5th Grade Newsletter

By 5th Grade Team
Fifth Grade
January 05, 2023

Important Dates & Reminders

  • 1/9- Reading VGA
  • 1/11- Math VGA
  • 1/16- Student Holiday
  • 1/25- End of Quarter, Early Release
  • 1/26- Student Holiday
  • 1/27- Student Holiday

Language Arts

What are we learning?

  • Narrative Non-Fiction Text, Book Clubs
  • Fantasy Writing

Home/School Connection

Practice each night daily with a weekly homework packet sent home. Log onto Lexia, myON, and ST math

Math

What are we learning?

  • Decimal & Fraction Computation
  • Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division word problems with decimals and fractions.

Home/School Connection

Practice each night daily with a weekly homework packet sent home. Log onto Lexia, myON, and ST math

Science

What are we learning?

Landforms

  • Rock Types, the composition of earth's crust and Layers, the connection between Virginia’s history and fossil evidence

4th Grade Animal Adaptations Review

  • Physical and Behavioral Adaptations 
  • How animals adapt to their surroundings in order to survive 
  • Students will be working in groups to complete a mini project

Home/School Connection

Practice each night daily with a weekly homework packet sent home.

Social Studies

What are we learning?

Geography of Greece, Rome, Asia, and Africa

Home/School Connection

Practice each night daily with a weekly homework packet sent home.