2016

Grade 5 News

November

We are the class of 2024

Personalized Learning

Each month we will focus on a different “Bobcat Behavior” that personalized learners strive to exhibit.

November’s Bobcat Behavior

Curriculum Overview

Language ArtsDuring the month of November, students will continue to deepen their skills of selecting and reading multiple high interest nonfiction texts, with an emphasis on historical fiction. Skills addressed include summarizing and synthesizing texts, developing theories to interpret text, and reading to learn. Students are now able to identify specific text structures of nonfiction selections. Our reading workshops continue to focus on getting students to read faster, smoother, and with absorption. Students have been conferencing individually and in groups about specific reading skills taught and then practiced during independent daily reading in class and at home.

You can best support your child by asking them about what they are reading, why they chose their books, and what are they learning when they read.

Be sure to check in with your child to see the progress on their daily/weekly reading logs. Suggest they compare what genres they are reading and how their times and page counts may differ depending upon genre and interest level. This will help support their independence as readers by encouraging them to make good choices that will promote reading growth.

Vocabulary, grammar, and word work continue to be part of our daily literacy instruction. Writing instruction this month continues to include answering questions about both fiction and non-fiction reading passages and articles and defending answers with text references. Students will also explore how writers find inspiration in books and real-life experiences. Classroom spelling bees will occur this month and the Bain Spelling Bee is November 22.

MathThis month we will be multiplying whole numbers and

decimals using a variety of strategies. We will solve problems using the standard algorithm, break apart, and distributive (partial products) methods. Students have examples of these methods in their math notebooks. We will also be working on orders of operations. Students will solve problems that include multiple operations with brackets, braces, and parenthesis.You will find great resources for helping your child become successful in math at the following website; http://www.nctm.org/resources/families.aspx

ScienceIn the month of November we will be exploring ecosystems and understanding the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem. We will:

1. Compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems, including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests, and grasslands.

2. Classify the organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, or decomposers (biotic factors).

3. Infer the effects that may result from the interconnected relationship of plants and animals.

Health

2016

Grade 5 News

November

We are the class of 2024

This month we will exploreinterpersonal communication and relationships as well as mental and emotional health. We continue to weave Bobcat Behaviors and citizenship traits into morning meetings and Health instruction.

Social StudiesThe study of early colonization will include how European settlers used natural resources to determine where settlements were established. These resources then play an integral part in the formation of the original 13 colonies and their economies.

Washington, D.C. Field Trip Update!!!!We are very excited about our upcoming trip! The next installment ($100 per person) is due Wednesday, November 16th. Payments can be made by money order or online at http://osp.osmsinc.com/cms/

Beginning November 9th. Several forms will be sent home in your child’s folder that will also need to be returned with this payment.

Support and Special Area News

Art

Square 1 Art is coming soon! In art class, your student has completed a wonderful piece of art for this PTA Fundraiser. Look for your child’s Preview Packet to come home at the beginning of November. You will have an opportunity to order amazing products printed with your child’s original artwork.Square 1 Art is the perfect Christmas gift and many items can be personalized!

Online and paper Square 1 Art orders are due by November 17th!

For more information about Square 1 Art, check out their website-https://www.square1art.com/

Music

In music, students are showing their knowledge of rhythm reading and playing, notably the quarter note and rest, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, half and whole notes and corresponding rests, as well as experiencing syncopation and accompanying songs on the Orff instruments. We’re exploring the topic of “Q-A,” questioning and answering in the music setting, comparing it to language and poetry, improvising rhythmic and melodic phrases.

Please check out our website: https://sites.google.com/cms.k12.nc.us/bainmusic Students will be able to find many music games under the music websites” tab.

Physical Education

Ms. Wilt’s 3rd-5th grade classes have completed their fitness testing. These students will now analyze their fitness data. They will record their scores in their fitness journal and set goals based on these scores. We will also begin a fitness unit where students will learn about the F.I.T.T. Principle and the different components Of physical fitness

   Exceptional Children’s News

Progress reports for all students receiving Exceptional Children’s Services (Special Education, Speech/Language, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Hearing, and Vision) will be sent home with your child’s report card, Thursday, November 10, 2016. 

Upcoming Events11/1 National Theater for

Children performances

11/8 No SchoolTeacher Workday

2016

Grade 5 News

November

We are the class of 2024

11/9 Highway 55Family Night

11/10 Report Cards distributed

11/11 Holiday/No School

11/16 Awards 10:00

11/22 Bain Spelling Bee

11/23-25 No SchoolThanksgiving Holiday

11/30 Picture Retakes