5th Grade News

Language Arts/Social Studies:

• This week in social studies the students explored the tensions between the colonists and Great Britain prior to the Revolutionary War. We used the metaphor of a parent and child relationship. In language arts, we spent time looking at a Martin Luther King, Jr poem. The students paraphrased and analyzed vocabulary. The students learned the characteristics of Haikus and couplet poems and even created some originals of their own.

Math/Science:

• We started a new unit in math this week: Coordinate Planes and Graphing. The learners had the opportunity to use manipulatives and model data from tables in order to find patterns. We also introduced a new math resource this week: Desmos, which is great for graphing equations and data! We are looking forward to utilizing this resource in the coming week. In Science we continued in our "Earth's Changing Surface" unit with a discussion of fossils. The learners are currently working on researching and creating presentations about questions that they came up with about fossils.

In Other News:

• The third Sky Ranch Payment and student paperwork was due Friday, January 29th. Please send as soon as possible if you haven't yet. The final payment is due Thursday, March 24th.
• There will be no school on Monday, February 15th for President's Day.