ISAT testing begins this Tuesday, March 6th, 2012! 5th grade students will be tested in both reading and math. Please make sure that students are here on time, that they are well rested, and ready to concentrate! Our grade will test on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week and Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. Our school needs to achieve 92% of the students meeting or exceeding the standards in order to achieve AYP (adequate yearly progress.) Please do your best to encourage your child towards meeting this goal.
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word work, we will begin to review all of the words in Unit 4. The test will be next week. In
literature study, we will be testing on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday, we will continue reading
Mississippi Trial 1955 and look for text evidence to support inferences we are making. In addition, we will act out the closing arguments in the trial and we will discuss how students feel about the outcome of the trial.
The picture to the right is a photograph from the court room during the actual Emmett Till murder trial. In
writing workshop, students will read an article with two different opinions. They will have to find the supporting reasons for each person’s argument. Then, they will do an activity where they will try to convince a classmate of something by coming up with their own supporting arguments.
This week in math, students will review the concepts of Topic 16. On Wednesday, students take the Topic 16 test on ratios, percents, fractions, decimals, and patterns. Next, we will move on to Topic 17: Equations and Graphs. Students will use a number line to locate an integer and its opposite. Then, students will identify points on a coordinate plane.
This week in science, students will read about pulley systems and take notes. They will draw a scientific diagram of a movable pulley and a fixed pulley. Finally, students will discover two ways to set up a one-pulley system to lift a load through free exploration with the components of a pulley.
