TCE 5th Grade: Week of January 13

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Yearbook Pictures

Yearbook Sales

Saturday, January 11th is the last day to purchase a yearbook! See info below to purchase.

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.

*Thank you so much to the wonderfully attentive parents that pointed out that the image above had the dates messed up.

Our parent meeting will be Thursday, January 23rd.

This meeting will be really informative as we'll go through packing lists, tentative schedules, classes, meals, and specifics about the camp grounds. We really hope you'll be able to attend. (We anticipate the meeting lasting no longer than 45 minutes.)

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 this week, we have started our Expressions and Equations unit. We are exploring prime and composite, simplifying expressions, and graphing.

Science

In science this week, we have started our unit on renewable and nonrewable resources. We have enjoyed getting to explore the types of resource and how they are formed.

ELAR
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.

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 Poetry Unit, so any poetry books 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.