We have a very busy week this week.
This week
Mon, 11/17: Math Homework given
Tues, 11/18:chapter 4 Shurley English test; Service Learning Project Day---FUZZY SOCK DRIVE; Tuesday Folders go home
Wed, 11/19: Return Tuesday Red Folders
Thurs, 11/20: PTA meeting-NO performances
Fri, 11/21: Math homework due; Math test; Reading Test; Chick-Fil-A $2.50
Upcoming Events
Mon, 11/24-Fri, 11/28 Thanksgiving Holidays
Mon, 12/1-Fri, 12/5 School Book Fair
Science
For the next two weeks our class will be in science with Ms. Creel.
Math
Standards:
MCC5.OA.1 Use parentheses, brackets, or braces
in numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions with these symbols.
MCC5.OA.2 Write simple expressions that record
calculations with numbers, and interpret numerical expressions without
evaluating them. For example, express the calculation “add 8 and 7, then
multiply by 2” as 2 × (8 + 7). Recognize that 3 × (18932 + 921) is three times
as large as 18932 + 921, without having to calculate the indicated sum or
product.
Activities:
Math with Riddles - Order
of Operations 3- Solve the math problems to solve the riddle.
Trick Answers- Read over a student’s homework. She didn’t show her work, but she
did list her answers to each problem. Check her work for her and explain to her
how you know her answers are correct or incorrect.
Word Problems - Order of Operations -Read
the problems and solve them.
Order of Operations Puzzle-Rearrange the puzzle pieces so that the
numerical expression matches the written expression.
Order of Operations Use the order of operations. Evaluate each
expression.
Write and Interpret Expressions
Order
of Operations Dice Center ActivityTest: Friday
*Students will be working in small groups this week on skills that have NOT been mastered.
Reading
Standards
RL5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,
including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
Activities
- Figurative Language Warm-Up Page 1 Read the paragraphs and answer the questions.
- Simile & Metaphor Packet Read each sentence. Identify the figurative phrase and its meaning.
- “Grandma’s Garden” Figurative Language Puzzle Read Grandma’s Garden. Using the puzzle sheet that goes with it, go back and find each example of figurative language in the story. In the top puzzle piece, write the type of figurative language. In the puzzle piece on the right, explain the actual (literal) meaning of the figurative phrase.
- "Grandma's Garden"
- One for the Murphy's
- Stories with figurative language (primarily similes and metaphors)
- Grammar: compound subjects, compound verbs, and compound objects of prepositions
- Skills: Types of sentences - simple, fragment, simple with a compound subject, simple with a compound verb
