MS. MARTIN'S FUN FIFTH GRADERS
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Week of November 2711/27/2017 Important Dates Tuesday, December 5 ... PTA Meeting at 8:30am. The Holiday Meal is scheduled for Thursday, December 7th. Menu: Turkey Gravy with Mashed Potatoes Stuffing Cranberries Green Beans Cinnamon Apples Dinner Roll Gingerbread Cookie Milk December 7: Barnes and Noble Night 4:00-8:00 TOYS for TOTS collection starts NOW and runs through December 8! Veteran's Program raised $730 for the Wounded Warriors Program!! ELA-We are continuing to work on a unit in Wonders that explores the question "What motivates you to accomplish a goal?" The literature we are looking at this week focuses on narrative and free verse. We will be making predictions and determining the theme of a story. For grammar we will be learning about prepositional phrases. The focus in spelling this week is closed syllables. When a syllable ends in one or more consonants and has a short vowel, it is a closed syllable. Writing-We just finished our MT Tribal Nations expository papers and we begin writing opinion essays. Math-We are working on decimal place value and comparing, ordering, rounding decimals to the thousandths place, and adding and subtracting decimals. Science-Students are working on coding with Ms. Ziegler. Social Studies-We are starting our European Explorers unit of study. We will be looking at the reasons why Europeans were exploring the Americas during the 1400s-1800s, and we will be learning general information about 17 explorers. We were very lucky to have Aaron Murphy come in as a guest speaker. He spoke to all of the 5th grade classes about his job as Jon Tester's Chief of Staff. He had a great presentation about civics and even had some interesting facts to share (ask your kids about the candy drawer and the hidden toilet). We learned a lot from him!
November 12th, 201711/12/2017 Important DatesSPIRIT DAY on Friday, November 17 Wear your Cat or Griz colors and support your favorite team! What Are We Learning This Week?
English Language Arts We are working on a unit in Wonders that explores the question "What motivates you to accomplish a goal?" The literature we are looking at this week focuses on narrative and free verse,. We will be making predictions and determining the theme of a story. For grammar we will be learning about prepositional phrases. The focus in spelling this week is closed syllables. When a syllable ends in one or more consonants and has a short vowel, it is a closed syllable. Writing This week, we will be learning how to organize a narrative and how to make it interesting to the reader. Math We started decimals last week. We investigated thousands, place value of decimals, and comparing and ordering decimals. This week we will learn how to round decimals, decimal addition, and decimal subtraction. Social Studies We will continue to work on MT Tribal Nations papers. We are using Step Up to Writing strategies to organize our writing. Science Miss Ziegler and the kids are working on coding with the Tynker app. They are creating their own program! Week of November 6th11/5/2017 Important Dates:November 10 at 8:45 4th and 5th Grade General Music Veteran's Day program THANK YOU Ms. Waddell and her music students for honoring our vets. A donation will be taken for the “Warriors and Quiet Waters” program. warriorsandquietwaters.org Our fall Box Top collection earned Arrowhead School $679.50! THANK YOU and so easy! Keep collecting for the spring pick up!! It was great meeting with all of you at parent-teacher conferences! What Are We Learning This Week? English Language Arts We are working on a unit in Wonders that explores the question "When has a plan helped you accomplish a task?" The literature we are looking at this week focuses on folktales. We will be focusing on making predictions and the theme of a story. For grammar we will be learning about possessive nouns. The focus in spelling this week is contractions. Writing Students finished up their first attempts at a personal narrative. This writing piece is evaluated for the first trimester. However, it is not expected to be mastered until the end of the third trimester. We will begin writing an expository paper. Math We are continuing to work on division this week, and multiplying to check answers. Math will consist of division with double digit divisors, estimating and figuring out where to put the first digit in a long division problem, and interpreting our remainders. Social Studies We have one slide show presentation left. Students are working on their MT Tribal Nations papers. We are using Step Up to Writing strategies to organize our writing. Ms. MartinThis is my 13th year teaching in Billings Public Schools. I was born and raised in Billings and attended Billings Public Schools! I love spending time with my family. My daughter graduated from U of M and I love to go and visit her and watch the Grizzly football games. Sorry Cat fans! My son graduated from Billings Public High School and is playing golf for MSU-Billings. If I am not with my family, you can usually find me walking my golden retrievers Lola and Winston.
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