5th Grade Weekly News

April 22, 2019 – April 26, 2019

Vocabulary Words This Week’s Objectives

Please know the spelling and definitions
of the words below: Reading/Writing: In this unit, students choose to
research about either Roberto Clemente or Althea
1. acceptance: approval Gibson: two respected American sports figures.
Students will develop their understanding of the cultural
2. credit: recognition, acknowledgement context in which these athletes competed and the
barriers these athletes broke during the times in which
3. honored: awarded; recognized for accomplishments they lived. Students will build their research skills by
reading biographical articles and other informational
4. attitudes: beliefs; feelings; thoughts about something texts.

5. charity: give money or other goods and services to help Grammar: punctuation review

people in need Math: This week in math, students develop a coordinate

6. opinion: point of view; position on an issue
Reminders/Upcoming Events
• Mon. 4/22 School Resumes
• Fri/ 4/26 Coffee with the Principal
• Sat. 4/27 Woodlake Family Dance @ Hale
system for the first quadrant of the coordinate plane and
use it to solve problems. Students use the familiar
number line as an introduction to the idea of a
coordinate, and they construct two perpendicular
number lines to create a coordinate system on the
plane. As always, we are continuing to work on writing
about math and thoroughly explaining our steps when
solving.
Science: Review for Science CST
Social Studies: States

• Mon. 4/29 – 4/30 : 5th Grade SCIENCE CST

• Math Mid-Module 
6 Test on Fri. 5/3

5th Grade Testing
Next week, we begin our end of the year testing.
Please make sure your child gets a good nights
rest and has a good breakfast.
We will be sending home
review sheets to go over.
Thank you!