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5B Specials
Monday--STEM
Tuesday-Library
Wednesday-PE, Spanish
Thursday-Art, STEM
Friday-Music -
Contact Info
e-mail jvolinski@stbenedictohio.com
school office 216-662-9380 x175
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Welcome to Fifth Grade -
In the event we will be off longer than we thought, more lessons will be coming your way.
Stay healthy and take care of yourself.
5th Grade News
The latest topic in Math has been fractions. Fifth graders are studying how to find equivalent fractions and then be able to add and subtract them and put them in simplest form. Do you remember how to do all that? Well, just ask your student who should be able to do that by the end of the month.
Since Lent is just about to begin, that will be our focus in Religion. From Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday we will be discussing all kinds of things related to the season. The colors they’ll see in church, the word we don’t say, the readings during these 40 days, a visit from an angel, giving up something, going to Reconciliation, a retreat day, and much more.
The fifth grade scientists are learning about ecosystems and interactions that occur within ecosystems. We have been learning about food chains, food webs, habitats, and energy pyramids. We have also been learning about symbiosis and the relationship types of symbiotic factors. We are looking forward to continuing our ecosystem unit and will hopefully finish up before Easter.
In Social Studies, we are learning about exploration and colonization. We will be starting our big poster project this week and are looking forward to learning about famous explorers. We have learned about famous European explorers and are now learning about Spanish explorers. Did you know that Amerigo Vespucci is the person that the Americas are named after? Did you know that 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue. We are looking forward to finishing our explorer unit.
Students enjoyed learning about persuasive writing in fourth grade and are continuing to use this skill in their daily lives in fifth grade. Opinions and persuasions are used every day also. They are excited to work on their next essay. Adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions are our main focus as we work on our grammar skills. Most of all, we enjoy journaling and putting all of the skills we have learned into practice.
To round out our daily studies, in Reading we have just concluded our unit on finding the main idea of a text and supporting our conclusion with the details from the text. We found the main idea of informative as well as narrative reading passages from novels to short paragraphs. Next, we are going to work on creating a concise summary of a reading passage. This will help us in organizing our thoughts on paper and identifying the most important information to provide to our audience.