5th Grade News

Language Arts/Social Studies:

• This week in social studies learners shared their knowledge of the conflicts between the colonists and Great Britain by writing a letter of protest to King George. They also responded to the letter using the perspective of King George. This led us into our Language Arts study of Author's Purpose and Persuasive Writing. Learners are learning the "art" of arguing.

Math/Science:

• This week in math, the learners created patterns using manipulatives. After their pattern was created, they had to create an input-output table and graph their pattern. In order to do this the learners had to decide the process of their independent and dependent variables. Looking at the different patterns we compared the differences between additive and multiplicative patterns. We took our Earth's changing surface quiz in science and began our next unit on Alternative Energy and Fossil Fuels.  

Note from the PTO:

Attention all 5th graders who will be joining the CMS North Cougar family for the 2016-17 school year:  CMS North PTO is selling a "Class of 2023" t-shirt available for pre-order now to show your school & class pride!  Link:  https://cmsnpto.revtrak.net/tek9.asp?pg=products&grp=25.    Cost is $15 each.  Sizes available: Youth Large - Adult XL.  Deadline to order a shirt is March 28th. Shirts will be distributed at the 5th grade parent meeting for middle school registration held on April 14th @ 6pm in the North cafe. You may arrive a little early to pick up your child’s shirt before the meeting or pick it up following the meeting.  Be sure to order one now!  We will have a very limited amount of extra shirts available for sale at the meeting.

In Other News:

• Class picture day will be Monday, February 22nd.
• 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.