5th Grade Agenda For Dec. 7 – Dec. 11
The agenda is a tentative schedule for the week.
Language Arts/Reading
Targeted Skills – expository writing and sentence expansion
No DLR this week
Friday- test on sentence expansion
Reading- We will be reviewing story maps and inferences this week. Story for
the week “Nothing Ever Happens on…” Vocab Definitions Monday and sentences
Tuesday
(extravagant, unimaginable, gourmet, throng, embarked, precarious, hiatus).
Thursday: vocab test
Friday: computer test. Be sure to read nightly and bring your book to
school daily
Math AM tests will be given on Fridays. All students must scan at least one
AM Practice on or before Thursday of each week. Please work on these at home
in addition to class time.
Targeted Skills: parts of a circle, symmetry; area and perimeter
Homework: Accelerated Math Practice assignments
Tests: AM test will be printed for Friday
Science- review energy; Test on Thursday
History
Ch. 8 Lessons 4; Practice Book pg. 48 – 49
Ch. 8 Test on Thursday, Dec. 10th.
Study Practice Book pg. 45 – 49.
Exploratory
Expository writing, computer lab (testing),
practice spelling be
Announcements
39 Days until Alabama Direct Assessment of Writing (ADAW)!
Parents: The annual 5th Grade Christmas Breakfast will be Friday, December
18 at 9:00 am. We are sending home orders today. You are invited to come
and have breakfast with your child that morning.
Parents: We will be having our DARE Kick-off Cookout on Friday, January 8.
To prepare for this, we ask each student to bring $5. The money goes toward
the purchase of the food and a thank you gift for Officer Matt. This will be
due Friday, December 18 before we leave for the break.
Parents: We will accept the donation and fee money all year. $25 donation,
$5 technology fee.
Dates to Remember
DECEMBER
7-11 Santa Shop
11 Money for Christmas Breakfast due (cash only)
17 Goals for AR and AM need to be met for 2nd 9 weeks
17 Donations for Christmas picked up by Sheppard’s
Supply Mission
18 $5 for DARE Cookout due (food will be purchased over the
Christmas Break). Cash only
18 Grading Period Ends
JANUARY
6 Students return from Christmas Break
6 Report Cards go home
18 No School
22 3rd Space Camp payment due ($75)
FEBRUARY
9 Progress Reports
15 No School
18 Alabama Direst Assessment of Writing