TCE 5th Grade: Week of December 9th

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Gift of Words

The 5th grade classes will be participating in a "Gift of Words" activity. Please see the image below for additional details.

Give for Grants

We love the Coppell Education Foundation and their mission to fund educational, motivational and transformational programs for learning. Check out these grant proposals in the link below. We wrote a grant for Apple Pencils for the fifth graders. We'd love for you to consider supporting one or more of these grants.

https://give.livingtree.com/p/town-centerelementary

Donations for 5th Grade's Service Learning

The fifth graders will be preparing boxes to donate to the homeless shelter during our Better Together day in December. We would so appreciate if you are able to donate any of the items listed above. Please let your child's homeroom teacher know if you have any questions regarding these donations.

Yearbook Pictures

Yearbook Sales

5th Grade Spelling Bee

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the class bee! The finalists from the class bee will participate in the school bee on December 10th at 8:00. Good luck to our finalists!

We are not allowed to post any study lists online, but we have sent study lists home with the students. We will include some additional study resources in the "Option Homework and Review Resources" section of the blog below.

Accessing Your Son/Daughter's Schoology

As we shared at Curriculum Night, Schoology is a great resource to use to learn more about what we are doing in class. If you login to your son/daughter's account (or ask them to login and show you), you'll be able to see resources added by teachers, assignments, pretests and quizzes, and discussions. Each of us uses Schoology differently, but it would be beneficial for each class of parents to visit from time to time. If you'd like to access your own account (rather than logging in as your child), you can use this site to learn more about how to do it.

As you know, we have a payment plan for our Sky Ranch trip. You can view the information letter here. The second payment of $50 was due Friday, November 1st. The third payment of $50 will be due February 2nd. You may pay by cash, check, or online via this link. Please contact your homeroom teacher or Mrs. Ford, the Assistant Principal, if you would like to discuss payment plans.

Math
In math next week, we will be continuing our operations with fractions unit by diving into multiplication with a fraction and a whole number.

Science
In science, we will be continuing our Earth's Changing Surface unit with an Argument-Driven Inquiry exploration about erosion. We will be researching and looking in to the erosion taking place at Andy Brown Park since the new construction has been done there. We are excited to get to learn about our own community and about erosion!

Reading
We have begun our poetry unit where learners are annotating and analyzing different types of poetry. Learners have been answering questions about poetry in a Numbers Work Flow that we will continue to work on.

Writing
In writing, the learners will be creating a poetry anthology book with different types of poems. They will set one poem to music.

Social Studies
We have started our unit over the U.S. Constitution. We began learning about the Articles of Confederation and the Preamble, and we will move into learning how the Constitution was created.

As a reminder, all of the activities listed below are optional resources for you and your family.

Math
Click here to view a 30 page fraction review document with important pre-requisite skills to our current unit. We recommend having learners practice 1 sheet at a time, since there are many pages in this resource! (We realize that every other page on the pdf is upside down. The learners can just flip it over once it's printed.)

Reading & Language Arts
We would love for your son/daughter to spend time reading at home! They can read any text that catches their interest. We are currently in our Nonfiction Unit, so any informational texts they are interested in would be great.

Here are a couple of websites that offer current event articles targeted towards preteens and teens. With your guidance, they could choose articles of interest to read.

If you would like some extra resources to help your son/daughter study for the Class and School Spelling Bees, you can use these sites:

My Spell It
Word Central Games (Alpha-bot or Robo-Bee)
For Fun: Could you win the Spelling Bee?

Another great way to help your son/daughter prepare for the spelling bees is to help them practice spelling words aloud. We suggest practicing in front of the mirror.

Your son/daughter can also work on an entry for the CGA writing competition. (See information above)