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Grade 5 Newsletter

Week 4 : 25-29 September

Star of the Week:
Message from the Teachers:
Please, make sure your child has had a healthy breakfast, brings a healthy lunch, and is at school on time, prepared, and ready to learn when classes start at 7:30. School hours for students is 7:15 - 2:30 each day. Parent Orientation will be Sunday, September 25 at 1:30 P.M.
English Language Arts
Essential Question:
Skills developing: Intervention story/unit: / How can art and performance help people understand a text?
Comprehension, Fluency, Spelling, Theme, Elements of Drama, and Characterization
“A Royal Mystery” & “The Princess and the Pea”
Reading: / Fluency: Accuracy; Decoding: Vowel Sounds in VCV Syllable Patterns
Spelling words: / awake, feast, stray, greet, praise, disease, repeat, display, braces, thief, ashamed, sleeve, waist, beneath, sheepish, release, remain, sway, training, niece
Robust vocabulary: / discomfort, primitive, interior, honored, secretive, immersed, bungled, contagious, brandishing, imprinted
Grammar: / Kinds of Sentences; Vocabulary strategies: prefixes non-, un-, dis-, mis-
Writing: / Narrative Writing: Description; Focus Trait:Voice
Math
Book/Chapter/Unit: / GoMath: Chapter 1: Lesson 5- Lesson 9
Page(s): / 29-60
Essential Question: / How can you use a basic fact and a pattern to multiply by a single and multi-digit number? How is multiplication and strategies used to solve a division problem?
Math vocabulary: / inverse operations, distributive property, quotient
Science
Book/Chapter/Unit/Topic / Science Fusion: How scientists Work
Page(s): / 17-40
Big Idea / Scientists answer questions by careful observations and investigations
Science vocabulary: / Scientific method, experiment, variable, control
Useful websites for online resources
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Reminders of Tests and Specialist Lessons:

Class / Sunday / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday
5A / P.E./Art / Computer
5B / Computer / PE/Art / Computer
5C / Computer / Art / P.E. / Computer
5E / Computer / Art / Computer / P.E.
5F / Computer / ART / PE/Computer

Tests and Quizzes:

Spelling/Vocabulary- Thursday, 29 September

Stars of the week:

Grade 5A – Ms. Tasneem- Saud Ali Al-Dosari

Grade 5B – Ms. Alex Homoud AlFadli

Grade 5C – Mr. Andre- Abdulrahman Hamoud Al-Ali

Grade 5E – Ms. Khadejah- Cadi Al-Awadi

Grade 5F – Ms. Sheena- Retaj Al-Subaie

WELL DONE!

Spelling:
awake, feast, stray, greet, praise, disease, repeat, display, braces, thief, ashamed, sleeve, waist, beneath, sheepish, release, remain, sway, training, niece