Mrs. Morgan & Mrs. Edwards 5th Grade Newsletter January 15, 2017 Mrs. Morgan & Mrs. Edwards 5th Grade Newsletter cmorgan@effingham.k12.ga.us kedwards@effingham,k12.ga.us Upcoming Events Jan. 9- Report Cards go home Jan. 12- School Spelling Bee Jan. 15- No School! Jan. 24- Math Challenge Jan. 25- PTSO @ 7:00 pm Jan. 26- AR Celebrating w/Board games Feb. 1- County Spelling Bee ECCA 6:30 Feb. 5-14 Boosterthon Fun Run Feb. 6- Progress Reports Feb. 9- Deadline for Yearbook Orders Feb. 14- Full Day for students. Conferences will be from 4-7. Tests and Quizzes Math-Unit 4 Test-Wednesday, Jan. 17th Social Studies-Unit 5-Friday, Jan. 19th Word Study- January 19 We Are Learning About… Reading –How digital media adds to our reading, using evidence from our reading to answer questions Grammar and Writing- Verbs – Regular Tense Verbs, Recognizing the correct , consistent tense of a verb when we write Math- Adding , Subtracting, Multiplying and Dividing Factions Social Studies-WWII Word Study Quiz January 19, 2018 Words with graph –graph means to write autobiography –writing about a person’s life written by that person autograph –the writing of one’s own name bibliography –the written list of all the books used in a report biography –a book written about a person’s life cartography –mapmaking ; The secret word is snow homograph –a word written the same as another word but having a different meaning paragraph –a section of writing that has a topic and concluding sentence phonograph –a record player; a device that turns the writing on records into sound photography –the use of light to record an image on a camera seismograph –a device that writes down and records the movements of the earth We are having a Boxtops contest again. The homeroom that brings in the most get a prize!!! Our 4H Day is January 19th 4H service projects-We are collecting pop tabs Looking Ahead---We will go on our field trip Friday, February 23rd to the Mighty Eight Museum. Permission forms to be sent home soon. New AR goals have been set. All students have taken a new Lexile Assessment. Results will be sent home soon.