A PEEK AT OUR WEEK Skills/Topics & Tests September 3-6, 2019 Your 5th Grade Newsletter September 3-6, 2019 Skills/Topics & Tests Topics / Skills Upcoming Tests & Quizzes Reading *Using Details to Support Inferences *HW QUIZ every Monday Grammar *Correlative Conjunctions Word Study cycl - circle circ/circum - around centr/center - middle *QUIZ every Friday Math *Dividing Decimals by Powers of Ten *Rounding Decimals *Estimating with Decimals *Digit Value TEST on Thursday, 9/5. *HW QUIZ every Monday. Science *Unit 2: The Engineering Process *Lesson 1 Pages 63-73 *Practice Science Vocabulary at www.quizlet.com (refer to your Password Page to search) Announcements/Reminders *Check out the monthly School Calendar to keep up to date on events and due dates. *Please sign your child’s calendar every night. *Math HW Quizzes will be every Monday. Quizzes will consist of five questions taken directly from the previous week’s HW. Please review HW with your child each night. Students are checking their work in class each day as we review and discuss the HW. They should be correcting their answers and recording the steps for solving those they missed. *T-Shirt order forms and money are due September 6th. *Progress Reports go home September 5th. Common Assessments Sept. 26-Oct. 4 *TCAP scores in grades 3-5 will be calculated as 15% of a student’s second semester average in reading math, science, and social studies unless the BOE decides otherwise due to testing issues. *If your child does not have his/her multiplication facts memorized, please work on them at home. It is imperative to their success in math this year. Spelling / Vocabulary Words eccentric – (adj) tending to act in strange or unusual ways central – (adj) located in the center of a thing or place cycle – (n) a set of events or actions that happen again and again in the same order (noun) cyclical – (adj) happening again and again in the same order (adjective) cyclone – (n) an extremely large, powerful, and destructive storm with very high winds circumstance – (n) a condition that surrounds or causes an event to happen circumference – (n) the length of a line that goes around a circle or other round shape concentric – (adj) when two or more objects share the same center point circumvent – (v) to get around something in a clever and sometimes dishonest way circuit – (n) the complete path that an electric current travels along Wish List Candy Resources traciewickham.weebly.com ♥ atesbrandyhill.weebly.com The mission of Atoka Elementary School is to create a challenging learning environment that provides students for college and career readiness through academic, behavioral, and social achievement.