5th Grade News

Language Arts/Social Studies:

• This week in social studies, tensions continued to rise between Great Britain and the colonists as the students learned about the Boston Massacre, Tea Act, and Boston Tea Party. The students even had a chance to participate in a Boston Tea Party Readers' Theater. We continued on with the topic of the American Revolution in language arts this week as students read, analyzed, and paraphrased the poem, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere". It had excellent examples of metaphors and imagery which are skills we have been working on in class.

Math/Science:

• This week in math, we continued to look at graphing input-output tables on coordinate planes using Desmos. We talked about the relationship between the independent and dependent variables and how additive and multiplicative patterns look on a coordinate plane. We also practiced working with ordered pairs on the x-axis and y-axis. In science, we finished up our fossil projects and began to present those to the class. We also started on our Earth's changing surface review. We will take a quiz on weathering, erosion, deposition, landforms, and sedimentary rocks next week. 

In Other News:

• Class picture day will be Monday, February 22nd. We will be sending home picture forms next week.
• The final Sky Ranch payment is due Thursday, March 24th. This is also the due date for chaperone money for those that will be joining us.
• There will be no school on Monday, February 15th for President's Day.