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From the Desk of: Ms. Mayhew, Miss Niehenke, and Mrs. Zitrick 5th Grade: News to Know Parent Reminders: Students should be reading 20-30 minutes a day or 2 hours a week. Parents should be checking assignment notebooks nightly. Students should be practicing their basic facts nightly in order to facilitate learning new math concepts. Interims go home with select students on December 11th December 2015 Newsletter Reading We will focus this month on informational texts (reading to be informed). Investigate parallel circuits Thinking and Academic Success Skills (TASS) Study magnets and their effect on other objects Investigate relationships between electricity and magnetism This quarter students will be building skills of synthesis– putting parts together to build understanding of a whole concept or to form a new or unique whole, and metacognition (knowing and being aware of one’s own thinking and having the ability to monitor and evaluate one’s own thinking Read technical texts to identify relationships between main ideas Identify evidence to support author’s perspectives Compare and contrast text structure Social Studies The students are continuing to learn: The significance of democratic principles in development of the U.S. Constitution Examine how federates and antifederalists influenced the government Analyze the evolution of the American government after the Revolutionary War Identify rule of law , due process, and the Bill of Rights Math Winter break December 24th-January 3rd The fifth grade math classes will: Use visual fraction models to identify equivalent fractions Use benchmark fractions to estimate answer to addition and subtraction of fractions Create number lines to represent addition and subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators Science In science all classes will: Redesign circuits address technological issues Writing Students are working on the Inquiry Research Project about a movement of change in the American history. They will be completing an informational and an opinion pieces based on research