Bee Informed!

The place where students and parents on the fifth grade team (Ciccolella, Flanders, Halliday) can keep in touch with the day to day happenings in the classroom. Please remember that this page is for information only! Dates and topics are subject to change to meet the needs of the students. Updates are posted here weekly (by Monday afternoon) during the school year.

Please sign yellow folder weekly! This lets us know that you have seen your child's graded papers!

September 26 - September 30, 2005

MATH:

Find multiples and the least common multiple.
Find factors and the greatest common factor.
Express numbers as powers of ten.
Write prime factorization of a number by using exponents

Estimate quotients using compatible numbers.
Divide 3-digit dividends by 1-digit divisors.
Evaluate expressions and solve equations with division.
Use a variable to write an equation for a function in a table.
Problem Solving Strategies:
Visit www.harcourtschool.com for some additional math activities.

Students should review math skills daily. Graded work may be corrected and turned in the following school day for additional credit.

SCIENCE

Lesson Focus: Landforms

Students will learn:

*How mountains form

*What causes volcanoes and earthquakes

* How Earths' surface featyres have changed over millions of years

Check Agenda Book for quiz and test dates!!!!!!!!

READING/LANG. ARTS:
Reading, Lang., and Spelling skills are incorporated in the story.

Story: "Elena" p. 114-135
Reading Skills: Narrative elements, using context to confirm meaning, comprehension, vocabulary
Language Skills: Compound subects and compound predicates
Writing: Story Map: Summarizing
Spelling Skills: Words with /s/,/z/, and /sh/

PACT Practice Test

Unfinished classwork becomes homework
Spelling tests and reading tests are given when the story and skills are completed.

AR Book - nightly reading for 30 minutes Please sign Reading Log nightly. Thanks!!!

Visit www.harcourtschool.com for additional reading, language, and writing activities.

SOCIAL STUDIES:

Theme: The New South

Objective: Students will identify the highlights and resulting changes brought about by the Civil War period and post-war Reconstruction.

Questions To Guide Reading
1. Explain the differences between a tenant farmer and a sharecropper?
2. How did the south try to re-invent itself after the war?
3. In review, what political changes took place in the South as the North lost interest in Reconstruction?
4. Why do you think Southern yellow pine was in such high demand in the North after the war?
5. How were blacks and their freedoms hurt by the Ku Klux Klan, black codes, and the return of the conservative democrats in the Southern States?
TEST DATE: Friday, September 30, 2005

Special Dates and Reminders:
Please check agendas daily. We would appreciate your signature after your child has completed work. This will help to monitor your child's progress. Please call to schedule a conference with us.

Your child should have graded work each week. Your child will have papers to correspond with grades recorded in the agenda book. We need your signature for grades in the agenda book and the weekly yellow folder. THANKS!

FAMILY FEAST
We believe that it is important for us to have a partnership between school and home. To ensure that each student feels loved and valued, we would like to carry on the tradition of the Family Feast. We will have this celebration twice this year. We are looking for four families to work together to provide food and drinks for each feast so that one family does not have to shoulder the burden of feeding everyone. If you would be willing to help please send us a note or call us.
The family feasts will be held in the lunch room from 12:40 - 1:30 on the assigned day. The feast needs to be set up and ready to go by 12:45. We will give you a count the Monday before the Family Feast. We are looking forward to this unique tradition. Thanks for all your dedication and hard work! We do appreciate it!
Please let us know if you would be willing to help with the Feast on October 7th or March 9th.