Dec. 8-12

Important Notes for Success

-Please ensure that your child has pencils and erasers. Many students are spending instructional time hunting down or bartering for a pencil which distracts from everyone's learning.

-Tardies and early dismissals have been very high in the last two weeks. Please make every effort to be present for the whole school day. Instruction moves quickly, and missed time is hard to recover from.

Important Dates

-Spelling Pre-Bee (optional) Thursday, Dec 11 at 7:15 a.m. in Mrs. Audi's room
-Wednesday, December 17 6:30-7:30 Exhibition. Celebrate with us!
-Friday, December 19 ALL GRADES AND REDOS DUE FOR THE 2ND NINE WEEKS
-Friday, December 19 1:30-3:00 Holiday Party

-Winter Break: December 20-January 5 (students return Tuesday, Jan 6)
-April 14-16: 5th grade goes to HISD camp! Hooray! (Many more details to follow in the spring)

What's Coming Up Next Week?
Exhibition:
Art will be finished by Monday, December 8.
Students are writing their artist statements this week and are working on their oral presentation (what they will say when they present their art).

Math: Unit 8 (Solving Algebraic Equations)

-Students will understand the terms: variable, constant, coefficient, equation and expression. They will be able to solve for variables using all four math operations.
-homework daily
-PEMDAS (no exponents)
-use Go Math videos as reference

-quiz Friday

English/Language Arts/Reading: Inferring

-reading log
-We are taking the next two weeks off from spelling and Wordly Wise.
-Midterm spelling/geography quiz for the first 25 U.S. states (alphabetically). Students must spell each state and abbreviation correctly, AND identify the first 25 states on the map correctly. Test on Friday, December 19

Science: Earth Science
-Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
-Landforms

-homework sparingly
-Quizlet Resources: Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition (highly recommended)
-Quiz Friday

Social Studies: Creating the Country and Constitution
-The Articles of Conferderation
-The Constitution
-The Bill of Rights
-Westward Expansion
-Vocabulary