5th Grade

Newsletter for the week of December 4 - 8, 2023

Memory Verse: “‘For I know the plans I have for you’, declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.’” Jeremiah 29:11-13

Please note for the upcoming Christmas Program

Christmas Program attire for students: Students should wear a light colored solid t-shirt with khaki shorts for boys or khaki shorts, skorts, or skirts for girls with tennis shoes and “no show” or low white socks.

Weekly Curriculum

Bible: Mark 12-15

Spelling: A Reason For Spelling Lesson 14: glossary, colonies, college, geometry, contact, doctor, conversation, continent, borrow, crocodile, Wisconsin, commerce, concentrate, atomic, deposit, adopt, comment, compost, bottom, demolish

Bonus Words: apostrophe, nautical

Math: Scales, Fractions, Pairs of Lines TEST on Tuesday

English: Shurley English ch. 3 lessons 10-11 and ch. 4 lesson 1: practicing revising and editing, review for test, CH 3 TEST, subject pronouns and possessive pronouns

Reading: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis: We are wrapping up the book this week! We will take a book test and watch the movie.

Social Studies: National Parks

Handwriting: Lesson 8

Science: Insects and Spiders

Upcoming Billboard:

Friday, December 8 – Sophie and Ryland

Friday, January 12 – James and Lacie

Friday, January 19 – Ruby and Kaya

Friday, January 26 – Izabella and Nathan

Technology: None this week

Typing: Advanced Wrap -up: Do screens 1 - 7 and a 5 minute typing test at home if you did not complete this last week. We will not have any additional typing until January. If you have not yet brought in your signed typing sheet for November, this is the last week to do so!

Signed typing sheets for December and January will be due January 31st.