Feliz Navidad

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FIFTH GRADE FUN

End of the year news

The Grade 5 Historians have completed their unit on The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. We had some great presentations! In January we begin our unit on the MIddle Ages.

Last week our Writing Workshop completed a unit on informational essays.  It was a long process and they worked very hard. I am more than pleased with their results. They became experts on their topic!

In January we will begin a unit on Fantasy books and writing. I am looking forward to reading their stories.

In Social Studies we also learned about the Jewish Children's holiday, Hanukah. We played a typical game called Sevivon ( Dreidel), Leo B made a most interesting comment about the game, asking if it was "Jewish Poker". 

We also baked some amazing Snickerdoodles the last day of school. They were pretty good!!

Winter Work

For the winter break there will be some Math to work on. We need to a) finish your worksheet packet if it is not finished by Friday (most should be done or close to done) and b) do all of the review in the back of the workbook except for the ratio questions. Otherwise  we can try to read over the break. Enjoy!

Also don't forget that our Winter Show is tomorrow at 3:00. Feliz Navidad!

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Grade 5 Student Newsletter

Newsletter

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CRAFT SALE

This Wednesday and Thursday we will have our annual Christmas Craft Sale. Our beautiful inspirational rocks will be on sale on both days for only 2 Euros! All proceeds go to help our sponsored children in Calcutta and San Nicolo Si Mette in Moto.

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Last Math test of 2014!

We finished our last Math test of 2015! Good job to all. We will use next week to review all our topics in the first 6 chapters!

We will also have some Reading Tests to check everybody's level.

Area of a Triangle Test Tomorrow

In Math today we reviewed for our area of a triangle test tomorrow. Good luck to everybody. Also we are getting ready for our band performance. Feliz Navidad sounds great!

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Divisibility Rules

In Reading this morning we used our time to work on our outlines for our research project. They are coming along nicely.

In Math, besides reviewing for our test on the area of triangles, we talked about the divisibility rules. We can learn some shortcuts to determine if a large number is divisible by 2,3,4,5,6,9, or 10.

In Technology we started computer programming today with a service called Scratch by MIT. We will continue with this throughout the second trimester.

In Band we practiced our songs for our Winter Show next Thursday.

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Taxonomy

In Reading we looked over our 50 note cards. We will now be using these notes to make our outline and then our research paper. Good job everybody!

In Math we found two ways to find the area of a triangle. One way is to use the formula: b x h /2. The second is to take half of the area of the corresponding rectangle. We will have a test on Triangle area on Friday.

In Science we started our new unit on the classification of life. Today we started by looking at taxonomy and how we classify. Here are the links to help answer our questions.

Taxonomy Links

1. Use http://www.ducksters.com/science/scientific_classification.php for question 2.
2. Use http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/scientific.htm for questions 3 and 4.
3. Use http://www.biology4kids.com/files/studies_taxonomy.html for questions 5 and 6.
4. Use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqxomJIBGcY for question 7

USe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMFqEp4Sf40 for question 8.

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Triangles

We had our last day in class to collect note cards. The 50 cards are due on Tuesday!

In Math we started a new mini unit on triangles and area. Today we talked about the parts of a triangle (sides, angles, vertices, base and height). We also practiced finding the height with a given base. On Tuesday we will work on using that information to find the area.

Compiti per venerdì 12

Completare le 3 fotocopie di analisi logica sul quaderno: venerdì ci sarà un test con esercizi simili!

Buon fine settimana!

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50 Note Cards

In Reading we used our time to catch up on our Reading logs and to do research for our projects. We are reading non fiction sources on our topics and writing note cards about what we are reading. Some have already reached 50 and most are close to being dome. On Tuesday we need to have all 50 done!

In Math we finished our Algebra unit. We had a test today on chapter 5....we shall see how we did. Tomorrow we start a very short unit on the area of triangles.

HISTORY TEST FRIDAY DEC 5

 The test will cover the mains reasons for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. I will be including something from each of the wonderful presentations that took place on Friday and today.

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Tom's monthly allowance is k dollars. Jerry's monthly allowance is 3 times as much as Tom's monthly allowance. Danny's monthly allowance is €20 more than Jerry's monthly allowance. What is their total monthly allowance in terms of k? If Tom's monthly allowance is €18, find their total monthly allowance.

Math Test on Thursday

In Math today we covered our fourth and last section on Algebra: Real world story problems. We will have a test on Thursday and will have a review of the chapter for the next few .

In Reading we continued to collect summaries and quotes on our note cards for our research project We need 50 by December 9th!

Frase del mese

Per domani preparare la frase del mese, dev'essere composta da 10 parole di cui una deve essere un pronome indefinito.