FSES Fabulous 5th Grade Team

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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Week of August 28

Mrs. Anderson's Classes

Math:
We will focus on order of operations, evaluating numerical expressions, and grouping symbols.  Example:  2 x [(9 x 4) - (17 - 60)] or written expressions nine times the sum of two and three.

Remind students to follow PEMDAS.  Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication OR Division, and Addition OR Subtraction, make sure to work left to right.  
Website for Order of Operation-Khanacademy
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/pre-algebra-arith-prop/pre-algebra-order-of-operations/v/more-complicated-order-of-operations-example

Science: 
We will continue our study of plant and animal cells and microorganism.
Vocabulary Focus:  membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, chloroplasts, cell wall, structure, beneficial, harmful

Interactive Website for Cells
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/health/anatomy/cell/index.htm 


Ms. Summers' Class
Math: 
We will focus on order of operations, evaluating numerical expressions, and grouping symbols.  We will also begin to incorporate Powers of Ten.  Please utilize Edmodo for games and tutorial videos at home.


ELA: 

Our Mentor Text for the week is Saturdays and Teacakes.  A read aloud version of the story can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSe4lrfqBr8 .
We will be working on Proper Nouns/Capitalization along with the story.  Please utilize Edmodo for games and tutorial videos at home.



Ms. Palmer's Classes
Math: 
We will focus on order of operations, evaluating numerical expressions, and grouping symbols.
Homework will be given on Mondays and will be collected on Friday mornings
Please have students log on to xtramath.org in their spare time, to help with basic fact fluency.


Writing: 
We will continue practicing our Constructive Responses with our 1,2,3 method.


Ms. Hill's Class
Math- 
We will focus on order of operations, evaluating numerical expressions, and grouping symbols.


Social Studies-

We will continue to work on our Civil War Unit.




Mrs. Griggs' Classes

Math- 
We will focus on order of operations, evaluating numerical expressions, and grouping symbols.

Reading- 
We will focus on determining the theme of  a text.  We will also evaluate how characters in a story respond to challenges.  Our extended text is Wonder. We will use this book to help us explore theme and characterization further.  

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