The SCOOP

The Newsletter of Creek View Elementary’s Fifth Grade Team

BE “IN THE KNOW” OF ALL 5TH GRADE HAPPENINGS, EVENTS AND NEWS Volume 10 Issue 4; November, 2010

THANKSGIVING DAY FEAST!!

N
ovember already? How quickly time flies!
Saturday is the annual Creek View Fall Festival! Thanks to
all volunteers who will be donating their time to make this a
fantastic event! This year’s festival includes the addition
video games. Be sure to check it out!
afternoons tend to get warm. 5 th graders go outside for
recess on a daily basis; students without appropriate
attire will be required to stay inside for study hall.
As always, do not hesitate to contact us if you have any
questions, concerns or compliments.

Fifth grade’s Thanksgiving feast will be held on the 21st of Eric Adkins, Helaine Becker,
November. Please join us for this wonderful family event.
Kathy McLaughlin, Tamara Moor,
Be aware that two (2) behavior related N’s, or one (1) Kim O’Brien, Ian Schonberg, and Alison Snow,
behavior related U on report cards, or a behavior related
office referral WITH consequences, within the nine weeks
NEWS
prior to the event, will result in the loss of field trip
privileges and may effect students’ ability to participate
in other activities. We thank you as you continue to support Our Rotary Student of the Quarter was selected.
our lessons of respect and responsibility. Congratulations to MacRae Brown of Ms. Moor’s Class.
She will be honored at the Nov. 29th luncheon.
The weather is changing! Students need to dress
appropriately. While it may be cold in the mornings,

DON’T MISS THESE NOVEMBER EVENTS

1 – 12 –Coat Drive 8 – 19 – Canned Food Drive

6- Fall Festival 8- 12 – Science Lab Visits
19 – Thanksgiving Feast 24-26– NO SCHOOL- Happy Thanksgiving

Link for your online student textbooks:

http://portal.fultonschools.org/departments/Instruction/Curriculum/Pages/OnlineTextbookResourceGuide.aspx
 
CURRICULUM NEWS

SOCIAL STUDIES
Turn of the Century
Our third unit is Turn of the Century, a full unit covering from 1880-1910.  The USA is expanding westward using the
newly completed Transcontinental Railroad.  Immigration from Europe continues at record rates.  Cities are growing
on the Eastern seaboard, along major rivers, and important points west.  Native Americans are losing their lands, cattle
ranching is very profitable, and farming across the Great Plains picks up pace with the Homestead Act.  The USA looks
inward and practices isolationism to continue its repair and growth after the Civil War.  Our leaders push to begin
growth and modernization of our military, particularly the navy.  These last events lead us to the Spanish American
War and our first foray into the world political scene.  The book sections are Chapter 7 (Core Lessons 3 and 4) and
Chapter 8 (Core Lessons 1 and 2).

Textbook is available with the link below:

http://portal.fultonschools.org/departments/Instruction/Curriculum/Pages/OnlineTextbookResourceGuide.aspx

Social Studies – http://www.eduplace.com/ss/socsci/ga/ is a great resource for Social Studies related information.

SCIENCE
Inherited Traits and Learned Behaviors
The purpose of this unit is to recognize that offspring inherit traits and learned behaviors from their
biological parents and that living things often look and behave in ways that resemble their biological
parents because of inherited genes. Throughout this unit the following question will be asked: Why do
living things often look and behave like their biological parents?

For additional Science material, see http://www.hspscience.com/ - Select Georgia, then Go, and then select a grade level.

LANGUAGE ARTS
In addition to the specifics of your child’s Language Arts class, all teachers ask you to encourage your child to
read for at least 30 minutes per night. In addition to AR, students are encouraged to participate in the BOOK
IT! program, which begins this month. This program tracks the number of minutes read per month, and
rewards students with prizes from Pizza Hut. Both AR and BOOK IT! work hand-in-hand to motivate students
to read, as well as to improve reading comprehension and overall school performance.

Our unit, “Communities”, focuses on how communities are linked together and why they are important in
everyday life. Students will experience informational (expository) texts, and they will begin to form
opinions based on the information given and use those opinions to write persuasively. Using debates,
student will express and support their ideas and opinions orally. Fused within the lessons, the students’
reading of stories and novels will maintain experiences with the narrative format.

Students will continue to work on grammar, spelling and vocabulary skills.

Please use www.harcourtschool.com – password is Farr to support your child’s language arts instruction.

MATH
Mrs. McLaughlin/Mr. Adkins/Mrs. O’Brien/Mr. Moor/Mr. Schonberg/Mrs. Goldsmith/Ms Becker
Please continue to work on basic math facts with your child. A quick recall of multiplication and division facts
aids in working through more difficult processes. Students will be given regular opportunities to check their
speed and accuracy in this area.

In the next unit, Unit 4: Parts of Wholes: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents, students will further develop ideas
about the meaning of fractions and learn to use fractions interchangeably with decimals. Students will also
model and compute multiplication and division of fractions and estimate products and quotients involving
fractions. The students will also enjoy exploring and modeling percents and applying those percents to circle
graphs.

Ms. Becker
Our current unit is focused on the development of understanding the interrelated nature of fractions,
decimals, and percents. In this unit, your child will learn the meanings of fractions, decimals, and
percents, and will become comfortable moving among these three representations of rational numbers.
Your child will work on problems that reflect different contexts and that involve writing, comparing, and
ordering fractions, decimals and percents. This unit makes use of models, such as fraction strips, number
lines, and grids. Skill with estimating and comparing is developed through a set of benchmark fractions
and their decimal equivalents. The last part of the unit deals with writing and solving simple algebraic
equations (one- and two-step).

You can help your child with his or her work for this unit in several ways: 1. With your child, find examples
of how fractions, decimals, and percents are used in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television. 2.
Have your child pick a question that was interesting to him or her and explain it to you.