Welcome to 5 th Grade. Reader’s Workshop & Writer’s Workshop Focus lesson Independent Reading/...
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Welcome to 5Welcome to 5thth Grade GradeWelcome to 5Welcome to 5thth Grade Grade
Reader’s Workshop&
Writer’s Workshop
• Focus lesson • Independent Reading/ Writing time
– Teacher Conference– Peer Conferring– Small group strategy instruction
• Group Share
• Use Harcourt Language text for Grammar
• Word Study
• Daily Language Review
Poetry Jam
Wax Museum
Math
Study Links – homework every night!
Jump around in topics and units
Science• Life Science(Organisms and their
environment, life cycles & heredity)
• Earth Science(Structure of the Earth,
Earth’s history, Earth in the Solar System)
• Physical Science(Different types of
Energy, electricity and simple circuits, electromagnets)
• Hands-on labs and lab reports
Ferry Beach Ecology School
• 5 day long trip in October• Saco, Maine
Ferry Beach Forms
• Ferry Beach permission slip due June 12th
• Medical forms due October 1st
Cool projects!
Social Studies/ HistoryBook 1: The First
Americans
Book 2: Making Thirteen Colonies
Book 3: From Colonies to Country
Book 4: The New Nation
Supplemental materials
Grades and Report Cards
Homework• Assignment
notebooks• Homework Board• Late Slips• Marbles• Plan for 30 – 60
minutes per night
Supplies• 1 hard one inch binder• at least five binder tab dividers• 2 plain pocket folders• 1 composition notebooks• 1 five subject spiral notebook with pockets• 3 single subject notebooks• 1 highlighter• pencils• 1 seven pocket accordion folder• 1 erasable red pen• 1 erasable black pen• 1 basic clipboard• 1 pencil box (no larger than 8x3x1)• 1 glue stick• 1 package of post-its• 1 black permanent marker• 1 pencil eraser• 1 simple/ affordable calculator• A 3 ½ gal zip lock bag
Supplies for Homedictionarycolored pencilsPencils
Access to a computer, internet and printer
*label all supplies with initials (including pencils)
5th Grade Summer Reading
3 “Just Right” Books• Title____________________________________________
• Author__________________________________________
• Setting
• Description of Main Characters
• Summarize the book
• Draw a picture of your favorite scene
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Suggested Authors You are required to read one book by one of the following authors:
Avi Babbit, Natalie Christopher, Matt Clements, Andrew Creech, Sharon Curtis, Christopher Paul Dahl, Roald DiCamillo, Kate Fleishman, Paul Gutman, Dan Haddix, Margaret Peterson Hesse, Karen Hinton, S.E. L'engle, Madeline Lewis, C.S.
O'Dell, Scott Paterson, Katherine Paulson, Gary Peck, Richard Riordan, Rick Rowling, J .K. Sachar, Louis Snickett, Lemony Speare, Elizabeth George Spinelli, J erry Soto, Gary White, E.B. Yolen, J ane Wilder, Laura I ngalls
Suggested Authors
You are required to read at least two books from the following list of authors:
Letter to the Teachers
Please write a letter to your future 5th grade teacher.
• What should we know about you?• What do you like about school?• What are your strengths?
*Be sure to sign your letter with your FULL name