Indian War. Students are responsible for creating a 

story board depicting one event or act. Students will be given a written criteria. Also students will take an online test.

Science: We are human body and motion with U of M interns teaching a majority of the lessons. At the end of this project, students  will be writing an informational writing project. 

Unit 7

EDM Unit 7: Exponent and Negative Numbers

o Orders and compares positive numbers.

o Understands the relative magnitude of ones, tenths, hundredths, and the relationship of

each place value to the place to its right

o Adds positive and negative numbers

o Subtracts positive and negative numbers

o Uses parenthesis in number sentences to specify the order of operations.

o Multiplies a whole number by powers of 10: 0.01, 0.1, 1, 10, 100, 1000

Base scientific notation standard notation

Expanded notation negative number nested parenthesis

Expression parenthesis power of 10

Factor power of a number order of operation

In the black number and word notation opposite

In the red

Line graph